China’s second Friday with cinemas back to business in low-risk areas rang up another $4M at local turnstiles, a 39% increase versus the same day last week. About 60% of movie theaters are now operating, with capacity limits and social distancing still in place, so all numbers are to be taken with a grain of
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We all want to claim something. To have a little purchase on the land in this lifetime. It’s the American dream, you know. Things threaten that airtight American dream, of course, which is fine. It’s not a dream if it doesn’t take some grist to get. For example, people already living on the one you
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Larsa Pippen is telling Kanye West to MYOB when it comes to women’s reproductive rights, saying that if he can’t get pregnant, he shouldn’t be dissing a woman’s right to choose. Kanye West resurfaced on Twitter on July 31 with more abortion tweets, and Larsa Pippen isn’t having it. The 43-year-old rapper wrote, “Over 22,500,000
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A queer independent filmmaker has accused an Amazon Prime series of ripping off his 2011 anthology film without any credit or acknowledgement. Indian film and TV director and screenwriter Onir accused the creators behind Amazon series Made in Heaven of copying his award-winning film I Am in a series of tweets. Onir spoke out about the similarities following a
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Arrow de Wilde said she was told that the incident was orchestrated by Brooks Nielsen and cost the band “a few hundred bucks,” calling it “a pretty expensive joke.” Starcrawler guitarist Henri Cash corroborated de Wilde’s story in a statement to Pitchfork. “Everything Arrow said in her statement is true,” Cash wrote. “We were locked
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James Baldwin books entered my life three years ago. I was in the bookstore searching for new reads and spied a copy of The Fire Next Time. Immediately intrigued, I browsed through its contents. What did this small book have to offer? Quite a lot! Raw honestly about a modern world suffering from intolerance. Sharing
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After years of back-and-forth between lawyers for alleged Jeffrey Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell and Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre, a judge allowed documents from a 2015 civil case to be unsealed on Thursday night. Giuffre had sued Maxwell for defamation after Maxwell said her allegations of Epstein’s sexual abuse were false, and Maxwell’s depositions in the
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TORONTO – Ryan Reynolds is using his Hollywood superstar status to launch an on-set film production inclusivity program for marginalized communities. The Vancouver-born “Deadpool” actor announced plans on Friday for the Group Effort Initiative, which will recruit 10 to 20 trainees from Black, Indigenous and “all other marginalized communities” to work alongside experienced professionals on
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Ayesha Curry shared a photo of herself locking lips with NBA star Steph Curry, a day after celebrating their nine-year wedding anniversary. Thanks to the power of the iPhone’s self-timer feature, Stephen Curry, 32, and Ayesha Curry, 31, were able to capture an incredibly romantic moment. The married couple was pictured locking lips while sitting
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