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Bridgerton Season 4 Part 1 Tops 317,900,000 Viewing Hours

Netflix's latest figures show Season 4, Part 1 of Bridgerton was watched for more than 300 million hours in just three weeks, totaling roughly 317,900,000 hours worldwide. Only four episodes of the latest season are available so far. The show was the second-most-popular TV title last

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Dwayne Johnson Wraps Production on Next Jumanji Film

Dwayne Johnson confirmed on Instagram that production on the next Jumanji movie has officially wrapped. He helped relaunch the franchise in 2017 with Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, which grossed $960 million against a $90 million budget, and returned for a sequel two years later that cost $35 million more

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Jason Priestley tumbles through SNL's 'Figure Skating Cold Open'

When Jason Priestley hosted Saturday Night Live on February 15, 1992, he took the ice as Brian Demming, a young skater competing at the Winter Olympics in Albertville, France. The sketch opens with commentators Verne Lundquist (Phil Hartman) and Scott Hamilton (Dana Carvey) setting high expectations for Demming's

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Tommy Lee Jones' daughter Victoria's cause of death revealed

The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in San Francisco ruled Victoria Jones' death an accident, listing the cause as the toxic effects of cocaine. She was found unresponsive on the 14th floor of the Fairmont San Francisco Hotel in the early hours of New Year’s Day. A

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Mewgenics sells 1 million copies in one week; creators 'blindsided'

Just one week after release, Mewgenics has sold more than one million copies. Tyler Glaiel announced the milestone on X with a fan-made image by artist Whom, and co-creator Edmund McMillen retweeted the post. Glaiel shared some context on wishlists and sales, saying the game had roughly 400,000 wishlists

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The 10 Greatest Heist Thrillers of the 21st Century, Ranked

The heist thriller remains one of cinema’s enduring pleasures: a blend of precision, timing, misdirection and the intoxicating fantasy of outsmarting the system. In the best examples, stealing is rarely the point; what matters is how the theft reframes power—who plans, who improvises and who realizes too late

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Readers Respond: 11 More Transcendent Beatles Covers by Black Musicians

Last week a 13-track playlist of favorite Beatles covers by Black musicians prompted readers to write in with their own desert-island picks. The responses were so numerous and passionate that a sequel playlist was assembled entirely from readers’ recommendations, accompanied by short notes explaining why each choice resonated. The selections

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Shia LaBeouf Charged With Battery in New Orleans

Shia LaBeouf was charged with two counts of simple battery in New Orleans on Tuesday after reportedly assaulting two people, the police said. Around 12:45 a.m., authorities were called to Royal Street in the French Quarter following reports of an assault. Investigators said LaBeouf, 39, had caused a

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Robert Duvall Didn’t Mind Clashing With Directors

Robert Duvall, who died on Sunday at 95, believed a less-is-more approach to directing and often said, 'Get out of my way.' He argued that the best directors direct least so actors can bring their own temperament to a role. 'Actors draw on what they know,'

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TV, It’s Not Just for Humans Anymore

Videos made for pets have become a noticeable part of the online landscape. In one household the most-watched clip is footage of a strand of yarn being dragged across the screen by TV BINI, an hourlong video scored with birdsong that the author's cat Goose returns to repeatedly.

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10 Thriller Movie Masterpieces With Great Acting, Ranked

I always return to thrillers when I want to feel something real — not loud excitement, but a quiet tension where danger sits inside the characters and every pause or avoided answer matters. Over time I noticed the thrillers that linger are those carried almost entirely by performances: the moments actors

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Gold ring matches Taylor Swift's go-to style — just $40

Taylor Swift often wears a gold band with a marquise-cut stone from Mazin Jewels known as the Luxor. A near-identical option appears at Bloomingdale’s: the Ettika Treasure Marquise Cut Cubic Zirconia Band Ring. It’s plated in 18k gold with a cubic zirconia center, comes in sizes 5–10,

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Dan Trachtenberg Hints at Return to Cloverfield Franchise

Dan Trachtenberg, who broke out with the bunker thriller 10 Cloverfield Lane and later led entries in the Predator series, says he could return to J.J. Abrams' Cloverfield universe. Speaking with ScreenRant, he stressed the IP wasn't the reason for his new overall deal with Paramount

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10 Greatest Ice Skating Movies of All Time, Ranked

Every four years the Winter Olympics return, and with them the athletic drama on snow and ice. Figure skating, part sport and part performance, has delivered some of the Games' most memorable moments and long inspired filmmakers — from broad comedies to intimate biopics. As the Milano Cortina games continue,

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How Reggie Dinkins Landed 'Extraordinary' Guest Stars

The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins, from Tina Fey, is a new NBC sitcom starring Tracy Morgan, Daniel Radcliffe, Erika Alexander and Bobby Moynihan. Morgan plays disgraced former NFL star Reggie Dinkins, who recruits defamed film director Arthur Tobin (Radcliffe) to make a movie that will reclaim his public

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Jessica Alba and Danny Ramirez pack on the PDA in Miami

Jessica Alba and boyfriend Danny Ramirez couldn’t keep their hands off each other in the ocean in Miami Beach during an extended Valentine’s Day getaway. Alba, 44, wore a red and leopard-print bikini with gold hoops, sunglasses and a brown trucker hat that read “Out of Office.” Ramirez,

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How often do game sequels totally shift genres?

Some sequels stay comfortably in their parents' lanes, while others turn up in entirely different neighborhoods. Remedy, long known for third-person shooters, shocked players when Control's follow-up appeared to ditch the studio's usual shooting focus for something closer in spirit to character-driven action titles. These

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Playmates teases life-size Samantha from Dungeon Crawler Carl at Toy Fair

Playmates Toys is bringing Matt Dinniman’s Dungeon Crawler Carl into the collectible world, adapting the post-apocalyptic setting—where survivors like Carl and his ex-girlfriend’s cat Princess Donut compete in the alien-run Dungeon Crawler World—into several toy lines. The company plans to debut figures at San Diego Comic-Con

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10 Most Perfect Movies Released Since 2005, Ranked

I did not put this list together by looking at influence, awards, or how often these films get cited. I thought instead about the movies I watched after 2005 that quietly reset my expectations and held my attention through the end credits. Each one commits fully to its story, its

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Punch, a baby macaque in Japan, clings to a stuffed orangutan

Punch — or Punch-kun — is a baby macaque at Ichikawa City Zoo in Chiba, Japan. Born in July 2025, he was rejected by his mother shortly after birth and was hand-reared by zookeepers. Lacking a maternal substitute, staff gave him a plush toy. In photos and videos shared on X and

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Chris Hemsworth Teases Unique Plans for Thor After Avengers: Doomsday

Chris Hemsworth is set to play an important role as Thor in Avengers: Doomsday, the latest MCU installment that has remained dormant since Endgame. As one of the few characters to receive his own teaser, fans have speculated the thunder god could be nearing the end of his run. Hemsworth

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The Fifth Element Returns to Theaters July 26–27, 2026

Nearly three decades after its 1997 debut, Luc Besson’s neon-drenched space opera The Fifth Element will return to theaters on July 26 and 27, 2026 as part of Fathom Entertainment’s Big Screen Classics series. The film stars Gary Oldman, Bruce Willis, and Milla Jovovich. When it originally hit

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Celebs and shoppers say these are the world's most comfortable thongs — on sale

Hanky Panky’s Signature Lace Thongs are widely beloved; the brand once trademarked the soft style as the "world’s most comfortable thong." Right now at Bloomingdale's, buy three of the Leopard Lace Original Rise Thongs or Low Rise Thongs and get them for just $54

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White House became a radioactive crater in Fallout 3 because there were no quests

Bethesda developers have been revisiting Fallout's creation, and one design anecdote stands out: Emil Pagliarulo says an envisioned subway network under Washington, DC, sounded cool until he realised endless tunnels would be dull. Many team members had lived in the capital, and that familiarity shaped the decision to

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Shigeru Ban: building cathedrals and quake shelters from paper

“I don’t like waste,” says Shigeru Ban. He reclaims materials others discard — cardboard tubes, beer crates, styrofoam, shipping containers — and turns apparent fragility into structural ingenuity. His projects range from high-end boutiques to housing for refugees, blurring east and west, luxury and the everyday, and challenging ideas about what