Month: July 2023

SATURDAY PM UPDATE: Facts are facts, and Paramount/Skydance’s Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One set a 5-day opening domestic record for the franchise with $80M, we hear. Previous best 5-day opening belonged to 2000’s Mission: Impossible II which cleared a Wednesday-Sunday take over Memorial Day weekend of $78.8M. The 3-day record still belongs to
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In this article UNH Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Representatives speak with customers at a UnitedHealthcare store in Queens, New York. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images UnitedHealth Group’s stock price jumped Friday after the health-care conglomerate reported second-quarter revenue and adjusted earnings that topped Wall Street’s expectations despite rising medical costs. The
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Having a nice, white smile is a great confidence booster, but if we’re being honest, it doesn’t (always) come cheap. Having your teeth whitened at the dentist’s office might be costly, especially if you’re working with a tight budget. But not everything’s lost. Thanks to the many affordable at-home teeth-whitening options, you still have a
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Ignatiev | E+ | Getty Images Company: Mercury Systems (MRCY) Business: Mercury Systems is a manufacturer of essential components, products, modules and subsystems. The company sells them to defense prime contractors, the U.S. government and OEM commercial aerospace companies. Essentially, Mercury Systems makes the electronics that go into defense applications. Because it pays for its
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Just a few weeks ago Australian producer 1tbsp announced that he’d be giving us an eight-track album in August and with that news also came a brand-new single called ‘Sleeves Touch My Elbows’ which features a vocal sample from a song called ‘Gran remera’ by Argentinian project Mora y los metegoles. Now, he’s back with
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Gkids has acquired North American rights to Hayao Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron, the Japanese maestro’s latest feature which Toho is releasing today in Japan as Kimitachi wa Do Ikiruka (How Do You Live?). The Boy and the Heron is now the official international title. This all-rights deal marks a continuation of Gkids’ long-standing
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Summer is in full swing — in some parts dangerously so — and if you need a break from the heat/terrible air quality but want to feel connected to others, may I suggest a book club? All but one of the below book clubs are virtual and they offer the flexibility of participating as little
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The Biden administration announced Friday it would be automatically forgiving student debt for 804,000 federal borrowers as a result of fixes to income-driven repayment plans. The borrowers — who will be notified of their relief in the coming days, the administration said — will have a total of $39 billion in debt forgiven just weeks
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The Algarve hits all the right notes when it comes to seaside getaways. Inviting beaches and great weather are the just beginning of a long list of the region’s many charms. This southern pocket of Portugal also has castles, historic cobblestone centers and sleepy cliff-top villages overlooking wild stretches of coastline. Whether you’re traveling solo, heading
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NEW ARRIVALS THE BAG In woven silk and linen with crocheted jute edging, Loro Piana’s beach-ready tote is a cut above the standard straw carryall. Tote bag, Loro Piana, $2,575, loropiana.com.Courtesy of Loro Piana Bottega Veneta Slanted Raffia and Leather Medium Bucket Bag Paco Rabanne Rabane Raffia Tote Bag Hunting Season Small Leather-Trimmed Raffia Tote
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Expressing solidarity with Hollywood actors on Day 1 of the SAG-AFTRA strike, specialty distributors polled were anxiously juggling opening weekend Q&As and movie premieres without talent. They were trying to clarify which actors on what international productions are SAG-AFTRA, bound by the guild, or neither. And, for those involved in production, trying to pin down
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Some of Canadians’ favourite Hollywood actors will officially be taking a break from the big screen to join the picket line. The Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) made the decision Thursday to join the Hollywood’s writers’ union in a strike. Observers say the actors’ union’s decision largely comes down to
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Kelly is a former librarian and a long-time blogger at STACKED. She’s the editor/author of (DON’T) CALL ME CRAZY: 33 VOICES START THE CONVERSATION ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH and the editor/author of HERE WE ARE: FEMINISM FOR THE REAL WORLD. Her next book, BODY TALK, will publish in Fall 2020. Follow her on Instagram @heykellyjensen. View
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Pop icon Taylor Swift’s The Eras tour is taking the world by storm. With a total of 1,186,314 tickets on sale, fans are still competing viciously against each other for the chance to purchase a seat to one of Swift’s 106 shows across the world. In the wake of snaking overnight queues, Ticketmaster crashing and
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