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Scream 7 pushes franchise past $1 billion

Scream 7 has pushed the decades-old horror series past the $1 billion mark at the global box office, delivering the franchise's biggest opening despite poor reviews. The film grossed nearly $64 million in its domestic debut, about $20 million more than the previous record of $44 million set

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Malcolm McDowell says sudden fame after 'A Clockwork Orange' frightened him

Malcolm McDowell, 82, said his instant rise after starring in Stanley Kubrick’s 1971 film A Clockwork Orange was a difficult period. “I don’t think I handled it particularly well, actually,” he said. “It actually frightened me somewhat.” He added that the attention stopped him from enjoying the success.

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Human Fall Flat gets Viking map featuring Dave the Diver

Human Fall Flat, the cooperative physics-platformer and one of the best-selling games of all time, has received a new Viking-themed map from No Brakes Games. The update drops players into a rugged Scandinavian landscape where they can pilot a longship and use a battering ram to break into a Viking

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Christopher Nolan's best sci-fi movie is now more influential than 2001

Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, a 2014 theatrical hit, has grown into one of the most influential science-fiction films of the last decade. In 2026 its blend of modern and classic filmmaking — where computer graphics and practical techniques are made to feel like a single, tangible reality — has become a new

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Disney's Live-Action 'Robin Hood' Remake Canceled

Disney has canceled its planned live-action remake of the 1973 animated Robin Hood. The project was announced in 2020 with Kari Granlund attached to write and Carlos López Estrada set to direct. In a Reddit AMA, Estrada said, "It’s dead, sadly." He added, "I say sadly

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Tom Hanks’ A League of Their Own (82% on Rotten Tomatoes) Shows His Range

Tom Hanks had already won Oscars for Philadelphia and Forrest Gump, but an earlier role helped shift his image. Jimmy Dugan in 1992's A League of Their Own revealed a more seasoned side of Hanks. The female-led sports dramedy was his second and final collaboration with Penny Marshall

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I didn't expect a close friendship with my grandfather

I cannot recall my first memory of my grandfather, Geraldo—maybe because he was always there. When I was born he split his time between Paris, where I lived, so he could watch me grow, and Rio de Janeiro, where he now lives full-time. After I moved to New York

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Ryan Gosling's SNL Monologue and Sketches from March 7, 2026

Ryan Gosling hosted his fourth Saturday Night Live episode on March 7, and his monologue quickly became a team effort when Harry Styles showed up in the front row. "I just wish someone would have told me. That's, uh, anyway, welcome!" Gosling said, before deadpanning, "

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How to make salt and pepper squid – recipe

Crisp, salty and pungently aromatic, this dish pairs hot, crunchy batter with soft, creamy squid. It’s easy enough to make for dinner tonight. Use small sustainably-sourced squid, cleaned and defrosted if necessary. If you’re not a fan of the cephalopod, the recipe can be adapted to small pieces

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Ryan Gosling's 'SNL' monologue upstaged by A-list star

Ryan Gosling’s Saturday Night Live monologue was upstaged when he spotted Harry Styles in the audience. Gosling opened by saying March is a great time to host SNL in New York City, then looked out and asked, "Is that Harry Styles?" The camera panned to Styles, who

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Sheriff Country Becomes Paramount+ Hit After One Season

Sheriff Country's first season has become one of the ten most-streamed shows on Paramount+ in the U.S., drawing praise and strong viewing figures. Morena Baccarin’s Sheriff Mickey Fox has emerged as the face of the procedural, and the series holds a 75% score on Rotten Tomatoes,

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I didn't like Mexico City; found better city nearby instead: Querétaro

I planned a two-week trip to Mexico after looking beyond Cancún, Puerto Vallarta, and Cozumel, and put Mexico City at the top after hearing great reviews. The metropolis of about 22 million people felt overwhelming—an influx of tourists for Día de Muertos probably didn't help—and I

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Ditto's stomach in Pokémon Pokopia raises big questions

Pokémon anatomy rarely crosses my mind, but after playing Pokémon Pokopia I found myself preoccupied with the inside of Ditto. Transformed into the likeness of their former trainer, Ditto carries a stylish little satchel. Sometimes Ditto puts items in the bag and removes them; other times Ditto puts items directly

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Apple TV's 4-Part Answer to 'Succession' Quietly Returns to Streaming Charts

The Morning Show’s fourth season has quietly rejoined Apple TV+’s U.S. top ten, returning to the platform’s most-watched list, which is currently led by Monarch: Legacy of Monsters. Running through last fall, Season 4 delivered plenty of drama as stars and executive producers Jennifer Aniston and

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Resident Evil Requiem points to multiple possible futures for the series

Resident Evil Requiem closes on a dazzling crescendo, presenting Leon S. Kennedy as a clearly traumatized figure while sketching a very different landscape for whenever Resident Evil 10 arrives. The game leans on revisionist touches, and those changes feel deliberate: Capcom appears to be sowing seeds for both the mainline

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Author Says Studio Demanded He Stop Selling Graphic Novel Over Name

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 was one of 2025’s most unexpected hits, and as developer Sandfall Interactive moves to build on that success, fantasy author Olivier Gay says he received a lawyer’s letter from the studio demanding he stop selling his comic book with a similar name. L’Académie

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These Classic '90s TV Shows Have Aged Like Fine Wine

If you grew up in the 1990s, many of the decade’s best TV shows feel like familiar friends today, and streaming has put them within easy reach for new viewers and fans revisiting them. While some series from that era haven’t aged well, several remain timeless — slightly dated

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Josh Elliott and Liz Cho embroiled in contentious divorce

Former CBS anchor Josh Elliott filed for divorce from ABC anchor Liz Cho on June 20, 2025, stating that “the marriage of the parties has broken down irretrievably.” Cho responded on Nov. 6 with a cross-complaint that makes the same claim; Elliott asked the court for a dissolution and an

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John Romero's Dangerous Dave gets a spiritual successor next week

Id Software's early history hides a surprising number of games. Before Commander Keen in Invasion of the Vorticons became the studio's first official release, its founders—still partly tied to Softdisk—made Dangerous Dave in the Haunted Mansion, a side-scrolling shooter released in late 1990 that

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The Muppets star Pepé turns 30: 'He's kind of like a male Miss Piggy'

Pepé the King Prawn began as a small role on Muppets Tonight, the variety series that debuted on March 8, 1996 and ran 22 episodes over two seasons. What started as a minor part on that short-lived show grew into one of the troupe’s core characters and one of

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Slay the Spire 2 devs: "We're microtransaction haters"

Slay the Spire 2 will not include microtransactions, the developers say, following the approach of the original game. Casey Yano, lead developer and Mega Crit co-founder, said in an interview with Destructoid: "We're microtransaction haters," adding, "a lot of our players threaten to buy all

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3 Hard Sci-Fi Shows All Cyberpunk Fans Need to Stream

More than four decades after Ridley Scott's Blade Runner set the standard, filmmakers have continued to use neon-soaked skylines, megacities and powerful corporations to explore dystopian futures shaped by AI, surveillance and digital dependency. On television, the expense of building those worlds means truly good cyberpunk series are

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Godless’ seven-episode Western still outshines the Yellowstone universe

Westerns have surged on television in recent years, largely driven by Taylor Sheridan’s Yellowstone universe. Still, Netflix’s female-led miniseries Godless—released November 22, 2017—remains a clear example of what the genre can achieve in a compact format. The seven-episode drama follows outlaw Frank Griffin and his gang

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Makoto Shinkai’s 5 Centimeters Per Second is streaming on HBO Max

“At what speed must I live...to be able to see you again?' That line captures the film’s mourning tone. Released in 2007 and now streaming on HBO Max, 5 Centimeters per Second is a quieter, more grounded work from Makoto Shinkai, trading the overt fantasy of later

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Smiling Friends, Monty Python and milk shaped this RPG parody

Ahead of the game's appearance at the Future Games Show Spring Showcase, the duo behind The Dungeon Experience explained what shapes their sense of humor. They said that as a small team they spend "90% of our time making gags in isolation showing [them] to friends and