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Spielberg sends Emily Blunt and Colin Firth into the day first contact goes public

Movies

Spielberg sends Emily Blunt and Colin Firth into the day first contact goes public

Steven Spielberg's Disclosure Day imagines the hour the world is told, with proof, that it has never been alone — and stages the fallout as human drama, not spectacle. Emily Blunt, Colin Firth, Josh O'Connor, Eve Hewson and Colman Domingo anchor a first-contact thriller that withholds the sky and watches the faces.

Molly Se-kyung

Movies

Florence Pugh in Thunderbolts* (2025)

Studios chase Florence Pugh’s $70M ‘Midnight Library’ in Cannes’ biggest non-franchise bet

Penélope Cruz in The Black Ball (2026)

How The Black Ball turned a Lorca fragment into Los Javis’ Cannes breakthrough

Dmitriy Mazurov and Iris Lebedeva in Minotaur (2026)

How Minotaur brought Andrey Zvyagintsev from exile to the Cannes Grand Prix

Fjord

How Fjord handed Cristian Mungiu a second Palme d’Or for filming a family no system can read

TV Shows

The Heir premieres on iQIYI and CCTV-8 — Yang Zi anchors a 42-episode Huizhou ink-trade period drama

The Heir premieres on iQIYI: Yang Zi swaps palace romance for ink-industry grit

Yang Zi steps out of palace-romance territory into a 42-episode dynastic drama about the Huizhou ink trade. The Heir opens on a tribute-ink scandal that ruined the Li family workshop, and asks whether the youngest daughter and a rival’s surviving heir can rebuild an industry their fathers helped define. Co-anchored by iQIYI and CCTV-8, with Elvis Han as the co-lead.

David Tennant's Tony Baddingham returns as Rivals Season 2 premieres on Disney+

Rivals returns to Disney+: David Tennant’s 1986 bonkbuster gets nastier in Season 2

Barrabrava Season 2 on Prime Video

Barrabrava on Prime Video: the captain takes the chair the club had been keeping for him

Nick Kroll as Ray and Zach Woods as Josh in Mating Season Season 1

Mating Season on Netflix is the cartoon where a deer has too many options and a raccoon has none

The Boroughs on Netflix: Alfred Molina inside the retirement complex America stopped counting

Technology

Claude found 10,000 critical bugs in a month — humans are now the bottleneck

Microsoft is in talks to make Anthropic its first external Maia 200 customer

Analysis

Editorial conceptual still life: a single unbranded injection pen on dark polished stone beside a half-finished plate, dramatic cool-toned studio light.

Ozempic personality is not a side effect — it is the point

Single smartphone face-down on an empty wooden classroom desk in warm afternoon light — the absence as the subject.

The school phone bans worked. The test scores haven’t moved

The internet still has people. The trouble is finding them

Music

Album cover art for Sekai Tsunagare by HoneyWorks

HoneyWorks’ Sekai Tsunagare: Suzuki Minori and Terasaki Yuka bridge two worlds

The music philosophy of HoneyWorks — where characters and voice actresses merge — takes a new shape in ‘Sekai Tsunagare’. The single, with Riko and Roy voiced by Suzuki Minori and Terasaki Yuka, puts J-pop’s storytelling potential to the test.

Akhenaton — visuel de la vidéo officielle de Métèque et mat

With ‘Métèque et mat,’ Akhenaton turned a slur into a French rap touchstone

Portrait of K-pop girl group LE SSERAFIM arriving at Music Bank

LE SSERAFIM open a multi-part ‘PUREFLOW’ cycle with an 11-track first act

PLAVE — virtual K-pop boy group, official video for Love Is Enough (Today, the day I rendered you a confession)

Virtual K-pop group PLAVE join ‘Sold Out On You’ OST with ‘Love Is Enough’

Science

Edge-on Hubble image of the protoplanetary disk IRAS 23077+6707, nicknamed Dracula's Chivito, showing a dark central disk with bright wisps of material extending above and below

Hubble caught the largest planet nursery — 40 times wider than our solar system

Abstract editorial composition evoking matter-wave interference topology with translucent quantum fringe layers in cyan and magenta.

A speck of metal with 10,000 atoms was held in two places at once

Abstract astrophotographic composition evoking the cosmic-web filament topology with luminous galaxy nodes.

James Webb mapped 164,000 galaxies to chart the cosmic web back a billion years

Business

Nvidia’s beat turned East Asia’s chip industry into a one-customer business

SpaceX’s IPO Asks Wall Street to Pay for Founder Control It Cannot Vote Out

India’s Power-Cost Spiral Turns Air Conditioning Into Inequality

More News

Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve in Fjord (2026)

Movies

Mungiu’s Fjord takes a second Palme d’Or as Cannes splits Best Director between Los Javis and Pawlikowski

Dustin Hoffman and Leo Woodall in Tuner (2025)

Movies

Daniel Roher swaps Navalny for a piano-tuner heist with Leo Woodall and Dustin Hoffman

Project Hail Mary (2026)

Movies

Project Hail Mary on Prime Video bets a hand-built alien beats any pixel

Lou Llobell in Passenger (2026)

Movies

André Øvredal locks Lou Llobell and Melissa Leo inside the haunted van of Passenger

Cybersecurity

Megalodon turned GitHub Actions into a 5,561-repo backdoor in six hours

Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu

Movies

Jon Favreau’s Mandalorian and Grogu bets Pedro Pascal is the new theatrical Star Wars

AI

SpaceX IPO filing puts Anthropic’s Colossus bill at $15 billion a year

Movies

Ladies First on Netflix traps Sacha Baron Cohen in the boardroom 2025 spent dismantling

Still from Killer Whale, Jo-Anne Brechin's lagoon-trap survival horror in which Virginia Gardner and Mel Jarnson are stalked by the captive orca Ceto in a remote Thai lagoon

Movies

Jo-Anne Brechin’s Killer Whale bets a captive orca is predator and Virginia Gardner’s prey