Kumail Nanjiani is set to host the 78th annual DGA Awards, the Directors Guild of America announced on Monday. The annual awards ceremony is taking place this year on Feb. 7 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. Nanjiani is an Oscar, Golden Globe and Emmy-nominated writer, actor and comedian, best known for…
The remains of the final hostage in Gaza have been recovered, Israel’s military said on Monday, clearing the way for efforts to rebuild Gaza and disarm Hamas in the next phase of the ceasefire that paused the Israel-Gaza war. The announcement that the remains of police officer Ran Gvili had been found and identified came…
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro is guesting on Stephen Colbert‘s The Late Show Monday, and there isn’t anything FCC head Brendan Carr can do about it — or as a result of it. Last week, the Federal Communications Commission released new guidance that could revoke the exemption to its “equal time” rules that daytime and late-night…
The parent of AMC Theatres appears to have left a big chunk of money on the table when it announced in early December it had sold around 80 percent of its equity stake in Hycroft Mining Holding Corp. to fellow investor Sprott Mining for $24.1 million. That sale alone allowed the cinema operator to essentially…
Big guys beating bad guys, and occasionally each other, to a pulp is the basic idea behind the new Prime Video action movie starring Dave Bautista and Jason Momoa. In the unimaginatively titled The Wrecking Crew (not to be confused with the 2008 music doc or the cheesy 1968 Dean Martin movie), the two oversized,…
Ladies and gentlemen, we have ourselves an old-fashioned Sundance bidding war. Olivia Wilde’s sex comedy The Invite has lit a fire under the final Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, with major indie distributors and minor studio divisions elbowing each other to make it this year’s festival first big sale. A24, Neon and Universal…
The Education University of Hong Kong (EdU) has launched an artificial intelligence-powered mental health support app for students, with a secondary school principal praising its potential to help teachers track pupils’ emotional well-being. Named EmoCare, the app began a trial run last month, serving about 700 primary, secondary and university students. A key feature turns…
It looks like Ubisoft is planning even more layoffs to accompany last week’s studio closures and game cancellations, . The company is planning a massive reduction of the workforce in its Paris headquarters. It has proposed the loss of up to 200 jobs, which is nearly 20 percent of the current staff. This will be…
The Trump administration will invest $1.6bn (£1.2bn) in a US critical minerals firm, marking officials’ latest push to reduce China’s dominance over the rare earths sector. The agreement with USA Rare Earth, which will give the government a stake in the firm, emerged days after US President Donald Trump claimed to have secured the “framework”…
Liv McMahonTechnology reporter Getty Images TikTok’s new US owner has apologised to users for “disruption” after thousands reported issues affecting the video-sharing app. Platform outage monitor Downdetector said it has seen more than 600,000 reports of glitches from US TikTok users over the weekend. Problems flagged by people include videos appearing repeatedly on “For You”…
