#COVID #Singing #Talking #risk The performing arts has been badly affected during the COVID chaos with live musical performances canceled for many months because singing was identified as a potential “higher risk” activity, but new research shows that singing does not produce more respiratory particles than when speaking at a similar volume. The findings are […]
$SNE Hustlers rustled up a stellar $33.2-M from 3,250 theaters at the NA box office, the best start ever for STXfilms and the best live-action opening of Jennifer Lopez’s career. Hustlers is based on real-life events chronicled in a 2015 New York magazine story and stars Misses Wu and Lopez as strippers that lead a band of dancers in […]
Box Office: ‘Fifty Shades Freed’ Came with $137-M Global Open $CMCSA, $TWX, $SNE ‘Peter Rabbit’ opens to $25-M in US, Clint Eastwood’s ‘The 15:17 to Paris’ debuts to $12.6-M critics blocked the tracks. Universal’s Fifty Shades Freed grossed $136.9-M driving franchise past the $1-B mark in global box-office ticket sales go become 1 of the most profitable […]
Box Office: ‘Beauty and the Beast’ at $88-M; ‘Power Rangers’ at $40.5-M $DIS, $SNE, $TWX, $LGF ‘Beauty’ seeing $700-M worldwide as March revenue crosses a record $1-B in North America; elsewhere, Sony’s (NYSE:SNE) space horror-thriller ‘Life’ loses gravity and Warner Bros.’ ‘CHIPS’ DOA. Beauty and the Beast, Disney’s (NYSE:DIS) live-action remake of the classic Y […]
Donald Trump, “Hillary has Experience, the Wrong Experience” $TWTR, $FB Monday, Hillary Clinton, 68 anni, and Donald Trump, 70 anni, interrupted each other throughout the debate on topics ranging from foreign policy to the economy. Donald Trump said Hillary Clinton had very little to show for her many years in public life. Hillary has experience, […]
Box Office: ‘Sully’ Flying High in its 2nd Frame $TWX, $LGF Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow’s biographical drama Sully continues fly high in its 2nd weekend at the US box office. New openings, Blair Witch and Bridget Jones’s Baby, came in behind expectations with $9.7-M and $8.2-M, respectively. Oliver Stone’s Snowden, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as […]
The Skinny On Dubai “Pizza Wars” There are almost 870 pizza outlets in Dubai alone, according to a quick search on website Zomato, including delivery, dine-out and cafes. With new venues opening up every other day, that thanks to Dubai’s booming food and beverage market customers have a wide variety of options to choose from. […]
Box Office: Bad Reviews and Audience Reaction Hurts ‘Suicide Squad’ $TWX, $IMAX David Ayer’s Suicide Squad opened to $135.1-M at the North American box office, but bad reviews and tepid audience reaction are taking a heavy toll. After taking in $65.1-M Friday, it looked like the Warner Bros.’ a unit of Time Warner (NYSE:TWX) tentpole, playing […]
Box Office: ‘Star Trek Beyond’ Takes $59.6-M, ‘Ice Age 5’ DOA $21-M $CMCSA, $FOX, $VIA, $AMZN, $LGF, $TWX Conservative filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza’s Hillary Clinton doc cracked the Top 10 in its nationwide expansion and ‘Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie’ won over older women in its limited debut. Justin Lin’s Star Trek Beyond took in a strong […]
Box Office: ‘Finding Dory’ makes Record Splash Domestically $DIS, $LGF, $CMCSA, $TWX Finding Dory posted the biggest North American box office opening ever for an animated film, action comedy ‘Central Intelligence’ opened to a solid $34.5-M. 13 years after Finding Nemo hit theaters, Pixar and Disney’s (NYSE:DIS) sequel Finding Dory made a record splash at […]
Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show Launches Main Entryway Design Contest Organizers of the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show (FLIBS) have announced a call for entries to design and produce the show’s main entrance, located at the Bahia Mar Fort Lauderdale Beach Hotel. The winning design will be selected on August 1. Entrants must submit their […]
We Live in Interesting and Disruptive Times The Chinese greeting, ‘may you live in interesting times’ is a metaphor for life in the 21st Century. Over the past several years we have seen major changes and developments for the in the Television and Advertising industries, the impact of most of those changes are only understood in […]