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Friday, December 26, 2025

The Odyssey Trailer

Previously,

(Jul 2025) The Odyssey

(Dec 2024) Christopher Nolan to Make Odyssey Movie Starring Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, Zendaya, Lupita Nyong’o, Robert Pattinson and Charlize Theron

The Return of Kevin Garnett to the Timberwolves

The Athletic - "Kevin Garnett’s Timberwolves return was a move years in the making"

"This reunion between the alpha wolf and his pack has been years in the making, which only means the party that comes with his return will be that much louder.

“I’ll be there,” Towns said. “Yeah, I’ll be there.”

“It’s going to be electric, man,” Gray said. “Minneapolis is his home. He hasn’t changed the area code on his phone. It’s still 612. That connection is still there. It’s going to be him coming back to a fan base that essentially helped raise him and grew him into the man that he is now. I feel like it’s going to be really emotional, but it’s a lot of excitement.”"

Related,

Popularity of Running

Field Notes Mag - "Running is More Popular Than Ever. But Why Now? And Can It Stay Cool?"

"the long-term transformation of stadiums from working-class cathedrals for the people into luxury palaces for the rich."

New Yorker - "How the Sports Stadium Went Luxe"

Heat 2 Movie Happening

Deadline - "Cover Story: Leonardo DiCaprio On ‘One Battle After Another’, His “No Regrets” Career And The Fight To Save Cinema"

"Q: You’ve also been working with Michael Mann on Heat 2, either as Chris Shiherlis, the role played by the late Val Kilmer, or Vincent Hanna, the detective played by Al Pacino. What can you share, and — as a guy who doesn’t usually do sequels — what are the challenges in continuing the storyline from the revered original?

A (from Leo DiCarpio): This is very much its own movie. We’re still working on it, we’re a ways away from production. It tips its hat to Heat, but it’s an homage, and it picks up the story from there. The book is already out there, so there are no big secrets that I’m divulging. It’s set in the future, and the past, from that pivotal moment in what I think is the great crime noir film of my lifetime. It’s one of those films that just keeps resonating, that we keep talking about, that has been imitated so many times and influenced so many different movies. So, we’re working on it. But it’s certainly exciting, and I think I look at it as its own silo, in a sense. We can’t duplicate what Heat was, so it’s paying homage to that film, but giving it its own unique entity."

World of Reel - "Michael Mann’s ‘Heat 2’ Starts Shooting in August — DP is Dion Beebe"