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Citibank reported holding $175.6 billion in consumer credit in its 2016 Q2 earnings. – Justin Sullivan/Getty Images U.S. banks are lending to consumers at the fastest rate since 2007 and the increasing debt is causing concern given the slowing economy, the Financial Times (subscription required) reported this week. Lenders issued $18 billion in debt debt for card loans…
When John Oliver skewered the economic realities of local journalism Sunday night, there was at least one person who wasn’t laughing: David Chavern, the president and CEO of the Newspaper Association of America. The nonprofit (which represents nearly 2,000 newspapers in the U.S. and Canada) published a curt rebuttal Monday to the “Last Week Tonight”…
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The anti-superhero film scored the top August opening of all time, but there could be trouble on the horizon for the supervillains. The news couldn’t have been better for Warner Bros.’ DC Extended Universe as Saturday morning dawned over the Aug. 5-7 weekend. Despite horrible reviews, director David Ayer’s Suicide Squad took in a mighty $65.1…
Indiana Gov. Mike Pence said Donald Trump’s new “expanded” ban would include not just Muslims, but Christians and Jews from countries with a history of terrorism. “We should temporarily suspend immigration from countries that have been compromised by terrorism, which I think is altogether fitting and appropriate,” Pence said. “When you look at the Syrian…
Still, the anti-superhero film beats ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ to nab the top August domestic debut of all time while opening to $132 million overseas; elsewhere, ‘Nine Lives’ — featuring award-winning actor Kevin Spacey as a feline — doesn’t have much of a meow. David Ayer’s Suicide Squad may have opened to an August-best $135.1…
Turns out it was just mind control after all, despite Marvel’s claims that it wasn’t. (SPOILERS) Source: ComicBook.com According to an EXXXCLUSIVE report on ComicBook.com, Marvel is already planning to reveal that their shocking twist that Steve Rogers has always been a Hydra agent, which occurred less than a month ago in Captain America: Steve…
And Brian Bendis is powerless to stop it! Get it? Power-less?! Source: TVLine According to a report from TVLine, Sony’s Playstation Network has canceled Powers, the television adaptation of the comic about monkey sex from “The Great One” Brian Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming. The decision was reportedly made after someone at PSN realized that…
His Wild Cards series is getting adapted for TV. Source: EW In the latest achievement in his quest to do absolutely anything other than finish writing The Winds of Winter, author George R. R. R. Martin has announced a new TV deal for his “Wild Cards” anthology series with Universal Cable Productions. After describing his 32…
Entire teams of fill-in artists have been called in to help get the twice-monthly books out on time, while pre-Rebirth books get more delays. Source: Newsarama Last month, we reported on DC Comics‘ difficulties with getting habitually late artist Bryan Hitch to complete the Justice League of America comics he was contractually obligated to create,…