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It’s-a-hit: ‘The Super Mario Galaxy Movie’ box office blasts off with $372.5 million globally
By Canadian Press on April 5th, 2026
Mixed reviews didn’t dissuade mass audiences from buying tickets to the “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie,” which scored the biggest opening of the year for a Hollywood movie. The Illumination and Nintendo co-production earned $130.9 million over the weekend and a massive $190.1 million in its first five days in North American theaters, according to ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Screenwriters union and Hollywood studios reach four-year tentative agreement
By Canadian Press on April 5th, 2026
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The screenwriters union and Hollywood studios reached a surprise four-year tentative agreement after roughly three weeks of negotiation. The Writers Guild of America West said on X that its negotiating committee unanimously approved a tentative agreement with The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, which represents studios. The alliance confirmed ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Eulogy for the CIA Factbook: The free standard for world facts, long an educational staple, is gone
By Canadian Press on April 5th, 2026
If you attended school any time after the Nixon administration, then you likely beheld at some point the CIA World Factbook, a map and reference manual of Planet Earth and its inhabitants upon which nearly everyone could agree. Maybe you read parts of it from a floppy disk or a CD-ROM for that social studies ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!English choirs seek to protect a musical tradition little changed since Queen Elizabeth I
By Canadian Press on April 4th, 2026
LONDON (AP) — On a gray afternoon in the days before Easter, a dozen or so schoolchildren straggled into a side building at Rochester Cathedral and began their transformation. Off went the jackets and backpacks, on came burgundy cassocks and white surplices. Then they trooped into the cathedral, opened their mouths and sang as one. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Canada’s Artemis II astronaut gives thumbs-up to ‘Project Hail Mary’ starring Canadian Ryan Gosling
By Canadian Press on April 4th, 2026
HOUSTON (AP) — The new space movie “Project Hail Mary” starring Ryan Gosling is getting rave reviews more than halfway to the moon. Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen said Saturday that he and his Artemis II crewmates got to watch the film with their families before launching on the lunar fly-around. He said it was “a ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Canadian Paul Alexander Nolan sinks teeth into Broadway’s ‘The Lost Boys’ musical
By Canadian Press on April 4th, 2026
Paul Alexander Nolan is sinking his teeth into his newest role as “The Lost Boys: A New Musical” hits Broadway. The production is generating buzz from audiences and praise from the original 1987 bloodsucker himself, Kiefer Sutherland. “Doesn’t Kiefer still look fantastic? You know, maybe he is a vampire,” Nolan quipped. Posting a video message ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Ye attempts a comeback with sold-out LA-area concert, support from Lauryn Hill
By Canadian Press on April 4th, 2026
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The artist formerly and possibly again known as Kanye West reveled in support from one of his musical idols, Lauryn Hill, as he staged a sold-out Southern California concert meant to mark a comeback from years of controversy. Eleven months after releasing a song titled “Heil Hitler” and just over two ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Nearly a century of wondering: The American UFO saga, in reality and in fiction
By Canadian Press on April 3rd, 2026
UFOs, or the notion of them, have been around a long time. Here’s a look at how the various iterations of the subject — from government investigations to sightings to movies and TV — have unfolded since World War II: ___ 1947: First widely reported UFO sighting in US On June 24, private pilot Kenneth ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Hollywood’s narrative on UFOs and ETs reaches back many decades
By Canadian Press on April 3rd, 2026
Before zombies shambled about, ghoulishly feasting on the flesh of those too slow to flee, aliens from outer space ruled movie theaters, drive-ins and late Saturday night creature features on television. Even as Hollywood still drives how Americans envision little green men with big eyes and bigger heads, fiction soon could be separated from — ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Former Turnstile guitarist is accused of hitting an ex-bandmate’s dad with his car
By Canadian Press on April 3rd, 2026
SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — A former guitarist for Grammy-winning Baltimore hardcore band Turnstile has been charged with attempted murder after authorities say he chased down and struck a former bandmate’s father with his car, badly injuring him. Montgomery County police officers responding to a Sunday report about a pedestrian being struck in the Washington, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Surprise! Zendaya wears something blue, after the old, new and borrowed
By Canadian Press on April 3rd, 2026
NEW YORK (AP) — Yup, she wore something blue. Zendaya, surprising precisely nobody on the planet, showed up in dazzling blue at Thursday’s New York premiere of “The Drama,” after teasing the bridal theme for weeks by wearing something old, then something new, then something borrowed. Her strapless Schiaparelli Haute Couture ball gown, accompanied by ... Read More »
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