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Out this week

*  Albums

• Feed the Machine by Nickelback: Ninth album by the Canadian rock band; follows 2014’s No Fixed Address; includes the singles ‘Feed the Machine’, ‘Song on Fire’, and ‘Must Be Nice’.

*  Movies

• Transformers: The Last Knight (starring Mark Wahlberg, Josh Duhamel, Stanley Tucci, Anthony Hopkins, Peter Cullen) - action, fifth instalment in the series, sequel to Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014); with the humans and Transformers at war, Cade Yeager (Wahlberg) tries to learn why the Transformers keep coming back to Earth, while Optimus Prime (Cullen) searches for the truth about his creators.
• The Beguiled (starring Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst, Elle Fanning) - drama, based on Thomas P. Cullinan’s novel; a wounded Union soldier (Farrell) is taken in by a girls’ school during the Civil War.
• The Big Sick (starring Kumail Nanjiani, Zoe Kazan, Holly Hunter, Ray Romano) - romance; based on the real courtship of Pakistani-American actor Nanjiani and his now-wife Emily Gordon (Kazan).
• The Bad Batch (starring Suki Waterhouse, Jason Momoa, Giovanni Ribisi, Keanu Reeves, Jim Carrey) - thriller; a dystopian love story set in a community of cannibals.

Celeb

Tweets

• Mark Hoppus (@markhoppus): So weak that Amazon comes in at the last minute to outbid my $13.6B Whole Foods buyout offer. I thought we had a deal!! SMDH and so forth.
• Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais): So many lovely pets are waiting in rescue. Please visit your local shelter this weekend and help save a life.

Star

Melissa Ivy Rauch

• Born on 23rd June 1980 in New Jersey, U.S.
• Has a brother, Ben.
• Graduated from Marymount Manhattan College in 2002.
• Started her career as a stand-up comedian.
• Performed the well-received one-woman show, The Miss Education of Jenna Bush.
• Gained recognition after being cast in the third season of the sitcom The Big Bang Theory (2009 - present).
• Has also appeared in the television series 12 Miles of Bad Road (2007), Kath & Kim (2008 - 2009), and True Blood (2010), starred in the film The Bronze (2015), and had voice roles in the animated movies Ice Age: Collision Course (2016) and the upcoming Batman and Harley Quinn (2017).
• Is married to writer Winston Rauch.

Also born today: Duffy, Antony Costa, Jason Mraz, Joel Edgerton, Zinedine Zidane, Selma Blair, Joss Whedon

Spotlight

The Mummy

Cast: Tom Cruise, Russell Crowe, Sofia Boutella, Annabelle Wallis, Jake Johnson, Marwan Kenzari, Courtney B. Vance

Director: Alex Kurtzman

Tagline: Welcome to a new world of gods and monsters.

• Action; an ancient princess (Boutella) awakens from her crypt and brings terror to the world.
• Is a reboot of The Mummy franchise.
• Is the first instalment in the Dark Universe series, a shared universe franchise of rebooted, modern-day interpretations of classic Universal Monsters adventures.
• Had a budget of $125 million; has made around $180 million in its first week.
• Has received negative reviews by critics who thought the film was a mess and found it too derivative.
• Tom Cruise had control of most aspects of the movie.
• Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Eddie Redmayne, and Tom Hardy were among the actors considered to play Dr. Henry Jekyll; the role went to Russell Crowe.
• Score composed by Brian Tyler.
• Is set to be followed by Bride of Frankenstein (2019).