49 h. ago Sinners upsets $721M juggernaut A Minecraft Movie at box office amid fears it 'could end the studio system'

The horror/adventure move garnered $45.6 million in North American theaters, studio officials said, according to the AP .

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3 d. ago Sex Pistols legend loves to eat infamous farting food 'because they're so cheap'

Sex Pistols front man John Lydon has divulged that his love of the guff-producing Brussels sprouts comes from growing up so poor he once had to share a tin of soup between his brother and his parents

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4 d. ago Sex Pistols star Johnny Rotten makes astonishing Taylor Swift proposal after 'snub'

Punk rock icon Johnny Rotten has revealed he is keen to duet with Taylor Swift, despite having infuriated Swifties with his harsh criticism of the 'incredibly dull' star

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4 d. ago Sex Pistols star's shock meningitis coma 'helped' him in wife's Alzheimer's battle

Punk rock icon Johnny Rotten has revealed he is keen to duet with Taylor Swift, despite having infuriated Swifties with his harsh criticism of the 'incredibly dull' star

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6 d. ago Trump tariff war to slash North American exports by 13%, warns WTO

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala says US-China trade conflict could ‘force countries to choose’ between the two

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9 d. ago The mystery of the forgotten Beatle: How drummer replaced Ringo Starr on 1964 tour... and then disappeared for decades

Jobbing musician Jimmie Nicol spent 12 days as a member of the Fab Four - plunged suddenly into the whirlwind of 'Beatlemania' at its most feverish pitch back in 1964.

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1 week ago Tourists urged to stay away from dangerous island after 'pathetic' visit attempt

After an American influencer allegedly landed on North Sentinel Island in a bid to make contact with the world's most isolated indigenous people, a charity has warned of the grave consequences.

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2 w. ago A Minecraft Movie breaks records to become highest opening video game movie of all time

First-weekend takings of $163m in North America puts the adaptation of the wildly popular video game ahead of previous record holder The Super Mario Bros MovieA Minecraft Movie has broken box office records to record the highest ever first weekend total for a video game adaptation.According to the Hollywood Reporter, the film took $163m (£128m) on its first three days at the North American box office (including approximately $10m for preview screenings on Thursday), which puts it well ahead of the previous record holder The Super Mario Bros Movie, which took $146m on its opening weekend in the US and Canada in 2023. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago American YouTuber who tried to contact world’s most isolated tribe faces five years in prison

Indian police arrested 24-year-old American Youtuber Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov

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2 w. ago Visit Films strikes North American deal for BFI Flare London selection ‘Rent Free’ (exclusive)

Visit Films strikes North American deal for BFI Flare London selection ‘Rent Free’ (exclusive)  Screen Daily

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2 w. ago Visit Films strikes North American deal for BFI Flare London selection ‘Rent Free’

Visit Films strikes North American deal for BFI Flare London selection ‘Rent Free’  Screen Daily

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2 w. ago As a young man, I fell in love with the US. The country’s soul is still there, despite Trump’s best efforts to destroy it | John Harris

For many of us, the United States means music, progress, hope. Whatever their president does, plenty of Americans continue to believe in those tooIt seems as inevitable as the economic chaos let loose by Donald Trump’s mad avalanche of tariffs: a precipitous drop in the number of tourists visiting the US, which is now forecast to be even worse than initially feared. In February, overseas travel to the country was down by 5% compared with the previous year – and, now, reputable forecasters are predicting a drop of nearly twice that size.We all know why. Trump’s hostile words about Canada and Mexico have hit the US’s top two markets for tourism. Finnish, German and Danish transgender and non-binary people have been advised by their governments to contact a US diplomatic mission before travelling there. Note also a trickle of reports about outsiders falling foul of the cruel stringency apparently now gripping the American authorities: a 28-year-old woman from north Wales held for 19 da...

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2 w. ago What is up with car door handles these days? | Dave Schilling

Why is everything computerised, automated or impossible to turn off these days?I believe, deep in my soul, that car companies’ number one goal in life is to ruin the experience of driving. I don’t have any direct evidence of this conspiracy to rob us of the pleasure of the open road, other than the cacophony of beeps, blips, bloops and blops that greet us in the latest models. Oh, and the screens. Every year, they try to find a new place to glue a touchscreen in a car, like Pizza Hut hunting for more orifices to stuff cheese into one of their pies.Everything is computerized, automated or impossible to turn off. According to surveys of new-car buyers by the market research firm Strategic Vision, satisfaction with car controls plummeted by 23 percentage points in the last nine years. The whiz-bang gizmos foisted on the North American car buyer have devolved from the glorious, life-saving back-up camera to gesture controls that allow you to turn an invisible knob to crank up the volume...

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2 w. ago James May's bold remark over prospect of reunion with Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond

James May worked with Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond on the BBC's Top Gear for more than a decade until 2015, and then again on the Grand Tour until last year

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3 w. ago Broadway welcomes 'Real Women Have Curves: The Musical,' which lets the Latino community see itself

“Real Women Have Curves: The Musical” is a new Broadway show with a predominantly Latino casts that brings the Latino immigrant experience to life in one of the biggest stages in New York

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3 w. ago ‘Society SUCKS!’ The fanatical diary of a teen scribbler who threw herself into punk

Don’t live like everyone else! Angela Jaeger met every act going in punk, in New York and London – and had crushes on them all. Now 65, she talks us through her thrill-filled diariesThere is nothing new to discover, surely, about the birth of punk. But perhaps it depends where you look. Written between 1977 and 1981, the teenage diaries of Angela Jaeger crackle with life. Published as the book I Feel Famous, the New York and London punk scenester’s writing gives us a real-time immersion, with zero revisionism, into not only what happened and who was there, but how it felt to a musically fanatical teenage girl.Diary entry for 9 May, 1977, about a Bryan Ferry/Talking Heads gig being sold out: “Shit, damn, piss forever!! What can you do but kick and curse cause you CAN’T GO! It shits bricks solid!!” By 27 June, she’s a dedicated anglophile, a Sex Pistols and Clash obsessive, searching for an identity and asking the big questions: “Why should we be expected to live like everyone else do...

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3 w. ago Sex Pistols star once confessed to stealing from David Bowie: ‘He thought it was funny’

‘I was like the Phantom of Hammersmith Odeon,’ musician said

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3 w. ago Sex Pistols’ Steve Jones: ‘I like to fart in front of people. You can tell if someone’s cool from their reaction’

The punk guitarist on the ideal length of gigs, stealing from David Bowie’s trucks and dealing with an ornery Jerry Lee LewisIs it true you nicked some of your early equipment from David Bowie’s trucks outside the Hammersmith Odeon at the last Ziggy Stardust show, in 1973?There’s definitely some truth in that. It wasn’t outside in trucks though – it was on the stage! They played two nights, and after the first night they left all the gear up, because they were playing there the next night. I knew the Hammersmith Odeon like the back of my hand, I used to bunk in there all the time. I was like the Phantom of Hammersmith Odeon.The Sex Pistols are touring Australia 5 -11 April; see here for dates. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago The Sex Pistols announce first North American tour in 2 decades

The Sex Pistols will tour North America for the first time since 2003 this fall

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3 w. ago My Bloody Valentine announce first UK headline tour in over a decade, including big Manchester show

Tickets will be going on sale in the next few days

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