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Semi-1 opens Tuesday with five countries out, an EBU reprimand of Israel's broadcaster, the FBI on round-the-clock cyber duty, and Vicky Leandros at the mic.
Yesterday's paper had Mortal Kombat II winning the weekend, but Sunday actuals inverted the call — Prada took it by three million.
Drake's Iceman drops Friday with no press tour, no cover, and no tracklist — a Spotify-Apple-YouTube-Kick treasure hunt against a 23% Polymarket band of 350-400K first-week U.S. units.
Olivia Rodrigo's Drop Dead holds the Hot 100 past her Pete's Candy Store dive-bar set as June 12's album cycle locks — the press-cooperative inverse of Drake's no-press week.
Whitney White's Liberation direction nod — her second after 2024's Jaja — makes her the first Black woman twice nominated, inside Wohl's five-nod Liberation slate.
Koji Suzuki, the Japanese novelist who created Sadako and wrote Ring, died Friday at 68 — the founding text of a thirty-year cinematic export trade now belongs to an estate.