- ‘Godzilla X Kong’ Storming Towards $500M WW As ‘Dune: Part Two’ Closes In On $700M – International Box Office Deadline
- China Box Office: ‘Godzilla x Kong’ Retakes Lead, as ‘The Boy and the Heron’ Passes $100 Million Yahoo Entertainment
- Best Titan Scenes In Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire CBR – Comic Book Resources
- Godzilla x Kong Domestic Box Office Passes Skull Island To Become Second-Best Monsterverse Movie Screen Rant
- At the Rex: Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire; showing Thursday, April 18 through Sunday, April 21, 2024 Clearwater Tribune
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Jeff Bezos, Lauren Sánchez get back to work on $500M yacht after star-studded engagement party – Page Six
- Jeff Bezos, Lauren Sánchez get back to work on $500M yacht after star-studded engagement party Page Six
- Bill Gates and Paula Hurd Attend Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez’s Engagement Party PEOPLE
- Silver belle! Lauren Sanchez, 53, shares VERY airbrushed engagement party photos as she cozies up with Kris Je Daily Mail
- Bill Gates and Paula Hurd Attend Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez’s Engagement Party Yahoo Entertainment
- Amazon founder Bezos spotted partying with partner Lauren Sánchez on $500mn yacht WION
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‘Barbie’ Tops $900M WW, ‘Oppenheimer’ Nears $500M & ‘Meg 2’ Chomps On $12M In First Two Days Overseas – International Box Office – Deadline
- ‘Barbie’ Tops $900M WW, ‘Oppenheimer’ Nears $500M & ‘Meg 2’ Chomps On $12M In First Two Days Overseas – International Box Office Deadline
- ‘Barbie’ Has Raked in Over $800 Million, Making It the Highest-Grossing Film by a Female Director Yahoo Life
- Box Office: ‘Barbie’ Hits $900M Globally, ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ Reboot and ‘Meg 2’ Open Hollywood Reporter
- ‘Barbie’ Crosses $400M, ‘Oppenheimer’ Nears $200M, ‘Turtles’ 2-Day $15M, ‘Meg 2’ Previews $3M+ – August Box Office Fires Up Deadline
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‘Elemental’ Shows Spark Overseas, ‘The Flash’ Crosses $200M WW; ‘Little Mermaid’ Nears $500M & China Is ‘Lost In The Stars’ – International Box Office – Deadline
- ‘Elemental’ Shows Spark Overseas, ‘The Flash’ Crosses $200M WW; ‘Little Mermaid’ Nears $500M & China Is ‘Lost In The Stars’ – International Box Office Deadline
- Box Office: ‘Spider-Verse’ Returns to No. 1 as ‘The Flash’ Collapses by 73% and Jennifer Lawrence’s ‘No Hard Feelings’ Opens to $15 Million Yahoo Entertainment
- The Flash: 10 Reasons It’s Awful WhatCulture
- Box Office Tragedy: “The Flash” Falls 81% on Friday, Won’t Make $100 Mil This Weekend–Or Possibly Next — Huge Write Down for Studio Showbiz411
- The Flash will be lucky to come in third at the box office this weekend The A.V. Club
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Stony Brook University to receive $500M donation, one of largest gifts to an American university – WABC-TV
- Stony Brook University to receive $500M donation, one of largest gifts to an American university WABC-TV
- Stony Brook gets $500 million gift from hedge fund honcho James Simons — largest to a college in US history New York Post
- Stony Brook University Gets $500 Million Gift From Simons Foundation The New York Times
- Stony Brook University to Receive $500 Million Donation From Former Professor NBC New York
- The founder of a wildly profitable hedge fund just gave $500 million to his state school alma mater and more than doubled its endowment Fortune
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‘Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania’ Reaches $364M WW On Way To $500M+ Final; ‘Cocaine Bear’ Starts Sniffing Overseas & WB’s ‘Mummies’ Awakens – International Box Office – Deadline
- ‘Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania’ Reaches $364M WW On Way To $500M+ Final; ‘Cocaine Bear’ Starts Sniffing Overseas & WB’s ‘Mummies’ Awakens – International Box Office Deadline
- Box Office: Marvel’s ‘Ant-Man 3’ Gets Mauled by ‘Cocaine Bear,’ Suffers Record 69.7% Drop Yahoo Entertainment
- ‘Quantumania’ Might Still Be #1, but Another Studio Is Crushing Marvel We Got This Covered
- Box Office: ‘Ant-Man 3’ Faces Record Drop, ‘Cocaine Bear’ Feeling High and Happy Hollywood Reporter
- Weekend Box Office: Ant-Man 3 suffers worst second week drop in MCU history JoBlo.com
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Northwestern Mutual Franklin to Milwaukee downtown move, $500M investment – FOX 6 Milwaukee
- Northwestern Mutual Franklin to Milwaukee downtown move, $500M investment FOX 6 Milwaukee
- Northwestern Mutual to leave Franklin campus, thousands of jobs to relocate downtown Milwaukee TMJ4 News
- Northwestern Mutual Franklin to Milwaukee downtown move, $500M investment | FOX6 News Milwaukee FOX6 News Milwaukee
- Northwestern Mutual invests $500 million in downtown Milwaukee campus Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
- Northwestern Mutual to move 2,000 jobs from Franklin to downtown – Milwaukee Business Journal The Business Journals
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Northwestern Mutual Franklin to Milwaukee downtown move, $500M investment – FOX 6 Milwaukee
- Northwestern Mutual Franklin to Milwaukee downtown move, $500M investment FOX 6 Milwaukee
- Northwestern Mutual to leave Franklin campus, thousands of jobs to relocate downtown Milwaukee TMJ4 News
- Northwestern Mutual Franklin to Milwaukee downtown move, $500M investment | FOX6 News Milwaukee FOX6 News Milwaukee
- Northwestern Mutual invests $500 million in downtown Milwaukee campus Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
- Northwestern Mutual plans $500 million upgrade to its HQ, will bring 2,000 Franklin employees downtown BizTimes Milwaukee
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Way of Water’ Crossing $500M – Deadline
FRIDAY PM: For an early January weekend falling after New Year’s Day and before MLK, it’s sure not sleepy. Some adult films may have a hard time working at the box office as moviegoing comes out of the pandemic, but you can bet the house on horror films. Universal has a vibrant No. 2 winner in Blumhouse’s creepy posh doll film M3GAN which is looking at a $26.7M opening after a $11.4M Friday (plus previews) at 3,509 theaters. The Gerard Johnstone directed PG-13 horror movie has landed at 94% certified fresh on Rotten Tomatoes with critics and a current audience score of 78%. This movie is in such great shape, they’re already kicking around ideas about a sequel for it, I hear.
AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER
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Meanwhile, James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way of Water is headed to break even destination (per the filmmaker) with a running total stateside by Sunday well north of a half billion. The fourth Friday of the 20th Century Studios/Disney/Lighstorm film looks like $10M, -60% from last Friday for a 3-day of $37M, -45%, for a running total of $508.7M in first place at 4,340 theaters.
Universal also owns No. 3 in DreamWorks Animation’s third weekend of Puss in Boots: The Last Wish at 3,913 locations. Friday is $2.5M (-62%), third weekend is $10M (-40%) and the running total by Sunday is $84.6M.
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Popping into the top five in fourth place is Sony‘s limited release of A Man Called Otto which goes from four theaters in NYC and LA to 637 sites for an estimated Friday of $1.2M, 3-day of $3.4M. The movie ended its first week with just over $85K. The pic sits at 67% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes but remains an audience pleaser at 94%.
Fifth goes to Disney/Marvel Studio’s 9th weekend of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever at 2,255 theaters with a $900k Friday, -53%, 3-day of $3.1M, -39% and a running cume of $445.1M.
The third weekend of Babylon from Paramount/C2 is in 6th place with a Friday of $400K, -57% from a week ago, $1.3M 3-day, -50%, for a running total by Sunday of $13.4M.
FRIDAY AM: The Blumhouse-Universal PG-13 genre title is off to a great start with $2.75M after 5PM showtimes. Universal is betting $17M heading into the weekend on M3GAN while tracking was seeing well north of $20M. Horror fans always come out on Thursday night so hopefully this great momentum keeps up.
A Blumhouse movie with great reviews aimed at the under 25 demo is always a good sign for box office prospects: Critics gave M3GAN 95% on Rotten Tomatoes. The pic is booked at 3,509 theaters and is expected to take the No. 2 slot behind Avatar: The Way of Water which is eyeing between $25M-$30M in weekend 4. Currently the James Cameron-directed sequel has under $472M going into the weekend — it has a shot at hitting the half billion mark stateside.
In regards to comps, the Thursday previews for M3GAN are just under that of Scream‘s a year ago which did $3.5M before a $30M opening weekend, but that was over an MLK holiday weekend. It’s also above Sony’s The Escape Room which kicked off New Year 2019 with $2.3M in previews before notching an $18.2M opening. That pic was 50% with critics on RT with a 52% audience score.
Avatar: The Way of Water
Disney/20th Century Studios
Among regular films in release, 20th Century Studios/Lightstorm/Disney’s Avatar: The Way of Water lead Thursday with $6.7M at 4,202 theaters, -10% from Wednesday with a running total of $471.7M. The sequel made $113.5M for the week.
Uni/DreamWorks Animation’s Puss in Boots: The Last Wish at 4,121 sites did $2M yesterday, -11% from Wednesday for a $30M second week and running total of $74.6M.
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever at 2,310 ends its eighth week with an estimated $8.8M, a $490K Thursday and a running total of $441.9M.
Tri-Star/Compelling Pictures/Black Label Media’s I Wanna Dance With Somebody at 3,625 saw a second Thursday of $444K, a second week of $6.7M and a running total of $17.3M.
Paramount’s Babylon at 3,351 posted an estimated $353K Thursday, -16% from Wednesday, a second week of $4.7M and a running total of $12M. That bests the $11.3M lifetime domestic total of Guillermo del Toro’s period title Nightmare Alley which went on to be nominated for four Oscar including Best Picture. Proof that poor ticket sales don’t necessarily impact awards season chances.
Banks stand to lose at least $500m if they fund Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover | Elon Musk
Several large US and international banks would lose $500m or more if they proceed with obligations to fund Elon Musk’s $44bn takeover of Twitter, according to a report on Saturday.
The banks, led by Morgan Stanley and six others, including Barclays and Bank of America, committed six months ago to raise $13bn in debt to finance Musk’s purchase – an agreement that does not hinge on whether they are able to sell the debt on to investors.
According to Bloomberg calculations published on Saturday, the banks’ losses would collectively amount “to $500m or more if the debt were to be sold now”.
Higher interest rates tied to efforts to bring down record inflation have led to a deterioration in the credit markets, with returns on risky junk bonds and leveraged loans surging. When the Musk-Twitter deal was financed in April, banks agreed to terms with lower yields than the market would now accept, leading to potential write-downs.
About $400m of the $500m in losses that the banks are estimated to have on the Twitter debt are in unsecured, high interest bonds, and they exclude fees the banks would typically earn on the transaction.
“I think that those banks would like to get out of it, I think the deal makes less sense for them now, and that the debt will be harder to syndicate to investors,” Moses Singler law firm partner Howard Fischer told the outlet.
In a surprise turnaround last week, Musk abandoned his three-month effort to terminate the Twitter deal through a US court in Delaware, citing the large number of fake accounts on Twitter. By some estimates, 20% of Twitter users are fake.
The billionaire boss of Tesla and SpaceX also cancelled negotiations to shave $10bn off the agreed $44bn price tag (Twitter shares have traded as much as $20 below the $54 a share agreed in April) and said he would accept the original terms of the deal.
Musk told the Financial Times on Saturday that his interest in the company has never been primarily financial.
“I’m not doing Twitter for the money. It’s not like I’m trying to buy some yacht and I can’t afford it. I don’t own any boats. But I think it’s important that people have a maximally trusted and inclusive means of exchanging ideas and that it should be as trusted and transparent as possible.”
Twitter, however, did not immediately drop the lawsuit it is pursuing in order to force Musk into compliance.
“There is no need for an expedited trial to order defendants to do what they are already doing,” Musk’s attorneys wrote in a filing. “Yet, Twitter will not take yes for an answer. Astonishingly they have insisted on proceeding with this litigation, recklessly putting the deal at risk and gambling with their stockholders interests.”
Twitter said the attempt to halt the litigation was “an invitation to further mischief and delay”.
On Thursday, the judge presiding over the case, Kathaleen McCormick, granted Musk’s request to delay a trial scheduled for 17 October. Musk’s attorney said they could get the deal could done by 28 October “pending receipt of the proceeds of the debt financing.”
But some warn that there are few ways for the banks to get out of providing financing, for both legal and reputational reasons, even if that means booking substantial losses. “Generally it would be hard to have deals go forward if they were contingent on bank financing and that bank financing was not rock solid,” Fischer told the outlet.
But if the deal does not close later this month, McCormick has said that she would schedule a trial for November.