Entertainment News Roundup: 'Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse' Swings to $35 Million Debut, 'Mortal Engines' Sputters

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Box Office: 'Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse' Swings to $35 Million Debut, 'Mortal Engines' Sputters

"Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse" is the new box office king, collecting a solid $35.4 million during its first three days of release. That's hardly the biggest opening for an animated film this year, but it does rank as the best start for a cartoon in the month of December. Illumination's "Sing" previously held that title, debuting with $35 million in 2016.

Philip Colbert updates pop art for the digital age in new show

Artist and designer Philip Colbert, whose surrealist clothes have been worn by Lady Gaga and Rita Ora, brings pop art back to British painting with a new show that comments on consumerist culture, climate change and our appetite for social media. Scottish born Colbert, who has worked across music, fashion and design, says his large-scale oil paintings interweave art history references with Internet and social media images, such as emojis and like buttons, in bright cartoon-like collages featuring his lobster alter-ego.

(With inputs from Reuters)