Serenity’s Small Budget Meant Finding A Way To Make A Hovercraft ‘Fly’

“Firefly” was one of those shows I’d sometimes stumble upon late at night — like “Stargate: SG-1” over on the SyFy channel or “Silverhawks” — that really stirred up my love for space operas/westerns. I never did sit down to watch the show in order — at the time I was beholden to whatever episodes were […]

NBC Eyes Finding Forrester Series, With a Major Mentor Change-Up

RELATED STORIES NBC is developing a series adaptation of the Gus Van Sant film Finding Forrester, with a couple of changes to the late Sean Connery‘s titular character. The 2000 movie starred future Blindspot star Rob Brown as Jamal Wallace, a basketball player who, because he scored exceptionally high on a statewide standardized exam, is […]

Good Omens fans will love finding all the Easter eggs in new teaser

Animated versions of the angel Aziraphale and demon Crowley take a walk through history in latest Good Omens teaser. We’ve been on tenterhooks for months, waiting for news of when the long-awaited TV adaptation of Good Omens would air. And now the wait is over. In conjunction with an announcement at the Television Critics Association […]

Dead department stores are finding an unexpected new life with U-Haul (M, SHLD, UHAL)

AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall U-Haul is looking to buy 13 former Sears and Kmart stores for $ 62 million, court documents show. These former department store locations will be repurposed into U-Haul storage centers and places to house its fleet of rental trucks.  U-Haul has a policy in place whereby it buys and renovates pre-existing buildings […]

The South China Sea is fabled for its hidden energy reserves and China wants to block outsiders like the US from finding them

China has a plan in motion to lock down potential oil and gas assets in the resource-rich, but hotly contested South China Seas. If successful, the move would effectively ban exploration by countries from outside the region, further isolating local powers from US support. China is using drawn-out negotiations over the issue to further divide […]

Insecure’s Natasha Rothwell on Finding Her Path to Hollywood

Natasha Rothwell was born in Wichita, Kansas, but doesn’t remember much about it. Her father was in the Air Force, so she grew up moving around—to New Mexico, Florida, Illinois, New Jersey, Maryland, and even Turkey. “I definitely have wanderlust because of how I grew up,” she says. As an adult, she moved to Tokyo, […]

Finding a Place in the Family Business

Editor’s Note: This article is part of an oral-history series where Aaron Reiss interviewed the young-adult sons and daughters of Chinatown shopkeepers about how they are helping to keep their families’ businesses alive. Cynthia Koo, a 30-year-old designer, uses her marketing and art expertise to help manage an Instagram presence and an English-language website for […]