Paramount’s “Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One” is defusing a bit at the domestic box office, readjusting for an estimated $78 million gross over its five-day opening. That’d be a substantial chunk behind projections headed into the weekend, which had the Tom Cruise action sequel hoping for $90 million. Some in the industry were expecting a “Top Gun: Maverick” …

  It’s been nine months since Chicago-born R&B singer R. Kelly was last in a New York courtroom, where he was convicted by a jury after decades of allegations of sexual misdeeds. On that day in late September, Kelly, dressed in a gray suit, remained stoic as the verdict came in: guilty of racketeering conspiracy and eight other counts alleging …

    Former Deputy Communications Minister in the erstwhile Mahama administration, Felix Kwakye Ofosu, has strongly asserted that “hoodlums” and “band of thugs” who were contracted by their paymasters, the New Patriotic Party (NPP), to attack and inflict gun-shot wounds on members of the opposition NDC during Thursday’s Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election, will certainly not get away with it. In …