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How Bob Odenkirk and the ‘Nobody’ team set out to elevate the genre with ‘Normal’

How Bob Odenkirk and the ‘Nobody’ team set out to elevate the genre with ‘Normal’

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At first glance, many may have assumed that Bob Odenkirk’s new film, Normal, was another sequel in the Nobody franchise. With the same star, writer, and producer, the two films do share much of the same DNA. However, the team’s new movie is not only a completely new story but attempts to blend genres in a way that further separates it from its predecessor. Mashable’s Entertainment Editor, Kristy Puchko, caught up with the Normal team at SXSW to talk about the film, its themes, and why they chose to film on 35mm. The film’s writer, Derek Kolstad (John Wick, Nobody), noted how this film differs from Nobody, the team’s previous collaboration. “To this point, you know, in Nobody, if there’s a house on fire, Hutch is going to run into it and hopefully fight anyone who’s in there. In Normal, he’s going to look at the house on fire and say, ‘I don’t know.’” Odenkirk added, “It’s not that much fire.” The Normal star described the film as “a story of a guy who has …

Jackass 5 trailer revealed as co-creator Johnny Knoxville says team ‘went extra hard’ to make ‘final’ film ‘the best’

Jackass 5 trailer revealed as co-creator Johnny Knoxville says team ‘went extra hard’ to make ‘final’ film ‘the best’

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Jackass co-creator Johnny Knoxville has unveiled the first trailer for the hit slapstick comedy franchise’s final film, Jackass: Best And Last, during the last day of CinemaCon. Taking the stage Thursday at the Las Vegas movie convention, the professional prankster and stuntman, 55, introduced himself to the crowd. “My name is Johnny Knoxville, and I’m going to try to not get emotional,” he said, according to Variety. “This is the last Jackass film the world will ever see. Jackass means a hell of a lot for me,” Knoxville added. “We knew we were making the last one, so we went extra hard to make sure this was also our best Jackass film ever.” The trailer reportedly featured plenty of archival footage, mixed in with brand-new stunts, including Knoxville receiving a prostate exam by a robot named Larry and Sean “Poopies” McInerney …

Apple News revenue helped BBC Science Focus double size of team

Apple News revenue helped BBC Science Focus double size of team

Published by Sam Flores

BBC Science Focus on Apple News, 23 March 2026. BBC Science Focus has made “embarrassing amounts” of money and almost doubled its team since finding success on all-you-can-read subscriptions app Apple News. The title – available as a print magazine, app, website, podcast and newsletter – targets “people who had a bad science teacher”, publisher and editor Daniel Bennett told Press Gazette. In other words, those “intelligent and curious” that have been put off science, he said, with the audience ranging from “precocious 14-year-olds” to scientists. BBC Science Focus was originally part of the BBC’s magazine division before being sold in 2011. This was followed by Immediate taking over the title, before it became fully owned by the company’s former subsidiary Our Media this year. It is still produced under licence from the BBC, meaning it adheres to stricter ad guidelines than most commercial titles, such as not being able to endorse products or imply political bias. As a result, “ads have never been a massive part of our revenue makeup,” Bennett said. Like many …

Cartier Just Dropped an All-Star Team of Its Rarest Watch Models

Cartier Just Dropped an All-Star Team of Its Rarest Watch Models

Published by Jenni Sidey

There are a few things I look forward to every year at Watches and Wonders: the bizarre murals at the hotel where all the media members stay, for instance, or the two-bite ham and cheese sandwiches at the fairgrounds. But nothing gets me more excited than the curtain-raising on Cartier’s Privé collection, which exhumes iconic vintage models in the maison’s catalog and updates them for modern times. This year, as the Privé program turns a decade old, Cartier celebrated by releasing an all-star team of the best shape-happy watches released under the banner. There are six new watches divided into two groups of three. Part of me wishes Cartier had continued to dig up more designs from its illustrious history—how about the Driver, a Basculante, the Coussin, or Cristallor?—but it’s hard to be too upset about six new vintage-inspired watches. Cartier Crash Squelette Just when you thought the Crash couldn’t get any zanier (or more hyped), Cartier is proving it can still reinvent one of the industry’s most distinctive watches. I hesitate to even call …

Two super hosts team up for a fun new series: best podcasts of the week | Television & radio

Two super hosts team up for a fun new series: best podcasts of the week | Television & radio

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History’s Greatest Fails How to Fail’s Elizabeth Day teams up with historian Dan Jones for this new series about screw-ups from times gone by. Fast forward through the university reunion (they were at Cambridge together) and it quickly gets entertaining. Their first episode challenges Shakespeare’s vision of a villainous Richard III, while a future episode will consider the “Ross and Rachel of early modern history”, Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. Hannah J DaviesWidely available, episodes weekly Strangely You may have heard about the surgeon who amputated his own legs, but you might not be so familiar with Neil Hopper’s eunuch-maker origin story. It’s just one of many rabbit holes that Poppy Damon and Luke Jones tumble down in their series about bizarro news stories, which manages to be both informative and irreverent. HJDWidely available, episodes weekly Passenger Seat Pennsylvania-based writer Tom Joudrey has been working on this podcast for more than two years, and the result is an unsettling, slow-burn tale that rivals many a big-budget production. In 2012 in Ohio, Jennifer Hurst was the …

The House Article | Team Burnham Is Getting Organised Ahead Of The May Elections

The House Article | Team Burnham Is Getting Organised Ahead Of The May Elections

Published by Sam Flores

4 min read1 hr Labour MPs say Angela Rayner is down, Andy Burnham is up. Sienna Rodgers reports on the obstacles on the mayor’s path to No 10 Even the most enthusiastic advocates of a change in the Labour leadership are starting to wonder whether the current stalemate will really be broken by terrible results in May. The party’s press operation may not yet have begun its expectation management ahead of the elections, but a very low bar has already been set in the minds of its MPs. “Ah, but that’s baked in,” they often say when asked about the possibility of shocking outcomes such as losing power in Wales for the first time ever. The number of Labour councillors lost in England could easily exceed 1,000, one whip privately conceded with a shrug. The mood of the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) can shift quickly, however, and allies of Andy Burnham hope that, in the case of truly dismal results, MPs will wake up to the severity of the crisis the party …

U.S. team heads to Iran peace talks with a gulf separating the two sides

U.S. team heads to Iran peace talks with a gulf separating the two sides

Published by Sam Flores

As the United States and Iran prepare for ceasefire talks Saturday, the two countries appear to have common ground on only one thing — their need to find an exit ramp from the war. President Donald Trump is paying a growing political and economic price at home, with falling approval ratings and climbing gas prices undercutting his bluster and boasts about U.S. military might having already achieved a total victory over Tehran. Source link

Intuit compressed months of tax code implementation into hours — and built a workflow any regulated-industry team can adapt

Intuit compressed months of tax code implementation into hours — and built a workflow any regulated-industry team can adapt

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When the One Big Beautiful Bill arrived as a 900-page unstructured document — with no standardized schema, no published IRS forms, and a hard shipping deadline — Intuit’s TurboTax team had a question: could AI compress a months-long implementation into days without sacrificing accuracy? What they built to do it is less a tax story than a template, a workflow combining commercial AI tools, a proprietary domain-specific language and a custom unit test framework that any domain-constrained development team can learn from. Joy Shaw, director of tax at Intuit, has spent more than 30 years at the company and lived through both the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and the OBBB. “There was a lot of noise in the law itself and we were able to pull out the tax implications, narrow it down to the individual tax provisions, narrow it down to our customers,” Shaw told VentureBeat. “That kind of distillation was really fast using the tools, and then enabled us to start coding even before we got forms and instructions in.” How the …