Reese’s Book Club announced its late summer 2021 YA pick: The Downstairs Girl by Stacey Lee. Described as “the perfect end-of-summer escape” in the club’s Instagram announcement, The Downstairs Girl is YA historical fiction set in the post-Civil War (“New”) South. The story follows 17-year-old Jo Kuan who works as a lady’s maid in Atlanta
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If Disney keeps up this whole theatrical-PVOD day-and-date model, maybe it won’t be so scary for rival studios in the future to follow a Marvel movie during its second weekend at the box office. The studio’s Marvel Cinematic Universe standalone origin movie Black Widow had a great fall in its second session at the domestic B.O., down
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Universal has dated two DreamWorks movies, Distant and Easter Sunday, as well as Amblin Entertainment’s The Last Voyage of the Demeter.  Distant, directed by Josh Gordon and Will Speck, will open on March 11, 2022. The sci-fi comedy stars Anthony Ramos as a low-level mining engineer whose spaceship gets struck by an asteroid sending him to an unknown alien planet.
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A Pride protest in Budapest, capital of Hungary, in 2019. (Getty/ATTILA KISBENEDEK) Ahead of Budapest Pride, 30 embassies from across the world have demanded “freedom from violence” for queer people in Hungary. The open letter, published Monday (19 July) was signed by the embassies of Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland,
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Play video content BACKGRID Paris Hilton wants Britney Spears‘ father to start listening to the chorus of voices demanding he let her out of the conservatorship pronto … and she’s sending her friend lotsa love. Paris was heading into Fia Restaurant Monday night in Santa Monica with her sister, Nicky — who was hosting the
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We perfected the art of rage-quitting thanks to these video games bosses. For this list, we’ll be looking at the toughest boss fights from the Nintendo 64 era. Our countdown includes Ganon, Wizpig, Mizar, and more! If there’s an N64 boss that gave you trouble whose absence from our list troubles you, let us know
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Taya Ashton, a 20-year-old Black woman. (Twitter) Taya Ashton, a 20-year-old Black woman, was shot to death Saturday (17 July) in Maryland, US, in the latest transphobic killing that has left activists alarmed. Slain in her Suitland-Silver Hill apartment in Prince George’s County, Ashton, was found by law enforcement suffering from a gunshot wound. Ashton,
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The veteran journalist is launching “Forever Wars,” a newsletter (with an editor!) that will combine original reporting, history, and critique in an attempt to reckon with the unending fallout from 9/11. By Charlotte Klein July 20, 2021 “This year was when I went from, Wouldn’t this be a nice thing to do? To being like,
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Fandango and United Artists Releasing are holding early access screenings on Aug. 8 for MGM’s Aretha Franklin biopic Respect. Tickets are now on sale on Fandango. The pic will preview at 500 theaters nationwide before its Aug. 13 release. Respect stars Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Hudson as Franklin. The pic is directed by award-winning theater director Liesl Tommy
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Moving from visual effects to directing, Peter Sefchik is getting set to unleash his directorial debut Behemoth, and we’ve learned today that the film is releasing this summer. Level 33 Entertainment will unleash Behemoth on Digital platforms August 27. The press release hypes, “Behemoth is the striking debut of Peter Sefchik, who has used his
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News Nite Jewel Shares New Song “Before I Go”: Listen The second single from Ramona Gonzalez’s forthcoming LP No Sun By Matthew Ismael Ruiz July 20, 2021 Facebook Twitter Nite Jewel, photo by Tammy Nguyen Facebook Twitter Ramona Gonzalez’s Nite Jewel has shared a new song called “Before I Go.” It’s the second single from
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