For the largest cinema chain in the world, bankruptcy could be the best option to survive the coronavirus pandemic. The coronavirus pandemic has battered theaters since March, crunching their bottom lines, but no one has been hit harder than AMC. The cinema chain headed into the pandemic with nearly $5 billion in debt, which it had amassed
Margarita Liberaki Three Summers Trans. Karen Van DyckNYRB Three Summers begins with a mystery. Katerina’s absent grandmother is an enigma to her family. Katerina fixates on this character and romanticizes her life, which holds a looming presence over the narrative. The rest of the family sees the grandmother’s departure as a betrayal. The rejection of
An investor looks at an electronic board showing stock information at a brokerage house in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, China. Reuters BEIJING — Global investors are turning cautious on investing in some Chinese companies named in a U.S. government executive order. MSCI, one of the largest stock index companies in the world, announced Tuesday that it
Refresh for latest...: The international box office continues to provide welcome surprises during the pandemic era. Where movie theaters are open and people feel safe, they turn up for new or enduringly exciting product that’s on offer. To wit: Japan’s Demon Slayer The Movie: Mugen Train has perhaps become the story of the year. A
SAN FRANCISCO – Satellite data could play a role in monitoring, reporting and verifying compliance with emissions trading systems also known as cap and trade, Stephanie La Hoz Theuer, a member of the International Carbon Action Partnership (ICAP) Secretariat, said at the virtual American Geophysical Union fall meeting. ICAP is an international forum based in
Amazfit GTS 2e and Amazfit GTR 2e smartwatches have been launched in China as follow up models to the Amazfit GTS 2 and the GTR 2. The new watches have mostly the same features as their older models with but come with a lower price tag, and some compromises in specifications. However, they also promise
President-elect Joe Biden said Tuesday he has chosen former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg to be his Transportation secretary. “South Bend was once called one of America’s ‘dying cities.’ Today, it’s a hub of innovation and job growth. Mayor Pete Buttigieg led that resurgence, and has been nominated by the President-elect to continue that
Exclusive Struggling to make plans for New Year’s Eve? Mariah Carey‘s got ya covered with this SICK dome up for grabs through Airbnb. The vacation rental company is offering this unbelievable 1-night stay under the New Year’s Eve Ball at Times Square. The lucky person who books this, along with their guest, will stay on
Peter Endig | AFP | Getty Images Amazon is encouraging front-line employees in California to get weekly Covid-19 tests, as the state rolls out new emergency workplace protections for the coronavirus. “In accordance with Cal/OSHA’s new Covid-19 emergency regulations, we encourage all Amazon employees to get tested for Covid-19 at least once a week starting
Courtesy of Saint Laurent Fashion in 2020 has taken a turn. We traded in heels for slippers and dressed up to go nowhere. Designers reimagined the spring-summer 2021 season into digital presentations, masked events, staged runways, or opted out of showing altogether. Those that did were creative, but the successful collections were the ones empathetic
Will there be a post-credit scene attached to Zack Snyder’s Justice League? The filmmaker has provided a definitive answer ahead of its release next year on HBO Max. Snyder is finally getting to complete his vision for the DC Comics adaptation more than three years after it originally hit theaters. It will contain hours of
Well, damn. This is your official spoiler alert because we are doing a deep dive into Big Sky Season 1 Episode 5, and if you don’t want to hear about another shocking last-minute twist, then this isn’t the review for you. It’s pretty crazy to think about Big Sky only having five hours under its belt
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Tony Potts, a 69-year-old retiree living in Ormond Beach, receives his first injection as a participant in a Phase 3 COVID-19 vaccine clinical trial sponsored by Moderna at Accel Research Sites on August 4, 2020 in DeLand, Florida. Paul Hennessy | NurPhoto | Getty Images The staff of the Food and Drug Administration endorsed the
The experimental measurement of the fine-structure constant. © Pierre Cladé, Saïda Guellati-Khélifa and Tatsumi Aoyama The most precise measurement ever of the fine-structure constant has placed new constraints on theories that predict the existence of “dark sector” particles. The new value, which researchers in France measured using clouds of cold rubidium atoms, provides a stringent
Searchlight’s Venice Film Festival Golden Lion winner Nomadland starring Frances McDormand, is opening on Feb. 19, 2021 limited. The movie was previously set to open on Dec. 4. Also Disney took the 20th Century Studios drag queen teenage musical Everybody’s Talking About Jamie off its Feb. 26, 2021 release date and has designated the feature to being unset for
SpaceX’s Rural Digital Opportunity Fund (RDOF) Phase 1 award is big, but the impact on its overall Starlink broadband business will be modest. Picking up $885.5 million out of $9.2 billion in broadband subsidies over a 10-year period is no small feat, especially for a first-time participant in U.S. Federal Communications Commission auctions. SpaceX’s award
Wearables saw a lot of new launches in India in 2020, and we tried out a lot of them to find the best ones. With the ongoing pandemic, people are actively looking after their health and these wearables make it easier to keep a track of it. The ones that we have shortlisted help you