Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos made a surprise appearance at Canal+’s The Original+ showcase in Paris on Tuesday, seeking to calm French industry fears about the streaming giant’s $83 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. by pledging to maintain the studio’s traditional theatrical
The Philadelphia-based artist taps into ancient Greek art and pop culture alike. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article Historic Pottery Styles Meet Pop
Northeastern University researchers have made a breakthrough drug discovery, developing the first synthetic endogenous cannabinoid compound, with repercussions for new therapeutics from pain and inflammation to cancer.
Here’s a stat that might shock anyone who isn’t the parent of a Gen Alpha kid: As of October 2025, online gaming platform Roblox boasted more than 151 million global daily active users. For perspective, that’s more than the number of people with a Disney+ subscription, more
StubHub is giving last-minute holiday shoppers a Broadway-worthy incentive this December. The ticketing platform has teamed up with ATG to launch Theatre Week, a limited-time promotion running from Dec. 15–22 that is offering 50% discounts on this season’s buzziest Broadway
For decades, economists have focused on how climate change will impact the future. New research from Derek Lemoine, APS Professor of Economics in the Eller College of Management, shows the impact is already here: climate change has reduced U.S. income by an estimated 12%.
A research team has demonstrated that thin films of ruthenium dioxide (RuO₂) exhibit altermagnetism—the defining property of what is now recognized as the third fundamental class of magnetic materials.
Osborne said it was a privilege to become managing director of OpenAI for Countries based in London.
Hassett, director of the National Economic Council, regained the top spot on Kalshi and Polymarket on Tuesday as he made his case for the job.
In the interview, Wiles describes Donald Trump as having an "alcoholic's personality" and JD Vance as having been a "conspiracy theorist" for a decade.
Assuming it doesn't run into an extremely extended delay, that is.
Thousands of dinosaur footprints have been found in a national part in northern Italy known as the Parco Nazionale dello Stelvio Branchi. Experts say they are from enormous herbivores that lived there 210 million years ago in the Triassic period.
On today’s episode of “Daily Variety” podcast, we go back in time to December 16, 1905, to celebrate Variety’s 120th birthday. Showbiz historians David Monod and Peter Rader explain what the entertainment marketplace was like at the time Variety was born. More to come VINTAGE
Reiner’s attorney Alan Jackson told reporters his client may appear in court as early as Wednesday, but it’s a “day-to-day” decision
“The Trump administration’s vision for the United States is one of a white Christian nation. And the path to accomplish it is through the exclusion and removal of all who do not fit that vision — in other words, through ethnic cleansing .”
President Trump on Tuesday said he still had confidence in White House chief of staff Susie Wiles after she generated controversy with comments to Vanity Fair about members of the Cabinet. “I didn’t read it, but I don’t read Vanity Fair — but she’s done a fantastic job,” Trump
Bob Feinberg has been named executive director of HamptonsFilm, the organization that puts on the annual Hamptons International Film Festival. The veteran media executive, attorney and entrepreneur brings nearly four decades of experience across film, television, public media
Oil prices on Tuesday dropped to their lowest point since 2021. U.S. benchmark West Texas Intermediate (WTI) was trading at about $55 per barrel, according to Business Insider’s tracker. That’s down from even earlier in the week when prices were as high as $58 per barrel. The
An international team of researchers led by Lancaster University has discovered a highly efficient mechanism for shaking magnets using very short light pulses, shorter than a trillionth of a second. Their research is published in Physical Review Letters.
Maria Shriver on Monday blasted President Trump over his remarks about the deaths of actor-director Rob Reiner and his wife, accusing the commander in chief as being the only person suffering from "TDS," or "Trump Derangement Syndrome." "Come on, come on," Shriver, the former
The move is seen as a further escalation of the Trump administration's war on drugs in Latin America.
Fred Cavayé, Vincent Lindon, Noémie Merlant, Tahar Rahim and Maïmouna Doucouré were among the creatives taking the stage during a Canal+/StudioCanal 2026 preview in the French capital.
In the midst of the COVID pandemic, scientists embarked on an ambitious research expedition to the North Atlantic to investigate the inner workings of the ocean's carbon cycle. A series of storms hammered the three vessels, among the most advanced research ships in the world,
Nominees in 12 categories — including best documentary feature, original song and score and the new best casting category — will be chosen from the titles included in this preliminary selection.
The Oscars have announced the shortlists in 12 categories for the upcoming 98th ceremony. Members from various branches of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences participated in preliminary voting across multiple categories, including animated short film, documentary
Obsidian's new space RPG offers you interesting and unexpected choices up until the credits roll The post Damn, The Outer Worlds 2‘s Flaw System Is So Good appeared first on Kotaku .
Among the more puzzling cosmic phenomena discovered over the past few decades are brief and very bright flashes of blue and ultraviolet light that gradually fade away, leaving behind faint X-ray and radio emissions. With slightly more than a dozen discovered so far, astronomers
This is not about open borders or closed borders. It is about whether America decides that looking American is enough. Or whether some people will always be asked to prove it.
Chemical layering deep inside may explain weird seismic wave behavior The post Is Earth’s Core Like an Onion? appeared first on Nautilus .
The Arctic has experienced its hottest year since records began, a US science agency announced Tuesday, as climate change triggers cascading impacts from melting glaciers and sea ice to greening landscapes and disruptions to global weather.
“The Probability of Miracles” has scored a series order from Amazon MGM Studios. The Wendy Wunder novel will be adapted into an eight-episode YA romance show on Prime Video. Katie Lovejoy, who wrote the third “To All the Boys” film adaptation and Netflix’s “Love at First
A wildlife photographer stumbled upon one of the oldest and largest known collections of dinosaur footprints, dating back about 210 million years to the Triassic Period, high in an Italian national park near the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympic venue of Bormio, officials
Three Senate Democrats said Tuesday that they are investigating the impact of data centers on consumer electricity bills amid concerns that the expansion of energy-hungry artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure is driving up costs. Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Chris
Yes, it’s true that Rob Reiner hated Trump, had called him mentally unfit for office, and inveighed against the president repeatedly on social media. But here, that old adage is quite appropriate: If you don’t have something nice to say, just say nothing.
If you want to get the mythical Zeraora in Pokémon Legends: Z-A, you'll need to beat the game and complete a few other tasks.
Tuesday's operation involved more than 140 officers from the Lithuanian Criminal Police Bureau, Vilnius police and special anti-terrorism units.
White House chief of staff Susie Wiles seems to have been caught lying about her statements regarding Elon Musk’s ketamine use, leading us to question everything else she denies from her series of interviews with Vanity Fair ’s Chris Whipple. “The challenge with Elon is keeping
The show's displays of juvenilia from established artists says little about adolescents today and makes its message inscrutable.
Tiffany Calvert creates historically inspired still life paintings with an AI twist through a collaboration with engineers at Washington University in St. Louis.
The Glasgow post-punk band Life Without Buildings released exactly one album, the 2001 underground classic Any Other City, and then promptly broke up forever. These days, bandleader Sue Tompkins is a visual artist, and she rarely does anything music-related anymore, but she’s
Donald Trump Jr. said that he was engaged on Monday night at the White House holiday party in front of family, friends and guests. Don. Jr., the oldest of President Trump’s children, said his engagement to Palm Beach, Fla., socialite Bettina Anderson was a “big win” for the end
President Trump will deliver a live televised address from the White House on Wednesday evening. “My Fellow Americans: I will be giving an ADDRESS TO THE NATION tomorrow night, LIVE FROM THE WHITE HOUSE, at 9 P.M. EST,” Trump wrote Tuesday in a Truth Social post announcing his
Former Vice President Mike Pence's organization said Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. "must go," accusing the secretary of refusing to review the abortion pill mifepristone. In a statement posted on the social platform X, Pence's nonprofit,
In the beginning, the Sydney police issued a warning. Jews: Do not go to the city. Do not go to the Opera House. Stay at home. My mother and I were on our way to the Opera House when we read the emergency warning on our phones. We are Jews . We are law abiding. We turned
A newly revealed molecular tug-of-war may have implications for better understanding how a multitude of diseases and disorders—including cancers, neurodegenerative diseases and immune disorders—originate, as well as how to potentially treat them, according to researchers at
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James Woods, an outspoken supporter of President Trump’s, mourned the loss of his close friend, Rob Reiner, calling the acclaimed director a “great patriot” and pushing back on criticism of the Democratic donor’s politics. In an interview Monday on Fox News’s “Jesse Watters