The Gods do indeed walk among us. The Odyssey has arrived. London’s Leicester Square was alight on Monday evening as Christopher Nolan ushered in his hotly anticipated summer blockbuster at the film’s world premiere. It was a home turf event for much of the cast, including Britons Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson and Mia Goth. They…
The first reactions to Christopher Nolan‘s The Odyssey are in. Here is a sample of the comments about Nolan’s epic, which tells the story of the Greek hero Odysseus’ (Matt Damon) long, torturous and fantastical trip home from the Trojan War, back to the Kingdom of Ithaca to save his wife Penelope (Anne Hathaway) and…
Xbox once vowed to “Power Your Dreams.” These days, it just wants to keep the power — meaning the lights at its Redmond, Washington HQ — on. On Monday, new-ish Xbox CEO Asha Sharma announced “the most significant restructure in Xbox history,” including the loss of 3,200 jobs (1,600 today) and four studios: Compulsion Games…
There are probably easier ways to mount a crime thriller steeped in gritty realism than centering it on a villain made of gas. When Japanese filmmaker Shinzo Katayama signed on to direct Human Vapor, Netflix and Toho‘s eight-part, lavishly budgeted streaming series about a Tokyo killer who carries out his murders as a shape-shifting, disembodied…
A federal judge has narrowed the scope of a lawsuit from Terrifier actress Catherine Corcoran while keeping her core breach of contract claim for one percent of profits from the franchise alive. Corcoran, who plays Dawn in the 2016 film as one of Art the Clown’s first onscreen victims, reached a backend deal for 1…
At the site of one missile strike, in the Podilskyi district of Kyiv, rescue teams have been working in the ruins of an apartment block with a big hole blown through its middle. Specialists have been using sniffer dogs to try to find the missing among the wreckage as cranes lift giant slabs of concrete…
President Donald Trump has confirmed he asked Fifa to review United States striker Folarin Balogun’s one-match suspension at the World Cup. Balogun, 25, was set to miss his side’s last-16 tie against Belgium after being shown a straight red card for a foul on Bosnia-Herzegovina defender Tarik Muharemovic in the previous round. But Fifa made…
Riots at a prison in western Sri Lanka have killed 26 people, seven of them guards, and injured more than 100. The two days of violence at Negombo Prison, in a coastal town north of Colombo, began with clashes between two groups of inmates. Prisoners are alleged to have grabbed guards’ guns on Sunday. Two…
In a statement announcing the deal, Sky said the UK media market was undergoing “a profound and rapid transformation, and as competition for audiences intensifies, scale matters more than ever in order to compete with global streaming giants and YouTube in the UK”. The chief executive of ITV, Dame Carolyn McCall, also said the deal…
