Month: June 2023

Thriller author James McCrone must have had his crystal ball turned up high back in 2014 when he wrote the first in his four-part series of political thrillers, Faithless Elector. Now we are up to the fourth novel, Bastard Verdict, and it paints another frightening picture of the way electoral politics might devolve in the
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Stars are coming together to commemorate Juneteenth.  Two years after President Joe Biden signed a bill into law, making Juneteenth—June 19—a federal holiday, public figures are speaking out about the significance of the occasion. Juneteenth recognizes the day—June 19, 1865—when Gen. Gordon Granger and Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas, and told the last of the
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Tony Dukoupil, your absence on Juneteenth did not go unnoticed on Monday’s installment of CBS Mornings. The no f–ks to give Gayle King made playful mention of that the fact that all of the Black anchors – meaning herself, Nate Burleson and Vladimir Duthiers — were working on the federal holiday that commemorates the emancipation
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Asteroid City delivered a massive jolt to the arthouse and specialty world this weekend as the Wes Anderson film presented by Focus Features blew past records with an estimated $790k three-day gross and $890k estimated for the four-day weekend in just six theaters. That’s a per-theater average of $132,211 for the three days, and $148,901
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You may have to quit your Amazon Prime addiction cold turkey if United Parcel Service (UPS), one of the world’s biggest courier service companies, goes on strike. UPS workers have not yet formally announced a strike, but have proven they’re open to one. At least 340,000 UPS employees are represented by the labor union International
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EXCLUSIVE: Sam Esmail’s years-in-the making adaptation of Fritz Lang’s classic 1927 sci-fi film Metropolis has become one of the highest-profile casualties of the growing uncertainty in Hollywood driven by labor unrest against the background of economic headwinds. The big-budget UCP series for Apple TV+, which had been prepping in Australia, has permanently shut down. The
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Stan Refreshes Lionsgate Output Deal Australian streamer Stan has refreshed its output deal with Lionsgate. The new agreement means Stan lands the local first-run of shows including the upcoming CIA thriller series Gray, starring Patricia Clarkson, Lydia West and Rupert Everett. Also on the menu are Son of a Critch, Welcome to Flatch and Steven K. Knight’s Spartacus sequel series. Theatrical
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The long-awaited story-based DLC for The Callisto Protocol has finally been revealed in “The Final Transmission”. The DLC will launch as a timed exclusive on PlayStation consoles on June 27, with other platforms getting the DLC on June 29. Accompanying the announcement is a teaser for “The Final Transmission”, which doesn’t reveal much in terms
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