What is hollywood hoping for these movies? they are hoping for back-to-back goals followed by fireworks. there s a lot of excitement for this weekend. the expectations keep growing and growing, giving some hollywood insiders optimism about the state of the business amid the biggest labor strike in decades. writers and actors are still on the picket lines. the initial signs are already generally positive. the barbie half of the weekend has seen that warner brothers movie take in $22.3 million for thursday night preview tickets alone. that s the biggest thursday haul of the summer so far, beating out the $17.5 million that disney s guardians of the galaxy: volume 3 took on earlier. and oppenheimer took in $10.5 million yesterday, and of course universal is owned by comcast nbcuniversal, the parent company of cnbc and msnbc. this is an initial sign we could see a big opening weekend for these movies. some estimates are for $140
The more ways it can get messed up. neil: thanks. good one on one type of lessons here on how to get through this. hopefully people will. meantime, they re hampered by smoke. smoke from the canadian wild fires. made for hazy skies in chicago, over buffalo, new york. we re told it s coming to new york by sometime tonight. that is another thing to contend with. rick reichmuth here on what to make of it all. rick? it s going to be the summer of this, i think. here s the reason. 19.3 million acres have burned in canada already. worse that we ve seen since 1995 where they had 17.5 million. we re worse than that. very significant fire season. that amount of acres burning and also this early in the season. they had a very dry winter and hot summer last summer. because of that, all of this smoke right here is coming down from canada. the fires, by the way, all
In our pop culture lead, from a sea princess to a box office queen. you broke the rules. a man was drowning. i had to save him. his obsession with them has to stop. i want to know more about them. the little mermaid rakes in $117.5 million. that is the fifth best opening for a memorial day weekend ever. the remake of this 1989 animated film has been the subject, sadly, of some racist tropes because disney cast ariel with a black actress, halle bailey. i can t wait to take my little girl to see that movie myself. thank you so much for joining me for this especially edition of the lead. our coverage continues right now with wolf blitzer and the
By mid december last year, having let go of about half of his staff, musk then suggested he might go too. he put his fate in the hands of his twitter followers. should i step down as head of twitter? he wrote. i will abide by the results of this poll. 17.5 million users voted, and 57% said yes. but today, musk is still in charge. we want to do an interview with elon musk, and we reached out to him through his other companies and also through his facebook page weeks ago. since then we ve also been in touch with the twitter press office, and we ve also tweeted him, but we haven t heard anything back. so we ve decided we re going to take a leaf out of his book and see what twitter users want. should elon musk do an interview with marianna spring for bbc panorama? this twitter vote is of course
Users into making unintended purchases with deceptive design. twitter users have voted for chief executive elon musk to step down as the head of the platform. mr musk said he would abide by the results of a poll that he tweeted. 17.5 million users voted in it. around 60% of them said he should go. he s since confirmed he will resign but only once he s found someone who is foolish enough to take the job. clearly, he s veering all over the place, isn t sure exactly what he thinks he should do and seems to be looking for outside affirmation of all his effort. the european commission has warned meta it could face up to $11.8 billion in fines for alleged antitrust breaches. the eu s executive arm said it believes meta has distorted competition for rivals by tying social network facebook to facebook marketplace. and after helping secure the world cup trophy for argentina, footballer lionel messi has secured yet another win.