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Express Tribune
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- Express Tribune
Bruno Mars joins Fortnite Festival Season 9 with exclusive tracks and outfits
Bruno Mars has officially joined Fortnite Festival Season 9 as the game's newest 'icon,' Epic Games announced on June 18, 2025. The Grammy-winning superstar's arrival follows the conclusion of Season 8, which featured Sabrina Carpenter. Launching June 19, Season 9 introduces a Bruno Mars Music Pass priced at 1,400 V-Bucks, which includes Mars-inspired outfits, exclusive Jam Tracks, and themed rewards. Two of his biggest collaborative hits—'Die With A Smile' featuring Lady Gaga and 'APT.' with BLACKPINK's ROSÉ—are available as standalone Jam Tracks, expanding the game's music collection. The 'Die With A Smile' Bruno Outfit, modeled after the song's music video, comes unlocked with the Music Pass. Players can also earn the Grammy-winning Silk Sonic track 'Leave The Door Open,' a nod to Mars' collaboration with Anderson .Paak. Additional rewards include the Last Reprise Guitar and Red Hearts Kit Drums, both inspired by Mars' music visuals. In the Fortnite Shop, the World Tour Bundle offers fans more Mars-themed content, including the Bruno-San Outfit, Bruninho Style variant, Bruno's Collection Back Bling, and Bonde do Brunão Emote. Season 9 brings new quality-of-life updates to Fortnite Festival, such as alphabetical sorting for music libraries, restored all-time leaderboards, and a new True Random music feature. Players with favorite tracks can now shuffle from a curated playlist. Content creators can monetize videos featuring Bruno Mars songs for the first seven days of Season 9, provided their YouTube and Support-A-Creator accounts are linked. Eligible tracks include 'Die With A Smile,' 'APT.,' and 'Bonde Do Brunão.' Mars joins a growing list of artists integrated into Fortnite, including The Weeknd, Billie Eilish, Metallica, and Snoop Dogg—further blurring the line between music and interactive gaming experiences.
The Irish Sun
3 days ago
- Sport
- The Irish Sun
Shamrock Rovers to benefit from Drogheda United's misfortune after Europa Conference League expulsion
SHAMROCK ROVERS have directly benefitted from Drogheda United's exclusion from the Conference League. Drogheda'a absence from the competition - because it and Silkeborg are owned by the Trivela Group - was As a result, Rovers - and Albanian side FC Dinamo City - have been promoted from the first to the second qualifying round. It means Stephen Bradley's side will have to progress through three rather than four rounds to match last year's achievement of reaching the group stages, when they went on to qualifying for the last 16. St Pat's will still be in the first qualifying round of the Conference League, as will league winners Shelbourne in the Champions League. The draws for both competitions take place later today, with the Champions League at 1pm, the Conference League and 3pm and the Europa League - which does not feature any Irish teams - in between. Read More On Irish Football There is a big variation in the standard of their possible opponents for unseeded Shels with Romanian giants FCSB looking like the ones to avoid. Linfield, Breidablik of Iceland, Kosovo's Drita and Lincoln Red Imps of Gibraltar are the other potential draws. Shels played on the Rock last year and beat St Joseph's 3-2 on aggregate with the club incurring fines of €21,250 for their fans throwing missiles onto the pitch and chants of 'Gibraltar is Spanish'. St Pat's - who reached the third qualifying round of the competition last season - are seeded in the first round. Most read in Football Their four potential opponents are Bruno's Magpies from Gibraltar, Latvia's BFC Daugavpils, FC Hegelmann of Lithuania and the Faroe Islands' outfit NSI Runavik. Chelsea launch Club World Cup campaign with 2-0 victory over LAFC in Atlanta 1 Kevin Doherty's side lost at home to the Hoops last night
Daily Record
13-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Record
Amazon Prime viewers 'in tears' after watching 'devastating' war film
The war film still has people talking years after its release Over 15 years since its release, the film continues to haunt audiences, with many describing it as "absolutely devastating". Asa Butterfield delivers a poignant performance as an eight year old boy in The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas, a film set amidst the terror of World War II. Adapted from John Boyne's novel, the narrative unfolds within Nazi-occupied Poland and confronts viewers with a deeply moving plot that often reduces them to tears. A critic on Rotten Tomatoes reflected: "Such a heartbreaking story about love, friendship, and the unimaginable horrors of the Holocaust. Other than Schindler's List, I've never sobbed so hard in my life." The 2008 film features the actor known for Netflix's Sex Education as young Bruno, whose life is uprooted when his father, an SS officer, gets a promotion that necessitates a move to Poland. During one of his explorations, Bruno discovers what he thinks is a farm behind his house, which is actually a concentration camp, leading his mother to forbid him from playing there. Defying his mother's orders, Bruno ventures into the woods where he encounters a barbed wire fence encircling the camp. On the other side, he meets Smuel, a boy his own age, sparking an unlikely friendship, reports the Express. Bruno starts visiting Smuel regularly, bringing him food across the fence, and soon realises that his new friend is a Jewish child who was taken to the camp along with his parents. A review gushes: "This movie had me in tears after knowing the plot of it. It breaks my heart seeing the plot twist of the story. "Seeing that Bruno was sorry and wanted to help Shmuel but ended up in a twisted fate, it awfully does break my heart. I'd definitely say this is a must watch movie if you badly want to cry." Another viewer commented: "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas is a masterpiece. Highly absorbing and moving film. It makes me cry every time I watch it. Absolutely love it. One of my all-time favourites. It is one of those movies that goes straight to the heart." However, since its premiere, numerous critics have condemned the film for its historical depiction, suggesting it could inadvertently foster sympathy for Holocaust perpetrators. A critical review states: "The story is exactly what comes out when a daydreaming, ignorant filmmaker tries to invent a cliché Holocaust drama in his own Hollywood bubble." It is important to recognise the significant role both the children's novel and the cinematic version have played in educating young people about the Holocaust. Holocaust education expert Michael Grey notes with interest that over three-quarters of British students (aged 13-14) engage more deeply with The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas compared to The Diary of Anne Frank. For those who are ready for an emotionally-charged viewing experience, The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas can be streamed on Amazon Prime.
Yahoo
13-06-2025
- Science
- Yahoo
Wāhine in science program cut at UH Mānoa
HONOLULU (KHON2) — A University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa program known for supporting career development activities for wāhine studying science and community outreach has been terminated following the loss of federal funding. Project lead and faculty member Barbara Bruno received a termination notice in April to immediately close the program funded by the National Science Foundation. Two-thirds of the almost $200,000 budget was forfeited. UH program that helps struggling ʻohana on federal chopping block '[The School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology] is Hawaiʻi's largest producer of geoscience graduates — alumni who go on to monitor volcanic hazards, predict extreme weather, conduct assessments of environmental impacts, ensure sustainable use of Hawaiʻi's freshwater resources and more,' Bruno said. She then went on to highlight the importance of supporting wāhine in their academic journeys. 'I think the biggest impact of this termination is the loss of professional development opportunities for women,' she said. 'STEM is hemorrhaging women — we need programs to keep them.'The program, the Catayst Awards for Science Advancement, allowed female students, researchers, staff and faculty to attend professional meetings, workshops and work in the field. 'We were also actively soliciting applications for the next round of CASA funding when we received the termination notice,' Bruno said. 'Ending this grant eliminates the support for future professional development opportunities and K-12 and community engagement.' Hawaiʻi Attorney General Anne Lopez, alongside 15 other attorneys general, filed a lawsuit to stop illegal attempts to cut critical science programs on May 28. In the meantime, Bruno is actively searching for funding alternatives. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
New York Times
12-06-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Enzo Staiola, Who Starred in ‘Bicycle Thieves' as a Child, Dies at 85
Enzo Staiola, who played the staunch 8-year-old accompanying his father on a quest to recover a stolen bicycle in Vittorio De Sica's classic 1948 film, 'Bicycle Thieves,' died on June 4 in Rome. He was 85. His death, in a hospital, was widely reported in the Italian press. The father's character, played by a sad-eyed real-life factory worker, Lamberto Maggiorani, is the star of the film, which was originally released in the United States as 'The Bicycle Thief' and is routinely cited as one of the greatest films of all time. But Mr. Staiola (pronounced STY-ola), who played the child, Bruno, is in many ways the emotional center of De Sica's work, which is considered a founding document of Italian neorealism and 'a fundamental staging post in the history of the European cinema,' the film historian Robert S.C. Gordon wrote in his 2008 book, 'Bicycle Thieves.' The story, set in impoverished postwar Rome, revolves around Antonio Ricci, Mr. Maggiorani's struggling character, who must get his bicycle back to keep his new job hanging advertising bills around the city. The job requires the use of a bicycle. But he must also retrieve the bike to avoid disappointing his trusting son. The character of Bruno is portrayed with poise and vulnerability by a little boy who, until then, had been more interested in playing soccer in his working-class Roman neighborhood than in acting. The father's quest, unfolding through a series of sharply etched mishaps in the streets of the city, takes on weight for the audience as the despair becomes not just that of an adult but also of a plucky boy with expressive eyes, the young Mr. Staiola. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
