
Wildwood Proves Audiences Still Want Handcrafted Fantasy
Laika's stop-motion fantasy Wildwood expanded to 3,100 theaters after a $20 million first week, a win for handcrafted cinema in a franchise-driven market.

Laika's stop-motion fantasy Wildwood expanded to 3,100 theaters after a $20 million first week, a win for handcrafted cinema in a franchise-driven market.

A federal judge ruled three taxpayer-funded Trump videos were partisan propaganda and ordered them pulled days before the midterms.

Bungie will restore Destiny 2's vaulted campaigns, but the work will not finish until early 2028, nearly eight years after the Red War was removed.

The Cleveland Guardians opened the 2026-27 MLB offseason with six free agents, two declined options and a prospect added to the 40-man roster.

AAPL's new book, published October 30, 2026, gives physicians tools to lead change in healthcare systems where administrators hold most of the power.

Christopher Nolan's Homer adaptation became the highest-grossing R-rated film ever and reaches VOD on November 17, with an Oscar campaign already building.

Airbnb has spent nearly $7 million on Los Angeles races, backing Mayor Bass and a city attorney challenger while lobbying to expand short-term rentals before the 2028 Olympics.

<p>Apple's first touchscreen MacBook Pro can be configured to $14,549, and the pricing reveals who ultra-premium tech is really built for: employers, not individuals.</p>

CNN revealed the Top 5 CNN Heroes of 2026 on October 28. Meet the five honorees and find out how to vote for Hero of the Year before November 29.

Residents of the Villa Vie Odyssey were given hours to leave the residential cruise ship in Cambodia after fuel costs spiked, leaving buyers who sold their homes for life at sea in limbo.

Broadcom shares jumped after Anthropic's S-1 filing, with D.A. Davidson upgrading the chipmaker and analysts calling it the big winner of the AI company's IPO.

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T-Mobile is replacing its Experience plans with T-Mix, a Picks-based system that trades bundled perks for a points menu analysts say could add billions to the carrier's bottom line.

Federal agencies spent $531 million on guns and military-style gear in fiscal 2026, with ICE driving the surge while the IRS and SSA cut weapons budgets.

Ridley Scott's $100 million post-apocalyptic thriller The Dog Stars grossed under $40 million in theaters. It arrives on digital platforms October 27, 2026.

More than 410,000 people marched across France on Saturday, with nearly 1,000 detained, as protests over education, youth jobs and living costs spread across Europe.

A Mayo Clinic surgeon's new guidance on the sunken-chest condition explains when teens need surgery, how recovery has changed, and why the psychological side matters too.

National Tight Ends Day 2026 arrives Sunday, and fantasy managers can gain a real edge: Travis Kelce's record numbers, plus the best Week 7 sleeper picks.

PlayStation will keep producing discs for games released before January 2028, but new titles go digital only as the industry's ownership debate heats up.

Mark Wahlberg's true-crime drama By Any Means collapsed in theaters but is now a global streaming hit, raising questions about who gets to decide where we watch movies.

Campbell's cut its dividend 36% in September 2026 to pay down debt. Smucker kept raising. Here's what the math says for retirement income.

YourTango's list of eleven traits of mysteriously attractive men turns out to be a case for emotional maturity over performance. Here is what the traits are and why they matter.

Dermatologists say fall skin needs hydration, barrier support, and daily sunscreen. Here is what to add, what to skip, and the one ingredient worth trying now.

The Padres enter the 2027 offseason with a battered rotation, more than $1 billion in future payroll commitments and serious questions about how much they can spend on pitching.

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Peanuts ran for fifty years, but its characters came from somewhere real. A new CBR retrospective traces how Charles Schulz turned personal heartbreak, family life, and a 1968 civil rights correspondence into Charlie Brown, Lucy, Franklin, and the rest of the gang.

Walter Isaacson's new podcast, The Builders, premieres Oct. 20 with Elon Musk and presses AI's most powerful figures on why they build systems they admit they cannot control.

A discounted cash flow analysis published October 18, 2026 by Yahoo! Finance puts OBIC Business Consultants about 23% above the value its future cash flows support, with the stock near ¥9,401.

Tom's Hardware tested Googlebooks from Dell, Lenovo, and HP and reported nice hardware undermined by an operating system that isn't ready yet, noting the machines appear to permanently reserve 7 to 8GB of RAM, likely to keep local AI models on standby.
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