Dwayne Johnson experienced the worst box office opening of his career with “The Smashing Machine,” the A24 drama that debuted to a rough $5.9 million domestically. But the actor is taking the bad news in stride. Johnson posted on Instagram that “you can’t control box office results” and praised director Benny Safdie for changing his life with the film, which …
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England bowled South Africa out for just 69 as they made a winning start to their Women’s World Cup campaign with a ruthless 10-wicket thrashing in Guwahati. Left-arm spinner Linsey Smith was the pick of the bowlers with 3-7, claiming the prized wickets of Laura Wolvaardt, in-form opener Tazmin Brits and Marizanne Kapp. Sinalo Jafta was the only batter to …
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In March, hundreds of broadcast TV executives gathered at the Salamander DC, a luxury hotel just a few minutes’ walk from the Washington Monument, to talk politics and policy. The National Association of Broadcasters was hosting its annual State Leadership Conference, and speakers included Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Maria Cantwell (D-Washington). According to an attendee, the mood was upbeat …
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Wherever the AMC-distributed Taylor Swift: The Official Release Party of a Showgirl lands at the box office, consider it unprecedented. Not just in the mere fact that the No. 1 exhibitor in the world is releasing another one of her concert films, rather no other motion picture studio ever has dated a wide release two weeks out on an extremely …
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A man charged with firing an assault rifle from a boat at patrons of a North Carolina waterfront bar, killing three people and wounding five others, was a decorated Marine combat veteran and Purple Heart recipient whose last assignment was with a Wounded Warrior battalion. Nigel Edge, 40, is scheduled to appear in a North Carolina courtroom Monday after being …
Read More »A man charged with firing an assault rifle from a boat at patrons of a North Carolina waterfront bar, killing three people and wounding five others, was a decorated Marine combat veteran and Purple Heart recipient whose last assignment was with a Wounded Warrior battalion. Nigel Edge, 40, is scheduled to appear in a North Carolina courtroom Monday after being …
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Launched as part of a mission to study the outer planets, Voyager 1 has now traversed a distance so vast that light itself—the fastest thing in the universe—would take 24 hours to cover it. The spacecraft has exceeded all expectations in both duration and distance, becoming a symbol of human persistence in exploring the cosmos. NASA’s engineers had originally intended …
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After the Hunt star Julia Roberts has won an Oscar and opened movies that have made billions at the box office. Yet Friday night’s premiere of the film on opening night of the New York Film Festival, she said, was a top-shelf highlight of her life and career. “I moved to New York when I was 17 years old, and …
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Warner Bros.‘ “One Battle After Another” took $8.8 million across Friday and previews from 3,634 locations in North America. That haul includes grosses from advance fan-first screenings on Tuesday, which played premium large-format auditoriums. The studio didn’t pinch on pennies for Paul Thomas Anderson and Leonardo DiCaprio‘s hyper-contemporary action epic, spending more than $130 million before a global marketing campaign. …
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