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Ken Kao’s Waypoint Strikes First-Look With ‘Splitsville’ & ’80 For Brady’ Outfit Watch This Ready, First Project Revealed
Ken Kao’s financier-producer Waypoint Entertainment has agreed a first-look deal with Watch This Ready, the indie production company behind Dakota Johnson’s Cannes hit Splitsville. Under the partnership the two firms will jointly develop, finance and produce original feature films, formalising a working relationship that began with Splitsville, which Neon later acquired. The first project under…
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Oasis Documentary Trailer Reveals Gallagher Brothers’ Reunion Hesitation: ‘Will It Fall Apart Again?’
Oasis have released the first trailer for their documentary “Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger”, which follows the band’s 2025 reunion tour and captures the initial hesitation between brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher about reforming. The film matters as a rare, intimate look at the pair’s fractious relationship, marking the first joint interview between the…
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Preservationist group urges Supreme Court to keep White House ballroom paused
The preservationist group trying to stop President Trump’s White House ballroom urged the Supreme Court to deny the administration’s emergency request to allow construction, calling it “astonishing” on Tuesday. The Trump administration wants the justices to step in to stop a lower court order that would grind the above-ground work to a halt starting Friday. “Petitioners,…
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Preservationist group urges Supreme Court to keep White House ballroom paused
The preservationist group trying to stop President Trump’s White House ballroom urged the Supreme Court to deny the administration’s emergency request to allow construction, calling it “astonishing” on Tuesday. The Trump administration wants the justices to step in to stop a lower court order that would grind the above-ground work to a halt starting Friday. “Petitioners,…
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Peacock raises prices by 18 percent after becoming profitable
Peacock has increased its subscription prices for the fourth time in four years, shortly after NBCUniversal’s streaming service posted its first quarterly profit. The Select ad-supported tier rose from $8 to $9 a month, the standard Premium plan increased from $11 to $13, and the ad-free Premium Plus tier jumped from $17 to $20, an…
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Prince of Persia restored on GOG after Ubisoft remake cancellation
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time has been added to GOG’s Preservation Program, an initiative launched in 2024 to keep classic PC games playable on modern systems. The addition follows Ubisoft’s cancellation of its planned remake of the 2003 title, with GOG explicitly citing that decision as the reason for restoring and updating the…
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Why Gen Z’s most culturally powerful rappers aren’t its biggest stars
An opinion piece for Music Business Worldwide argues that hip-hop’s declining chart presence masks a deeper shift rather than a decline: in late October 2025 no rap song featured in the Billboard Hot 100’s top 40 for the first time since February 1990, and the genre’s US market share has fallen from roughly 30% in…
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Rally cheers, siege standoff, Golden Boot heats up
Reporting on 18 August brought together sharply different scenes: in Jakarta, demonstrators marched against government policies and raised concerns about living costs, corruption and the expanded role of the military in civilian affairs. Police blocked roads during the protest and brief scuffles were reported. Separately, attention remained on Qusra in the occupied West Bank, where…
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American interest in bagpipes has surged following the Tartan Army’s World Cup invasion
American enthusiasm for bagpipes has grown noticeably since Scotland’s “Tartan Army” fans took over host cities during the World Cup, with Scottish pipers and bagpipe retailers in the US reporting a marked uptick in interest. The trend highlights the cultural impact of Scotland’s travelling supporters, who are renowned for their kilts, bagpipes and boisterous singing,…
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Joe Rogan: “Rap Has Fallen Off the Charts ‘Cause USAID Got Defunded”
Joe Rogan has claimed on his podcast that hip-hop’s declining chart performance is linked to cuts in US foreign aid funding, alleging that USAID had been secretly bankrolling “radical anti-government rappers overseas” as part of regime-change efforts, and suggesting its 2025 defunding explains rap’s fall from the charts. The claim, made alongside comedians Shane Gillis,…