EXCLUSIVE: Gerard Butler’s latest action thriller Greenland will not be playing at U.S. movie theaters as the pic’s studio ErosSTX pivots the feature for a Premium Video On-Demand release sometime in the fourth quarter. STX will control the PVOD window on the Ric Roman Waugh-directed movie. Additionally, we can tell you first, that HBO has shelled
Month: October 2020
Monica Brown is the author of the Lola Levine chapter book series, Sarai chapter book series, and many award-winning picture books, including Waiting for the Biblioburro (illus. John Parra), Marisol McDonald Doesn’t Match / Marisol McDonald no combina (illus. Sara Palacios), and Maya’s Blanket / La manta de Maya (illus. David Diaz). Her picture book
VALLETTA, Malta — German startup Rocket Factory Augsburg has selected the Norwegian launch facility Andøya Spaceport for a 2022 maiden flight of the company’s RFA One small-satellite launch vehicle. Rocket Factory Augsburg, founded in 2018 as the launch arm of German space technology company OHB SE, is in the process of developing its three-stage RFA
U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin departs from the office of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) at the U.S. Capitol on September 30, 2020 in Washington, DC. Tasos Katopodis | Getty Images House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin will try to scrape together a coronavirus stimulus deal Thursday as more trouble spots
Breaking News REFORM Alliance — the criminal justice reform org launched by Jay-Z, Meek Mill, Michael Rubin and others — is celebrating its first major victory with CA Gov. Gavin Newsom signing a new bill into law. Newsom just put pen to paper on AB 1950 … legislation which will drastically reshape Cali’s probation system
General Stanley McChrystal Kevin Lamarque | Reuters WASHINGTON — Retired Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal endorsed Democratic nominee Joe Biden for president on Thursday, saying that the nation needed a commander in chief that was “humble enough to understand that they are a servant.” McChrystal made the endorsement even though there had been tension between McChrystal and
Nobody does a COVID compliant fashion show quite like Rihanna. The second installment of her landmark Savage X Fenty show is arriving on October 2 and set to deliver all of the elegance and star power of its headline-making first. Savage X Fenty Show Vol. 2 will be available to stream exclusively on Amazon Prime
‘Weird Al’ Yankovic already has a song about last night’s 2020 Election Debate between President Donald Trump and Joe Biden. Yankovic teamed up with the Gregory Brothers to pen the song, which is called “America Is Doomed, The Musical.” The debate has been on the minds of nearly everybody who tuned last night, which is
First of all, I’ve got to hand it to Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 1 Episode 9. They managed to play the Star Trek movie tropes in an all-in, no-holds-barred, hilarious manner while still paying homage to those films which, for their time, were the pinnacle of epicness. Secondly, regarding Mariner’s epiphany about herself, CALLED IT.
What makes skin so tough? Originally published: May 4 2015 – 11:45am, Inside Science News Service By: Lisa Marie Potter, Contributor (Inside Science) — Skin has to be flexible enough to jump, crawl, and kick with us. It also has to be resilient enough to withstand our falls, scrapes, and cuts. Scientists have marveled at skin’s strength for
Electric Lit relies on contributions from our readers to help make literature more exciting, relevant, and inclusive. Please support our work by becoming a member today, or making a one-time donation here. . The first time I saw deaf people in mainstream storytelling was in the Freeform family drama Switched at Birth. Switched at Birth
The European Union (EU) is preparing to force big technology companies to share their customer data with smaller rivals, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday, citing an early draft of its landmark ‘Digital Services Act’ regulations. “The likes of Amazon and Google shall not use data collected on the platform…for (their) own commercial activities…unless they
The 2020 Nobel Prize for Physics will be announced on Tuesday 6 October. In the run-up to the announcement, Physics World editors have picked some of the people who they think have been overlooked for a prize in the past. Missing out: should Nicola Cabibbo have shared the 2008 Nobel Prize for Physics (Courtesy: ICTP Photo Archive)
This holiday season, shoppers aren’t planning on glitzy and gift-oriented celebrations. Instead, many are preparing for smaller gatherings, reining in spending and directing more of their dollars toward retailers that share similar values during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new survey by Accenture. The majority of those surveyed — 61% — said they plan
EXCLUSIVE: With the domestic box office still in the hospital, studios have been keen to make their finished films revenue events to the widest audience possible, maximizing profits by whatever means. For MGM’s Orion that meant releasing the long-awaited Keanu Reeves-Alex Winter threequel Bill & Ted Face the Music on PVOD and whatever theaters would play
The Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles Directorate is looking for companies with which to partner. WASHINGTON — The Pentagon contracting process can be a major deterrent to tech companies interested in selling products to the military. The U.S. Space Force is aware of that problem and is trying to incentivize suppliers that are developing
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin failed to strike a coronavirus stimulus deal during a more than 90-minute meeting Wednesday. The pair will continue discussions as they try to craft an elusive fifth relief package that could pass both chambers of Congress, the California Democrat said in a statement. House Democrats initially
Jimmy Edgar (producer and one half of J-E-T-S) has shared two new singles. One of the songs is called “METAL” and it features SOPHIE. The other, “GET UP,” features Danny Brown. Listen to Jimmy Edgar’s tracks below. “SOPHIE and I met at Fabric in London in the 2010s and since then we have performed live