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Pokémon Theme Singer Denies Scamming Kids Over Gengar Card, Drops AI Diss Track

Jason Paige, the vocalist millions of Pokémon fans know for his performance of the original anime’s theme song, responded after being accused of ripping off young fans in a Pokémon card trade at the Orlando-based Collect-a-Con event, calling the exchange "absolutely fair." The allegation came from Pokémon

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Meet the Minions Ahead of Minions & Monsters

Illumination’s Minions & Monsters, the third prequel in the Minions spin-off franchise, opens exclusively in theaters on July 1, 2026. Set in the Golden Age of Hollywood during the 1920s, a new tribe of ancestral Minions sets out to find their next evil overlord and instead becomes early cinema

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Colin Firth's ex-wife calls for Gwyneth Paltrow to be canceled over ad

Livia Giuggioli, Colin Firth’s ex-wife, criticized Gwyneth Paltrow for appearing in an advertisement promoting luxury properties near Gaza, calling the commercial “completely unacceptable.” In an Instagram video message the activist urged viewers to “cancel” the Goop founder and said she had rescinded Paltrow’s planned visit to her regenerative

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Meccha Chameleon lives up to the hype as a great party game

Meccha Chameleon launched into the friendslop scene with 1,000,000 copies sold in four days, and the buzz has only grown. After watching countless videos of artistic skill, I finally jumped in despite having no knack for a paint brush. I spent a week away from my PC before

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South African jazz pianist Abdullah Ibrahim dies aged 91

The South African jazz composer and pianist Abdullah Ibrahim has died at the age of 91. His family announced his death in a statement released on Monday. His partner, Dr Marina Umari, wrote, "Abdullah passed away peacefully with South Africa and its people in his heart." She added,

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DC Studios' Gorilla Grodd HBO series will start filming this year

DC Studios' television output under James Gunn and Peter Safran has been eclectic, spanning Creature Commandos, Peacemaker, and the upcoming Lanterns. The DCU is getting even weirder: a still-untitled HBO series will put longtime Flash villain Gorilla Grodd front and center. The project was originally described as focusing on

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Chris Evans confirms Steve Rogers will return in Avengers: Secret Wars

Chris Evans says Steve Rogers will appear in Avengers: Secret Wars. "I start work on the next one in a couple months, so I'm in the next one," Evans said. "I can't tell you how much I'm in the next one,

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Peter Serafinowicz to play Peeves in HBO's Harry Potter reboot

Warner Bros. and HBO Max have cast Peter Serafinowicz as Peeves the Poltergeist in the upcoming Harry Potter reboot series. Peeves was a notable supporting character in all seven original Harry Potter books, but he did not appear in the eight live-action movies released between 2001 and 2011. At the

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HBO's Harry Potter Series Casts Peeves, Restoring a Cut Character

Peter Serafinowicz will play Peeves the Poltergeist in HBO’s upcoming Harry Potter series. Peeves is a chaos goblin who spends his life torturing and tormenting the staff and students of Hogwarts with songs, pranks and mischief, and he never appeared in the original film franchise. Serafinowicz recently appeared in

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Best store-bought bottled barbecue sauce, ranked

Barbecue season prompted a taste test of four store-bought bottled sauces: three brand originals and one no-sugar-added variant. Each sauce was sampled on its own and with chicken nuggets to judge texture, balance of sweet, tangy, and smoky flavors, and overall value. Kraft's slow-simmered original was my least

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Blizzard nearly added Devil May Cry-style rank to Overwatch's Shion

Shion, Overwatch’s incoming hero, carries twin pistols and a quick dash but isn’t Tracer. Blizzard leaned heavily on Devil May Cry for her design and initially built a style-rank meter that would start at D or E and climb to S as players linked abilities. The meter was

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Collector who owns Whoopi Goldberg’s teapot buys Diane Keaton’s nail clippers

Gustavo Egusquiza, a travel journalist and consultant from Bilbao, knew as soon as he opened the Bonhams catalogue that he wanted Diane Keaton’s nail clippers. "I saw them, and I knew I wanted them," he says. The clippers came in a curated box with dozens of hair

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All of Final Fantasy on Sale on Steam, Including FF7 Remake and Rebirth

Square Enix’s long-running Final Fantasy franchise is having a massive sale on Steam. From now until June 25, the promotion covers nearly every mainline entry, several spin-offs and DLC—making it a good time to pick up one or more Final Fantasy games for less than usual. The biggest

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'Only Murders in the Building' Season 6 Adds 'Doctor Who' Icons to Cast

David Tennant and Jodie Whittaker have joined the cast of Only Murders in the Building Season 6, stepping away from their familiar Time Lord personas for a different kind of outing as the Emmy-winning murder mystery moves from New York City to London for the first time. Steve Martin, Martin

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'Ahsoka' Star Confirms Season 2 Exit

The Force is not a binary. It is a spectrum — from the serene halls of the Jedi Temple to the shadowed corridors of Sith space. Ten questions will reveal where you truly fall. The Force has always known. Now you will too. Light Side · Dark Side · Or Somewhere Between. What

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Love And Deepspace Has Brought Out My Inner Video Game Developer

Love and Deepspace, a gacha game known for its sexy, romantic presentation, also functions as a kind of beginner’s guide to video game development. Colloquially called LADS, it bundles combat challenges, an interactive narrative, a photo mode and a home decoration mode into one package. Of those elements, the

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The Second Greatest Crime Thriller Series is a 6-Season Masterpiece

Retroactive assessments have placed The Wire among the most important crime series of the past 25 years, yet it drew only average viewership and no major TV awards during its original HBO run. A similar fate befell FX's Snowfall, which ran for six seasons from 2017 to 2023

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Auli'i Cravalho to Lead My Adventures With Green Lantern

Auli'i Cravalho, known for voicing Disney's Moana, will play Jessica Cruz in Episode 2 of My Adventures With Superman and will lead the upcoming spin-off My Adventures With Green Lantern. Entertainment Weekly also released a first look at the character and shared new details about the

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Mariska Hargitay & Jamie Lee Curtis Share Surprise Childhood Connection

Mariska Hargitay and Jamie Lee Curtis discovered they had been next-door neighbors as children in the same Los Angeles neighborhood. Both are the children of Hollywood stars: Curtis is the daughter of Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh, and Hargitay's parents were Jayne Mansfield and Mickey Hargitay. Curtis recalled

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Pristine Super Mario Bros. for NES sells for $3 million

Heritage Auctions closed a "staggering" $3 million sale on Friday for a copy of Super Mario Bros. for the Nintendo Entertainment System. Evan Masingill, a consignment director at Heritage, called the backstory remarkable: the game was discovered a few months ago inside a brand-new Control Deck NES console

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Gorilla Grodd HBO Max Series 'American Villain' to Begin Production

With Supergirl headed to theaters this summer and Clayface set to terrify audiences in October, the DCU is officially in full swing. Several projects from the original 2023 slate have not come to fruition, while others have risen to the forefront following the release of Superman. One such project is

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Sci‑Fi Survival Quiz: Which Sci‑Fi World Would You Survive?

Collider presents a Sci‑Fi Survival Quiz that asks which dystopia or galaxy your instincts were built for. The possible worlds are The Matrix, Mad Max, Blade Runner, Dune, and Star Wars. Eight questions probe how you respond when the world feels wrong: whether you pull on every thread, stockpile

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How chilli crisp became a pantry staple and how to make it

In many British supermarkets a red jar labelled Lao Gan Ma — meaning “old godmother” — has become a familiar sight. The brand’s chilli crisp, named on the label for Tao Huabi, has been spooned over dumplings, fried eggs, noodles and even ice-cream, becoming a social media sensation and spawning a

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House of the Dragon season 3 review: a return to form

House of the Dragon season 3 feels like a decisive return to the franchise’s strengths after the uneven reception that followed Game of Thrones. Season 2’s lack of action and constraints from strikes and budgets gave the impression the epic quality might be slipping, but showrunner Ryan Condal

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My week of Fridamania in Mexico City

“Today you’re going to eat art,” says Federico Valdez, a chef at the School of Mexican Cuisine, before presenting a sunlit, three-course feast inspired by Frida Kahlo. The starter is a lightly spiced Mexican take on pirozhki and the main, served with pulque, is billed as “Frida Against the