The Marvel sequel earned $180 million in ticket sales from more than 4,396 theaters in the U.S. and Canada, according to estimates from The Walt Disney Co.
Arts & Entertainment
Arts and entertainment news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Art review: Each of four fall shows worth a visit to Center for Maine Contemporary Art
There’s an abundance of thought-provoking and emotionally moving art on display at the Rockland institution.
Best-sellers: ‘Liberation Day, ‘Lydia Maria Child’
The current top-selling fiction and nonfiction books at Longfellow Books in Portland.
Society Notebook: Girls on the Run celebrates 10 years of putting sneakers on the ground
The Sneaker Soiree raised money for programs aimed at empowering Maine girls.
Book review: The search for meaning in a deconstructed library
The prose poems in ‘Antique Densities’ are fantastical yet reassuringly matter-of-fact.
‘True creative’ from Dresden discovers talent for painting during the pandemic
In need of a new creative outlet, musician and carpenter Scott Elliot started painting in early 2020 and hasn’t stopped. Now, people are buying his work.
Alec Baldwin sues in movie set killing
He says he has lost opportunities and been fired from jobs because of the shooting.
Kevin Conroy, the constant voice of Batman for a generation of fans, dies at 66
He penned the story of his life in ‘Finding Batman,’ laying out the struggles he faced as an openly gay man amid the HIV/AIDS crisis of the 1980s in an industry that was far less accepting of homosexuality than it is today.
‘Love Sick’: Trove of Bob Dylan’s teenage love letters for sale
The missives have never before been made public and shed light on a period in the folk-rock icon’s life for which not much firsthand information is known.
Art from Microsoft founder Paul Allen sells record for $1.5 billion
‘Never before have more than two paintings exceeded $100 million in a single sale, but tonight, we saw five,’ the auction house Christie’s announced.