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Legendary Video Game Hero Officially Returns in Stunning New Release [Exclusive]
Bit Bot Media is preparing a BackerKit crowdfunding campaign for Thief: Pulse of Promise, an officially licensed graphic novel based on the acclaimed dark fantasy stealth video game series. The book marks a return for the franchise’s original antihero, master thief Garrett, and Collider has been given an exclusive first look at the cover art…
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Michael Fassbender’s Production Company DMC Expands in Ireland Following Investment From Fine Point Films
Michael Fassbender’s production company DMC is expanding its Irish operations after receiving investment from Trevor Birney’s Fine Point Films into its Dublin arm, DMC Entertainment. Announced at the Galway Film Fleadh, the deal deepens ties between two companies that both worked on the Irish breakout hit “Kneecap”, and reflects growing momentum and confidence in Ireland’s…
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Initiate reveal new EP With Love // With Rage and single Numb The Pain
Southern California hardcore band Initiate have announced a new EP titled With Love // With Rage, alongside its lead single and video “Numb The Pain”. The release marks the group’s first substantial new output since their 2022 debut album Cerebral Circus, following only a one-off 2025 single called “Too Much”, and continues their approach of…
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Radiohead guitarist Ed O’Brien gives Abbeycwmhir wide release beyond vinyl
Radiohead guitarist Ed O’Brien has given a wide release to his atmospheric track “Abbeycwmhir,” which had previously only been available on an exclusive seven-inch vinyl. The song arrives two months after his second solo album, Blue Morpho, and offers fans another glimpse of the introspective work he produced during a difficult personal period. The track…
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Joanna Pettet, Actress in ‘The Group’ and ‘Casino Royale,’ Dies at 83
Joanna Pettet, the London-born actress best known for Sidney Lumet’s ensemble drama The Group and the 1967 James Bond spoof Casino Royale, has died at the age of 83. She died on Tuesday at Temecula Valley Hospital in California, according to her friend and former manager Pam DuBois. Her death fell exactly 31 years after…
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Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX are bigger than the last 25 years of tech exits
SpaceX has floated on public markets at a $1.77 trillion valuation, with AI firms Anthropic and possibly OpenAI expected to follow, and their combined scale is drawing attention for eclipsing decades of technology exits. According to the latest NVCA-PitchBook Venture Monitor report, cited by TechCrunch, these three offerings together are set to “generate more value…
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War inside Commonwealth Bank as staff seethe over ‘top performers’ LinkedIn boasts from lavish awards trip while 800 jobs disappear
Commonwealth Bank of Australia is facing internal discontent after it flew its top-performing staff and their families to a luxury resort in Cairns, Far North Queensland, for a multi-day conference and lavish awards night, just five weeks before announcing a fresh round of job cuts. The event, held on the last weekend of May, was…
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Ari Aster & Lars Knudsen Join Doc ‘Crows Are White’ As Exec Producers; Film Gets U.S. Release Date
Filmmakers Ari Aster and Lars Knudsen have joined the documentary Crows Are White as executive producers through their Square Peg banner, marking the company’s first foray into documentary film. The move coincides with the announcement of a US theatrical release for the feature, the debut of director Ahsen Nadeem, giving the previously festival-only title a…
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Ex-Pineapple Street Pair Launch New Podcast Shingle, Set Projects With Dan Taberski, Amy Poehler & Patrick Radden Keefe
Two former senior executives of Pineapple Street Studios have launched a new podcast production company, Please and Thanks Productions, roughly a year after the acclaimed studio was shut down following the bankruptcy of its owner, Audacy. Joel Lovell, previously Executive Editor, and Henry Molofsky, an Executive Producer, were both at Pineapple Street from its 2016…
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Sony Music to Shutter Newly Unionized Punk Merch Warehouse
Sony Music has announced it will close a Minneapolis warehouse run by Kings Road Merch, which fulfils merchandise for punk acts including Rancid, Descendents, Dropkick Murphys and Converge, prompting staff to accuse the company of union-busting. Warehouse workers had voted unanimously to unionise on 11 May this year under Teamsters Local 970, citing pay discrepancies…