Angel Studios’ “Sound of Freedom” has generated nearly $150 million at the domestic box office since its July 4 debut.
The film has outpaced blockbuster-style features like Paramount’s “Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning Part One” and Warner Bros.′ “The Flash.”
The anti-sex trafficking thriller has struck a chord with older audiences, many of whom have not been back to theaters since before the Covid pandemic.
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/01/sound-of-freedom-outgrosses-mission-impossible-the-flash.html
Waking the boomers!
Haunted by a sense that the news is relentlessly toxic, once-loyal readers and viewers have been gradually ebbing away, posing a persistent threat to the news business.
The troublesome trend is spelled out in research by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. For years, the Oxford-based think tank has been asking people around the world about their news-consumption habits. In its latest survey, 38 percent of U.S. respondents say they sometimes or often avoid news, including 41 percent of women and 34 percent of men.
At the same time, the proportion of people who are “extremely” or “very interested” in the news continued to sink. In the United States, this group was in the minority (49 percent) for the first time in the survey’s short history, down from 67 percent in 2015. The institute’s data also suggest a sharper percentage-point drop abroad (including 27 points in the United Kingdom).
Researchers say “news avoidance” could be a response to an age of hyper-information, when updates from the outside world flow not just from every TV set and printing press but also out of our own pockets via smartphones.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/do-you-avoid-the-news-you-re-in-growing-company/ar-AA1eD6K6
Or did media squander their credibility? We are the news now.