Entertainment curations

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   Now Streaming·13 minutes ago

   Lioness Season 3 launches today on Paramount+ as Taylor Sheridan'sespionage drama returns with a season of personal stakes and team chaos. The streaming week also brings Quentin Tarantino's From Dusk Till Dawn trilogy to Paramount+ after a studio shuffle, and Futurama Season 14 hits Hulu Monday.
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   Online Gaming·1 hour ago

   Counter-Strike's BLAST Bounty Season 2 Finals culminated in a grandfinal clash between Spirit and MOUZ on August 2, with the victor earning the $740,000 championship prize. Away from the server, Korea's DN Supers ended a devastating 18-match losing streak to defeat HanJin BRION in the LCK, while Daejeon AutoArms captured Eternal Return's Mid-Season Cup title.
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   K-pop·4 hours ago

   Jennie made history Friday as the first K-pop soloist to headlineLollapalooza Chicago, while Rosé's "APT." collaboration with Bruno Mars reached a career-high 2.6 billion YouTube views. The week brought music show wins for fromis_9 and a September comeback announcement from rookie group UNCHILD.
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   Music·19 hours ago

   Tom Corson ascends to Chief Operating Officer of Warner MusicGroup, overseeing the label giant's global operations. On the live front, Slipknot terminated longtime turntablist Sid Wilson after 28 years, while the hardcore community mourned Lou Koller's death with cover tributes.
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   Movies·19 hours ago

   Tom Holland's Spider-Man: Brand New Day crushed all-time recordsFriday with a $168 million opening day, claiming the biggest debut day in cinema history. The web-slinger is tracking toward a $925 million global opening weekend, second only to Avengers: Endgame's $1.224 billion.
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   Now Streaming·yesterday

   Netflix loaded Friday with five releases from the Chucky franchisealongside a Korean dating aftershow, while the streaming wars saw Netflix secure the entire Walking Dead universe from AMC and Apple locked in Ted Lasso's return for August 5.
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   Online Gaming·yesterday

   Counter-Strike's BLAST Bounty Season 2 Finals reached thesemifinals on August 1 with FaZe and Astralis both advancing to battle for the $740,000 grand final. Off-server, Valorant's Gen.G GC parted ways with head coach SeoeuN, elevating Yoon Xpp to lead the team into Game Changers 2026 Pacific.
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   K-pop·yesterday

   Jennie claimed her first music show trophy on M Countdown whileBTS's Jimin hit a career streaming milestone, as K-pop's chart race intensifies heading into August. Mimi announced her solo debut and Yuri parted ways with SM Entertainment after 19 years.
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   Manga·yesterday

   A long-running comedy slice-of-life reaches its conclusion today asGabriel Dropout wraps after thirteen years, while Fairy Tail celebrates its 20th anniversary with guest illustrations from hunting and boxing manga veterans. Manga licensing continues rolling at anime conventions, and the ninja world expands into children's books.
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10. 
    Music·2 days ago

    A British chart record fell on July 31 after 73 years: Sam Fenderand Olivia Dean's "Rein Me In" claimed its 19th consecutive week at No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart, dethroning Frankie Laine's 1953 record. Meanwhile, a German court dealt AI music firm Suno a stinging defeat, ruling it infringed copyright by training on songs without permission.
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11. 
    Movies·2 days ago

    Tom Holland's Spider-Man breaks all-time preview records on itsopening day. Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey has already sailed past $320 million domestically, faster than any Nolan film before it.
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12. 
    K-Drama·2 days ago

    Netflix's Mousetrap premiere lands August 28 with Ryu Jun Yeol as anovelist hunting the man who stole his identity, headlining a crowded month of new series. Kim Se Jeong, Bae Hyun Sung, and Jo Han Gyeol lead the fantasy reincarnation drama High School Queen, while Lee Min Jung and Kim Ji Suk star as wedding experts destroying their marriage in a new KBS romance premiering August 19. Alongside fresh casting news for romance dramas in development, Park Hae Il uncovers a historical murder in the thriller film Assassins, due September 2026.
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    Now Streaming·2 days ago

    Streaming's biggest evening arrives Friday with A24's psychologicalcomedy The Drama hitting HBO Max and all 10 episodes of Batman: Caped Crusader season 2 landing on Prime Video the same day. Meanwhile, Disney delivered unexpected news: Wonder Man, the Marvel series it renewed for season 2 just four months ago, is cancelled after one season.
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    Online Gaming·2 days ago

    VCT Stage 2 group play surged forward across three regions on July31, with Paper Rex shutting out Team Secret in the Pacific and 100 Thieves outgunning Sentinels in the Americas. Europe's LEC enters Week 2 Friday with Karmine Corp's undefeated streak the story to watch.
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    K-Drama·5 days ago

    Love on the Menu's 13 percent surge headlines a week of serieshighs across the weekend lineup. Na Hong-jin's Hope shatters 3 million admissions at the Korean box office, while Song Kang readies his Netflix comeback this August.
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    Now Streaming·5 days ago

    Mary Beth Barone's first full stand-up hour hits Netflix today,while the Australian rom-com Colin From Accounts concludes its run with a series finale in the Southern Hemisphere.
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    Online Gaming·5 days ago

    July 27-28 proved quiet in esports with most major tournamentswrapped. Nova Esports finished Valorant's China league undefeated, while Patch 13.02 rolled out globally with a new limited-time game mode.
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    K-pop·5 days ago

    KARD drops their debut album today before ending nine yearstogether with a final world tour, while BTS reaches new K-pop heights on the Billboard 200 chart.
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19. 
    Movies·6 days ago

    Tom Holland's Spider-Man opens July 31 with record presales; Amazonstreams the red carpet Monday night. Hadestown's Broadway capture nearly matched Hamilton's record, and Peacock just locked a landmark YouTube Premium bundle deal starting 2027.
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    Now Streaming·6 days ago

    Pressure became a streaming hit overnight on Peacock, while Netflixprepares major releases this week: a true-crime series on the 1988 Pan Am bombing and a Brazilian MMA thriller.
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    Online Gaming·6 days ago

    Karmine Corp is running the table across two major esports.The French organization swept Team Heretics in Valorant on Monday to extend their dominance into the VCT EMEA Stage 2 group phase, hours after routing G2 Esports in League of Legends to lock in a 3-0 week.
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22. 
    K-pop·6 days ago

    Young K returned with his most personal solo work, Seventeen markedmilitary milestones, and RESCENE claimed their debut music show trophy as summer momentum builds.
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23. 
    Anime·6 days ago

    KonoSuba and Senren * Banka are both heading back to televisionnext year with new studios, while Gintama's beloved spinoff arc finally lands on Netflix this August.
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24. 
    K-Drama·7 days ago

    Agent Kim Reactivated smashed past 20% ratings as its fourthepisode posted a 21.6% nationwide figure, while Na Hong-jin's Hope dominates the Korea box office with 1.5 million admissions in five days. Global streamers are rushing Korean titles to air: Netflix's Spooky in Love simulcast worldwide July 18, and a wave of casting news for 2026's second half is reshaping next season's lineups.
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25. 
    Music·7 days ago

    Neurosis stages a triumphant return with a new vocalist after sevenyears away, Michael Stipe previews his solo debut, and the music world mourned Oliver Tree while celebrating Ol' Dirty Bastard's legacy in Brooklyn.
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    Movies·7 days ago

    Nolan's Odyssey refuses to slow down in its second weekend with an$87 million haul. Marvel just announced Ryan Gosling as Ghost Rider and revealed David Jonsson as the new Black Panther at Comic-Con. And a major film-finance consolidation just reshuffled completion bonds.
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    Manga·7 days ago

    Two manga wrap today as a quiet weekend passes. Mii-chan andYamada-san, the viral hostess-bar series that hit 2.8 million copies, lands its 2027 anime adaptation.
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    Now Streaming·last week

    Enola Holmes returns for a Malta mystery, HBO's darkest dramedieslaunch, and summer streaming hits peak season. This week brings major releases across every platform and the quiet confirmation that password crackdowns are reshaping the business.
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    Online Gaming·last week

    Europe's League of Legends keeps humming under Fearless Draft rulesas Karmine Corp and G2 hold court in Paris, Japan's Valorant crown shifted hands, and Mobile Legends' defending champs are down to their last lives in the MSC group stage.
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    K-pop·last week

    Daesangs went to TXT, CORTIS, HWASA, and BTS at Saturday's KM ChartAwards—CORTIS claiming their first barely a year after debut. fromis_9 returned with their first full album since leaving HYBE, reclaiming independence.
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    Anime·last week

    Ranma 1/2 is returning to TV in October after a long break.Studio MAPPA's third season remake confirmed an October 3 premiere with a new key visual and expanded cast, while Solo Leveling just announced an original anime film following Season 2's cliffhanger.
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    Manga·last week

    Frieren: Beyond Journey's End takes the crown as Japan'sbest-selling manga for 2026, edging out One Piece by 200,000 copies, while Mao Nanami debuts a new isekai fantasy on Ganganonline today.
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33. 
    Music·last week

    Future just edged past Eminem for a rap chart record, landing his12th No. 1 album. And a line the streaming era had been creeping toward finally broke: more than half the songs uploaded to Deezer each day are now made by machines.
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34. 
    Movies·last week

    Nolan's Odyssey blew past a sci-fi classic's lifetime haul in undera week. Marvel storms Comic-Con's Hall H tonight behind a record-smashing Doomsday trailer. And a coalition of attorneys general just froze Paramount's Warner Bros. megamerger.
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35. 
    Online Gaming·last week

    The League of Legends grind is back on in Europe with FearlessDraft, Counter-Strike's Bounty online stage is thinning the herd before Malta, and defending champs Team Liquid PH are already staring at MLBB elimination in Paris.
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    K-pop·last week

    KATSEYE pulled Ed Sheeran and Demi Moore into their new single,Jennie is topping charts worldwide as a soloist, and Cortis just became 2026's second triple-million seller barely a year after debut. The rookies are eating.
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    Anime·last week

    Bleach ends today. The Calamity, the final 13-episode cour of theThousand-Year Blood War, streams this morning and closes out a saga that took four parts and years to reach its last page. Meanwhile Tokyo is dangling 11.5 billion yen to send anime even further overseas.
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38. 
    Manga·last week

    Akira Toriyama entered comics' Hall of Fame, one morning after twomanga took home Eisner trophies. Blue Exorcist is edging toward the end of a 17-year run. And a new AI-localized app is betting Americans will pay monthly to read manga digitally.
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39. 
    Music·last week

    South Africa's Tyla drops her sophomore album today, testingwhether her homegrown "popiano" can go fully global. Madonna is back atop the Billboard 200, and a multi-billion-dollar rush for old songs shows no sign of cooling.
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40. 
    Movies·last week

    Nolan's Odyssey refuses to cool off, Spider-Man is shatteringpresale records before it even opens, and DC's first horror film just bared its clay. Netflix grabbed Danny Boyle's Rupert Murdoch saga, and Venice fired awards season's starting gun.
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41. 
    Online Gaming·last week

    Paris just handed out three of the year's biggest trophies at once:PARIVISION bullied their way to a Dota 2 title, Dplus KIA silenced a home crowd for Korea's first LoL major since 2020, and 100 Thieves finally won North America its first international Valorant crown.
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42. 
    K-pop·last week

    All 13 members of SEVENTEEN just re-signed for a second time, afirst at their scale, while aespa drop their first Japanese mini album today and KARD announce they are calling it quits after nine years. K-pop's summer is loud.
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43. 
    Anime·last week

    Studio Trigger has a fourth Imaishi and Nakashima project brewing,The Cure scored Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2, and Demon Slayer's Infinity Castle finally hits Crunchyroll on July 28 after a year of theatrical-only exclusivity.
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    Manga·last week

    Sakamoto Days is steering into its endgame, Summer Time Renderingis jumping to live action, and tonight in San Diego the Eisner Awards decide which manga takes home comics' biggest trophy.
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