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The Gray Man press event saw attendance from Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans, Dhanush, Ana deArmas and others. Actor Dhanush, who makes his international debut with the Russo Brothers film The Gray Man, has revealed that he didn’t know how he ended up being part of the film in a post-screening press conference in Los Angeles. He went on to add that he was super thrilled to learn and explore from the opportunity. (Also read: Russo Brothers, IMDb post Dhanush's poster from The Gray Man as angry desi fans throng their Instagram…

Last week, NASA administrator Bill Nelson told us we'd see the "deepest image of our Universe that has ever been taken" on July 12, thanks to the newly operational James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). And we know many of you excitedly marked the date in your calendar.  But over the weekend the space agency announced that they'd actually be releasing one the very first image a day ahead of schedule – at 5pm EST (2100 UTC and 7am AEST on Tuesday 12 July).The first image will be released by US President Joe Biden in a special…

Those of us who cut our teeth on the weekly music press are, by nature, bullishly nostalgic for the days when NME and Melody Maker sold hundreds of thousands of copies, reputations and heated pub exchanges hinging on their contents. Music and its chronicling seemed like the central whorl around which the universe spun. The tone alternated between bumptious certainty and shit-stirring mischief, in-jokes and crusading.Then two things happened. Around the time Kurt Cobain died, newspapers decided music was worth covering in…

| Oni Press/Lion Forge has been hitting the headlines recently, with former owners James Lucas Jones and Charlie Chu pushed out by parent company Polarity, others departing voluntarily, and their newly reprinted Gender Queer: A Memoir graphic novel landing them, and its writer/artist Maia Kobabe, with obscenity criminal lawsuits in the state of Virginia. as well as Oni Press getting allegations of non-payment to comic book creators. Bleeding Cool understands that Oni Press and Lion Forge employees were informed about the…

It’s been a tumultuous week in comics. Lots of people are (happily) changing jobs, and at least one much loved comics company is undergoing a reorganization. • Let’s start with an easy one first: gotta admit, I missed this one and so did a lot of folks, but Chris Arrant at Popverse spotted that Comixology founder David Steinberger announced he is leaving Amazon. A whole 10 days ago he tweeted: Have you ever gotten that promotion you always wanted and then realized: wait a minute, this isn’t really what I wanted? Well,…

James Lucas Jones Charlie Chu The Beat has learned that publisher James Lucas Jones and vp of creative & business development Charlie Chu are no longer at Oni Press. Who will run the company is not clear – nor whether they will still be celebrating their 25th Anniversary at San Diego Comic Con in a few weeks. Jones had been at Oni for 18 years, rising from editor in chief to publisher. Chu was at the company from 2010 onwards. Reached for comment, a OLFPG spokesperson told The Beat…

Samsung is preparing to launch the Galaxy Xcover 6 Pro in a couple of weeks. The new rugged smartphone will go official on July 13. Ahead of that, the official press renders and detailed specs of the device have leaked online. This comes just a day after another major leak revealed a great deal about the upcoming phone.The latest Galaxy Xcover 6 Pro comes courtesy of German publication WinFuture. It shows the phone in high-resolution renders, giving us a detailed look at its design. The build of the handset loudly…

| Lawsuits filed last month in Virginian courts by lawyer Republican Virginia assembly delegate Tim Anderson on behalf of himself and Republican congressional candidate Tommy Altman who lost in the recent primary for Congress, citing an obscure state obscenity law. Whenever he has reasonable cause to believe that any person is engaged in the sale or commercial distribution of any obscene book, any citizen or the attorney for the Commonwealth of any county or city, or city attorney, in which the sale or commercial…

A gold miner found a mummified baby woolly mammoth in the Trʼondëk Hwëchʼin Traditional Territory in Yukon, Canada. According to a press release from the local government, the female baby mammoth has been named Nun cho ga by the First Nation Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in elders, which translates to "big baby animal" in the Hän language.   Nun cho ga is the most complete mummified mammoth discovered in North America.Nun cho ga died and was frozen in permafrost during the ice age, over 30,000 years old, said the press release. She …

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell is facing pressure from both Senate Democrats and Republicans over how chiefs of the 12 regional Fed banks and their board members are selected. On Tuesday, Senate Democrats including Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown, chairman of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, and New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez, a senior member of that panel, wrote to Mr. Powell and said the Fed needs more diversity in the leadership ranks of its regional banks.…