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President Donald Trump invented a new political party—the PANICANS—as he vowed to stay the course on his tariff policy. He urged Americans to say “strong” and “courageous” Monday in a post to Truth Social: Advertisement This. Every last bit of this. Don’t be a TARIFFOBE. Don’t be a PANICAN. Strap in. pic.twitter.com/LleVT19vpi — Shawn Farash…
The Maryland Book Bank hopes to collect 30,000 books for Books for Kids Day amid school funding cuts.When you give a child a book, Mark Feiring knows you’re giving them opportunity.”It provides them with the resources that many children in the inner cities of the United States don’t have,” said Feiring, the founding executive director of the Maryland Book Bank. “One in 300 kids don’t have a book at home in the United States of America, which is hard to believe. So, we are trying to fill that gap.”Feiring and his team at the Maryland Book Bank are working to fill the gap at home and in schools. It’s a bigger gap now that the U.S. Department of Education cut pandemic relief funding available to support schools creating a budget shortfall for schools across the nation.Baltimore City Public Schools said it will not receive about $48 million in reimbursement for funds the district already spent or is contractually committed to programs. The gap means the school system has to make cuts.”There are tutoring programs that are no longer going to be there for kids. There’s also the afterschool programs that aren’t going to be there,” Feiring told 11 News. “So, the least we can do is make sure that they have what they need to read, to continue to grow and learn.”Organizers said the cuts mean this year’s Books for Kids Day is so important. It’s a day when the Maryland Book Bank collects thousands of book donations to give to schools, organizations, and kids to help fill their home libraries.”We need help badly,” Feiring told 11 News. “We are going to be serving well over 80,000 children throughout the state, if not more, and over 800 different schools and organizations. So, we need as many children’s books as possible.”Books for Kids Day takes place May 3 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 1400 W. Coldspring Lane. Anyone can drop off new or used books or sign up to volunteer.Feiring hopes people will step up to help.”It’s an easy way to clean your shelves off and have an immense amount of impact for children throughout Maryland,” he said.Tap here for more information about Books for Kids Day and how you can donate and/or volunteer.
BALTIMORE — The Maryland Book Bank hopes to collect 30,000 books for Books for Kids Day amid school funding cuts.When you give a child a book, Mark Feiring knows you’re giving them opportunity.
WB’s Minecraft movie has already crossed $300 million at the worldwide box office.
A Minecraft Movie opened in theaters around the world this weekend, bringing about the first feature film adaptation of the iconic video game. While the overall reception of the film has been mixed, it has attracted audiences to theaters in droves. A Minecraft Movie made $157 million at the domestic box office this weekend, setting a new record for video game adaptations.
A Minecraft Movie’s box office figures were first reported on Sunday morning by outlets like Deadline, with Box Office Mojo providing additional numbers. During the three-day weekend, A Minecraft Movie deposited $157 million in its chest, breaking the record previously held by The Super Mario Bros. Movie, which opened to $146 million domestically in 2023.
Source: Warner Bros. Pictures
The worldwide total for A Minecraft Movie sits at just over $300 million. The film stars Jack Black as Steve and follows a group of humans who find themselves in the world of Minecraft. The movie has gone viral on social media thanks to easter eggs, memes, and other references to the source material.
A Minecraft Movie is the latest example of a hit game becoming a blockbuster film. There’s no current word on a sequel, but given its instant success at the box office, Minecraft will likely get the franchise treatment similar to other successful video game adaptations.
Donovan is a journalist from Maryland. His oldest gaming memory is playing Pajama Sam on his mom’s desktop during weekends. Pokémon Emerald, Halo 2, and the original Star Wars Battlefront 2 were some of the most influential titles in awakening his love for video games. After interning for Shacknews throughout college, Donovan graduated from Bowie State University in 2020 with a major in broadcast journalism and joined the team full-time. He is a huge film fanatic and will talk with you about movies and games all day. You can follow him on twitter @Donimals_
WB’s Minecraft movie has already crossed $300 million at the worldwide box office.
A Minecraft Movie opened in theaters around the world this weekend, bringing about the first feature film adaptation of the iconic video game. While the overall reception of the film has been mixed, it has attracted audiences to theaters in droves. A Minecraft Movie made $157 million at the domestic box office this weekend, setting a new record for video game adaptations.
A Minecraft Movie’s box office figures were first reported on Sunday morning by outlets like Deadline, with Box Office Mojo providing additional numbers. During the three-day weekend, A Minecraft Movie deposited $157 million in its chest, breaking the record previously held by The Super Mario Bros. Movie, which opened to $146 million domestically in 2023.
Source: Warner Bros. Pictures
The worldwide total for A Minecraft Movie sits at just over $300 million. The film stars Jack Black as Steve and follows a group of humans who find themselves in the world of Minecraft. The movie has gone viral on social media thanks to easter eggs, memes, and other references to the source material.
A Minecraft Movie is the latest example of a hit game becoming a blockbuster film. There’s no current word on a sequel, but given its instant success at the box office, Minecraft will likely get the franchise treatment similar to other successful video game adaptations.
Donovan is a journalist from Maryland. His oldest gaming memory is playing Pajama Sam on his mom’s desktop during weekends. Pokémon Emerald, Halo 2, and the original Star Wars Battlefront 2 were some of the most influential titles in awakening his love for video games. After interning for Shacknews throughout college, Donovan graduated from Bowie State University in 2020 with a major in broadcast journalism and joined the team full-time. He is a huge film fanatic and will talk with you about movies and games all day. You can follow him on twitter @Donimals_
A Minecraft Movie has broken box office records to record the highest ever first weekend total for a video game adaptation.According to the Hollywood Reporter, the film took $163m (£128m) on its first three days at the North American box office (including approximately $10m for preview screenings on Thursday), which puts it well ahead of the previous record holder The Super Mario Bros Movie, which took $146m on its opening weekend in the US and Canada in 2023.A Minecraft Movie also made a significant impact outside North America, adding a further $151m in the 75 territories where it was released in its global rollout. In China, where Hollywood blockbusters don’t always connect with a mass audience, the film earned around $14.5m and dethroned another record-breaker, Ne Zha 2, which became the most commercially successful animated film of all time in March. In the UK, the box office was even higher, at £15.5m, making it the strongest performer outside North America.With more than 300m sales and over 140 million players each month, Minecraft is the bestselling video game of all time, with more than 1.3tn views of Minecraft-related videos on YouTube; its developers, Mojang, were acquired in 2014 by Microsoft for $2.5bn.A movie version had been in development since 2014 in conjunction with Hollywood studio Warner Bros, and with the involvement of production company Legendary (Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy, Godzilla and Dune), the film started shooting in January 2024. Directed by Jared Hess, and starring Jason Momoa, Jack Black and Danielle Brooks, A Minecraft Movie follows a group of humans who stumble across a portal to Minecraft’s block-world.An initial trailer release in September triggered negative reactions, not dissimilar to that which greeted the first Sonic the Hedgehog trailer in 2019, while the sheer profusion of Minecraft-related video material on YouTube, with creators including CaptainSparklez, Aphmau, and Prestonplayz, also led to suggestions that a feature film spin-off was unnecessary. One prominent YouTuber, ElVitt0ri0, told the Guardian that any Minecraft adaptation should be “an actual piece of love towards the fans by fans, not just some corpo-vomited product by a big company”.In the event, critics’ response to the released movie have been broadly positive, with New York magazine Vulture suggesting “it feels like a small miracle that the resulting film is so funny, lively, and light on its feet”, and Entertainment Weekly saying it is “a breath of fresh air after so many family films that seem preordained by lore”. The Guardian called it “an enjoyable if hectic experience”, while the Observer’s Wendy Ide offered one of the few unambiguously negative takes, calling it “cobbled-together” and an “egregious IP cash-in”.However, audience members have been posting videos online showcasing enthusiastic reactions, including cheering the “chicken jockey!” moment, referencing a cult Minecraft meme.
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When we all think of the most disturbing films we’ve ever seen, our minds will naturally go to horror films.Whether it be A Serbian Film, Human Centipede, or Cannibal Holocaust, many of the consensus most unsettling movies ever are horrors.That doesn’t meant that non-horror films can’t disturb viewers though as, in some cases, dramas and thrillers can stay with people even longer.This led fans on Reddit recently to debate what the most disturbing non-horror film ever is.While there were several answers, one in particular had others responding in full agreement, a ‘haunting’ Netflix anti-war drama that has 90 per cent on Rotten Tomatoes and received a whopping 9 Oscar nominations.The film in question is All Quiet on the Western Front.The response on Reddit to the thread debating the ‘most disturbing non-horror films’ said: “All Quiet on The Western Front was disturbing as all hell.”All Quiet on the Western Front is an adaptation of the 1929 novel of the same name by Erich Maria Remarque.Having been previously adapted into films in 1930 and 1979, this newest version in 2022 won four Oscars, including for Best International Feature Film.The movie focuses on a young German soldier thrust into the midst of World War One on the western front.One 9/10 review of the film on IMDb said they had ‘never felt war so intense before’.They went on to say that they are a ‘film nerd’, before adding: “What [director Edward] Berger and his teams show here is incredible & and the most horrifying depiction of war I’ve ever seen before.“The violence makes you feel sick, there were really some moments I thought I have to leave the cinema.”The film was called one of the most unsettling non-horrors ever (Netflix)Meanwhile, another 8 star review called it a ‘haunting portrayal of the horrors of war, and it’s a film that stays with you long after the credits roll’. In Peter Bradshaw’s four star review of the film, the legendary film critic said: “All Quiet on the Western Front is a substantial, serious work, acted with urgency and focus and with battlefield scenes whose digital fabrications are expertly melded into the action.“Perhaps nothing in it quite matches the shudder of the brutal opening sequence of the war machine.“A soldier is killed and his uniform is removed from his corpse, washed and mended with all the others and then dished out to raw recruit Paul with the dead man’s name tag accidentally left on the collar, to Paul’s bewilderment.”One discussion of the film on Reddit described the film as the ‘closest thing to hell on earth that man has created on a large scale’, going on to add: “The movie really did a good job capturing that visually and emotionally.”All Quiet on the Western Front is available to stream on Netflix now.
When we all think of the most disturbing films we’ve ever seen, our minds will naturally go to horror films.Whether it be A Serbian Film, Human Centipede, or Cannibal Holocaust, many of the consensus most unsettling movies ever are horrors.That doesn’t meant that non-horror films can’t disturb viewers though as, in some cases, dramas and thrillers can stay with people even longer.This led fans on Reddit recently to debate what the most disturbing non-horror film ever is.While there were several answers, one in particular had others responding in full agreement, a ‘haunting’ Netflix anti-war drama that has 90 per cent on Rotten Tomatoes and received a whopping 9 Oscar nominations.The film in question is All Quiet on the Western Front.The response on Reddit to the thread debating the ‘most disturbing non-horror films’ said: “All Quiet on The Western Front was disturbing as all hell.”All Quiet on the Western Front is an adaptation of the 1929 novel of the same name by Erich Maria Remarque.Having been previously adapted into films in 1930 and 1979, this newest version in 2022 won four Oscars, including for Best International Feature Film.The movie focuses on a young German soldier thrust into the midst of World War One on the western front.One 9/10 review of the film on IMDb said they had ‘never felt war so intense before’.They went on to say that they are a ‘film nerd’, before adding: “What [director Edward] Berger and his teams show here is incredible & and the most horrifying depiction of war I’ve ever seen before.“The violence makes you feel sick, there were really some moments I thought I have to leave the cinema.”The film was called one of the most unsettling non-horrors ever (Netflix)Meanwhile, another 8 star review called it a ‘haunting portrayal of the horrors of war, and it’s a film that stays with you long after the credits roll’. In Peter Bradshaw’s four star review of the film, the legendary film critic said: “All Quiet on the Western Front is a substantial, serious work, acted with urgency and focus and with battlefield scenes whose digital fabrications are expertly melded into the action.“Perhaps nothing in it quite matches the shudder of the brutal opening sequence of the war machine.“A soldier is killed and his uniform is removed from his corpse, washed and mended with all the others and then dished out to raw recruit Paul with the dead man’s name tag accidentally left on the collar, to Paul’s bewilderment.”One discussion of the film on Reddit described the film as the ‘closest thing to hell on earth that man has created on a large scale’, going on to add: “The movie really did a good job capturing that visually and emotionally.”All Quiet on the Western Front is available to stream on Netflix now.
Published: April 7, 2025 19:04 Kingston OTT Release Date: Veteran star GV Prakash Kumar’s latest horror-adventure movie Kingston was released in theaters on March 7th, 2025. Written and directed by Kamal Prakash and Dhivek Sekar, the film, during its Box office run, received a lukewarm reception from the cinemagoers as well as the critics and…