For the fourth weekend in a row, the indie-horror film The Wretched was the highest-grossing movie in the country. Granted, a million asterisks come with that impressive feat — most theaters are closed, there are no other movies, it only made $218,883 ($238,799 if you include Memorial Day!), etc. — but still! The Wretched is the first movie to four-peat at the weekend box office since Black Panther in 2018, and according to co-director and -writer, Brett Pierce, it will also be a future Jeopardy! question.

“It’s actually been a complete shock and kind of insane. We always aimed for the moon, but with an independent film you think, yeah, we’ll come out in a few theaters, and we’ll play for like a week, and maybe ten people will see it. Most people are going to see it when we land on a streaming service,” Brett, who made the movie with his brother Drew, told Entertainment Weekly. “It just kept on getting bigger, it was one of those things where you just don’t believe it as it’s happening. We’re going to be a Jeopardy! question one day, because we’re going to be the lowest-grossing most successful film.”

I can’t think of a higher honor than for Alex Trebek to say the name of your movie after all the contestants incorrectly guess, “What is… Sonic the Hedgehog?” Way better than winning Best Picture. But for everyone without access to a drive-in theater, you can also watch The Wretched from the comfort of your home (that you’re desperate to leave).

(Via Entertainment Weekly)

The Basketball Tournament is moving forward with a plan to play in July that will hinge on players successfully avoiding becoming infected with the coronavirus. While they don’t have the resources of the NBA to created a complete quarantine bubble, the league is making plans to keep everyone safe and, they hope, to keep them all within what they are calling the “inner island” of a quarantined campus.

Players will be tested prior to traveling to a still-undecided location, then again upon arrival. Should any member of a tournament team become infected, that team will be disqualified and sent home. Still, the event is expected to take place with 24 teams and under 400 total people in that inner island.

“The implication is where people are staying, where staff is meeting, where players are practicing and the competition is taking place is all happening in a place we’re calling ‘inner island,’” TBT founder Jonathan Mugar said, per ESPN.

It is unclear how the single-elimination bracket would change if a team was disqualified, especially as the event goes on. Organizers are not mandating that players stay within their “campus,” but will be monitoring social media and are hoping for voluntary use of contact tracing apps during the run of the tournament.

The Basketball Tournament will likely enter a crowded sports landscape when it comes online in late July, as the NHL, NBA and WNBA are targeting a similar start date, and the PGA Tour and MLB seasons could be in full swing by that point as well, with the NFL potentially not far behind. Still, The Basketball Tournament has had success in the past airing games during the day, and its unique format with the Elam Ending and nostalgic favorites on the court will still be a draw. The question for small leagues like this tournament is how much extra attention there will be during a late summer period that could realistically see all four major sports going on at once in the United States.

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A wind-resistant ☂️, Superga sneaks (marked way down, btw), a multi-use chair, and other products we (the BuzzFeed Shopping team) truly adore.

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Demonstrators marched, and later clashed with police, to protest the death of an unarmed black man who died while begging a white officer to stop crushing his neck.

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Wifey got jokes.

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It might just be worth signing up for another streaming service.

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It’s not only something new to watch but something the whole family will actually enjoy.

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HBO Now = everything HBO’s ever made. HBO Max = all of that, *plus* a bunch of other streaming goodness you’ll love.

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BRB, off to hitch a ride on the Catbus.

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