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denimbex1986 · 9 months

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'August 2023's box office will still feel the effects of Barbie and Oppenheimer's release, but there are several new movies set for release with hopes of achieving their own financial success. August has never been one of the biggest months of the year for movie theaters, as it marks the end of the summer season. Studios traditionally use the month to let the bigger movies from the summer to continue dominating. It has also become a time of the year when studios are willing to put slightly riskier projects in theaters with the hopes of catching the attention of audiences occasionally and finding success with lacking competition.

The outlook of the August 2023 box office is another example of these strategies at play. A new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot, the sequel to The Meg, and a potential DC franchise starter in Blue Beetle are among the biggest new releases coming to theaters this month. Each of these movies have IP burdens to deliver major box office results to keep their respective franchises going, while several other new movies will attempt to truly stand on their own against remaining July 2023 box office hits. While not every new movie will be a hit, here are some key predictions for the August 2023 box office

9. Barbie Will Pass $1.3 Billion Worldwide & Become 2023's Highest-Grossing Movie

Before tackling the new releases, all eyes will remain on Barbie's box office to see how high it climbs. After making over $750 million during its first 10 days of release, the movie based on Mattel's iconic toy is an undeniable success. Its current trends put it in elite company with the highest-grossing movies of all time. Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling's movie will need time to reach those heights, but it could become 2023's highest-grossing movie during August. It needs to double its current total to pass The Super Mario Bros. Movie's $1.35 billion to claim that title, which is doable over the next four weeks.

8. TMNT: Mutant Mayhem Box Office Prediction

The first major August 2023 box office release is Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem. The animated reboot boasts a youthful and star-studded voice cast, as well as great animation, which have led to outstanding reviews. 2023 has been a stellar year for animated movies based on major IPs at the box office as demonstrated by The Super Mario Bros. Movie and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. There is also a decent history of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies performing well at the box office, which could work in the new movie's favor.

Long range projections for TMNT: Mutant Mayhem's box office call for a 5-day opening weekend of nearly $50 million according to Box Office Pro, with around $27M-$36M coming during the traditional 3-day weekend. Since TMNT: Mutant Mayhem's reviews are so positive and the characters are so popular, the movie earning around $140 million domestically and $350 million worldwide overall seems doable. That would put the movie slightly behind the first live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie from Michael Bay but a step forward after its sequel stumbled.

7. Meg 2: The Trench Box Office Prediction

Warner Bros. is hoping to have the August 2023 box office surprise with Meg 2: The Trench. The original movie starring Jason Statham was an unexpected success in 2018 as it made $45M in its opening weekend domestically and finished with $530M worldwide. This is why Warner Bros. decided to move forward with a sequel and reportedly increased the budget to roughly $150M. Meg 2 is looking to repeat the unexpected success and keep the franchise alive and finish a trilogy.

There are currently not expectations that Meg 2 will attract audiences quite as well, even as the number of megaladons featured increases. Box Office Pro has a projection of $22M-$27M for the opening weekend. While there is a gap in the schedule for over-the-top action movies, Meg 2's box office is likely to finish with less than $100M domestically, and international audiences could help push the worldwide total over $300M if everything goes right.

6. The Last Voyage of the Demeter Box Office Prediction

The Last Voyage of the Demeter is not expected to take too big of a bite out of the domestic box office. Universal's new horror movie has a recognizable tale behind it in theory thanks to its connection to Dracula, but there is not much of a sign that audiences are aware the movie is coming out. The Last Voyage of the Demeter's box office projections is a mere $5M-$10M for its opening weekend domestically. That puts a rather dark cloud over the movie's financial hopes, making a $20M domestic total even a challenge to hit potentially.

5. Blue Beetle Box Office Prediction

Warner Bros. and DC Studios are in a curious position when it comes to Blue Beetle's box office prospects. On one hand, the movie originally announced as an HBO Max original was given a bigger budget after the fact to become bigger and support a theatrical release date. The arrival of Xolo Maridueña's Jaime Reyes is a big step in representation, and DC Studios chief James Gunn has confirmed Blue Beetle will live on as part of the new DC Universe continuity. However, Blue Beetle is unlikely to be canon to the new universe and the DC brand is still reeling from The Flash's box office bomb.

While Blue Beetle might live on, the odds of Blue Beetle being a box office hit and launching a major franchise are quite low. According to Box Office Pro, the movie might open to less than $20M domestically. That would be a rather disastrous start for a superhero movie nowadays, especially one that reportedly carries an $120M budget. Barring incredible word of mouth and gaining significant traction with general audiences, a very optimistic prediction for Blue Beetle's box office might only be $75M domestically and $200M worldwide.

4. Strays Box Office Prediction

Universal is hoping to have an R-rated hit on its hands with the raunchy animal comedy Strays. The movie features a great collection of actors lending their voices to play dogs, including Will Ferrell, Jamie Foxx, Will Forte, Isla Fisher, and Randall Park. Its red band trailers have leaned heavily into the mischievous and adult adventures that the pets will partake in and the comedic opportunities that will come from them.

There is an optimistic outlook for Strays at the box office. Projections have landed around $18M-$28M for the comedy's opening weekend domestically. While that is far from a huge opening, it could be enough to give the movie a good enough start that it could become profitable with a low enough budget. Since it is a voice-only role for even the biggest stars, Strays' box office surpassing $60M domestically and $150M worldwide could still be enough for it to be a hit.

3. Gran Turismo Box Office Prediction

Sony is hoping that its video game movie success continues with Gran Turismo's release in August 2023. The movie is based on the popular PlayStation video game racing series and the true story of Jann Mardenborough going from gamer to professional racer. It features recognizable faces in prominent roles thanks to David Harbour and Orlando Bloom, while director Neill Blomkamp has seemingly crafted a thrilling racing movie based on early reactions. While Gran Turismo's release plan has changed to the SAG-AFTRA strike, its box office potential still remains.

The best-case scenario for Gran Turismo's box office is that it can get to $200M worldwide and become profitable. This will require the movie to open above early projections and use what will hopefully be good word of mouth from early fan screenings leading up to August 25th to drive up interest. If good reviews follow, Gran Turismo's box office could open to around $25M domestically and help the movie reach $70M domestically. International audiences could help make up the difference and get the movie close to being a hit.

2. Barbie & Oppenheimer Will Remain The Biggest New Releases

While there are several new movies hoping to make a mark on the August 2023 box office, it seems that none of them will be able to truly overtake Barbie and Oppenheimer's box office. The two movies have remained at the center of pop culture discussions over a week after their releases. While TMNT: Mutant Mayhem, Blue Beetle, and Gran Turismo have some IP connected to them, they do not appear to have the same recognizability as Barbie and Oppenheimer. That is why when the August 2023 box office concludes, the Barbenheimer duo is likely to be the two highest-grossing movies of the month.

1. TMNT: Mutant Mayhem Will Be August 2023's Biggest New Movie At The Box Office

Based on the above August 2023 box office predictions, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem will be the biggest new release this month. The animated movie might not have the strength to overtake Barbie and outearn it this month, but it is the best chance for a new release to make more than $100M domestically. The great reviews that the family-friendly action movie has received should help encourage families to see it all month long before and after school starts. That will help propel the TMNT reboot to be the August 2023 box office champion among the biggest new releases.'

#Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem #Barbie #Oppenheimer #Meg 2: The Trench #Strays #Blue Beetle #Gran Turismo #David Harbour #Orlando Bloom #Will Ferrell #Jamie Foxx #Isla Fisher #Jason Statham #The Last Voyage of the Demeter #Margot Robbie #Ryan Gosling #The Super Mario Bros Movie #Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

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frogshunnedshadows · 2 years

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Part of the retro gaming for charity set-up; Super Mario Brothers for NES, on a very old but very nice Sony Trinitron.

#super mario bros #nes #nintendo #sony #trinitron #crt #retrogaming #extra life #videogame #megacon #megaconorlando #megacon2022 #megacon orlando #megacon 2022 #retro

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oldcountrybear1955 · 2 years

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Love Magazine SS 2012 - David Beckham & Orlando Bloom photographed by Mario Testino

#david beckham #orlando bloom #mario testino #love magazine

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unforeseen-idiot · 8 months

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Good luck ambassador

He gave us the voices of four legendary plumbers, asked for our keyboards, and led us on great adventures. Thank you Charles Martinet, you have done us all a great service.

#Charles Martinet #Mario ambassador #he’s not dead #just retiring #Also I met him plus Kenny James and Samantha Kelly at Orlando Megacon #They are all very nice #He complimented my homemade Wario cosplay.

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suppermariobroth · 1 month

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In January 2024, Nintendo announced the planned 2025 opening of another Super Nintendo World location at the Universal Epic Universe theme park at Universal Orlando Resort.

The announcement contained concept art for a shop at the theme park (top), which for an unknown reason featured a lineup of Casino Luigis in the bottom left corner (bottom), known from Luigi's appearance as the host of the casino minigames in Super Mario 64 DS and New Super Mario Bros.

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noteverticali · 2 years

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Ischia Film Festival: miglior film è 'Anatolian Leopard' di Emre Kayis

Ischia Film Festival: miglior film è ‘Anatolian Leopard’ di Emre Kayis

Nello zoo più antico della Turchia, un direttore solitario e una segretaria trascurata formano un legame improbabile, per impedire il processo di privatizzazione della struttura. È “Anatolian Leopard” di Emre Kayis il Miglior Lungometraggio della ventesima edizione dell’Ischia Film Festival. Per il suo mondo visivo e la sua atmosfera perfettamente riuscita, che crea forti legami tra un animale in…

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#cinema #Daniele Gaglianone #Emre Kayis #film #Graziella Bildesheim #Ischia Film Festival #Leonardo Di Costanzo #Luca Lucini #Mario Martone #Michelangelo Messina #Silvio Orlando

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marioprisciandaro · 2 years

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Mario Prisciandaro Sanford FL

The Editors of Encyclopaedia BritannicaThis article was most recently revised and updated by Mario Prisciandaro Sanford FL. Small thistle New from Britannica.

#Mario Prisciandaro Orlando #Mario Prisciandaro Lake Mary #Mario Prisciandaro Sanford FL #Mario Prisciandaro Orlando FL

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far-beyond-saving · 5 months

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"'You're so different,' he says, shaking his head and squinting at me.

'I may have grown a few centimetres since I was eleven.'

'No, it's—' He stops himself.

I put down my phone. 'What? It's what?'

'You're more serious.'

I don't remember not being serious. As far as I'm concerened, I came out of the womb spouting cynicism and wishing for rain." (Oseman 73)

This is an analysis of Tori Spring and her unreliability as a narrator. It will be incredibly long, so I hope I do not bore anyone.

Lucas, as we know, had been Tori's best friend throughout elementary school. He had a dream, to chase after his childhood best friend and start a beautiful romance—which was nicely foreshadowed by the line: "'[The Great Gatsby is] about...' He pauses to think. 'It's about someone who's in love with a dream'" (72). However, he realizes that she wasn't the person he thought she was. Or rather, she isn't the person she used to be.

Alongside Lucas, there are two other characters that hint at the fact that Tori was never this pessimistic: Mr. Kent and Becky.

Near the beginning of the novel, Tori mentions how she and Kent know each other quite well because he has been her teacher for over five years. And, throughout the novel, Kent continuously shows his concern for Tori and her attitude towards life. It would make a lot of sense for him to be this concerned if he had actually seen life in Tori to begin with. Along with that, it is very clear that Tori is liked by the teachers, as stated by Becky on page 79. Again, it would make more sense for this to be the case if she was a different person when she was younger.

Finally: Becky. Throughout the novel, Tori feels incredibly jealous towards her best friend, and she feels the gap between them comes from the fact that Becky moved on while she stayed exactly where she was. However, during their argument after the Solitaire party, Becky says, "you've changed. I might have changed too, but you definitely have. And that's not necessarily a bad thing, but it's true" (310). This completely contradicts everything Tori has told the reader.

The scene in which Tori reads her old diary illustrates my point perfectly.

"Up at the crack of 10:30am. Becky et moi went to the cinema today and saw Pirates of the Carribean (is that how you spell it???) 2 and OMG it was SO GOOD. Becky thinks Orlando Bloom is the fittest. Then we went to get pizza in the high street she had Hawaiian but obviously mine was plain cheese. YUM! She's coming round next week for a sleepover too. She says she needs to tell me about a boy that she likes!! And we're going to eat so much food and stay up all night and watch films!!!!!" (274)

It's very clear with the exclamation marks and enthusiasm in her tone that no, she was not born serious. Unlike now, Tori used to be genuinely happy to listen to Becky's relationships with boys. And—my favourite detail—the use of French in the second sentence. The word "moi" was almost always used by tweens as a quirky replacement for "me" (source: me. I used to use that word all of the time because I thought it was cute and silly. Gross). This is my favourite detail because of an earlier scene with Oliver when Tori says, "Are you suggesting that Charlie is better at Mario Kart than moi?" (63). Now, this could just be a coincidence, but I like to think that this is Tori's inner child being revealed to her little brother, especially because she would never speak to anyone else in that way. But, I digress.

So, I have now established how Tori has been unreliable with the way she describes herself, but what else has she been lying about? I think the most obvious answer is her hatred and lack of knowledge about literature.

Unlike everything I explained above, Tori does admit to lying near the end of the book, saying that books scare her because of how personal they feel. However, there are many things that contradicted her prior to this reveal. For example, her grades in her previous English class—as mentioned by Kent—and the way she used to read with Lucas.

After Lucas speaks about the books he is currently reading, Tori tells the reader, "I nod as if I understand. I don't. I don't know a single thing about literature despite studying it for A level" (72). Yet when Michael tests her on famous literary works, she is able to answer every question correctly, once again contradicting everything she has said.

Her unreliability is not deliberate, it comes from lies she tells herself. However, it seems like she knows the truth deep down. But I guess she is justified. After all, it feels better to say you were born serious than to admit to the damage the world has done to you.

#i hope this is worth something to someone #oh god this is quite long #nobody would want to read such an essay #i hope it does not seem like i am grasping at straws this #these are just things that i noticed #i tried to follow mla quotation rules but i know i broke them in many different places #because i am not actually writing an essay #forgive me #tori spring #solitaire alice oseman #becky allen #lucas ryan #michael holden #solitaire analysis #cynic.txt

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runwayvixen · 4 months

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Vogue Germany March 2014

Photographer: Mario Testino

Stylist: Lori Goldstein

Models: Jeneil Williams, Melodie Monrose, Ajak Deng, Ataui Deng, Cora Emanuel, Anais Mali & Grace Bol

Make-Up: James Kaliardos

Hair: Orlando Pita

Nails: Fleury Rose

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aburninghill · 2 years

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Café Musain and Les Amis de l’ABC from Episode 6, “I FIGLI DI WATERLOO” (Waterloo’s sons), of I Miserabili (1964) dir. Sandro Bolchi.

Orazio Orlando as Lèsgle/Bossuet, Stefano Varriale as Courfeyrac, Roberto Bisacco as Mario (Marius), Claudio Sora as Enjolras, Daniele Tedeschi as Combeferre, Carlo Reali as Prouvaire, Franco Odoardi as Feuilly, and Antonio Meschini as Grantaire.

#les miserables #les mis #i miserabili #i miserabili 1964 #grantaire #enjolras #marius pontmercy #jehan prouvaire #feuilly #bossuet #courfeyrac #combeferre #cafe musain #l'abc #amis de l'abc

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notasfilosoficas · 6 months

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“Acá hay tres clases de gente: la que se mata trabajando, las que deberían trabajar y las que tendrían que matarse”

Mario Benedetti

Fue un escritor, poeta, dramaturgo y periodista uruguayo, nacido en Paso de los Toros en mayo de 1920.

Fue hijo de Brenno Benedetti y Matilde Farrugia, quienes lo bautizaron con el nombre de Mario Orlando Hardy Hamlet Brenno Benedetti Farrugia.

Vivió en Paso de los Toros los primeros tres años de su vida, y cambió de residencia a Tacuarembó por asuntos de negocios de su familia.

Estudió de manera incompleta hasta la secundaria en 1935 en donde abandonó la misma por problemas económicos, continuando de manera libre.

A los 14 años trabajó en una empresa de repuestos para automóviles, y posteriormente se desempeñó en múltiples oficios para ganarse la vida.

En 1946, se casó con Luz Lopez Alegre, con quien permanecería casado hasta el fallecimiento de ella en el 2006.

En 1944, dirigió una revista literaria y publicó un libro de ensayos integrados. En 1945 se unió al equipo de redacción de un semanario en dónde permaneció hasta 1974, año en que fue clausurado por el gobierno de Juan María Bordaberry quien fuera presidente constitucional de 1972 a 1973 y dictador de 1973 a 1976.

A partir de 1950, se convirtió en uno de los miembros del consejo de redacción de una de las revistas mas destacadas de la época, y en 1964 trabajó como crítico de teatro, y en una pagina literaria semanal de un diario.

Por su posición política y tras el golpe de estado de 1973, Benedetti abandonó Uruguay exiliándose en Buenos Aires Argentina y posteriormente a Perú en donde fue detenido, deportado y amnistiado para luego instalarse en Cuba de agosto de 1975 a fines de 1979. Un año después residió en Madrid España y posteriormente en la Isla de Mallorca.

Es durante su exilio que publica dos de sus mejores poemarios; Poemas de Otros en 1974 y La casa de ladrillo en 1977, ese mismo año, publica una de sus novelas más conocidas; Primavera con una esquina rota.

En 1985, Benedetti regresa a Uruguay, en donde es nombrado miembro del consejo editor de un nuevo semanario dando continuidad al proyecto interrumpido en 1974.

A lo largo de su vida Benedetti recibió múltiples reconocimientos y distinciones, incluyendo un doctorado Honoris Causa por la Universidad de Alicante.

Su extensa obra abarcó géneros narrativos, dramáticos y poéticos. Fue autor de ensayos y el Cantante Joan Manuel Serrat musicalizó varios de sus poemas en el disco “El sur también existe”.

Mario Benedetti fallece en mayo de 2009 en su casa de Montevideo a los 88 años de edad. Fue sepultado en el panteón Nacional de Montevideo reuniendo a cientos de ciudadanos, personalidades y amigos del escritor.

Fuente Wikipedia.

#uruguay #mario benedetti #escritores #poetas #periodistas #citas de reflexion #citas de escritores #frases de poetas

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