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Tyrese Gibson shades The Rock’s ‘Fast & Furious’ spinoff box office numbers

ABC/Paula Lobo(LOS ANGELES) -- Tyrese Gibson has a clear message for Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's Fast & Furious spinoff Hobbs & Shaw: Your film's "NOT a win." In a now-deleted Instagram post captured by The Shade Room, Gibson shared a screenshot of a headline that read, "Hobbs and Shaw Has Lowest Fast & Furious Box Office Opening Since Tokyo Drift."  In a lengthy caption, Gibson continued to shade his F&F co-star's box office numbers. […]

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For ‘Hobbs & Shaw’ star Vanessa Kirby, working with Helen Mirren was a big draw

Photo Credit: Daniel Smith/Universal Pictures(NEW YORK) -- While Fast and the Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw is built around the two titular tough guys -- played by Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Jason Statham -- there's a pair of very strong women at its core: Helen Mirren and Vanessa Kirby. Oscar-winner Mirren plays tough-as-nails matriarch Magdalene Shaw, the mother of both Deckard and Owen Shaw, as well as her super-spy […]

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Keokuk City Hall Commission Narrows List of Architects to Three

The Keokuk City Hall Commission began with eight proposals for architectural services to be performed at the current Connections Bank and Insurance Buildings in the 500 Block of Main Street that are designated to become the new home of the Keokuk City Offices. That number has now been narrowed down to three after the City Hall Commission meeting that was held on July 25th. The following three firms have been […]

todayAugust 6, 2019 38

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‘Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw’ races to number one at the box office with $60.8 million debut

Universal(NEW YORK) -- Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw delivered another number-one opening weekend for the franchise with an estimated $60.8 million debut. While the action film didn't come close to Fate of the Furious' $98 million debut in 2017, it did as well as expected. Overseas, Hobbs & Shaw scooped up an estimated $120 million, for a $180 million worldwide debut.  That's the fifth largest global opening ever for […]

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‘Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw’ leads this weekend’s new movie releases

Universal(NEW YORK) -- Opening nationwide Friday: * Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw -- The unlikely alliance of Dwayne Johnson's special agent Luke Hobbs and Jason Statham's criminal mastermind Deckard Shaw, forged in 2017's The Fate of the Furious, continues in the franchise's first spinoff, when they take on a cyber-genetically enhanced villain, played by Idris Elba, who threatens the future of humanity. Vanessa Kirby and Helen Mirren also […]

todayAugust 3, 2019 14

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Hobbs & Shaw: Idris Elba says the most “satisfying” part of playing a super villain was kicking his co-stars’ butts

Universal Pictures(NEW YORK) -- Idris Elba received the perfect opportunity to flex his muscles in the Fast & Furious spinoff, Hobbs & Shaw. Literally. Elba, who stars as the genetically modified super villain Brixton opposite Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Jason Statham, tells ABC Radio that one of the best parts of playing his character was getting to officially kick the butts of two major action stars. "You've got The Rock, […]

todayAugust 3, 2019 12

Local News

KPL Brings Keokuk Civil War History to Citizens

As part of their regular educational programming, the Keokuk Public Library hosted Minnesota native and American History author Michael Eckers to discuss the role Keokuk played in the Civil War. "The Civil War was not about railroads, it was about rivers. " That was the message from Owatonna, Minnesota native Michael Eckers to more than 30 Keokuk residents that visited the Keokuk Public Library Tuesday night to learn about the […]

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52nd Threshers this weekend

BY ETHAN LILLARD PCC STAFF Hamilton - Getting stuck behind a tractor is a regular occurrence around the farming areas in the tri-states. This week and possibly over the weekend, some may find themselves stuck behind not just one tractor, but an entire fleet of tractors, as people from around the tri-state area and beyond bring their classic tractors to Hamilton, Illinois for this year's 52nd annual Western Illinois Threshers. For […]

todayAugust 2, 2019 40

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‘The Crown’ veteran Vanessa Kirby on holding her own with the very big boys of ‘Hobbs & Shaw’

Universal Pictures(NEW YORK) -- While Vanessa Kirby had a small, key role in the action movie Mission: Impossible - Fallout, her character left the fighting to Tom Cruise and company.  But things are quite different in Kirby's new movie, Hobbs & Shaw. Kirby plays Hattie Shaw, a rogue agent with the British spy service MI6 and the sister of Owen Shaw, the hard-case mercenary played by Jason Statham in the […]

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