How do you top a lackluster film like the stand-alone Black Widow film... .Well you bring the real life story of the Manderin to live in the MCU. Unlike Black Widow, this fresh story fulfills the need of Marvel Fans whereas Black Widow just seemed like an ode to the character with a standalone film.
Shang-Chi has a 98% Audience score with Fans who went to see the film. As you know with New Dope, we don't count the Critics scores (The Michael Bay Effect).
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Evangeline Lilly, the Canadian actress, has revealed that a serious fall in 2025 has resulted in a traumatic brain injury and measurable brain damage. The incident occurred on a Hawaiian beach, where Lilly fainted and struck her face on a boulder. In a May 2025 Substack post detailing the accident, the 46-year-old film star included graphic photos of her bloodied face and disclosed she had “a hole punctured into my face by the rock”. She revealed a lifelong history of fainting spells, which d
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“One Battle After Another” won best picture, while the top acting honors went to Timothée Chalamet (“Marty Supreme”) and Jessie Buckley (“Hamnet”). In addition, Paul Thomas Anderson nabbed best director honors for his film. Elsewhere, Sinners nabbed four awards, including the trophy for best casting and ensemble, a new category this year, which went to Francine Maisle. The film’s Miles Caton was named best young actor or actress, Ryan Coogler won best original screenplay, and Ludwig Göransson
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Samira Wiley and Lauren Morelli are ending their marriage after nine years together. The Orange Is the New Black actor and the writer‑producer, who met on the set of the Netflix series and married in 2017, filed for divorce at the end of January. In court documents obtained by outlets like People and Us Weekly, Morelli cites irreconcilable differences and lists their separation date as earlier this month. The couple share a four‑year‑old daughter, George, and Wiley is requesting joint legal and
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Argentina and the United States have signed a major trade agreement that cuts hundreds of tariffs in both directions and formalizes a closer political alliance. Under the deal, Argentina will remove trade barriers on more than 200 categories of U.S. goods, including chemicals, machinery and medical devices, while politically sensitive imports like vehicles, live cattle and dairy products will enter under government‑set quotas. In return, the U.S. will eliminate tariffs on 1,675 Argentine product
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Kehlani has won Best R&B Performance, for “Folded,” at the 2026 Grammy Awards. They won out over songs by Chris Brown and Bryson Tiller (“It Depends”), Justin Bieber(“Yukon”), Leon Thomas (“Mutt [Live from NPR’s Tiny Desk]”), and Summer Walker(“Heart of a Woman”). View this post on Instagram A post shared by New Dope (@newdopehq) This is Kehlani’s first Grammy win; she also won for Best R&B Song, again for “Folded,” later in the evening. “I’ve never won anything before, this is a really
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J. Cole released his highly-anticipated album The Fall-Off on Friday (Feb. 6). Nearly eight years after teasing The Fall-Off with the KOD outro, “1985,” J. Cole has finally delivered what he’s long framed as his final album. The Fall-Off is a double-disc album split into Disc 29 and Disc 39, totaling in 24 songs. The Dreamville honcho recently shared that some of his earliest verses were written at just 19 on The Come Up, when “a delusional teenager from Fayetteville” packed up and headed to NY
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