Vance Boelter, the man accused of shooting two Minnesota lawmakers, killing one, changed his plea to guilty on Thursday. Boelter is accused of fatally shooting Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark Hortman, and injuring state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette Hoffman, in June 2025. He faces federal charges including murder, … Read more
Helen Mirren, who is in Sicily as the recipient of a Taormina Film Festival Lifetime Achievement Award, opened up about her relationship with “MobLand” co-star Tom Hardy and the verbal attack she recently suffered in London by a man who called her an “evil Zionist bitch.” In late May, Mirren expressed support for her “MobLand” … Read more
Amazon Prime Video has formally greenlit a series adaptation of “Things We Never Got Over.” The show is based on the book of the same name by Lucy Score and is the first of three books in Score’s so-called Knockemout series. The TV adaptation was first reported to be in the works at Amazon in … Read more
President Donald Trump has spent more than 100 days promising either a historic peace deal or a decisive military victory over Iran. He has neither — and on Thursday morning, he made clear he’s done waiting. In a Truth Social post, Trump threatened to strike Iran “very hard” and announced plans to seize Kharg Island, … Read more
The anonymous New York City-based band Adore have teamed up with director Wesley Wang to release the official music video for their single “Feel It All Again,” out now on Big Beat Records / Warner Records. A unique collaboration, the three-minute animation is also known as “Violet and Marlowe Rob a Bank (soundtracked by Adore),” … Read more
Quilty, which makes a tool that uses AI to evaluate and score a screenplay to help determine its producibility, has landed its first partnership with a production company. The company, launched in February by founders film producer Daniel Wood and lawyer-turned-producer Simon Horsman, has struck a multiyear “preferred-look” deal with Giovanni Entertainment, the production company behind … Read more
Control of the U.S. Senate in the next Congress might very well come down to the closely watched contest in Maine, where longtime Republican Sen. Susan Collins is seeking a sixth term. On the surface, Democrats have reason for cautious optimism: Collins is New England’s only remaining GOP senator, and recent polling suggests many Mainers … Read more
When filmmaker Christopher Nolan decided to adapt The Odyssey to the big screen, he wanted the movie not only to look like ancient Greece but to sound like it too. So when he approached composer Ludwig Göransson about the score to the picture, out July 17, he challenged the Oscar winner to source authentic instruments. … Read more
Oscar winner Michael Giacchino has been officially unveiled as the composer for Brad Bird’s upcoming Netflix animation “Ray Gunn.” “Ray Gunn,” an original futuristic detective caper, is set to be the duo’s sixth collaboration since they first teamed up on 2004 Pixar animation “The Incredibles.” (They have since worked together on “Ratatouille,” “Mission: Impossible – … Read more
The 2026 ScaleUP Awards in Calgary recognized eight companies from across Western Canada, with winners spanning clean technology, rural broadband, Indigenous food manufacturing, property technology, climate technology, and consumer products. The finalists spanned across British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba, and together generated an estimated $640 million in combined annual revenue and supported more than … Read more