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Emmy-Nominated Sarah Pidgeon Talks ‘Love Story’ Highlights, ‘Honeymoon With Harry’ & Lena Dunham Rumors
Actress Sarah Pidgeon has received her first Emmy nomination, for Lead Actress, for playing Carolyn Bessette in the FX limited series “Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette”. Speaking to Deadline from Paris, where she is attending Couture Week as a Chanel Ambassador, she described feeling “buzzy”, grateful and “out of body”, and…
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Wes Anderson Was Stuck in the Academy Museum Elevator With James L. Brooks and Luke Wilson
Director Wes Anderson, actor Luke Wilson and producer James L. Brooks found themselves trapped in a lift at the Academy Museum for around half an hour, shortly after appearing on stage for a Q&A following a screening of “Bottle Rocket”. The mishap, captured in an Instagram video by production specialist Carolyn Dunn, required the Los…
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Miami-based City Labs achieves a first for commercial nuclear power in space
Miami-based City Labs has launched what it describes as the world’s first commercial nuclear-powered satellite, marking a milestone for private-sector nuclear power in space. The CubeSat, named BOHR (Betavoltaic Orbital High-Reliability), reached orbit on Tuesday aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rideshare mission carrying around 80 other payloads, and was deployed at an altitude of between…
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A New Space for Electronic Music, ORIGIN Los Angeles, Will Open Soon in Downtown L.A.
A new electronic music venue called Origin Los Angeles is set to open in the Downtown L.A. Arts District in late summer or early autumn this year. An extension of the industrial event space at 613 Imperial Street—frequently used by Insomniac Events and other promoters—Origin will be an indoor/outdoor venue built specifically for electronic music,…
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Amazon is reportedly working on a more powerful agentic Alexa assistant
Amazon is working on a project codenamed ‘Moonraker’ that would enable the AI assistant to handle multi-step tasks more effectively.
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A current Valve designer recreated Half-Life 2’s Ravenholm in the Source 2 engine, and says he was “blown away at how powerful these tools are”
A designer currently working at Valve has rebuilt Ravenholm, the memorably grim zombie-infested town from Half-Life 2, inside the newer Source 2 engine, and shared his enthusiasm about the experience. He said he was “blown away at how powerful these tools are,” offering fans a glimpse of how one of the series’ most iconic locations…
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Marvel Officially Brings Back ‘Moon Knight’ Character After 4 Years
The second season of Marvel’s acclaimed animated series X-Men ’97 has continued a run of hidden connections to the wider Marvel Cinematic Universe, and the latest episode has revived a character last seen in the 2022 Disney Plus series Moon Knight. In the episode “The Rise of Apocalypse Part 2”, one of the statues resurrected…
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Workers at MindsEye studio protesting controversial fan event this weekend after multiple rounds of layoffs
Staff at Build a Rocket Boy (BARB), the Edinburgh studio behind the poorly received game MindsEye, are due to picket outside the studio’s offices on Saturday 11th July. They are protesting against an “all-expenses-paid” fan event the developer is hosting the same weekend, at which community members will be flown in to play an updated…
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Academy Museum Unveils The Horror Show Exhibition Featuring ‘Carrie’ 50th Anniversary Screening, John Carpenter Retrospective
The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles has announced a major new exhibition, The Horror Show, devoted to the art and craft of horror cinema. Running for 10 months from 26 September 2026 to 25 July 2027 in the museum’s Katzenberg Gallery, it will be accompanied by film retrospectives, including a 50th anniversary…
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Venus Aerospace raises $90M Series B to build a new kind of rocket engine
Venus Aerospace has raised a $90 million Series B funding round to advance its Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine (RDRE), a design promising greater efficiency than conventional rocket motors. The round matters because it marks the company’s pivot from its original goal of clean hypersonic passenger jets towards defence and space applications, after a successful 2025…