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The importance of China’s role in the international box office has grown larger and larger—it helps record-breaking movies become even more overwhelmingly successful, and it even has the potential to save domestic flops from certain doom. But regardless of how well Suicide Squad performs now that it’s been released today, China will likely not be…
Ghostbusters has been out for a bit now, and a new story from The Hollywood Reporter says that the movie is going to lose millions. As a result, a sequel has been put on the back burner—but Ghostbusters isn’t quite dead yet. According to the story, Ghostbusters has to make $300 million to break even….
I don’t normally post about politics (I’m not particularly savvy about polling, which is where data science has had the largest impact on politics). But this weekend I saw a hypothesis about Donald Trump’s twitter account that simply begged to be investigated with data: Every non-hyperbolic tweet is from iPhone (his staff). Every hyperbolic tweet…
A lot of good and decent people like seltzer water. My friends like seltzer water, people I love dearly enjoy gulping down the fizzy drink that is sometimes flavored. I am here to deliver a devastating truth. Seltzer water is very bad. In fact, I would go as far as to say that seltzer water…
Walt Mossberg is a legend. I mean it—he’s someone I’ve tried to emulate for most of my professional career. He’s made a great living testing gadgets, hanging out with influential technologists, and giving everyday people advice on how to better use their consumer electronics. But lately, it seems like Mossberg’s love affair with tech is…
According to witchesthicket.com, one can tell she is a witch if she’s “aligned with the seasons” (pass on nature); “on fire in the summer, sexually and creatively charged and heated” (sure, I’m a Leo); and “in winter… feel[s] the weight and the silence of the dark pressing down on you” (who doesn’t?). Off to a…
My opinion: The Olympics are boring and bad and nobody actually cares about them. The professionalized version of sports events staged at the Olympics are in almost every case more competitive and more entertaining than their Olympic counterparts: No avid NBA fan cares about Olympic basketball; no Premier League follower gives a crap about Olympic…
GALLERY VERTICAL START “Tinder Date,” Michelle entitled her blog entry. “On Monday I went on a first date with a man I met on Tinder. We met in a pub. After a couple of drinks we moved on to a restaurant. He bought me dinner. We strolled arm in arm on the South Bank. He…
By Emily Zanotti | 5:28 pm, August 5, 2016 Banker Steve Mnuchin is an integral part of the Donald Trump campaign, serving as its Campaign Finance Chair and chief bundler, particularly from the financial sector. Although Mnuchin has little experience as a fundraiser (particularly for Republicans), he’s a Wall Street veteran, who spent 17 years…
Updated Aug. 11, 2016 8:36 a.m. ET Arianna Huffington, who co-founded the Huffington Post 11 years ago and built it into one of the largest digital media outlets in the U.S., says she will be leaving the company in the coming weeks to focus on a soon-to-launch startup dedicated to issues of health and wellness….