Bryan Singer broke some news on Twitter today: Evan Peters, of American Horror Story, will be playing Quicksilver in Singer's upcoming X-Men film. Alone, that's not all that interesting, but put that together with Joss Whedon's intention to put Quicksilver in the Avengers sequel, and things get really interesting.
The students of Sandy Hook Elementary returned to school Thursday morning, and someone at one of the most prominent nearby newspapers let an advertisement for a local gun show slip by... on the same page as an article about that.
India has continued to reel following the death of a gang rape victim in New Delhi, and now, as her attackers face charges, a map looks at the country through rape statistics
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The CBS This Morning co-host has a television in every room of her house and has named her iPhone Charlotte, after Charlie Rose.
The term "blog" may be outdated, at least according to this Google Trends chart being passed around today.
If it weren't for the .edu missing at the end of the URL — and, you know, the monsters — it would be pretty easy to believe in Monsters University, which is part of the adorable new viral marketing campaign for Pixar's Monsters, Inc. prequel.
After complaints about the Oscar's new online voting process reached fever pitch, the Academy has decided to give its members one more day to vote — not that the digital extension will help anyone or any particular film, really.
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If you don't feel like watching football, tune in to these classic shows. They'll help you get through the day, hour by looming hour.
Yes, there was Aurora and there was Newtown, and there may have been a striking lack of coverage on Afghanistan and the drone war, but there was a handful of news events that seemed to make for the most striking photography.
As the Kanye West-Kim Kardashian pregnancy became official, all realms of media reached for the most desperate and unseemly of angles in covering this most astonishing of news stories.
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What if the world were defined by its history? And what if that history was defined by Wikipedia? That's what this word-association map of each country on Earth illustrates.
It's rare but not uncommon to see movie stars in multiple Oscar-bait movies in the same year. But it's been a good end of 2012 for those guys who you recognize from somewhere but can't always place. Here are your character-actor MVPs.
So what happens if the Academy is too scared to cast Oscar ballots this year? With the nominations less than two weeks away, reports are screaming out of Hollywood that the awards' attempt at going digital may already be backfiring.
We know Marilyn Monroe the actress and Marilyn Monroe the sex symbol, but previously redacted FBI files obtained by the Associated Press now reveal a different side: Marilyn Monroe, suspected communist.
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With Thursday's news that Vladimir Putin plans to sign a bill that would forbid Americans from adopting Russian children, the Wall Street Journal brings us this graph that shows how patterns of U.S. overseas adoption has changed since 1999
The Italian Catholic community was thrust into controversy over the holiday when a priest posted on his church's bulletin board a text about domestic violence against women that seemed to place blame on the victims.
Following a segment about the Randi Zuckerberg-Facebook privacy fiasco, Savannah Guthrie, Natalie Morales, and Willie Geist revealed they approach Facebook (and, to a lesser extent, Twitter) the same way your parents do.
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Tom Lindeman at the Washington Post chronicles the leading causes of "violence-related" death in the U.S. from 1999 to 2007 by age group.
You've all seen the photo, which the Obama campaign tweeted on election night and quickly became the most-retweeted in Twitter history. Now Barbara Walters gets the president to induce a collective national moment of "aww."
Today we learned that J.J. Abrams will officially not helm Disney's new, possibly ill-advised seventh episode of the Star Wars franchise. Here we break down the odds on the existing short list, because it's actually quite a long list.
Downton Abbey will never be the same: Deadline reports that Dan Stevens, who plays the romantic lead Matthew Crawley, will not be returning for a fourth season.
Because nothing says Christmas more than tuberculosis, revolution, and singing, the movie musical Les Misérables took the Christmas Day box office with a surprisingly high Tuesday total.
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The long holiday weekend has arrived. It may be the the time for family moviegoing, but it's also the age of Netflix, so we've taken this December's blockbusters and Oscar bait, combed through the options on Netflix Instant, and found a match.
Now a week removed from the tragedy in Newtown, more funerals were held in honor of the victims today. Here we bring you some of the words and memories coming from those gatherings.
As schedules lighten and plane trips loom, we've compiled some of our favorite pieces of long-form non-fiction journalism from an excellent year for the so-called long read.
On the same day the NRA blamed out-of-date movies and video games as the root cause of mass shootings like Newtown, Bloomberg-backed Demand a Plan released this video.
To commemorate the week that has passed since the Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting, social-media influencers and major organizations attempted — emphasis on attempted — to pause for a virtual moment of silence Friday morning.
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Let's keep things in perspective here: the legendary film critic is no stranger to sickness, and he has a tendency to keep his many followers up to date on his every thought, around the clock.
As the week goes on and more of the victims of the Newtown shooting are laid to rest we continue to collect the memories being shared.
Today is the busiest day of the year for UPS, so you kind of have to wonder what it's like for the folks up there in the North Pole.
Not only is the Modern Seinfeld account a hit on Twitter, but now the New York Times Magazine has a profile of Jerry Seinfeld, proving that he's still doing what he's always done best.
There's something about the new trailer for Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby we've seen before, but it's not F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic story of social striving in 1920s New York.
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Obama was right. On the same day the president said at a press conference that a "majority of Americans support banning the sale of military-style assault weapons" and "high-capacity ammunition clips" a new CNN/ORC International poll finds just that.
The latest info from the investigation in Connecticut indicates that Nancy Lanza may have left her son alone at home before the shootings, and begins to paint a clearer picture of Adam Lanza himself.
In the instant aftermath of the Newtown shooting last Friday, reporters worked to confirm details, investigators looked to investigate leads, misinformation was spread, and conspiracy theories were hatched, but what was happening on Wikipedia?
Once again we plan to post what we can from the funeral services for Newtown's victims. This morning Daniel Barden, 7, and teacher Victoria Soto, 27, were remembered.
Time can have its real person of the year, but not-real people can influence us, too, and in 2012, fake characters mattered. From Katniss to Bane and Zero Dark Thirty's Maya, here's our alternative list.
The official teaser for Terrence Malick's To the Wonder is out, and it's being described as very "Malick-y."
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Today funeral services for two more children who died in the attack on Sandy Hook elementary were conducted. We're excerpting obituaries and remarks in celebration of their young lives.
America's favorite data geek has brought his trademark analysis to the newfound gun control discussion today, breaking down what gun ownership in the country looks like numerically.
Out of deference to the victims' families, and also in a likely effort to avoid controversy, movie studios and television networks have altered their schedules and amended their plans. Also: dictionaries.
Paul Thomas Anderson's film was shut out of the drama category at the Golden Globes, but last night it dominated the Toronto Film Critics Association awards, so at least it has its fans.
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