Just over a year ago, the adaptation of Stephen King’s It shook horror fandom with a $123.4 million opening weekend — the highest ever for a horror movie. Now Halloween is here to join the party.

The 40-years-later sequel that opened on Friday picked up an estimated $77.5 million in the U.S. during its opening weekend. That’s not quite It levels of success, but it’s more than enough to make Halloween‘s first three days the second highest for an R-rated horror movie.

In an amusing twist, Halloween‘s ascendance to that #2 spot effectively unseats the previous box office runner-up, The Nun, which opened in September just a day before the one-year anniversary of It‘s release. Horror, in case you haven’t noticed, is very “in” right now. Read more…

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Selma Blair is starring in Another Life, a new Netflix sci-fi series, but an experience getting fitted for a costume for the show led her to disclose that she has been living with Multiple Sclerosis for years. 

Multiple sclerosis is a neurological disease that affects the brain’s ability to effectively communicate with the body by attacking the central nervous system. Its cause is yet to be discovered, but the symptoms include numbness, fatigue, involuntary movement, chronic pain, sensory loss, and a host of other difficult issues.  Read more…

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When a Twitter user asked Elon Musk if future Teslas would include a “dog mode” to keep car-bound pets safe and cool while their owner was away, he responded with a simple “yes.”

The idea behind dog mode, a pitch that in this case also included the Tesla displaying a readout of the car’s interior temperature to assure passersby that the pet inside is safe, is definitely within the realm of possibility when it comes to future Tesla features. But it also highlights the fact that electric vehicles like Teslas typically come with a system that regulates internal car temperatures.  Read more…

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Hope you have tissues nearby. 

The Bishop Vesey’s Grammar School rowing club found a rose attached to the locked gate at a nearby lake, with the most heartbreaking note accompanying it. 

“Please can someone throw this in the lake for me?” the note says. “My late husband’s ashes are in the lake and I can’t get to the lakeside in my wheelchair anymore + gates are locked — have to drive back up north tonight. Thank you.” 

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Chubbs the gator is back, everyone. 

The massive 15-foot alligator first made a name for himself when he casually strolled through Buffalo Creek Golf Course in Palmetto, Florida in 2016. In a viral video, Chubbs ambles through the green fields, unbothered by the audibly freaked out course patrons. 

He was spotted roaming the green again this year. In a video posted to Facebook on Saturday, Chubbs appears to be just as unbothered as the last time he was spotted. Somehow looking even chubbier, the absolute unit of a beast trudged through the field until he found a comfortable patch of grass for a midday sploot. Read more…

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The Super Bowl is the biggest night of the year for two things: Pro football and very expensive commercials. Amy Schumer has decided to use one to influence the other.

Her concern stems from ongoing protest actions in which certain players kneel, raises fists, or stand together united during pre-game National Anthem performances. They’re doing it to take a stand against police brutality and racial inequality in America — sticking to the message of exiled NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick.

Schumer isn’t involved in football, but she does acknowledge that there’s one place she can push back: Super Bowl ads. She’s not doing them this year. She also urges Maroon 5 — the next Super Bowl’s halftime band — to drop out. Read more…

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We’ve all seen what can happen when nefarious interests weaponize a social media platform like Twitter. Now imagine how much worse it would be if some foreign agent actually got a job at the company.

That’s what happened in 2013, apparently. In a sprawling Saturday New York Times report looking at the Saudi Arabian leadership’s social media campaign to silence critics and influence thinking, one detail stands out: The story of former Twitter employee Ali Alzabarah.

Alzabarah joined the company in 2013 and worked his way into an engineering position that afforded him access to “the personal information and account activity of Twitter’s users, including phone numbers and I.P. addresses, unique identifiers for devices connected to the internet,” the Times report said. Read more…

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Marvel’s Daredevil on Netflix has been known since its debut season for expertly-choreographed and visceral fight sequences. Season 1’s three-minute hallway scene went viral. In Season 2, the show pushed itself further with a five-minute stairwell shot. 

In Season 3, the show went all-out for an 11-minute tracking shot fight sequence involving multiple extras, stuntmen, and a scene of pivotal dialogue to move the action further forward. The Episode 4 scene left viewers stunned and sharing reactions on Twitter.

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The Mega Millions lottery jackpot is at a record-high right now, and people are coping with their slim chances of winning by making jokes. 

Nobody claimed the winning numbers on Friday night, so the Mega Millions jackpot is now the largest lottery prize in U.S. history. Clocking in at a whopping $1.6 billion, players have a chance of bringing home a lump sum of $905 million (or a veritable lifetime of ever-increasing annual payments). 

If you win, you’re basically an instant billionaire with the equivalent of the GDP of a small nation. 

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Netflix canceled Marvel’s Luke Cage on Friday, just one week after canceling Marvel’s Iron Fist. With new seasons of Jessica Jones and The Punisher in the pipeline, a fresh Season 3 debut for Daredevil, and no plans to resurrect The Defenders, could this be the end of Netflix and Marvel’s game-changing TV partnership?

Marvel’s Daredevil first premiered on Netflix in the spring of 2015, surprising television critics and comic book fans alike. The words “dark” and “gritty” were on repeat – the shadowy aesthetic and relentless fight choreography stunned viewers in the best wayJessica Jones debuted that fall, the first female superhero headlining any Marvel or DC screen property, before Supergirl, Wonder Woman, or Captain Marvel came into our lives. Read more…

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