Andy Serkis said in a recent interview with the BBC that his new “Lord of the Rings” movie, “The Hunt for Gollum,” will “somewhat acknowledge” the franchise’s lack of diversity. The film, which is now in production, has announced a cast so far that is made up entirely of white actors: Jamie Dornan, Anna Taylor-Joy, Kate Winslet, Lee Pace, Leo Woodall, Elijah Wood and Ian McKellen, plus Serkis’ return in the title role. The BBC asked Serkis why this is the case.
After higher Galaxy S26 prices, and a likely more expensive Galaxy Z Fold 8, it looks like the RAM crisis has claimed another victim: Google’s Pixel 11. The main reason to buy a Google phone: its comparatively cheap price, may soon be lost.
The singer will join Tom Cruise, Jennifer Hudson, and more during the final game on July 19
Post Malone will join a star-studded lineup of artists and celebrities to close out the final game of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, which takes place at New York New Jersey Stadium on July 19.
What’s one more documentary about the brutal 2022 quadruple homicide of four University of Idaho students?
On July 29, Netflix will join Peacock (The Idaho Student Murders) and Amazon Prime Video (One Night in Idaho: The College Murders) with an Idaho student murders documentary series of its own, The Idaho Murders: College Nightmare. But this one is the “definitive” one, so says Netflix and executive producer Joe Berlinger (Cold Case: Who Killed JonBenét Ramsey).
Recently, I consulted on a matter where the other side's evidence arrived as screenshots of text messages. Pages of gray and blue bubbles, clean and readable. The client's question was the right one. How do we know these conversations actually happened? The screenshots could not answer it. Standing alone, they never can.
It's become something like a Whack-a-Mole nightmare: Drive-thru restaurants are popping up across the country in ever-larger numbers, despite more and more cities trying to drop the hammer on new drive-thru construction. Now, there doesn't seem to be a national database of drive-thru restaurants in the U.S., but we can still find real-world data to show their growth. For example, the country counted an estimated 215,000 fast-food restaurants as of 2025. That represents a 20,000-store increase since 2020 — and 68% of fast-food outlets include drive-thrus (via Actowiz). Some relatively new players to the drive-thru game are expanding their presence, too. Chipotle is a case in point. The company opened its 1,000th drive-thru "Chipotlane" store in 2024 and added another 257 in 2025.
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We have Amazon to thank (or blame) for completely transforming the way we shop. The e-commerce giant’s virtually endless product selection, massive inventory, and ultra-fast delivery options have made everything from streaming movies to ordering groceries from Whole Foods as easy as clicking a button.
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said Wednesday that the driver of a Tesla who crashed into a house in June had pressed the accelerator pedal to 100%, overriding the company’s Full Self-Driving (Supervised) software.
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SNL fan favorite Marcello Hernández is set to host the 2026 ESPYs, recognizing the year’s top athletic achievements and most memorable moments. The awards show will be broadcast on Wednesday, July 15 at 8 p.m. PT/ET on ABC, which is also available to watch live on any streaming service that carries said network, namely DirecTV (with a five-day free trial), Fubo, Sling and Hulu + Live TV.
Over the last year and a half, the Federal Communications Commission, led by chairman Brendan Carr, has had substantial oversight of Paramount Skydance Corp.
The FCC signed off Skydance’s deal to acquire Paramount Global, approving the transfer of broadcast licenses (just days, funnily enough, after CBS announced that it was canceling The Late Show with Stephen Colbert). And the Commission is currently reviewing a request that would permit Middle East investors to own a majority of Paramount Skydance’s economic shares (though control of the company would remain with David Ellison).
