If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, The Hollywood Reporter may receive an affiliate commission. It’s been a big few weeks for KPop Demon Hunters merchandise. At the end of January, Mattel and Hasbro announced their forthcoming product lines, including American Girl Dolls, Monopoly and Polly Pocket….
Pulendran told the BBC: “This vaccine, what we term a universal vaccine, elicits a far broader response that is protective against not just the flu virus, not just the Covid virus, not just the common cold virus, but against virtually all viruses, and as many different bacteria as we’ve tested, and even allergens.
Jennifer Hudson’s daytime show will continue for another year. Fox-owned stations have picked up The Jennifer Hudson Show for a fifth season in 2026-27. The station group has carried the show since its beginning in 2022. The pickup for the show, produced by Warner Bros. Discovery’s Telepictures, offers some stability in the daytime syndicated arena…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified in court on Wednesday in a landmark trial aiming to determine if the tech giant’s social media applications are addictive and harmful to teens and kids. The trial, taking place in LA Superior Court, already revealed that Meta’s own research indicated that parental supervision couldn’t prevent teens from compulsive use…
Woody and Buzz Lightyear are reuniting again for Pixar‘s fifth installment of Toy Story. On Thursday, Pixar released a trailer for Toy Story 5, which follows the toys as they deal with modern-day kids’ obsession with electronics after 8-year-old Bonnie gets a tablet called “Lilypad,” voiced by Greta Lee. After the Lilypad causes Bonnie to…
SoftBank subsidiary SB Energy is expected to build a massive 9.2 gigawatt natural gas-fired power plant on the Ohio-Kentucky border, according to a report from Bloomberg. If completed, it would be the largest power plant in the U.S., capable of powering around 7.5 million homes. With a price tag of $33 billion, the project would…
In an interview with The Times this week, Siminoff explained that he understands people’s concerns and that “maybe people were ‘triggered’ by an image in the ad that showed blue rings radiating out from suburban homes. There will be fewer maps in any future ads, he said.” Graphics in ads are not the problem. The…
The AI Impact Summit 2026 in New Delhi is signaling something far more consequential than a commitment to India’s “inclusive technology.” It’s signaling scale. The government’s IndiaAI Mission carries an allocation of roughly $1.25 billion to expand domestic AI capacity. Officials state that more than 38,000 GPUs have been onboarded for shared national access, 12…
US President Donald Trump on Thursday promised US$10 billion for a new “Board of Peace”, an amorphous new institution focused first on Gaza that is being launched just as he threatens Iran with war. While US warplanes and aircraft carriers headed towards Iran on his orders, Trump welcomed some two dozen allies from around the…
Sony is shutting down Bluepoint Games, the PlayStation studio behind well-received remakes of games like Shadow of the Colossus and Demon’s Souls, according to Bloomberg. The change was made “following a recent business review,” a spokesperson told the publication. About 70 staffers will be cut, and the studio will shut down in March. “Bluepoint Games…
