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This weekend, boxing promoters Golden Boy Promotions travels to Chicago for prime title bout between two world-class fighters. American boxer Floyd Schofield goes head-to-head against Canadian fighter Lucas Bahdi for the vacant WBA lightweight championship title. The match is scheduled for 12 rounds. On Saturday, Oct. 10, Schofield (19-0-0) vs. Bahdi (20-0-0) takes place at […]
Chinese martial arts star Xie Miao (“The Furious,” the “Eye for an Eye” series) is set to lead an English-language action crime thriller set in the U.S., which Los Angeles-based Stars Collective has in development. The project will pursue the bruising, realistic style of martial arts action seen in “The Furious,” and is designed to […]
Big news for “Naruto” fans: the franchise is getting a new anime TV series and author Masashi Kishimoto is releasing another “Naruto” manga titled “Shadow Rising.” The new anime series will be a crossover with the popular manga “NINKŪ” and will be supervised by both Kishimoto and “NINKŪ” creator Koji Kiriyama. Per the description for […]
Peacock’s “Dungeon Crawler Carl” live-action TV series will begin shooting next year, author Matt Dinniman and Universal TV execs revealed Saturday. “We are starting to see drafts and outlines, and we’ve gotten the whole series pitch, which is really exciting, but it’s continued to evolve,” Universal Global Television scripted series chief Kelsey Balance said during […]
After an epic two-night SummerSlam event with Roman Reigns defeated Seth Rollins for the World Heavyweight Title and Liv Morgan defeated Iyo Sky to retain the Women’s World Title, WWE travels to New Orleans for WWE Money in the Bank, a premium live event on Saturday, Oct. 10. The event features five bouts, including two […]
"Tenzing" earns its inspirational fervor, but the reason it fits into the new wave of mountain-climbing movies is that the director, Jennifer Peedom, an Australian who’s been making documentaries about mountain-climbing for 18 years, has staged the film with a you-are-there authenticity that’s breathtaking but never showy. She’s a classicist; this is a movie that, in spirit, you could imagine John Huston or Howard Hawks having directed.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who has added United Nations’ global advocate of human-centric digital governance to his resumé, has warned the public to be “concerned about the people building A.I.” and how the technology is being trained to “hijack your intimacy” in a vlog-style video interview with The New York Times published on Saturday. When the outlet […]
It’s Christmas time for the Belchers in the “Bob’s Burgers” Hulu-exclusive holiday short, “On the Fort Day of Christmas.” Creator and executive producer Loren Bouchard announced the release date for the short at the “Bob’s Burgers” New York Comic-Con panel on Saturday, also teasing a first-look at the holiday special. Premiering Dec. 7 on Hulu […]
Nicolas Cage is speaking out against Amazon after the company, which developed “Spider-Noir” for Prime Video, allegedly asked him to sign an AI waiver. “Amazon is a very AI-friendly company, to the tune of $50 billion invested in OpenAI,” Cage said Saturday during a panel on the Empire Stage at New York Comic Con. “I […]
Author Tomi Adeyemi canceled her previously announced New York Comic Con (NYCC) panel, where she was set to promote her new book, “The Siren.” No announcement from Adeyemi or NYCC organizer ReedPop was made ahead of the panel’s planned Saturday slot, leaving fans questioning what led her to pull out and when. A source tells […]
Following a long-anticipated return to the stage Thursday night, Barry Manilow put an early halt to Friday’s concert and has canceled his Saturday show at the International Theater at the Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino. “After a triumphant welcome-back concert on Thursday, Barry got hit with bronchitis and had to cancel his Friday and […]
Several Brazilian members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, including Oscar nominees Kleber Mendonça Filho, Wagner Moura, Emilie Lesclaux, Fernando Meirelles, Alê Abreu and Petra Costa, and Oscar-winning producer Rodrigo Teixeira (“I’m Still Here”), have released an open letter calling international attention to the upcoming second round of Brazil’s presidential elections. The […]
Cloud Imperium Games’ “Squadron 42” is now available to wishlist on Steam ahead of its planned Q2 2027 release. The single-player sci-fi adventure game is set in the year 2945, as the United Empire of Earth is threatened by outlaws and hostile aliens alike. Players enlist as a rookie in the UEE Navy and embark […]
SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for “The Social Reckoning,” now playing in theaters. Aaron Sorkin’s new film “The Social Reckoning” begins with a vignette about the impact of social media that’s as chilling as any statistic about the dangers of social media. And Portia Doubleday sits at its center, portraying the human toll of […]
It might have taken pioneering explorer Amyr Klink one hundred days to cross the Atlantic, but it took Carlos Saldanha almost three thousand to bring his story to the big screen. After nearly a decade working on the epic, the “Ice Age” and “Rio” director is finally bringing “100 Days” to audiences as the Brazilian […]
The world premiere of Netflix’s animated feature “Ray Gunn” at the London Film Festival on Saturday coincided with a special day for one of its key creatives. As director Brad Bird noted in the introduction at the Royal Festival Hall, the premiere for the neo-noir sci-fi was also composer Michael Giacchino’s birthday. Bird then invited […]
Following major openings like “Obsession,” “Backrooms” and “Resident Evil,” the horror genre’s 2026 box office reign shows no sign of slowing. And with Halloween right around the corner, it makes sense that momentum continued Friday as the supernatural, unnerving thriller “Other Mommy” easily claimed the top spot. The Universal movie, produced by Blumhouse-Atomic Monster, generated […]
“Under Siege” (“Palacio”) the fictional series inspired by the storming of Colombia’s Palace of Justice by an M-19 guerrilla commando and its subsequent retaking by the Colombian army, bows Nov. 6 on Netflix. The events, which unfolded in the capital of Bogotá on Nov. 6 and 7, 1985, is recounted in the eight-part series directed […]
Prime Video has taken global rights to Turkish TV powerhouse Ay Yapim’s AI movie “Çukur: Vartolu,” a spin-off from its hit series “Çukur,” known internationally as “The Pit.” “Çukur: Vartolu” is produced by Ay Yapim under its Singapore-based artificial intelligence studio AI Yapim that in August launched the AI-generated historical drama “Castle Walls” also on […]
“Welcome to the future,” we hear several times in “Ray Gunn” — not that the brave new world it presents is all that welcoming. Or, for that matter, particularly brave or new. The good news is we finally have flying cars and superpowered jetpacks; in other respects, though, we haven’t come a long way at […]
