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While it does feel as though Ghostbusters: Afterlife was announced roughly 400 years ago, only to be repeatedly delayed due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, it’s nice to see the promo machine behind it ramping back up ahead of its new (and third) November release date. On Tuesday, Sony Pictures shared a new trailer for […]

The U.S. Department of Justice say that federal law does not prohibit private businesses and public agencies from requiring vaccination against COVID-19, per an option from the department’s Office of Legal Counsel. While news of this determination from the DOJ first hit the cycle this week, featured in pieces from CNN and Politico mere hours […]

After raising suspicion from the Indigenous community, an art dealer from the Fraser Valley, B.C. has confessed that he’s been deliberately deceiving buyers in Canada and around the world for years. For years, the gift shops at some of B.C.’s most renowned museums and art galleries have carried wood carvings by an artist named “Harvey John,” who, according to an […]

The CDC has issued a warning regarding a difficult-to-treat drug-resistant fungus that has spread throughout a pair of U.S. hospitals and nursing homes.  In findings released last Thursday, researchers said the fungus, Candida auris, has gotten even more dangerous, identifying instances where it was immune to all existing medications. There’s also evidence that suggests it spread from person-to-person, which would […]

The Grand Prize winner for the 2021 Prism Prize is Haviah Mighty’s music video for “Thirteen.” The Theo Kapodistrias-directed video was selected by a jury of more than 130 media professionals from the music and visual arts industries. It beat out nine other music videos from TOBi, Mustafa, and more, to take home the $20,000 cash prize. “Music videos […]

In partnership with Blumhouse and Morgan Creek Productions, Universal acquired the worldwide rights to The Exorcist for $400 million with its sights set on a trilogy starring Leslie Odom Jr., Variety has learned.  Ellen Burstyn will reprise her Oscar-nominated role as Chris MacNeil in the 1973 film by the same name. Odom will play a father who tracks down MacNeil after his […]

Authorities have identified the remains of the final victim in last month’s tragic condo building collapse in Florida, New York Times reports.  Estelle Hedaya’s younger brother, Ikey, confirmed that the family was contacted by police Monday, bringing the death toll count to 98. Hedaya lived on the sixth floor of the 12-story Champlain Towers South condominium that partially collapsed in the early […]

Nearly 63 years after it was actually supposed to be back, a very, very overdue book has finally been returned to the Fenham Library in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.  BBC News reports that the work, a first edition copy of Darrell Huff’s How to Lie with Statistics, was supposed to be back on November 25, 1958. Accompanying the severely behind return was […]

A live-action Pokémon series being put together for Netflix is in the early stages of development, according to a report from Variety.  Unfortunately because of that “early stages” part, there are no plot details currently available.  Variety writes that Joe Henderson will be a part of the series as both a writer and executive producer. Henderson is currently an executive producer […]

Britney Spears’ attorney Mathew Rosengart filed a petition on Monday requesting that Jason Rubin replace her father, Jamie, as conservator of her estate, NPR reports. The filing also seeks to grant Rubin with powers of attorney over her career and health care decisions.  Rubin is described on his website as a Certified Public Accountant who has been practicing as a Forensic Accountant since 1993, […]