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  • ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ and the band Babymetal hit fresh milestones on the pop charts

    ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ and the band Babymetal hit fresh milestones on the pop charts

    This week, two old standbys — Morgan Wallen‘s I’m the Problem and Alex Warren‘s “Ordinary” — top the Billboard albums and singles charts, respectively. But there are still milestones to be found, as four new albums (by Gunna, MGK, Jonas Brothers and Babymetal) debut in the top 10. Then there’s the continued success of the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack, which this week places three songs in the Hot 100’s top 10 simultaneously.

    TOP ALBUMS

    This week’s Billboard 200 albums chart follows a familiar pattern: Morgan Wallen’s I’m the Problem and the soundtrack to KPop Demon Hunters sit at No. 1 and No. 2, respectively, while fresh debuts help crowd last week’s debuts out of the top 10. Gone are recent albums from $uicideboy$, Reneé Rapp and Yeat, as well as Sabrina Carpenter‘s Short n’ Sweet, which takes a more modest dip to No. 13.

    In their place are four of the latest debuts, most of which look primed to be short-timers in their own right. At No. 3, Gunna’s The Last Wun would seem to be in the best position to stick around for a bit, given that most of its numbers are derived from streaming. But it’s followed by three titles that benefit enormously from physical sales — which, as always, tend to be front-loaded toward a title’s first seven days and don’t carry over from week to week where the charts are concerned.

    First up, MGK — that’s the artist sometimes known as Machine Gun Kelly — debuts at No. 4 with his new album Lost Americana. At No. 6, Jonas Brothers return to the top 10 with Greetings From Your Hometown, though the album’s sales-heavy numbers are boosted by an absurd number of variant editions, vinyl, deluxe versions with bonus tracks and so on. (There are, in fact, more than 50 CD variants — enough, in fact, that it’s hard to imagine even the most degenerate Jonas diehards bothering to collect them all.)

    Then comes the latest album by the Japanese band Babymetal. The group — which fuses sugary pop and, well, metal — has been releasing albums for more than a decade. But it’s never cracked the top 10 until this week, as Metal Forth debuts at No. 9. The vast majority of its numbers are derived from sales, with a set of variant editions to give even those of the aforementioned Jonases a run for their money: 15 vinyl variants, six CD editions, three cassette editions and so on. It would be a shocking upset if Metal Forth is still sniffing the chart’s upper regions next week, but a top 10 hit is a top 10 hit.

    Incidentally, three notable — and decidedly different — debuts pop up just below the top 10: The rapper JID bows at No. 11 with God Does Like Ugly, the country singer Bailey Zimmerman kicks off a new chart run at No. 12 with Different Night Same Rodeo and Ethel Cain enters the Billboard 200 at No. 14 with Willoughby Tucker, I’ll Always Love You.

    Finally, it’s worth noting that KPop Demon Hunters continues to close the gap on I’m the Problem. Both are blockbusters on streaming, but while Wallen’s album is fading ever-so-incrementally, KPop Demon Hunters has experienced gains every week — based on the chart metric known as “equivalent album units” — since its debut eight weeks ago. (That’s exceedingly rare on the Billboard 200 in the streaming era.)

    KPop Demon Hunters will almost certainly experience a boost from the release of physical editions this fall. The question is whether it can fend off the competition long enough to hit No. 1 before every life form on earth gets crushed under the heel of Taylor Swift‘s The Life of a Showgirl shortly after its scheduled release in October.

    TOP SONGS

    Speaking of KPop Demon Hunters, HUNTR/X’s “Golden” finally hit No. 1 last week, thanks to robust streaming numbers and a much-needed surge of radio airplay. That left Alex Warren’s “Ordinary” sitting, bereft, at No. 2 after nine nonconsecutive weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100. This week, “Ordinary” and its hardworking choir exact their cloying revenge, as they return to No. 1, fueled in part by a fresh live recording from Lollapalooza featuring country star Luke Combs.

    Giving “Ordinary” a country makeover was a smart move, given how long major country hits can sit in heavy rotation; just ask Shaboozey and Morgan Wallen, whose songs have been mainstays in the top 10 for ages now. Heck, Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” is still milling around in the top 10 in its 70th week on the chart, more than a year after it began its record-tying 19-week run at No. 1. If “Ordinary” remains in the top 10 at this time next year, don’t say you haven’t been warned.

    That said, the KPop Demon Hunters juggernaut hasn’t lost an iota of steam; though it couldn’t compete with the Combs-fueled surge for “Ordinary,” “Golden” still posts significant gains as it falls to No. 2. Its already-robust streaming numbers are up 4%, while its airplay numbers — the biggest drag on its efforts to compete with “Ordinary” — climb 38% over last week. These songs are going to be neck-and-neck for a long time to come.

    That’s not the only gain posted by KPop Demon Hunters where the Hot 100 is concerned. The album was already one of the biggest soundtracks to come along in years, joining the rarefied chart air of such recent blockbusters as Wicked, Barbie and Encanto. But this week, it posts a milestone none of those phenomena could achieve: For the first time in its chart run, KPop Demon Hunters posts three songs in the top 10 simultaneously. Not only does HUNTR/X sit at No. 2 with “Golden,” but HUNTR/X’s onscreen rivals in Saja Boys — five of the demons to which the film’s title alludes — now have two songs in the top 10: “Your Idol” and “Soda Pop.”

    It used to be common for movie soundtracks to land multiple songs in the top 10: Purple Rain, Footloose, The Bodyguard and countless others have pulled it off over the years. More recently, Encanto and Barbie came close. But in Hot 100 history, dating back to 1958, only three soundtracks have landed three top 10 hits simultaneously: Saturday Night Fever, Waiting to Exhale and now KPop Demon Hunters.

    Who knows? It’s within the realm of possibility that HUNTR/X’s “How It’s Done” could eventually soon join its brethren in the top 10. This week, it climbs from No. 19 to No. 14, with three more K-pop bangers from the movie trailing not too far behind.

    WORTH NOTING

    This isn’t as flashy a milestone as three simultaneous top 10 hits, but it’s worth noting. SZA‘s album SOS has been a chart mainstay since its release near the end of 2022 — a run bolstered by the release of a supersized deluxe edition two years later. This week, SOS spends its 100th week in the top 10; in chart history, that number is exceeded by only two other albums (excluding soundtracks and cast recordings).

    SOS is the first album by a woman to accomplish the feat, but we can get even more specific than that: It’s the first (not-a-soundtrack, not-a-cast-recording) album by an artist other than Morgan Wallen to spend 100 or more weeks in the top 10. Wallen has made it happen twice, with 2021’s Dangerous: The Double Album (165 weeks) and One Thing at a Time (121 weeks).

    One thing all three albums have in common, besides recency and ongoing success? They are looooooong, which does help goose an album’s stats in the streaming era. Though some deluxe versions run a hair longer, Dangerous is generally understood to contain 30 songs, while One Thing at a Time has 36. (Don’t be surprised if I’m the Problem, with its 37 tracks, joins the 100-week club sometime in 2027.) In its current form, SOS Deluxe: LANA spans an incredible 42 tracks.

    As for the all-time record for most weeks in the top 10, the 1956 original cast recording of My Fair Lady spent 173 weeks there — including stops at No. 1 in 1956, 1957, 1958 and 1959. Not even Morgan Wallen has (yet) been able to land the same album at No. 1 in four consecutive years.

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  • ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ and the band Babymetal hit fresh milestones on the pop charts : NPR

    ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ and the band Babymetal hit fresh milestones on the pop charts : NPR

    The KPop Demon Hunters juggernaut hasn’t lost an iota of steam.

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    This week, two old standbys — Morgan Wallen‘s I’m the Problem and Alex Warren‘s “Ordinary” — top the Billboard albums and singles charts, respectively. But there are still milestones to be found, as four new albums (by Gunna, MGK, Jonas Brothers and Babymetal) debut in the top 10. Then there’s the continued success of the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack, which this week places three songs in the Hot 100’s top 10 simultaneously.

    TOP ALBUMS

    This week’s Billboard 200 albums chart follows a familiar pattern: Morgan Wallen’s I’m the Problem and the soundtrack to KPop Demon Hunters sit at No. 1 and No. 2, respectively, while fresh debuts help crowd last week’s debuts out of the top 10. Gone are recent albums from $uicideboy$, Reneé Rapp and Yeat, as well as Sabrina Carpenter‘s Short n’ Sweet, which takes a more modest dip to No. 13.

    In their place are four of the latest debuts, most of which look primed to be short-timers in their own right. At No. 3, Gunna’s The Last Wun would seem to be in the best position to stick around for a bit, given that most of its numbers are derived from streaming. But it’s followed by three titles that benefit enormously from physical sales — which, as always, tend to be front-loaded toward a title’s first seven days and don’t carry over from week to week where the charts are concerned.

    First up, MGK — that’s the artist sometimes known as Machine Gun Kelly — debuts at No. 4 with his new album Lost Americana. At No. 6, Jonas Brothers return to the top 10 with Greetings From Your Hometown, though the album’s sales-heavy numbers are boosted by an absurd number of variant editions, vinyl, deluxe versions with bonus tracks and so on. (There are, in fact, more than 50 CD variants — enough, in fact, that it’s hard to imagine even the most degenerate Jonas diehards bothering to collect them all.)

    Then comes the latest album by the Japanese band Babymetal. The group — which fuses sugary pop and, well, metal — has been releasing albums for more than a decade. But it’s never cracked the top 10 until this week, as Metal Forth debuts at No. 9. The vast majority of its numbers are derived from sales, with a set of variant editions to give even those of the aforementioned Jonases a run for their money: 15 vinyl variants, six CD editions, three cassette editions and so on. It would be a shocking upset if Metal Forth is still sniffing the chart’s upper regions next week, but a top 10 hit is a top 10 hit.

    Incidentally, three notable — and decidedly different — debuts pop up just below the top 10: The rapper JID bows at No. 11 with God Does Like Ugly, the country singer Bailey Zimmerman kicks off a new chart run at No. 12 with Different Night Same Rodeo and Ethel Cain enters the Billboard 200 at No. 14 with Willoughby Tucker, I’ll Always Love You.

    Finally, it’s worth noting that KPop Demon Hunters continues to close the gap on I’m the Problem. Both are blockbusters on streaming, but while Wallen’s album is fading ever-so-incrementally, KPop Demon Hunters has experienced gains every week — based on the chart metric known as “equivalent album units” — since its debut eight weeks ago. (That’s exceedingly rare on the Billboard 200 in the streaming era.)

    KPop Demon Hunters will almost certainly experience a boost from the release of physical editions this fall. The question is whether it can fend off the competition long enough to hit No. 1 before every life form on earth gets crushed under the heel of Taylor Swift‘s The Life of a Showgirl shortly after its scheduled release in October.

    TOP SONGS

    Speaking of KPop Demon Hunters, HUNTR/X’s “Golden” finally hit No. 1 last week, thanks to robust streaming numbers and a much-needed surge of radio airplay. That left Alex Warren’s “Ordinary” sitting, bereft, at No. 2 after nine nonconsecutive weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100. This week, “Ordinary” and its hardworking choir exact their cloying revenge, as they return to No. 1, fueled in part by a fresh live recording from Lollapalooza featuring country star Luke Combs.

    Giving “Ordinary” a country makeover was a smart move, given how long major country hits can sit in heavy rotation; just ask Shaboozey and Morgan Wallen, whose songs have been mainstays in the top 10 for ages now. Heck, Shaboozey’s “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” is still milling around in the top 10 in its 70th week on the chart, more than a year after it began its record-tying 19-week run at No. 1. If “Ordinary” remains in the top 10 at this time next year, don’t say you haven’t been warned.

    That said, the KPop Demon Hunters juggernaut hasn’t lost an iota of steam; though it couldn’t compete with the Combs-fueled surge for “Ordinary,” “Golden” still posts significant gains as it falls to No. 2. Its already-robust streaming numbers are up 4%, while its airplay numbers — the biggest drag on its efforts to compete with “Ordinary” — climb 38% over last week. These songs are going to be neck-and-neck for a long time to come.

    That’s not the only gain posted by KPop Demon Hunters where the Hot 100 is concerned. The album was already one of the biggest soundtracks to come along in years, joining the rarefied chart air of such recent blockbusters as Wicked, Barbie and Encanto. But this week, it posts a milestone none of those phenomena could achieve: For the first time in its chart run, KPop Demon Hunters posts three songs in the top 10 simultaneously. Not only does HUNTR/X sit at No. 2 with “Golden,” but HUNTR/X’s onscreen rivals in Saja Boys — five of the demons to which the film’s title alludes — now have two songs in the top 10: “Your Idol” and “Soda Pop.”

    It used to be common for movie soundtracks to land multiple songs in the top 10: Purple Rain, Footloose, The Bodyguard and countless others have pulled it off over the years. More recently, Encanto and Barbie came close. But in Hot 100 history, dating back to 1958, only three soundtracks have landed three top 10 hits simultaneously: Saturday Night Fever, Waiting to Exhale and now KPop Demon Hunters.

    Who knows? It’s within the realm of possibility that HUNTR/X’s “How It’s Done” could eventually soon join its brethren in the top 10. This week, it climbs from No. 19 to No. 14, with three more K-pop bangers from the movie trailing not too far behind.

    WORTH NOTING

    This isn’t as flashy a milestone as three simultaneous top 10 hits, but it’s worth noting. SZA‘s album SOS has been a chart mainstay since its release near the end of 2022 — a run bolstered by the release of a supersized deluxe edition two years later. This week, SOS spends its 100th week in the top 10; in chart history, that number is exceeded by only two other albums (excluding soundtracks and cast recordings).

    SOS is the first album by a woman to accomplish the feat, but we can get even more specific than that: It’s the first (not-a-soundtrack, not-a-cast-recording) album by an artist other than Morgan Wallen to spend 100 or more weeks in the top 10. Wallen has made it happen twice, with 2021’s Dangerous: The Double Album (165 weeks) and One Thing at a Time (121 weeks).

    One thing all three albums have in common, besides recency and ongoing success? They are looooooong, which does help goose an album’s stats in the streaming era. Though some deluxe versions run a hair longer, Dangerous is generally understood to contain 30 songs, while One Thing at a Time has 36. (Don’t be surprised if I’m the Problem, with its 37 tracks, joins the 100-week club sometime in 2027.) In its current form, SOS Deluxe: LANA spans an incredible 42 tracks.

    As for the all-time record for most weeks in the top 10, the 1956 original cast recording of My Fair Lady spent 173 weeks there — including stops at No. 1 in 1956, 1957, 1958 and 1959. Not even Morgan Wallen has (yet) been able to land the same album at No. 1 in four consecutive years.

    The members of HUNTR/X — the fictional K-pop group made up of nonfictional singers EJAE, Audrey Nuna and REI AMI — have just become the first women K-pop artists ever to hit No. 1.

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  • EVERY MEDALLIST AT THE IFSC YOUTH EUROPEAN CUP ST. PÖLTEN 2025

    EVERY MEDALLIST AT THE IFSC YOUTH EUROPEAN CUP ST. PÖLTEN 2025

    xzThe Summer of the IFSC Youth European Cup circuit continued four weeks after the event in Bologna, Italy, with the third Speed competition of the season, taking place in St. Pölten, Austria, on 16 August.

    FOUR NATIONS AT THE TOP OF THE FOUR PODIUMS

    Due to adverse weather conditions, the two under 17 finals had to be cancelled, and both sets of medals were awarded based on the ranking of the qualification rounds.

    Home favourite Lara Haselwanter of Austria won her first-ever gold medal in the women’s U17 event, while France’s Léo Grosset placed first in the men’s one, winning gold for the third time in 2025, after successes in Mezzolombardo, Italy, and Zakopane, Poland.

    Another first-ever gold medal was won by Polina Khalkevych of Ukraine, who finished atop the women’s U19 podium. Gilles Meili of Switzerland secured his second Youth European gold of the season in the men’s U19 final.

    ALL THE PODIUMS

    Women’s U17 Speed:

    1. Lara HASELWANTER (AUT)
    2. Alice MARCELLI (ITA)
    3. Maya WALTER (AUT)

    Men’s U17 Speed:

    1. Léo GROSSET (FRA)
    2. Dario ANDRÉS RUÍZ (ESP)
    3. Antoni MARCISZ (POL)

    Women’s U19 Speed:

    1. Polina KHALKEVYCH (UKR)
    2. Eva-Lina RYMASZ (FRA)
    3. Karolina PTAK (POL)

    Men’s U19 Speed:

    1. Gilles MEILI (SUI)
    2. Francesco PONZINIBIO (ITA)
    3. Andrin ZEDLER (GER)

    NEXT UP

    The IFSC Youth European season will continue in Žilina, Slovakia, from 28 to 31 August, with the Youth European Championships in Lead and Speed.

    News and updates about all IFSC events will be available on the IFSC website and on the Federation’s digital channels: Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Threads, TikTok, X, YouTube, and exclusively for the Chinese audience, Bilibili, Douyin, Weibo, and Xiaohongshu.


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  • Uranus has a new, hidden moon, James Webb Space Telescope reveals

    Uranus has a new, hidden moon, James Webb Space Telescope reveals

    The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a never-before-seen moon orbiting Uranus, bringing the planet’s count of natural satellites to 29.

    The moon, for now dubbed S/2025 U1, is just 6 miles (10 kilometers) in diameter, which is why it was invisible to other telescopes and the Voyager 2 spacecraft when it made its 1986 flyby of the icy planet.

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  • Stylolites Disrupt Sound Waves in Sedimentary Rocks

    Stylolites Disrupt Sound Waves in Sedimentary Rocks

    Stylolites — irregular seams that occur in limestone — have been found to affect how acoustic waves move through rock samples. Laboratory-based insights from KAUST researchers offer an improved understanding of how these features impact acoustic imaging techniques, which are used to analyze induced microseismic events during hydraulic fracturing [1] .

    Carbonate-based sedimentary rocks like limestone often hold gas and oil reserves within their layers. Researchers commonly use sound (acoustic) waves to interrogate subsurface rocks and identify rock types, reservoir size, and internal sedimentary or structural features that influence fluid flow.

    “Sedimentary rock layers are rarely uniform. Stylolites, for example, are serrated discontinuities that run through carbonate rock and result in visible, jagged ‘boundary layers,’ often at oblique angles to bedding,” says Thomas Finkbeiner, who led the study in collaboration with colleagues and former KAUST postdoc Bing Yang from Three Gorges University in Yichang, China.

    Stylolites mark dissolution surfaces where minerals from the host rock have been dissolved by large overburden stresses. The resulting boundary consists of reprecipitated, insoluble material, such as clay. Due to their mechanical contrast with the host rock, these discontinuities may disrupt sound waves as they pass through.

    The finding came from a stroke of luck for the researchers. “We were using limestone blocks for another experimental lab study when we noticed that stylolites were present in our samples,” says Finkbeiner. “This inspired us to investigate their physical properties in more detail and find out how they influence acoustic wave propagation at the lab scale. Few studies have explored stylolites from this angle before.”

    The team imaged the stylolites using X-ray tomography equipment to gather data on their three-dimensional morphologies and characterize their dimensions.

    “Imaging these stylolites was tricky because they were rather thin and had geometrically very irregular surfaces,” notes Finkbeiner. “Also, to better understand how their mechanical properties contrast with the ambient host rock, we had to open up our rock specimens with a saw, chisel, and hammer to access the stylolites and measure their hardness.”

    The researchers recorded acoustic wave velocities and amplitudes passing through the rock samples. They fed the acquired data into a computer model that simulated sound wave propagation through the rocks at frequencies appropriate for lab-scale specimens.

    The results showed that stylolites are weak discontinuities that exhibit minimal influence on the first arrivals of transmitted acoustic waveforms. However, they significantly affect coda waves — secondary waves that form due to scattering from small-scale variations. This impacts the overall soundwave energy transmission through the rock.

    “With increasing stylolite thickness, acoustic waves scatter more strongly and introduce more noise into the wavefield,” says Finkbeiner. “In laboratory experiments, this has implications for monitoring hydraulic fracture propagation in rock samples that contain stylolites. Our results will help determine the best way to locate acoustic emissions inside lab-scale rock samples.”

    The researchers are now conducting larger rock block tests. They use advanced fiber optics detection and refined data processing techniques to see whether these findings can be scaled up and repeated.

    Reference

    1. Yang, B., Birnie, C., Diallo, E.M., Wei, C., Deheuvels, M. & Finkbeiner, T. Effects of stylolite physical properties on acoustic wave propagation in host rock at the laboratory scale. Tectonophysics 908: 230762 (2025) Article .

    /Public Release. This material from the originating organization/author(s) might be of the point-in-time nature, and edited for clarity, style and length. Mirage.News does not take institutional positions or sides, and all views, positions, and conclusions expressed herein are solely those of the author(s).View in full here.

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  • A Day With WorldTour Cyclist Sean Quinn | POC Rider vLog

    A Day With WorldTour Cyclist Sean Quinn | POC Rider vLog

    After a season beset by injury and illness, last year’s American champion is not taking the opportunity for granted. Earlier this year, he had to have surgery on his right knee. Healing from the operation took months. Unable to ride at first, Sean had time to reflect on his approach to the sport and pursue his love of music.

    “There were definitely times this past year when I thought I would never race my bike again, because of my knee,” Sean said. “That definitely showed me some fragility and reminded me that every race I do could be my last, whether I like that or not. Sometimes, cycling is so hard physically and mentally that maybe late in the season, you’re ready to go home or ready to throw in the towel when you’re suffering in a race, but I have learned that I need to treat every race as if it could be my last one. This year, I’ll get to go to one stage race. So, I have to grab it with both hands and make the most of it.”

    Our latest POC rider vlog takes you back to Sean’s recovery process. Watch him put in the work on the bike and in rehab to get back in grand tour shape. He also shows you how makes his music.

    The episode just dropped. Check it out before the Vuelta kicks off this weekend.

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  • Molecular mechanism of ultrafast transport by plasma membrane Ca2+-ATPases

    Molecular mechanism of ultrafast transport by plasma membrane Ca2+-ATPases

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  • Dominic West And Sienna Miller To Star In HBO And Sky Original Thriller WAR, Two Season Order Confirmed

    Dominic West And Sienna Miller To Star In HBO And Sky Original Thriller WAR, Two Season Order Confirmed

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    Two rival London law firms take on the case of the century. In a world of love, scandal, betrayal and ambition, winning is everything. This is WAR.

    HBO and Sky today announce WAR, a bold new legal thriller from the creator of Lupin and Hijack, starring Dominic West (HBO’s “The Wire,” “The Crown”) as tech titan Morgan Henderson and Sienna Miller (“Anatomy of a Scandal,” “American Sniper”) as his estranged wife, international film star Carla Duval. Set in the elite world of London law, the series has been greenlit with a two-season commitment from HBO and Sky, following a deal brokered by Sky. It debuts with a scandalous divorce case that sends shockwaves through boardrooms, bedrooms, and courtrooms alike.

    Created by Golden Globe nominated and Emmy and BAFTA Award-winning creator and showrunner George Kay (“Hijack,” “Lupin,” “The Long Shadow”) and directed by Ben Taylor (“Sex Education,” “Catastrophe”), WAR is coproduced by New Pictures (“Catherine the Great,” “The Long Shadow”) and Kay’s Observatory Pictures, in association with HBO and Sky.  

    WAR follows two of London’s most prestigious rival firms – Cathcarts and Taylor & Byrne – as they go head-to-head in the divorce case of the century. Each side is certain they’ll win. But as the case spirals and loyalties fracture, reputations are on the line, and everyone’s playing to win. This is just the beginning – season one’s explosive case is the first in an anthology of headline-making legal battles.

    Also joining the cast are, Phoebe Fox (“The Great,” HBO’s “Task”) as Serena Byrne and James McArdle (“Playing Nice,” HBO’s “Mare of Easttown”) as Nicholas Taylor, partners in life and business at Taylor & Byrne; Nina Sosanya (“Screw,” “Baby Reindeer”) as “Her Majesty” Beatrice “Queen Bea” Ubosi, and Pip Torrens (HBO’s “Succession,” “The Crown”) as St John Smallwood, their counterparts and fierce rivals at Cathcarts; and Archie Reneaux (“Alien: Romulus,” “Upgraded”) as ambitious lawyer Jonathan “Johnny” Warren.

    George Kay, creator and writer, said: “I am excited to be working with Sky and HBO – two homes for bold, ambitious storytelling – and our brilliant production team. WAR is a legal drama full of double crossing, scandal, twists and betrayal. The kind of TV show that made me want to write TV shows.”

    Willow Grylls, Executive Producer and CEO of New Pictures, said: “George Kay has created an incredibly compelling cast of characters who will have audiences rooting for them, despite the underhand tactics, dirty tricks and win at all cost mentality they bring to battle against each other in – and out – of court. We are incredibly pleased to be trusted by Sky and HBO with a two series order to bring their stories to viewers around the world.”

    Meghan Lyvers, Executive Director of Original Scripted, Sky, said: “We are thrilled to be working with George, Ben, Willow and team on WAR. The show is ambitious and provocative, brimming with unforgettable characters. It challenges the notions of power, identity, and success. We are proud to partner with New Pictures, Observatory Pictures and HBO on this distinctly modern drama. “

    Francesca Orsi, EVP, HBO Programming, Head of HBO Drama Series and Films, said: “We’ve long admired George Kay’s exceptional work and it’s a privilege to bring him and his team to HBO for this wild and wicked examination of the brutal battlefield that is divorce. An inspired fusion of realism and satire, viewers are in store for gripping storytelling at its very best.”

    George Kay is the co-creator, writer, and executive producer of the Emmy Award nominated Apple TV+ returning series “Hijack.” He also created and wrote the Golden Globe and BAFTA-nominated and Critics Choice award winner “Lupin,” for Netflix. His other work includes BAFTA-winning series “The Long Shadow” and “Litvinenko,” which both aired on ITVX, and the International Emmy nominated Netflix show “Criminal.”

    WAR is coproduced by New Pictures (an All3Media company) and Observatory Pictures, in association with HBO and Sky. The series is created, written and executive produced by George Kay, alongside Golden Globe and BAFTA Award-nominated executive producer Willow Grylls (“Des,” “The Missing”) and BAFTA Award-nominated executive producer Matt Sandford (“The Long Shadow”) for New Pictures, Ben Taylor (“Sex Education,” “Catastrophe”), Susan Breen (“The Woman in the Wall,” “Bad Sisters”), Andrea Dewsbury, and Megan Spanjian for Sky.

    WAR will debut on HBO and HBO Max in the US, and stream on HBO Max in Australia.  It will air on Sky and streaming services NOW/WOW in the UK, Ireland, Italy, Germany, Switzerland and Austria. International sales of the series will be handled by NBCUniversal Global TV Distribution.

     

    About New Pictures
    New Pictures produces bold, original and entertaining television drama for leading streamers and broadcasters in the UK and around the world. Our critically acclaimed productions have won multiple major awards including Golden Globes, Emmys, Baftas and RTS amongst many others. Working in partnership with ambitious, authentic and diverse storytellers and actors is at the heart of everything we do. Our credits encompass a broad slate of adaptations and originals such as The Long Shadow (ITV/Sundance), No Escape (Paramount+), Champion (BBC/Netflix), Protection (ITV), Crongton (BBC), COBRA (Sky One), Des (ITV/Sundance), Catherine the Great (Sky/HBO), The Missing (BBC, Starz), and long-running hit Dalgleish (Channel 5, Acorn). New Pictures is an All3Media company.
     

    About Sky 
    Sky Studios is the home of Sky Original Scripted and Unscripted content. We develop, commission and produce unmissable programming for Sky’s customers across Europe.
     

    Our teams partner with the best indies and talent globally, to drive creative excellence and tell original stories that are loved by audiences the world over. 
     

    Our Sky Originals include BAFTA-winning comedy, Brassic, Emmy-nominated hit, Gangs of London, Mary & George, starring Julianne Moore, The Day of the Jackal, with Eddie Redmayne and Lashana Lynch, Sweetpea, starring Ella Purnell, LEE, starring Kate Winslet, Mussolini: Son of the Century, directed by Joe Wright, and Lockerbie: A Search for Truth starring Colin Firth and Catherine McCormack.
     

    We also operate Sky Studios Elstree, a new, state-of-the-art film and TV studio with 12 sound stages, representing a significant investment in the UK and European creative economy.   

    Alongside Sky Original Scripted, Sky Studios is home to some of the most successful factual production companies including Blast! Films, True North and Love Productions. 

    In 2022, Sky Studios ramped up the original content drive by launching an in-house factual unit with capability to develop, produce, co-produce, fully finance and distribute films and series through the partnership with NBCUniversal Global Distribution.  In 2024 they unveiled their first feature doc Klitschko: More than a Fight, directed by Kevin MacDonald, as the Opening Film of Sheffield Doc/Fest 2024. 
     

    About HBO
    HBO® is one of the most respected and innovative entertainment brands in the world, serving iconic, award-winning programming through the HBO linear channels and the direct-to-consumer streaming platform, HBO Max, which is available globally in 65 countries. A part of Warner Bros. Discovery, HBO offers an extensive array of programming that includes recent fan-favorite hits like “House of the Dragon,” “The Last of Us,” “The White Lotus,” “Succession,” and “Euphoria,” and iconic titles, including “Game of Thrones,” “The Sopranos,” “Sex and the City,” “Band of Brothers” and “The Wire.”

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  • ‘Emily in Paris’ Season 5 First Look, Series Travels to Venice

    ‘Emily in Paris’ Season 5 First Look, Series Travels to Venice

    Emily in Paris is saying “ciao” to Venice, Italy.

    For its fifth season, the Netflix series starring Lily Collins will travel to the canal-filled city.

    All 10 episodes of season 5 will arrive on the streamer on Dec. 18.

    Netflix describes the synopsis for the next season as, “Now the head of Agence Grateau Rome, Emily faces professional and romantic challenges as she adapts to life in a new city. But just as everything falls into place, a work idea backfires, and the fallout cascades into heartbreak and career setbacks. Seeking stability, Emily leans into her French lifestyle, until a big secret threatens one of her closest relationships. Tackling conflict with honesty, Emily emerges with deeper connections, renewed clarity, and a readiness to embrace new possibilities.”

    Collins returns as Emily with Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, Ashley Park, Lucas Bravo, Samuel Arnold, Bruno Gouery, William Abadie, Lucien Laviscount, Eugenio Franceschini, Thalia Besson, Paul Forman, Arnaud Binard, Minnie Driver, Bryan Greenberg and Michèle Laroque also starring.

    Amid his contract being up at the end of season four, Bravo had admitted that his issues with his character Gabriel’s trajectory made him “question” if he wanted to return for a fifth season. However, the actor is confirmed to return and reprise his role. The actor previously told THR that he was hoping for some growth for Gabriel in season five because “he made a few choices that made me kind of grow away from him. We were very much alike in season one, but now, I don’t really know. I think I feel like he needs to get his shit together.”

    Last season the series ventured to Rome for part of the season. “It was so great to go from Paris to Rome because you’re still in Europe and you’re still feeling that romance and passion of Europe, but you’re getting to experience a different part of history which was really fun,” Collins told The Hollywood Reporter at the show’s L.A. premiere for season 4 last year.

    When the series traveled to Rome, there was an exchange of words from French President Emmanuel Macron, who said he would “fight hard” to keep Netflix’s hit comedy from moving to Italy. Meanwhile Rome Mayor Roberto Gualtieri told THR Roma of the comment, “Doesn’t President Macron have more pressing matters to worry about? I would like to believe, at least I would like to hope, that Macron was joking, because he ought to know that a production company like Netflix does not take orders from heads of state or make decisions based on political pressure.”

    Netflix also unveiled a first look at the new season. THR shares the images below.

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    Ashley Park as Mindy in Emily In Paris.

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    From left: Bruno Gouery as Luc, Samuel Arnold as Julien in Emily in Paris.

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    From left: Gouery and Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu as Sylvie Grateau in Emily in Paris.

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    From left: William Abadie as Antoine Lambert, Lucien Laviscount as Alfie in Emily in Paris.

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    From left: Collins and Park in Emily In Paris.

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    From left: Collins and Franceschini

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    From left: Abadie and Lucas Bravo as Gabriel.

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  • Pedro Pascal’s Unofficial Illustrated Biography: Where to Buy

    Pedro Pascal’s Unofficial Illustrated Biography: Where to Buy

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    We love Pedro Pascal, and we have a feeling you do too. He holds the unofficial title of the nation’s “Daddy,” and is a talented actor to boot. The actor has had a number of big moment the past few years, starring in hit films and TV shows such as Game of Thrones, Narcos, The Last of Us and so much more. Pascal’s latest project, The Fantastic Four: First Steps, received some positive reviews following its release back in July.

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    The star’s rise to fame was not instant, but rather, a gradual process, one that is well-documented in an unofficial illustrated biography titled Hispanic Star: Pedro Pascal. If you want to learn more about your favorite actor with dynamic visuals and engaging storytelling, this hardcover book is currently on sale and available for preorder on Amazon for $18.99. You can also grab the book via Kindle for $9.99 and a paperback version for $7.99. The book drops on Sept. 2.

    ‘Hispanic Star: Pedro Pascal’ by Claudia Romo Edelman & Karla Arenas Valenti, Illustrated by Marcelo Baez

    An illustrated biography of Pedro Pascal’s life.

    The biography, written by Claudia Romo Edelman and Karla Arenas Valenti and illustrated by Marcelo Baez, takes readers through the Chilean-born actor’s upbringing in San Antonio, Texas, where his family found asylum during the Pinochet dictatorship. Despite this, Pascal had an imaginative childhood and an obsession with movies that brought his passion for acting to the forefront.

    Readers are treated to colorfully illustrated scenes of Pascal’s time at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, where he fostered that love of acting by diving into some of film’s classics. Eventually, the book explores how Pascal became a household name through shows such as Game of Thrones, The Mandalorian and The Last of Us. This would make a great gift for the Pascal fan in your life. The pricing is perfect, especially with the 5% off. We’ve got a feeling that the Pedro stans, both young and old, will go crazy over this book.

    The aforementioned Hispanic Star series is published by Macmillan Publishers. The book series covers many iconic Hispanic and Latinx folks from various areas of entertainment and politics, including Bad Bunny, Selena Gomez, Celia Cruz, Sonia Sotomayor and Roberto Clemente, among others. Each book in the series is an interactive way to get kids to learn about important Hispanic and Latinx figures, both past and present, in an easy-to-digest manner. The illustrations are playful and the accompanying copy is informative but light. You can shop for more books from the series right now on Amazon.

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    ‘Hispanic Star: Sonia Sotomayor’ by Claudia Romo Edelman & Nathalie Alonso, Illustrated by Alexandra Beguez

    An illustrated biography of Sonia Sotomayor’s life.

    Pedro Pascal's Unofficial Illustrated Biography: Where to Buy

    ‘Hispanic Star: Roberto Clemente’ by Claudia Romo Edelman & Sara E. Echenique, Illustrated by Manuel Gutierrez

    An illustrated biography of Roberto Clemente’s life.

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    ‘Hispanic Star: Selena Gomez’ by Claudia Romo Edelman & Karla Valenti, Illustrated by Alexandra Beguez

    An illustrated biography of Selena Gomez’s life.

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