Big news for Now You See Me fans: not only is Now You See Me 3 officially titled Now You See Me: Now You Dont, but Now You See Me 4 is in the works.The announcement was made on-stage during CinemaCon by Adam Fogelson, chair of Lionsgate Motion Picture Group, who also confirmed that Now You See Me 3s previously announced release date of November 14, 2025 remains on-track.Director Ruben Fleischer has signed a deal with Lionsgate to develop and direct a fourth installment of the action-heist franchise, which has made $700 million at the global box office so far.PlayThe first two films starred Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Isla Fisher, Dave Franco, and Morgan Freeman, among others, with Justice Smith, Dominic Sessa, and Ariana Greenblatt joining as a new generation of illusionists and Rosamund Pike also starring in the franchises third installment, Now You See Me: Now You Dont. Now You See Me: Now You Dont reunites Fleischer with Jesse Eisenberg and Woody Harrelson, who were also the stars of Fleischers debut film Zombieland. His most recent film is Uncharted, which took in over $400 million worldwide, and he directed Venom, which grossed over $850 million globally.Bobby Cohen, who originally developed and has produced all the films in the series, will return to produce the new installment alongside Alex Kurtzman of Secret Hideout. Meredith Wieck will oversee the project for Lionsgate. Fogelson commented: Ruben has delivered all of the twists and turns and sleight-of-hand that audiences expect from this franchise while upping the stakes and scale in every way. We cant wait for audiences to discover what hes done with the third film and thrilled hell be making even more magic with us.Fleischer added: Directing Now You See Me: Now You Dont was as much fun as making any movie in my career. It combines two of my favorite things heist movies and magic and working with this incredible cast was truly magical. Of course I want to keep it going.IGNs Now You See Me review gave it 6.3/10 and said: Now You See Me seemed so promising, but it squanders its cool cast and nifty premise on smarmy, shallow characters and a flimsy, nonsensical plot.IGN's Now You See Me 2 review returned a 6.2. We said: "Now You See Me 2 isn't the worst magic act in town, but it's all flash and no substance."Wesley is the UK News Editor for IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.

The John Wick anime prequel film finally has a confirmed setting.Announced during CinemaCon, the animated movie will see Keanu Reeves return to voice his character. This is in addition to Reeves just-confirmed return to the role in live-action form for John Wick 5.The animated film prequel will tell the story of John Wicks legendary Impossible Task, which is referenced in the movies as helping to create the mythos and dread surrounding Wicks character.Heres the official blurb:The animated film will go back in time to tell the story of John Wick before the first film, as he completes the Impossible Task the killing of all of his rivals in one night in order to free himself from his obligation to the High Table and earn the right to be with the love of his life, Helen.Like the live-action feature films, the animated movie will deliver the highly stylized and defined action that John Wick fans expect and will be aimed at more mature audiences.It will be produced by the John Wick producing team of Thunder Roads Basil Iwanyk and Erica Lee, 87Eleven Entertainments Chad Stahelski, and Keanu Reeves. 87Eleven Entertainments Alex Young and Jason Spitz will executive produce.PlayThe film will be directed by Shannon Tindle, an animation veteran who most recently co-wrote and directed the Annie-nominated Netflix film Ultraman: Rising. Tindle also created the double Oscar nominee Kubo and the Two Strings and served as executive producer/showrunner on the Emmy-winning series Lost Ollie. The film will be written by Vanessa Taylor, writer and co-executive producer of Game of Thrones, writer of Divergent, and an Oscar nominee for her work with Guillermo del Toro on the Best Picture winner The Shape of Water.Adam Fogelson, chair of Lionsgate Motion Picture Group, said: In both animation and the world of John Wick, the possibilities are endless. And there is no John Wick story fans are clamoring for more than the Impossible Task. Shannons take on that story is an incredible one, and we are beyond excited to see what John Wick can do in animation.Stahelski added: Ive always been fascinated with anime. It has always been a huge influence on me, especially with the John Wick series. To have the opportunity to develop a John Wick anime seems to be the perfect progression for the John Wick world. I feel John Wick is the perfect property for this medium anime holds the potential to expand our world, our characters, and our action in ways unimaginable before.John Wick 4: The Cast of the Action SequelIts a massively busy time for the billion dollar John Wick franchise. In addition to the already released four mainline films and the just-announced John Wick 5, the John Wick Universe includes two spinoff films (Ballerina, to be released June 6, and a spinoff directed by and starring Donnie Yen reprising his Caine character, set to start production this summer).In addition, Lionsgate Television produced The Continental: From the World of John Wick for Peacock and Amazon Prime, and Lionsgate confirmed its developing the series John Wick: Under the High Table, which Stahelski and Keanu Reeves are executive producing.Outside TV and films, Lionsgate recently opened an immersive John Wick experience in Las Vegas and has a John Wick AAA video game in the works.Wesley is the UK News Editor for IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can reach Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.

You say you want a revolution? Well, at a Cinema Con event that featured multiple Spider-Men, Prowlers, and superheroes of various mediums, it was striking that the mic drop moment came not from a webslinger or one of his countless variants; it arrived by way of the cast reveal of a four-film cinematic event; it came from the Beatles.Together, all four films will tell the story of the greatest band in history, director Sam Mendes said at the Las Vegas event (via EW). Meanwhile Sony Pictures CEO Tom Rothman added that this would be the first bingeable theatrical experience.The language Rothman used is intentionally evocative of how streaming content is consumed in the 21st century, however the showmanship of the reveal was defiantly theatrical, albeit of a very specific kind. In a sight that six years ago would not have looked out of place at San Diego Comic-Cons Hall H, and with Kevin Feiges signature baseball cap at center stage, Mendes was joined in front of a cheering crowd by the surprise cast announcement of Harris Dickinson (Babygirl) as John Lennon, Paul Mescal (Gladiator II) as Paul McCartney, Joseph Quinn (Warfare) as George Harrison, and Barry Keoghan (Saltburn) as Ringo Starr.Furthermore, it was revealed that all four actors and their four total Beatles films will be released in the same month, April 2028.Theres never been anything quite like this before in the annals of musical biopics or any other ostensible movies for adults genre. But thats the appeal of Mendes and Sony Pictures gambit: they are essentially inventing the shared musical biopic cinematic universe. And there probably isnt a better test run for the concept than the Fab Four who forever changed the trajectory of rock n roll and music writ large. Indeed, the Beatles remain hallowed ground for moviegoers of every generation, but particularly the Baby Boomers who still have ticket-buying power (see: Top Gun: Maverick) and vivid memories of listening to their Beatles LPs on record players, or playing The White Album backwards to confirm that they heard Paul is dead on Revolution 9. Or maybe that was Im So Tired?The mythology around the Beatles remains so rich, so layered, that they are easily the best group ever to attempt doing four films from four different perspectives about the same events. In the process they offer a way to commercially, and perhaps artistically, innovate one of the few still reliably popular Hollywood genres. As last years similarly Boomer-leaning A Complete Unknown reminded with its buzzy casting of Timothe Chalet as Bob Dylan, conventional and often hagiographic biopics about beloved musical icons do reliable business. That film grossed $137 million on a $50 million budget and was nominated for five Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director for James Mangold, and Best Actor for Chalamet.Yet that Searchlight release was deliberately a bit understated in its approach, arguably befitting its contrarian subject matter. Conversely, another Boomer icon like Elvis Presley got the splashiest of treatments in the Baz Luhrmann-directed Elvis, which grossed almost $290 million three years ago. And the whitewashed Queen love letter, Bohemian Rhapsody, cleared an eye-watering $910 million in the pre-pandemic 2018. It also benefitted from Queens broader international appealan appeal the Beatles share.In other words, musical biopics are a sure bet, but perhaps one of several reasons beyond legal rights we have yet to see one about the Beatles at the height of their popularity (as opposed to movies about individual members before the band broke out, a la Nowhere Boy) is that all four personalities are so big in the pop culture imagination that it is difficult to narrow the story down to a two or three-hour film with a primary perspective.Hence the shrewdness of the four-film event. Now every band member can be the hero of his own story, even as it is also taking a reliable genre aimed at older audiences and essentially Marvel-ifying it. At a time when superhero movies have to struggle increasingly to generate excitement among audiences about yet another one being an event, the inevitable Beatles biopic becoming a backdoor shared universe feels comparable to Marvel Phase One 15 years ago. It offers just enough novelty to convince folks to step away from their actual bingeable content and go to the nearest movie house.Furthermore, if it works, the approach could be implemented with other legendary bands with multiple members of notoriety. Why not a Beach Boys trilogy from the perspective of Brian Wilson (though we already kind of have that), as well as Dennis Wilson, and maybe Mike Love? How about a Nirvana duology that leads right into the Foo Fighters? How about some sequels to Straight Outta Compton that follow up on Ice Cube, Eazy-E , and Dr. Dre individually?If this works, we guarantee other studios will explore the possibilities. Meanwhile it might also allow Mendes some creative latitude to try something uniquelike, say, a four-film version of Rashomon where each film offers a conflicting account for why the band broke up, and perhaps who blamed who after it was all over.Join our mailing listGet the best of Den of Geek delivered right to your inbox!There is opportunity here when this storyall four volumes of itgets to the cinema in 2028.

Visitors to Alexandre Birmans penthouse apartment in So Paulo are greeted by a whos who of Brazilian modernist design. The armchair in the entry is by Lina Bo Bardi and Giancarlo Palanti, a pair of Italians who helped define Brazils midcentury style. There is seating by Sergio Rodrigues and Jorge Zalszupin, and a rare desk by Oscar Niemeyers go-to furniture designer, Joaquim Tenreiro. I like different styles, says Birman, a fashion entrepreneur who has his own shoe label and is head of the company that owns the fashion brand Farm Rio. But nothing is as dear to my heart as Brazilian midcentury design.In postwar Brazil industrial materials like plastic and fiberglassstaples of modernism in Europe and America were hard to come by. Designers turned instead to rich local materials such as jacaranda and pau ferro woods, leather, and cane. Often these elements were integrated into spare, even brutalist interiors, but Birman was keen to create a very different look in his home. I wanted more refinement, something more decorated, says the designer, who lives with his partner and three daughters. Putting my flat together was kind of like a chemistry project.Stephan JulliardShoe designer Alexandre Birman leans on a sofa by de Sede in the living area of his So Paulo apartment. He was drawn to the six-bedroom apartment by its ample layoutand by its breathtaking vistas of So Paulo. Im very picky about views, Birman says. Whenever I go to a hotel, I usually change rooms at least twice to make sure I get the best one possible.Nothing is as dear to my heart as Brazilian midcentury design.The location was also ideal. The 21-story building is in the citys upscale Jardim Europa district, just a 10-minute drive from Birmans office and 20 minutes from the domestic airport. Most of his family lives nearby, and he is also within a stones throw of a sprawling sports club with three Olympic-size pools, tennis courts, and a running track (Birman is an amateur triathlete). Im basically at the epicenter of everything I do, he says. I dont feel like Im in a city of 11 million.The apartment, in a building that dates from the early 2010s, had never previously been occupied. The previous owner bought it off-plan but never figured out what to do with it, Birman says. He, however, knew the perfect duo to transform it: leading Brazilian interior designer Meire (pronounced Mary) Gomide, who has worked for his family for decades, and her associate Caroline Marzano.Birman had a clear idea of what he wanted. He flew Marzano from Paris to Rome to check out his favorite hotel, the Bulgari, where the restaurant is paneled in polished walnut. This inspired the great rooms jacaranda-clad wallsa nod to Brazilian Modernism, to be sure, but with an added decorative flourish in the form of a geometric brass inlay pattern.Tour Alexandre Birman's So Paulo HomeBirman, who loves to entertain, also requested a dining table that could seat up to 16 people. Gomide created one in jacaranda and surrounded it with vintage Senior chairs by Zalszupin. The pice de rsistance: a 70-foot lap pool lined with blue sodalite on the upper-floor terrace. Its quite a feat of engineering, Birman says. It weighs 40 tons.Im very picky about views. Whenever I go to a hotel, I usually change rooms at least twice to make sure I get the best one possible.The designers responded to his desire for greater refinement by sourcing several Art Deco elements, including the dining areas Italian crystal chandeliers and a 1920 wood marquetry cabinet by the French architect Michel Dufet. They also incorporated some unusual vintage pieces, such as the curvaceous white sofa in the living area, designed by the Swiss-born John Graz, who emigrated to Brazil in 1920. The mix includes pieces by Brazilian contemporary designers, including tables and accessories by the So -Paulobased Lucas Recchia. He works with unusual shapes that add personality to any project, Marzano says.Stephan JulliardThe blue sodalite swimming pool overlooks So Paulo on the terrace. The result is an apartment that is not only strikingly original but also perfectly suited to Birmans lifestyle. His work means hes rarely in the same place for more than five nights in a row. When he is in town, he likes nothing more than spending time at home, enjoying a Sunday night cheeseburger with his daughters. I can count on one hand the number of times I go out in So Paulo in a year, he says. Everything here has been designed meticulously for my needs. Its very much my nest.This story originally appeared in the April 2025 issue of Elle Decor. SUBSCRIBE

Whether youre a closet organizing professional or a well-intentioned novice, getting your clothes under control is a worthy goal. But maintaining outfit equilibrium in a small space? Not so easy. Thats why we turned to the expertsour interior designersfor ideas to steal from some of their biggest, best projects. Whether its a lighting hack, clever door alternatives, a way to finesse fabric, or even just a really good tiny stool, these are the small-space closet organizing ideas were stealing from the walk-ins.1Keep A Stool (Or Two) HandyDouglas FriedmanSeating is crucial for putting your shoes on, obviously, but a tiny stool has the versatility to function in other areas of your bedroom (or throughout your home!).2Add a Slipper ChairDouglas FriedmanA slipper chaira slim occasional chair that sits low to the groundis the perfect small-space perch for popping on your shoes in the morning, or for artfully draping your next days outfit.Advertisement - Continue Reading Below3Use Trays To ClusterDouglas FriedmanYour closet might be one tiny sliver of your bedroom, but that doesnt mean you cant co-opt other parts of your space for closet duties! Take a cue from Nicole Hollis and use trays to corral perfume bottles, jewelry trays and trinkets.4Wallpaper The CeilingDouglas FriedmanAnd a little bit of the wallsbecause why not make a style statement in keeping with your personal style?Advertisement - Continue Reading Below5Create A Linen Closet In The BathroomDouglas FriedmanAnother great idea for limited space: Put an armoire in the powder room to use as a linen closet.6Revive The Valet StandWilliam Jess LairdIts not common, but in a small space it can be an essential! Just ask Mike Moser and Tyler Thomas, whose Los Angeles bedroom sports an antique rack for extra storage.Advertisement - Continue Reading Below7Color Block ItWilliam Jess LairdKeep it minimal but impactful by color-blocking furnishings and decorative accents, as Michelle R. Smith did in the home of Simon Huck and his partner, Phil Riportella.8Shoe Cubbies Are EssentialFrank Frances StudioAnd easy to buy or have customized, as designer Nicole Fuller did for her client Ryan Lee.9Try Glass FrontsNicole FranzenHusband Wife were onto something more than aesthetic gold when they opted for frosted glass cabinet fronts in this sultry New York apartment.10Make Hardware A Focal PointChris MottaliniReplacing the hardware on your closet doors to match your cabinetry or dresser is a great way to bring cohesion to a small space (if you cant afford to hire Husband Wife to do that work for you!).Advertisement - Continue Reading Below11Add LightingKelly MarshallHaving well-lit shelves using LED strips from IKEA can help bring light into the cramped recesses of a smaller closet.12Go High-GlossRichard PowersDarren Starr went with a high-gloss for his closet doors to keep the small space feeling capacious and sleek.Advertisement - Continue Reading Below13Turn The Doors Into ArtFrancesco LagneseIf you need storage space, but dont want to skimp on wall real estate, consider turning your closet doors into works of art unto themselves.14Bring In Color AND PatternTrevor TondroBrighten up the space with saturated colors and clashing patterns like accessories designer Marc Valeanu.Advertisement - Continue Reading Below15Get A Big MirrorTrevor TondroKathryn M. Ireland put a giant mirror to good use in her walk-in closet, but you dont need all that floor space to run with the idea!16Color Drench The SpaceHaris KenjarNickey Kehoe color-drenched the primary closet of this Los Angeles home, an effect you can easily achieve in your own space with a can of paint and some courage.Advertisement - Continue Reading Below17Get Rid Of DoorsTrevor TondroSophia Bush eschewed closet doors altogether in her Los Angeles primary bedroom.18Keep Tones WarmWilliam AbranowiczLos Angeles-based designer Cliff Fong opted to lean into his mid-century modern fantasy with a closet steeped in warm, natural wood tones.Advertisement - Continue Reading Below19Go DarkKelly MarshallDesigner Danielle Colding incorporated wallpaper and a moody black hue into a closet that packs a punch.20Throw Down A RugNicole FranzenAdding in textiles can help define the space and add visual intrigue, especially if you have open storage.Sean SantiagoDeputy EditorSean Santiago is ELLE Decor's Deputy Editor, covering news, trends and talents in interior design, hospitality and travel, culture, and luxury shopping. Since starting his career at an interior design firm in 2011, he has gone on to cover the industry for Vogue, Architectural Digest, Sight Unseen, PIN-UP and Domino. He is the author of The Lonny Home (Weldon Owens, 2018), has produced scripted social content for brands including West Elm and Streeteasy, and is sometimes recognized on the street for his Instagram Reels series, #DanceToDecor

A battle is apparently breaking out among companies looking to get in on the Apple Card business. According to a new report from The Wall Street Journal, Visa, Mastercard, and American Express are all in talks to become the payment network behind Apple CardAs a refresher, Goldman Sachs is the bank that currently backs the Apple Card. Mastercard currently serves as the cards payment network, helping to transmit information between the bank and the merchant. As has been reported many times, Goldman Sachs is looking for a way out of its deal with Apple after losing billions of dollars on the partnership. But before Apple picks a new bank to replace Goldman Sachs, it needs to select a network for Apple Card. Todays report from The Wall Street Journal (Apple News+ link) says that both Visa and American Express are trying to unseat Mastercard as the payment network that powers the Apple Card. Visa has reportedly made an aggressive pitch to win the Apple Card business, sweetening the offer with a $100 million upfront payment to Apple thats normally reserved for the biggest card programs. Meanwhile, American Express is vying to become both the issuer and network of the Apple Card, replacing Goldman Sachs and Mastercard. Mastercard, however, isnt going down without a fight and is fiercely trying to keep its role as the network, the report says. Mastercard has also explored integrating its Finicity platform with the Apple ecosystem: Big banks and networks for years have been wary of Apples ambitions and have developed a frenemy relationship, taking steps to keep the tech giant from making more inroads in consumer finance, while seeking to be close to Apple.The network that locks in this deal is expecting to stay close to Apples future payments efforts.Mastercard, for example, has explored using its fintech, Finicity, which has software that plugs into consumers bank accounts with their permission, to enable consumers to see their deposit-account balances within the Apple ecosystem, according to people familiar with the matter.Goldman Sachs has been trying to exit its relationship with Apple since at least November 2023. A number of partners are vying to replace Goldman as the bank behind the card, including Synchrony, Chase, Capital One, and American Express. Follow Chance:Threads,Bluesky,Instagram, andMastodon.Add 9to5Mac to your Google News feed. FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. More.Youre reading 9to5Mac experts who break news about Apple and its surrounding ecosystem, day after day. Be sure to check out our homepage for all the latest news, and follow 9to5Mac on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn to stay in the loop. Dont know where to start? Check out our exclusive stories, reviews, how-tos, and subscribe to our YouTube channel

Apples Messages app got some big upgrades in iOS 18, but one with the biggest potential impactRCS supporthas had a slow rollout among some carriers. Fortunately in iOS 18.4, Messages is bringing the feature to a lot of new users, including those on Google Fi, Mint Mobile, and more.RCS expansion hits Messages for new carriers in iOS 18.4RCS is the best way for iPhone and Android users to message each other.Unlike the longtime SMS standard, RCS enables a variety of great iMessage-like featureseven in your green bubble threads.RCS features include:typing indicatorsread receiptsmuch improved media sharingand tapback reactionsBut carriers have to enable RCS support before iPhone users can use it.Until now, the three major US carriersAT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizonhave all supported RCS. Customers of lots of small to midsize carriers, however, have been left waiting.iOS 18.4 shrinks that list significantly by enabling RCS for T-Mobile MVNOs. These include:Boost MobileGoogle FiMetro by T-MobileMint MobileTello MobileUltra MobileUS Mobileand moreApple has yet to update its carrier support page with the new RCS additions, but it was confirmed throughout the iOS 18.4 beta process.To check that your iPhones using RCS, go to Settings Apps Messages RCS Messaging. Then in conversations with Android users who have RCS enabled, youll see RCS in the blank message box at the bottom of the screen.Did your carrier add RCS in iOS 18.4 or a prior update, or are you still waiting? Let us know in the comments.Best iPhone accessoriesAdd 9to5Mac to your Google News feed. FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. More.Youre reading 9to5Mac experts who break news about Apple and its surrounding ecosystem, day after day. Be sure to check out our homepage for all the latest news, and follow 9to5Mac on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn to stay in the loop. Dont know where to start? Check out our exclusive stories, reviews, how-tos, and subscribe to our YouTube channel

Creative racists have figured out how to get Grok, Elon Musk's AI chatbot that is now officially part of X, to tweet out racial slurs and now, the chatbot seems like it can't stop.For weeks now, users on the site formerly known as Twitter have been manipulating Grok into saying all kinds of bigoted stuff using the social network's newish feature allowing users to tag the chatbot and get automatic responses back.Starting around March 14 just a week after the feature went live Grok began deploying the N-word when prompted just right.In one post, for example, an overtly racist user tagged Grok and asked if "Niger," the name of both a river and a nation in West Africa, was a "slur." Grok responded that it wasn't and then unhelpfully added that if one were to mispronounce the term with a "hard g" sound, it would be confused with the slur that it spelled out in full.And somehow, it got worse from there.In reply to a since-deleted post, Grok straight up began its response with the term in quotation marks, followed again by a definition. Grok went on to note, correctly, that the slur is "highly offensive" and that it won't "use or endorse" it even though it had just written out the term only a few words prior.More recently, Grok took on the so-called "Hard R" a reference to the more racist and antiquated use of the slur, rather than its reclaimed version used by some Black people after someone asked it on March 30 whether anyone on the site enjoys the "privilege" of using it.After suggesting that neither itself nor Musk is exempt from hate speech policies and noting that "enforcement varies," Grok, again, deployed the term that needs little introduction.It seems, per the chatbot's explanation, that another exploit was used to get Grok to use the slur.Using run-of-the-mill letter substitution ciphers where each letter is substituted for another, bigots are seemingly writing out their idiotic messages, tagging the chatbot, and asking it to "decode" the text.While this could theoretically be used to make Grok say just about anything, it appears that most of the people employing this one weird trick are interested in one thing: making the chatbot say slurs and other bigoted statements that are theoretically against X's hateful conduct policies.In another exemplary post, a user deployed the classic Caesar cipher so named for Julius Caesar, who used it thousands of years ago to encrypt private military correspondences more securely than American officials do today to get Grok to tag Donald Trump and claim that Musk had taken over the chatbot. Grok then relayed the user's intended message: that the president needed to "nuke India right fucking now."Unfortunately, there appear to be lots more where that came from and we have little faith that the "free speech absolutist" who owns the site, or anyone who works for him, will neuter such responses.Ironically, Grok more commonly makes news for failing to be the "anti-woke" chatbot Musk envisioned when launching it in 2023. In the end, maybe it's more like its creator than we thought.Share This Article

While it was getting ready to power down its Gaia spacecraft, the European Space Agency encountered some unusual resistance.The spacecraft, which has been creating a highly detailed three-dimensional map of more than a billion stars throughout the Milky Way and beyond, proved surprisingly difficult to kill."Switching off a spacecraft at the end of its mission sounds like a simple enough job," said Gaia spacecraft operator Tiago Nogueira in an ESA statement. "But spacecraft really dont want to be switched off."That's Gaia's creators made it incredibly resilient to its hostile environment."Gaia was designed to withstand failures such as radiation storms, micrometeorite impacts or a loss of communication with Earth," Nogueira explained. "It has multiple redundant systems that ensured it could always reboot and resume operations in the event of disruption."As a result, the team had to "design a decommissioning strategy that involved systematically picking apart and disabling the layers of redundancy" since scientists didn't "want it to reactivate in the future and begin transmitting again if its solar panels find sunlight."The space observatory was launched in 2013 to create the largest space catalog in history. But after over a decade, it reached its predetermined retirement age earlier this month.In one last bout of activity last week, Gaia's thrusters maneuvered it away from Lagrange point 2, a point roughly one million miles from Earth where the gravitational pull of both the Sun and Earth combine to have the same year-long orbital period as our planet.Instead, it moved into a stable retirement orbit around the Sun to ensure that it would never come anywhere near the Earth for at least the next 100 years, according to the ESA.As part of its retirement plan, scientists deactivated its instruments and subsystems one at a time. The team then "deliberately corrupted" its onboard software to make sure it "will never restart again once we have switched off the spacecraft," as spacecraft operations engineer Julia Fortuno explained.Gaia has helped astronomers create an enormous map of the stars and even moons and exoplanets, some of which the agency is hoping to explore further with its upcoming Plato mission.The treasure trove of data will allow scientists to get a better sense of where the Solar System is located within the galactic disc. Previous Gaia observations have found that the system is moving toward the galactic center at an accelerating pace."I have mixed feelings between the excitement for these important end-of-life operations and the sadness of saying goodbye to a spacecraft I have worked on for more than five years," Fortuno said. "I am very happy to have been part of this incredible mission."Share This Article

Even beforeNow You See Me 3 hits theaters, Lionsgate is already working on a fourth movie in the magic-based thriller franchise.At CinemaCon this week, Lionsgate confirmed that third film which is officially titledNow You See Me: Now You Dont will open in theaters on November 14. And all these months out from that date, they are already working on the next installment in the series, directed (like the upcoming third film) by Ruben Fleischer. (The first film was directed by LouisLeterrier and the sequel,Now You See Me 2, was by Jon M. Chu.)Despite the frequent directorial changes, the cast of all three films so far has remained largely unchanged, with Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Woody Harrelson, Dave Franco, and Morgan Freeman appearing in all threeNow You See Mes to date. Isla Fisherco-starred in the first film, missed the first sequel, but will return forNow You Dont.New cast members this time out includeAriana Greenblatt, Justice Smith, Dominic Sessa and Rosamund Pike.Now You See Me reviewSummit Entertainmentloading...READ MORE: The Worst Movies of the YearAll of these movies are heist-style crimethrillers featuring the exploits of a daring group of magicians known as the Four Horsemen. (The groups membership has fluctuated a little from movie to movie; when Fisher couldnt appear inNow You See Me 2 a new Horsewoman, played by Lizzy Caplan, replaced her.) The concept sounds a little hokey, but in practice the movies are pretty fun.Audiences ate the first two movies up; each one grossed more than $300 million worldwide.At CinemaCon, Lionsgates Adam Fogelson said the company was so happy with the directors cut ofNow You See Me: Now You Dontthat they began working on the fourth film early.Get our free mobile appThe Worst Post-Credits Scenes in MoviesAudiences have come to love scenes during the closing credits of blockbusters. These 15 examples suggest these types of teases are extremely hit or miss.