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Image: Dávid Lukács/NetflixWhen Eric Heisserer agreed to act as the showrunner for Netflix’s Shadow and Bone series, he had one condition. Netflix had to get the rights to Six of Crows for him too. According to Variety, he stated that having access to those characters was absolutely essential for him to sign onto the show. Now, it seems like he’s finally poised to dedicate time and space on screen for a standalone Six of Crows tv show. According to Entertainment Weekly, the show is in “early stages” and does not currently…

Things haven’t been going well for Donald Trump’s Truth Social platform, or its parent media company, Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), for a while now. Yet still, circumstances seem to be worsening for the former president’s online venture. The numerous probes into Trump’s company seemingly aren’t resolving any time soon, with at least one broadening to include new potential wrongdoings, per a Wednesday report from the Guardian. And, amid the drawn out process of trying to merge TMTG with a “blank check” company…

Image: NetflixWe already knew Matthew McConaughey had been cast to voice the title character on Agent Elvis, and thanks to this new trailer for the Netflix series—the first adult animated project from Spider-Man: Into the Spider Verse studio Sony Pictures Animation—we’ve got an even better idea of what to expect from this mash-up of rock idol and spy goofballery.Also, the soundtrack suggests that McConaughey (whose “Elvis voice”sounds just like Matthew McConaughey’s voice, doesn’t it? Sort of the opposite of an Austin…

Image: HBOEveryone who has seen episode three of The Last of Us has been absolutely weepy about the romance at its center. “Long Long Time”—named after Linda Ronstadt’s 1970 hit, which plays a key part in the story—sent the internet into collective hysterics over its tender old men surviving during the apocalypse. But while the song is suddenly everywhere in the wake of the show, the singer will not be receiving any additional profits from its renewed popularity.While Spotify tweeted that streams of “Long,Long Time” had…

Bill and Frank at the piano in The Last of Us.Image: HBOLast night’s episode of The Last Of Us has genre TV fans everywhere buzzing, thanks in part to a certain vintage pop hit. And now, like another specific piece of music before it, the song is seeing a huge surge in popularity.Episode three of The Last of Us was called “Long, Long Time” named after a song of the same name by singer Linda Ronstadt. The song plays a key role in the relationship of survivors Bill (Nick Offerman) and Frank (Murray Bartlett),and comes back…

Image: Marvel StudiosAnnie Wersching recently passed away at the age of 45. Per her friends and family, and confirmed by Deadline, the Star Trek and Timeless actor was diagnosed with cancer in the summer of 2020.“There is a cavernous hole in the soul of this family today,” wrote her husband Stephen Full. “But she left us the tools to fill it. She found wonder in the simplest moment. As I drove our boys, the true loves of her life, down the winding driveway and street, she would yell BYE! until we were out of earshot and…

Image: viewimage (Shutterstock)Meta is lifting former President Donald Trump’s two-year ban on Facebook and Instagram following controversial posts after he lost the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden and in response to his posts that lead up to the January 6 insurrection.Trump has since moved his regularly scheduled rants and nonsense to his own social media platform, Truth Social, but his campaign team has argued that he should be allowed back on Facebook as he makes another run for the White House.If it makes you…

Photo: Joe Raedle (Getty Images)Donald Trump is coming back to Facebook and Instagram.Meta, Facebook’s parent company, made the announcement late Wednesday, a little more than two years after it banned the former president from its flagship platform for his role in instigating the January 6 attacks on the U.S. capitol. The notice of Trump’s reinstatement comes just one week after this campaign sent a letter to Meta demanding they let him back on the platform. When he’ll be back is uncertain. Facebook and Instagram didn’t…

Photo: Joe Raedle (Getty Images) Former President Donald Trump is upping the pressure on Meta to reinstate his Facebook and Instagram accounts ahead of his 2024 Presidential election bid. Meta, which suspended Trump from its services following the January 6 attacks on the Capitol, isexpected to make a decision one way or another this month on whether or not to let one of the platform’s most toxic users continue posting to his more than 35 million followers.This week, according to NBC News, Trump’s campaign wrote a letter…

Photo: Dimitrios Kambouris (Getty Images)Microsoft founder Bill Gates said he will donate a vast amount of his fortune to his philanthropic endeavors including much of the farmland he currently owns. Gates is currently the seventh richest man in the world with a net worth of $103.6 billion according to Forbes, and he’s now pledging to give away most of his billions. Gates founded the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation with his then-wife, Melinda French Gates, in 2000 which aims to tackle things like poverty, inequity,…