Project Hail Mary Proves Original Stories Can Still Win Big
Ryan Gosling's $80.5M domestic debut is the biggest opening of 2026 — and it's not a sequel, not a franchise, not even a recognizable IP to most moviegoers.
Maya Calloway
Bureau: New York
Paramount Buys Warner Bros in the Largest Media Deal in History
Silicon Valley just swallowed Hollywood whole — Paramount Skydance's $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery is the largest media deal ever.
NTSB Recovers Black Boxes as Controller Faces Investigation
Investigators cut through the fuselage to extract the black boxes while the air traffic controller who cleared a fire truck onto an active runway faces scrutiny.
David Simon Bet on the American Mall and Mostly Won
The billionaire who insisted the American mall was not dying — and spent decades proving it — died Sunday at 64, leaving his son to defend the bet.
We Optimized Wellness Until Wellness Became the Problem
The wellness industry spent a decade telling you to track every step, optimize every meal, and biohack your sleep — and now its own summit says the project has made people worse.
Daredevil Returns and Marvel Bets on Street-Level Stories Again
Marvel's most critically acclaimed show drops its second season today with a third already filming — and the whole bet is that Hell's Kitchen matters more than the multiverse.
The Bachelorette Was Replaced by American Idol Reruns
ABC's most reliable spring franchise got swapped for an American Idol rerun and the network still hasn't said what fills the hole next week.
Harry Styles Holds Number One for a Second Week
Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally. holds the Billboard 200 for a second consecutive week — the first album to do so since Taylor Swift's showgirl era.
iHeartRadio Music Awards Air Thursday on Fox — What to Watch
The 2026 iHeartRadio Music Awards go live Thursday at 8/7c on Fox with Taylor Swift leading nine nominations and performances from Ludacris, RAYE, Lainey Wilson, and TLC.
Should You Tell Your Coworker They're Being Replaced by AI?
With xAI building 'human emulators' and 20% of 2026's 55,000 tech layoffs tied to AI, the workplace ethics question nobody prepared for: if you know, do you tell?
The 2016 Nostalgia Machine Is Three Months Old and Still Running
The '2026 is the new 2016' trend has survived the internet's attention span — Hootsuite calls it 'snowballing,' brands call it revenue.
The Man Who Accidentally Shut Down Boston With a Cartoon Sign Has Died
Sean Stevens, who placed LED Aqua Teen Hunger Force signs around Boston in 2007 and triggered a citywide bomb scare, died of cancer at 47.