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Set on the front meadow of the Irish Museum of Modern Art, minutes from the Guinness brewery, it is no surprise the first wave of tickets for Dublin’s Forbidden Fruit festival sold out within days.The line-up – a heady mix of veterans, newcomers and nostalgia acts – is one of many festivals currently being announced for next summer. “We’ve got Nelly Furtado, who hasn’t played in Ireland for 24 years, Bicep and Barry Can’t Swim, who’s from that generation of artists with ironic names that audiences love” says festival…

A new startup is targeting the lucrative workplace productivity space with an open source approach to project and knowledge management — and it has received backing from a who’s who of investors from across the technology spectrum. AppFlowy, as the company is called, has raised $6.4 million in funding from a slew of renowned founders including Matt Mullenweg (Automattic); Steve Chen (YouTube); Tom Preston-Werner (GitHub); Bob Young (Red Hat) and Amr Awadallah (Cloudera). The seed round was led by OSS Capital. Helping…

35 years after the original – and following rumors of a follow-up that have been bubbling away for almost as long – Tim Burton finally called action on Beetlejuice 2 towards the end of May, with the horror comedy set to hit theaters in September of 2024. Of course, that’s all dependent on how long the current strike action carries on for, with the production being shut down last week as virtually every high-profile Hollywood shoot grinds to a halt until actors and writers secure a deal they deem to be fair recompense for…

Neko Health, the medical diagnostics company co-founded by Spotify Technology SA Chief Executive Officer Daniel Ek, raised €60 million ($65.4 million) in venture capital to expand outside its home country of Sweden.Skype co-founder Niklas Zennstrom will join the company's board as a result of his investment vehicle, Atomico, participating in the round, as will Klaus Hommels, whose VC firm Lakestar led the early-stage investment. Palo Alto-based General Catalyst also participated. Neko Health didn't disclose a valuation.…

The rumors of Chris Pratt’s badness have been greatly – well, maybe not greatly, but at least somewhat – exaggerated. When the first trailer for the upcoming Super Mario Bros Movie teased his vocal performance as the overall-clad plumber of 8-bit repute, fans began gnashing their teeth harder than a thicket of piranha plants, outraged to hear that he’d eschewed the character’s distinctive spicy-meat-a-ball accent in favor of a more dialed-back Noo Yawkah dialect. Which is fair enough, those little cries of wa-hoo!…

Johnny Depp has had a massive year, even becoming the most googled actor of 2022, but not for the reasons one would necessarily want to. Depp and his ex-wife Amber Heard were embroiled in a nearly two-month defamation trial that ended with a verdict greatly in favor of Depp. Even so, allegations of domestic violence and sexual assault loom after the case, and the question remains regarding the degree to which Hollywood will embrace Depp moving forward. One industry insider does not believe the actor will be completely…

Anytime a high-profile filmmaker name-drops the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the chances are high that they’ll be disparaging the all-conquering comic book conglomerate for ruining the sacred artform of cinema, and they’re completely entitled to that opinion. Quentin Tarantino has become the latest to jump on the bandwagon after making his feelings on the MCU perfectly clear during several recent media appearances, while Martin Scorsese’s thoughts on the matter have been so heavily-publicized and recanted that we don’t…

via Lionsgate Most franchise-driven movies, whether they’re sequels, prequels, reboots, or anything in between, are always typically loaded with fan service to appeal to longtime aficionados of the property in question. Naturally, that same core demographic tends to get mighty pissed off when the creative team butchers something they hold so dear, even though they claim to be aiming it directly at them. It’s a bizarre phenomenon that’s really taken off in the social media era, where even the most bulletproof of…

Marvel’s Fantastic Four reboot is currently in limbo following Spider-Man: No Way Home director Jon Watts stepping away from the movie in April. With John Krasinski cameoing as Mr. Fantastic in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, it’s clear that the project remains a top priority for the studio, however, something corroborated by a recent piece of intriguing news. As per Variety’s Justin Kroll, Kevin Feige is determined to land a big-name director for the new Fantastic Four, someone comparable to Doctor…