Backrooms Director Doesn’t Want To Direct Star Wars for 1 Simple Reason
Amid rumors linking Kane Parsons to massive pop-culture IPs following the success of his debut feature film, Backrooms, the YouTuber-turned-director has confirmed that he has no plans of helming a Star Wars or Star Trek movie. In a recent interview, the 20-year-old revealed that he does not intend to ever lead a major franchise project […]

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Love Island UK Participant Quits Series After Just 3 Days
A participant on Season 13 of Love Island UK exited the show after only three days. The sudden departure marks one of the fastest exits in the show’s history, leaving fans and fellow contestants stunned. The series’ newest season debuted in the UK on Monday, June 1, 2026. George Knight leaves Love Island Season 13 […]

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Ice Age 6 Teaser Trailer Shows Disney Might Have Hit a Nostalgia Dud
With the release of the first Ice Age 6 teaser trailer, it seems like Disney has failed to consider whether fans wanted another Ice Age movie. Within five hours of its debut, the teaser trailer has gained over 525k views on YouTube. This is quite a low turnout, especially for a new Disney movie with […]

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Supergirl EP Reveals Real Reason Why Lobo Was Added to DCU Movie
In the build-up to the release of the Supergirl movie, executive producer Chantal Nong Vo has explained why the DCU movie features the big-screen debut of maverick bounty hunter Lobo (Jason Momoa). The Warner Bros. Discovery Executive VP, in a recent interview, noted that while the character does contribute to the story of the film, […]

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L’ex-élue insoumise Rachel Keke mise à la porte par son employeur
En conflit depuis plusieurs mois avec la société STN sur les conditions de sa réintégration comme gouvernante, l’ex-députée a été licenciée début mai. Elle regrette ce qu’elle qualifie de «vengeance» en réponse à la grève des femmes de chambre de l’hôtel Ibis Batignolles, dont elle a été la cheffe de file. ⌘ Read more

Fan-Favorite Sweet Magnolias Star Is Exiting Days Before Season 5 Debut
Sweet Magnolias has experienced a major cast shakeup ahead of Season 5. A beloved star has left the romantic drama, which returns to the small screen very soon. Carson Rowland leaves Sweet Magnolias Carson Rowland, who plays Tyler “Ty” Townsend in Sweet Magnolias, is not returning for Season 5, which arrives on June 11, 2026. […]

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Spider-Man Noir Co-Creator Says Prime Video Show Is ‘More Noir’ Than the Comic
The co-creator of the Spider-Noir character has shared his take on the recently released Prime Video series. David Hine praised the cast and highlighted the nuances he liked. However, he also had strong, less favorable opinions about a specific aspect. David Hine reviews Spider-Noir Created by Oren Uziel, the live-action adaptation of Spider-Noir debuted on […]

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X-Force Team’s Mutants Officially Debut Ahead of X-Men ’97 Season 2
X-Force has debuted in the X-Men ’97 continuity ahead of Season 2‘s highly anticipated summer release. They appear in a new comic taking place before the sophomore installment’s events. X-Force members revealed for X-Men ’97 Season 2 X-Men ’97: Season 2 prelude comic Issue #1, which sets the stage for the second installment’s story, introduces […]

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Josh Hutcherson & Martin Freeman’s New Comedy Gets Whimsical Trailer
Josh Hutcherson and Martin Freeman are reuniting for a comedy that’s nothing like you’d expect. The stars’ upcoming film drops a whimsical new trailer ahead of its digital debut. Let’s Love gets official trailer Let’s Love dropped its official trailer on June 3, 2026. The relationship comedy stars Martin Freeman, Josh Hutcherson, Malin Akerman, and Jess Weixler. Jamie Adams directed […]

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Supergirl Budget & Break-Even Point Revealed for DCU Movie
Supergirl will need to cross a crucial barrier to land a winning punch at the box office. Milly Alcock‘s DCU movie, also featuring Jason Momoa, is set to hit theaters this month. What are the budget and break-even points for Supergirl? The Supergirl movie has been making waves online ahead of its debut. While many […]

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Michael Jackson: The Verdict Begins Streaming Today, How to Watch
A new Michael Jackson documentary is now available for streaming. Titled Michael Jackson: The Verdict, it is a three-part docuseries tackling the controversial 2005 criminal trial of the legendary singer. This comes over a month after the theatrical debut of the Michael biopic starring Jaafar Jackson, which grossed around $850 million. Where to watch the […]

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Supergirl Final Trailer Sees Kara Get Her DCU Costume, Lobo’s Debut, & More
A new trailer for the forthcoming Supergirl movie has been released. Tickets are now on sale, as the film will be released in United States theaters and IMAX later this month. DC Studios and Warner Bros. Pictures’ Supergirl comes from director Craig Gillespie. Set within James Gunn and Peter Safran’s DCU, the movie will see […]

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Sequel Movie To End Joe Locke’s Acclaimed Netflix Series Arrives Soon
Netflix will premiere the sequel to Joe Locke’s beloved 2022 coming-of-age drama soon. Although the original entry was a series, this will be a feature film. It will serve as the conclusion to Nick and Charlie’s story. Heartstopper Forever hits Netflix in July 2026 Heartstopper Forever will debut on Netflix on Friday, July 17, 2026. […]

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Liam Neeson & Joe Keery’s New Sci-Fi Horror Sets Streaming Release Date
Joe Keery and Liam Neeson‘s 2026 sci-fi horror movie Cold Storage has set its streaming release date. The movie originally debuted in US theaters on February 13, 2026. The film received mostly positive reviews on release, though it made little impact at the box office. Cold Storage gets streaming release date on MGM+ Cold Storage […]

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NVIDIA Unveils New ARM-Based AI/Graphics Superchip Coming to Windows PCs and Laptops
“The company best known for powering the AI boom is coming for the PC,” reports Axios.

Nvidia’s CEO unveiled a new ARM-based “N1X processor made alongside Microsoft,” reports CNBC, that “will be incorporated into a new RTX Spark superchip, debuting in the fall on a fresh line of Windows PCs from Microso … ⌘ Read more

‘Backrooms’ Stuns with $81M Debut
Article URL: https://variety.com/2026/film/box-office/backrooms-box-office-record-opening-weekend-obsession-jumps-star-wars-crumbles-1236763355/

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Space startup raises funds for laser satellite communications
By Loren Grush

Observable Space raised US$90 million (NZ$151.7m) in its debut funding round as the company seeks to use lasers to help satellites and potentially orbiting datacentres move information to and from Earth. ⌘ Read more

Logement, santé, risques incendie… Les rendez-vous manqués de l’adaptation au dérèglement climatique
En attendant un «plan interministériel de gestion des vagues de chaleur», qui devrait aboutir début juin, le gouvernement met en avant son Plan national d’adaptation au changement climatique présenté l’an dernier. Très peu des cinquante mesures alors avancées ont été, en réalité, concrétisées. ⌘ Read more

L’Assemblée nationale abroge le Code noir: «Ce vote est un début, qu’il soit aussi un avertissement!»
Les débats qui se sont tenus jeudi 28 mai dans l’hémicycle ont révélé l’hypocrisie du Rassemblement national, tout en résonnant avec l’actualité brûlante des discriminations et du racisme dans la France contemporaine. Nombre de députés ont déploré l’inaction du chef de l’État en la matière. ⌘ Read more

KDE Plasma 6.7 Beta 2 Released With More Bug Fixes
Building off the KDE Plasma 6.7 Beta release earlier in May, a second beta was declared today in preparing for the Plasma 6.7 stable debut in mid-June… ⌘ Read more

Disney’s ‘Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu’ Opens to ‘Mixed’ Box Office Results
It’s “the first time in seven years that a new Star Wars film has launched on the big screen,” writes CNBC. And Variety notes it’s expected to earn $102 million through Monday:

[B]ox office analysts are mixed on the results. On one hand, it’s significant for any film to debut above $100 million in post- … ⌘ Read more

AV2 Codec Looks Like It Will Be Officially Released Next Week
For years already AV2 has been in development as the successor to AV1 for this wonderful open-source, royalty-free video codec. While there was talk about releasing AV2 by the end of 2025, that didn’t happen but now latest indicators are pointing toward its formal debut next week… ⌘ Read more

Sarkozy-Kadhafi: le résumé vidéo de la dixième semaine du procès en appel
Le dernier acte du procès a débuté cette semaine avec les plaidoiries de la défense. Elles se sont concentrées sur les volets concernant l’intermédiaire Alexandre Djouhri. Son avocat a dénoncé un «traquenard judiciaire» et plaidé la relaxe pour son client, qui n’aurait été qu’un «homme de réseau». Le résumé vidéo en cinq minutes. ⌘ Read more

This Cannes Film Cost $500,000 to Make. $400,000 Was AI Compute Costs.
Higgsfield AI is debuting a 95-minute fully AI-generated film at Cannes called “Hell Grind” that reportedly cost $500,000 to make, $400,000 of which was spent on compute alone. The project took just two weeks to produce and is intended to showcase the startup’s AI production tools. But it also underscores the current limits of AI f … ⌘ Read more

Steven Soderbergh Defends AI Use in His New Documentary about John Lennon
John Lennon’s last interview — just hours before he was shot on December 8, 1980 — has become a documentary directed by Steven Soderbergh, debuting Saturday at the Cannes Film Festival.

In a new interview with the Associated Press, Soderbergh defends the film’s limited use of AI to visualize concepts from that two-hour … ⌘ Read more

Prix des carburants: TotalEnergies décide de tout et le gouvernement obtempère
Le géant du pétrole est en position ultradominante sur le marché des carburants en France. Depuis le début de la crise, il dicte ses conditions et engrange les bénéfices. Excluant de taxer ses superprofits, le gouvernement ne trouve rien à redire. ⌘ Read more

Plasma Big Screen Working Out Quite Well With Plasma 6.7 Beta
With today’s KDE Plasma 6.7 beta release there has been a surprising amount of interest in the new revival of Plasma Big Screen as the TV-sized UI for Plasma. I’ve been trying it out today and it has worked out rather well, a very smooth experience, and in good shape for making its debut in next month’s Plasma 6.7 release… ⌘ Read more

À Metz, Amazon condamné pour avoir licencié une gréviste
Après avoir fait grève en octobre 2025, une salariée travaillant de nuit dans un entrepôt du groupe a été licenciée pour faute grave. Début avril, le licenciement a été jugé illicite par le conseil de prud’hommes de Metz. La salariée a été réintégrée. ⌘ Read more

The 19 Most Exciting Cars at the Beijing Auto Show 2026
The cars that debuted at the Beijing Auto Show demonstrate that the Chinese market is now at the forefront of electrification and intelligence. These are the 19 most intriguing models we saw. ⌘ Read more

Morgan Stanley Undercuts Rivals On Pricing In Crypto Trading Debut
Morgan Stanley is adding crypto trading to E*Trade, with a pilot now underway and a broader rollout planned for the platform’s 8.6 million customers later this year. The bank is reportedly undercutting rivals with a 50-basis-point trading fee as it bets traditional finance and DeFi will converge.

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Vulkan SC SDK Released For Safety-Critical Graphics / Compute
Yesterday was the OpenCL 3.1 release and today is another exciting development for The Khronos Group standards: the debut of the Vulkan SC SDK for safety-critical applications… ⌘ Read more

GCC Git Lands Fix For Missing AVX-512 Optimizations On AMD Zen 6
Last week marked the release of GCC 16.1 as the first GCC 16 stable release. While that release introduces initial AMD Zen 6 “znver6” support well in advance of those next-generation AMD processors debuting, it’s not yet in perfect shape with just today two missing optimizations around AVX-512 having been merged… ⌘ Read more

Boycotts Hurt Tesla’s Sales. Now, Activists Are Taking On Elon Musk’s SpaceX IPO
Activists, a leading labor union, and a big retirement fund are asking challenging questions about what’s expected to be the largest-ever stock market debut. ⌘ Read more

OpenCL 3.1 Released To Bolster AI & HPC Workloads
Six years after the debut of OpenCL 3.0 in provisional form, OpenCL 3.1 was announced today by The Khronos Group… ⌘ Read more

Brush v0.4 Released As “Significant” Release For This Rust-Based Shell
Brush v0.4 debuted today for this “Bourne Rusty Shell” as a Bash/POSIX-compatible shell written in the Rust programming language… ⌘ Read more

Pétrole, héroïne, dollar : l’opération Epic Fury démantèle 70 ans d’État profond
Dans un précédent volet, j’exposais comment l’opération « Epic Fury » lancée début mars 2026 par l’administration Trump contre l’Iran n’était pas une énième aventure néoconservatrice, mais qu’au-delà d’objectifs diplomatiques clairs (empêcher l’Iran de disposer d’armes nucléaires, détruire les capacités de nuisance de ce pays dans le détroit, récupérer le yellow cake dont l’ori … ⌘ Read more

Naufrage budgétaire : l’État préfèrera vous taxer à mort plutôt que maigrir
Le printemps est là, les bourgeons éclosent, les petits oiseaux chantent et les cadavres budgétaires que le gouvernement avait hâtivement enterrés en début d’année remontent à la surface. Souvenez-vous : il y a quelques mois, nos dispensables parlementaires votaient dans l’urgence, entre deux portes et trois 49.3, des textes censés fournir une base de travail budgétaire […] ⌘ Read more

Fedora 44 Releasing Next Week
After being deemed not ready for debuting this week as an early release target, Fedora stakeholders have decided that Fedora 44 will be ready to officially debut next Tuesday… ⌘ Read more

BMW Is One Step Closer To Selling You a Color-Changing Car
BMW’s latest concept car moves the color-changing tech it debuted back at CES 2022 closer to reality by embedding an E Ink panel directly into the hood. The Verge reports: BMW’s previous concepts wrapped the entire vehicle in a patchwork of E Ink panels that were all custom-sized and shaped to match its contours. It was an approach that wasn’t practical for … ⌘ Read more

GCC 16 Compiler Nearly Ready For Release With Zen 6, AVX10.2, APX & Algol 68
GCC 16.1 as the first stable version of the GCC 16 compiler is nearly ready for its official debut as this year’s major feature release for this open-source compiler… ⌘ Read more

Intel Compute Runtime Promotes Support For Wildcat Lake, “Early” Crescent Island
Out today is the Intel Compute Runtime 26.14.37833.4 that now includes production support for the newly-launched Wildcat Lake cut-down Panther Lake SoCs that debuted last week as the Core Series 3… ⌘ Read more

LXQt 2.4 Released With More Wayland Fixes/Improvements
The LXQt 2.4 desktop released today for joining the modern open-source desktop party alongside the likes of the recently debuted GNOME 50, KDE Plasma 6.6, and others… ⌘ Read more

Mesa 26.1-rc1 Released For Testing With Many New Vulkan Extensions & Optimizations
Eric Engestrom stepped up again to serve as Mesa release manager for this quarter’s Mesa 26.1 feature release. Mesa 26.1-rc1 was just released in kicking off the weekly release candidate dance until Mesa 26.1 stable is ready for debut in May… ⌘ Read more

Zig 0.16.0 released
The Zig project has announced version
0.16.0 of the Zig programming language.

This release features 8 months of work: changes
from 244 different contributors, spread among
1183 commits.

Perhaps most notably, this release debuts I/O\
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Meta Debuts ‘Muse Spark’, First AI Model Under Alexandr Wang
Meta has launched Muse Spark, its first major AI model under Alexandr Wang’s leadership. The model was built over the past nine months and is being positioned as a significant step up from Llama 4. Axios reports: Muse Spark will power queries in the Meta AI app and Meta.ai website immediately, with plans to expand across Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. Th … ⌘ Read more

GIMP 3.2.2 Released With Minor UI/UX Updates & Bug Fixes
It was just two weeks ago that GIMP 3.2 released, one year after the big GIMP 3.0 debut. Out today is GIMP 3.2.2 with various bug fixes, plug-in / file format handling updates, and some minor UI/UX work… ⌘ Read more

Arm Unveils New AGI CPU With Meta As Debut Customer
Arm unveiled its first self-developed data center chip, the AGI CPU, designed for handling agentic AI workloads. The new chip was built in partnership with Meta and manufactured by TSMC. Other customers for the new chip include OpenAI, Cloudflare, SAP, and SK Telecom. Reuters reports: The new chip, called the AGI CPU, will address data-crunching needed for a specific … ⌘ Read more

NVIDIA 595.58.03 Linux Driver Debuts As Stable R595 Build
Building off the NVIDIA 595.45.04 Linux beta driver that brought DRI3 v1.2 support and new Vulkan capabilities, the NVIDIA 595.58.03 Linux driver released this morning as the first stable Linux driver build in the R595 release branch… ⌘ Read more

Krita 6.0 Released With Qt6 Port & Better Wayland Support
Krita 6.0 debuted today as the Qt6 port of this digital painting program aligned with KDE/Qt development. Krita 6.0 also brings improved Wayland support while Krita 5.3 is being simultaneously released for running on the mature Qt5 toolkit… ⌘ Read more

Vulkan 1.4.347 Debuts With Three New Extensions
Vulkan 1.4.347 made its debut overnight as the latest routine update to this high performance graphics and compute API. Beyond the usual maintenance churn over the past week, Vulkan 1.4.347 brings three new extensions… ⌘ Read more