‘Spider-Man’ Tops Weekend Box Office But ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Passes $700 Million

Tom Cruise in ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Paramoun and Skydance Yes, it’s nuts that an eight-month-old MCU flick and a Memorial Day weekend release are tops for the Labor Day box office. Yes, that...

Brad Pitt’s ‘Bullet Train’ Tops Tom Cruise’s ‘Top Gun 2’

Bad Bunny and Brad Pitt star in Bullet Train. (C) 2022 CTMG. All Rights Reserved. In holdover news, Brad Pitt’s Bullet Train earned $1.1 million (-31%) on its fifth Friday for a likely $4.7 million (+...

New York’s Updated Gun Legislation Can Take Effect, Court Rules—Replacing Policy Supreme Court Struck Down

Topline New York’s updated concealed carry policy will take effect Thursday as scheduled after a federal judge threw out a lawsuit challenging it on Wednesday, suggesting states could still have a leg...

Binance Froze Russian Gun Maker’s Crypto Assets, Likely at Ukraine’s Request

This explains how the Ukrainian authorities were able to block the wallets. Decentralized blockchains, such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, do not allow anyone to block or freeze any addresses or transaction...

Avalanche (AVAX) Founder Emin Gün Sirer Dismisses Cryptoleaks Smear-Campaign Allegation

According to Gün Sirer, Avalanche does not entrust its legal affairs to Roche, and did not direct him to file any lawsuits towards other projects – including, for example, a July class-action lawsuit ...

Ava Labs’ Gün Sirer hits out at CryptoLeaks’ ‘conspiracy theory nonsense’

Emin Gün Sirer, Founder and CEO of Ava Labs, the company behind Avalanche (AVAX), has shared his take on a sensational report recently published by CryptoLeaks. Sirer tweeted today that allegations of...

‘Ghost gun’ regulations go into effect after judges reject challenges

AR-15 style rifles are displayed for sale at Firearms Unknown, a gun store in Oceanside, California, U.S., April 12, 2021. Bing Guan | Reuters New Biden administration rules that put homemade firearm ...

Jerry Bruckheimer Reflects On Billion-Dollar Box Office Unicorn ‘Top Gun: Maverick’

Jerry Bruckheimer and Tom Cruise attends the photocall of ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ during the 75th annual … [+] Cannes film festival in Cannes, France. FilmMagic Over $1.4 billion at the ...

Smith & Wesson CEO faces backlash after he blamed politicians for gun violence

Convention goers look at weapons at the Smith and Wesson booth last April at the 2015 NRA Annual Convention in Nashville, Tenn. Karen Bleier | AFP | Getty Images After releasing a statement earlier th...

Russia’s ‘Fake’ Robot Gun Dog — And The Real Armed Robots

One of the unexpected stars of Russia’s Army-22 trade show was a robot dog dressed as a ninja and carrying an RPG-26 rocket launcher. However, the Twittersphere quickly spotted that the outfit looked ...

‘Bullet Train’ Fends Off ‘Top Gun 2’ As ‘Thor 4’ Passes $720 Million

Brad Pitt stars in Bullet Train. Scott Garfield In holdover news for the weekend, Sony’s Bullet Train again topped the domestic box office with $13.4 million (-55%). That gives the $90 million Brad Pi...

Friday Box Office: ‘Bullet Train’ Drops 70% As ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Nears $670 Million

Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Brad Pitt star in Bullet Train. Sony In terms of holdover news for Friday, Sony’s Bullet Train again topped the domestic box office with $3.86 million. That’s a sharp 70% decl...

‘Top Gun 2’ Passes $1.35 Billion As ‘Thor 4’ Tops ‘Thor 3’

‘DC League of Super-Pets’ Warner Bros. In holdover weekend box office news for the weekend, DC League of Super-Pets dropped 52% for an $11.2 million second-weekend gross. That’s a not-so-s...

Box Office: ‘DC Super Pets’ Plunges 64% As ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Passes ‘Titanic’

DC League of Super-Pets Warner Bros. In holdover news for Friday, DC League of Super-Pets took a sharp dive, earning $3.35 million (-64%) on its second Friday. That sets the stage for a $10.8 million ...

Dua Lipa And Machine Gun Kelly Close Out Day Two At Lollapalooza In Chicago

Dua Lipa performs on stage at Lollapalooza. Friday, July 29, 2022 at Grant Park in Chicago, IL Photo by Barry Brecheisen “What’s up Lollapalooza?” said Royal Blood drummer Ben Thatcher on stage Friday...

‘Nope’ Plunges 70% As ‘Top Gun 2’ Nears $650 Million

‘Nope’ Universal In holdover news for the Friday box office, Jordan Peele’s Nope took a sizable 70% drop with a $5.84 million day-eight gross. That brings its domestic cume to $67.8 millio...

The House Maloney AR-15 Gun Hearing Today Is Big News

The House committee hearing rosy, chaired by Rep. Carolyn Maloney, on AR-15 makers, is big news. She chairs the House Oversight Committee, the House’s most powerful investigative body. Two of three AR...

‘Top Gun 2’ Nears $1.3 Billion, ‘Elvis’ Tops ‘Lightyear’

Tom Cruise and Jennifer Connelly in ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Paramount and Skydance Top Gun: Maverick earned another $10 million (-19%) domestic and $16.4 million (-19%) overseas in its ninth w...

Record 2.8 Million AR-15 And AK-Style Rifles Entered U.S. Circulation In 2020, Gun Group Says

Topline The United States manufactured or imported just over 24.4 million AR-15 and AK-style guns—which are often known as assault rifles or modern sporting rifles—from 1990 to 2020, a firearm industr...

Russia Sends Pacific Island ‘Machine Gun Artillery Division’ To Ukraine

DATELINE ADDITION – Russian President Dmitry Medvedev walks near a Soviet-era fortifications during … [+] his visit to Kunashir one of the Kuril islands on November 1, 2010. Medvedev stoke...

This Week on Crypto Twitter: BlockFi and 3AC Try to Clear the Air, CZ Jumps the Gun

Illustration by Mitchell Preffer for Decrypt As markets began leveling off from a freefall, Crypto Twitter spent a bit more time discussing the latest bailouts. At the beginning of the month, Voyager ...

The Supreme Court’s Reliance On “historical Analysis” To End Abortion Rights And Curb Gun Control This Term Could Overturn Other Landmark Precedents, Perhaps Even Brown V. Board

Heading into oral arguments in Brown v. Board, Thurgood Marshall, the civil rights icon arguing for the integration of southern schools, feared the legislative history surrounding the case. Though he ...

‘Top Gun 2’ Passes ‘Iron Man 3’ As ‘Jurassic World 3’ Tops $900 Million

(from left) Minion Stuart, Gru (Steve Carell) and Minions © 2022 Universal Studios. All Rights Reserved. In holdover news that isn’t about Thor: Love and Thunder, Universal and Illumination’s Minions:...

‘Top Gun 2’ Passes ‘Incredibles 2’ As ‘Elvis’ Tops $100 Million

‘Minions: The Rise of Gru’ Universal In holdover news that isn’t about Thor: Love and Thunder ($13.8 million for a $45 million weekend), Minions: The Rise of Gru earned another $8.13 milli...

Gabby Giffords Brings Her Fight For Gun Control To The Big Screen With ‘Gabby Giffords Won’t Back Down’

WASHINGTON, DC – NOVEMBER 03: Gabby Giffords speaks as gun violence survivors gather in front of the … [+] Supreme Court ahead of oral argument in NYSRPA v. Bruen on November 03, 2021 in W...

‘Minions 2’ Drops 70% As ‘Top Gun 2’ And ‘Elvis’ Fall 38%

(from left) Minion Stuart, Gru (Steve Carell) and Minions © 2022 Universal Studios. All Rights Reserved. In domestic Friday box office news not about Thor: Love and Thunder, Universal and Illumination...

Here’s How Japan’s Low Gun Death Rate Compares To The U.S. And Other Countries

Topline Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s assassination Friday is particularly shocking because it happened in a country with among the world’s most stringent gun controls and lowest deaths ...

‘Top Gun 2’ And ‘Jurassic World 3’ Should End Hollywood’s Problematic Addiction To China

‘Top Gun: Maverick,’ ‘Jurassic World Dominion’ and ‘Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness’ Paramount, Universal and Disney Top Gun: Maverick, Doctor Strange i...

Maryland Loosens Concealed Carry Law In Light Of Supreme Court Gun Ruling

Topline Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) instructed state police Tuesday to be less restrictive about which firearm owners in the state are granted concealed carry licenses, as states with strict conceal...

How Uvalde and Buffalo spurred push for first gun law in decades

After two horrific mass shootings in Texas and New York, Congress just passed the most meaningful gun legislation in decades. The Safer Communities Act will expand background checks in some cases, clo...

New York City And State Sue ‘Ghost Gun’ Distributors — Hit Back After Supreme Court Knocks Down Gun Law

Topline New York state and city officials filed lawsuits Wednesday going after gun distributors who sell “ghost guns” that can escape firearm restrictions and be harder to trace, as the state tries to...

‘Elvis’ Bests ‘Top Gun 2’ With $31 Million Weekend

Austin Butler in Baz Luhrmann’s ‘Elvis’ Warner Bros. In a kind of skewed “nature is healing” moment, two big movies scored strong Fri-Sun grosses and essentially tied for first...