Who needs Warner Bros.? Netflix reported better-than-anticipated first quarter (2026) revenue thanks to surprisingly strong member growth, particularly in Japan, where the World Baseball Classic was a massive hit. Better ad sales and higher subscription prices also kicked in. We did not get an updated subscriber total on Thursday. What we did get was a…
The Artemis crew held their first press conference after completing a historic 10-day mission around the Moon. Nasa astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, along with Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jeremy Hansen, shared details of their experience with reporters. On 1 April, the crew blasted off Nasa’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida and…
Reese Witherspoon, Oscar winning actress, producer and renowned book-lover, sat down with her book club yesterday and learned a surprising fact about their exposure to artificial intelligence. “I said to the 10 of them, ‘How many of you guys use AI?’ And only three of them used AI. And then I said, ‘How many of…
Roundabout Theatre company is bringing a revival of Moliere’s The Imaginary Invalid to Broadway next season, in addition to a revival of the musical The Full Monty and a new play by Dominique Morriseau. In the fall, the nonprofit theatre company will stage The Imaginary Invalid, a 17th-century comedy about hypochondria, reimagined by the actor…
Gina Prince-Bythewood‘s first film since 2022’s The Woman King has arrived, as the filmmaker brought Children of Blood and Bone to Paramount’s CinemaCon presentation on Thursday. Prince-Bythewood took the stage alongside stars Thuso Mbedu, Damson Idris, Amandla Stenberg, Chiwetel Ejiofor andRegina King to offer up a first-look at the feature, which is set in an…
Johnny Depp appears to be back. The star, who has largely been working outside of the mainstream Hollywood system in recent years, took the stage during Paramount’s CinemaCon presentation on Thursday to debut his new movie Ebenezer: A Christmas Carol. Depp walked out to Alex Warren hit “Ordinary,” in his signature hat, sunglasses and scarves,…
Brad Pitt‘s Heart of the Beast trailer got pulses racing at CinemaCon. Paramount Pictures is set to release director David Ayer‘s film in theaters, and the first trailer debuted at the Las Vegas event. J. K. Simmons and Anna Lambe round out the cast. Heart of the Beastcenters on a former ArmySpecial Forces soldier (Pitt),…
Afrikaner lobby groups have tried to get the song banned, but South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeal has ruled that a “reasonably well-informed person” would understand that the song, which dates from the fight against white-minority rule, was not meant to be taken literally and so was not hate speech.
