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It had Nicolas Cage playing a Depression-era Spider-Man. It let viewers choose between black-and-white and full color. Critics embraced its strange collision of hard-boiled detective fiction and superhero mythology. It earned 11 Emmy nominations—the most of any Prime Video program in 2026. And its
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Sadie Sink has reached the kind of career moment where two photographs can make her look like two completely different people. In one, she is Jean Grey. Intense. Watchful. Dangerous. A young mutant capable of manipulating minds and moving objects with thought, carrying the emotional weight of one of Marvel&
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VLC media player has passed another enormous milestone. More than 7 billion cumulative downloads have now been recorded for the famous orange-cone media player, extending the remarkable lifespan of a piece of open-source software that has survived multiple generations of computers, smartphones, codecs, streaming services and entertainment platforms.
TV Shows
When Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman premiered on ABC on September 12, 1993, audiences were technically getting another Superman television series. Yet it quickly became clear that the woman standing beside the Man of Steel was not going to remain in his shadow. Teri Hatcher's
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Happy 60th birthday to Halle Berry. Born on August 14, 1966, in Cleveland, Ohio, Berry reaches a major milestone on August 14, 2026 after more than three decades spent building one of Hollywood's most varied and historically significant careers. She has been a beauty-pageant contestant, television performer,
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Happy birthday to Mila Kunis, who turns 43 today, August 14, 2026. Born Milena Markovna Kunis on August 14, 1983, in Chernivtsi, then part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Kunis has built one of Hollywood's most unusually versatile careers. For one generation, she will probably always be
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Happy 58th birthday to Gillian Anderson, born on August 9, 1968. For millions of viewers, Anderson will forever be FBI Special Agent Dana Scully—the scientist with the red hair, skeptical stare and stubborn insistence that extraordinary claims required extraordinary evidence. But reducing Gillian Anderson to The X-Files would
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Happy birthday to Sasha Calle, who turns 31 years old today, August 7, 2026. Born on August 7, 1995, in Boston, Massachusetts, the Colombian-American actress has already experienced several dramatically different chapters in her career: struggling to break into acting, earning a Daytime Emmy nomination on The Young and
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Happy 47th birthday to Evangeline Lilly, the Canadian actress who became a global television star as Kate Austen in Lost before bringing strength, intelligence, and emotional depth to major films such as Real Steel, The Hobbit series, and Marvel’s Ant-Man franchise. Born on August 3, 1979, in Fort
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Happy 41st birthday to Georgina Haig, the Australian actress whose memorable performances have taken audiences through futuristic resistance movements, enchanted kingdoms, legal battles, psychological mysteries, and chilling supernatural stories. Born on August 3, 1985, Haig celebrated her 41st birthday in 2026. From her breakthrough role as Henrietta “Etta” Bishop in
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Happy 45th birthday to Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, who was born on August 4, 1981, in Los Angeles, California. Long before royal ceremonies and worldwide headlines, millions of viewers knew her as Rachel Zane, the intelligent and ambitious paralegal at the heart of the legal drama Suits. Since then, Meghan’
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Happy 31st birthday to Bruna Marquezine, the Brazilian actress whose remarkable journey began in childhood and eventually carried her from beloved telenovelas to a major role in DC’s Blue Beetle. Born on August 4, 1995, in Duque de Caxias, Rio de Janeiro, Bruna has spent most of her life