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GM lifts 2023 expectations as it prepares for a breakout EV year

After a solid start to the year, General Motors is raising its earnings and cash flow expectations for 2023. GM is gearing up for a breakout year with several highly anticipated EV launches planned across some of the most popular auto segments. GM expects a breakout year with EVs in 2023 General Motors sold over 20,000 fully electric vehicles for the first time in the first three months of 2023, surpassing Ford as the number-two EV maker in the US and increasing its market share by eight…

Arnold Schwarzenegger to return to silver screen with `Breakout`

Missed watching megastar Arnold Schwarzenegger on big screen? There`s a piece of good news as he is all set for a movie comeback after a four-year hiatus with action-thriller `Breakout`. Schwarzenegger will lead `Breakout` in the role of Terry Reynolds, Variety reported. After Terry`s stepson is framed and sentenced to serve 25 years in a foreign country, he makes it his mission to break him out of jail. Terry will have to dodge prison wardens and race against time to help his stepsons flee the country. `Breakout` will…

Xbox asserts Hi-Fi Rush was ‘break-out hit’ amid claims it underperformed

Xbox says Tango’s surprise drop hit its goals Hi-Fi Rush was a bit of a surprise drop earlier this year, and certainly made a splash. But as a report circulated that it did not hit its revenue target, Xbox is saying that Hi-Fi Rush was a break out hit. The back-and-forth started when journalist Jeff Grubb, on the Game Mess Decides podcast, said that Hi-Fi Rush fell short of what it “needed” to do. “Based on what I’ve heard, it just straight up didn’t make the money it needed to make,” Grubb said. “And, I mean, it got…

A Childhood Nightmare Reels In an Audience Despite Backlash and Mia Goth’s Breakout Role Gets Another Chance To Conquer Streaming

Image via 20th Century Studios We’re back again, horror fans! It’s official hump day, so there’s no better opportunity to wish away your Wednesday (and look forward to Friday) with some snacks of choice and a good horror film or two… or three. We’re awaiting Halloween season, which promises to bring us some of the best that horror has to offer with some long-awaited sequels and remakes. We’re just a few months away from summer, but we’re already itching for fall to come back around again. In the meantime,…

A Breakout Horror Hit Ventures Way Too Far Into the Streaming Woods

via Entertainment One Irish folk horror might sound like an incredibly niche subgenre, but it’s quietly become one of the most reliable offshoots for scary storytelling in the last few years, with Corin Hardy’s The Hallow one of the first to emerge that saw the country’s reputation for top-notch terror begin to explode among gorehounds worldwide. It’s not even an exaggeration when you consider the likes of Sea Fever, The Hole in the Ground, Nocebo, Grabbers, A Dark Song, You Are Not My Mother, and countless…

Producer on Payakan as Breakout Character

With three more Avatar sequels on the way, it goes without saying the major characters will be back. Jake Sully, Neytiri, their kids, the evil Quaritch, etc. But one character introduced in the latest film didn’t have such a clear path. We’re talking of course about Payakan, the exiled Tulkun (the space whale) who befriends Jake and Neytiri’s middle child Lo’ak and helps save the day in the end.“Payakan will be back,” Jon Landau, a producer on the Avatar films, told the Wrap. He’d already confirmed this back in January

An MCU Phase Four Breakout Reveals They Had No Interest in Being an Actor before Marvel Came Along

Image via Marvel Studios For many of the leading lights of the MCU, landing a part in the biggest franchise in the world was the epitome of a hard-working, hugely successful career — like Brie Larson coming to Captain Marvel after winning an Oscar and Chris Evans working his way up to Captain America through the Fantastic Four films. For one of Phase Four’s brightest newcomers, though, the job wasn’t just their first ever professional acting gig but the thing that made them want to be an actor in the first…

Volvo poised for an EV breakout with largest brand overhaul

Volvo is due for its biggest brand overhaul since being bought out by China’s Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, or Geely for short. With plans to convert its entire base of vehicles to electric, Volvo is primed for an EV breakout over the next several years. Volvo gears up for an EV breakout In January, Electrek reported Volvo is set to release its first electric minivan after a slide presentation highlighting the automaker’s electric progress revealed the plans. The electric van will…

Fast & Furious Fame Vin Diesel Failed Miserably At Auditioning For His ‘Breakout Role’ & Another Actor Was Considered!

Vin Diesel Once Failed His Audition & Almost Didn’t Get The Role Of His Breakout Movie ( Photo Credit – Wikimedia ) Now the big stars had once auditioned for one or the other roles to make the makers see they can fit the character. But not all the time every audition goes according to how we planned them to go. This happened with Fast & Furious actor Vin Diesel too. He debuted in Hollywood in 2000 with Pitch Black, however, at the audition round, he failed miserably. Here’s what happened next. Scroll below to…

Banshees star Barry Keoghan: from foster homes to breakout Oscar contender | Oscars 2023

There are disturbing elements in Martin McDonagh’s precisely calibrated hit The Banshees of Inisherin. But along with all the nihilism, the unfortunate donkey and the splashes of gore, the performance given by Barry Keoghan is right up there for its unsettling impact. The Irish actor’s vulnerable and abused islander Dominic Kearney gives the film moments of warmth and much of its emotional punch.So, even though the 30-year-old’s inclusion in the Oscar lineup for best supporting actor was unexpected last week – especially…