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  • Brad Pitt’s ‘F1’ Delivers Apple’s First Box Office Hit With $55.6 Million Debut, ‘M3GAN 2.0’ Fizzles With $10 Million

    06/30/2025 5:22:44 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 70 replies
    Variety ^ | June 30, 2025 | Rebecca Rubin Plus Icon
    It’s lights out and away we go at the box office as “F1,” a big-budget racing drama starring Brad Pitt, impressively revs to $55.6 million in its domestic opening weekend. With great reviews and a promising “A” grade on CinemaScore exit polls, “F1” landed in the middle of expectations of $50 million to $60 million. At the international box office, the film collected a strong $88.4 million from 78 markets. Those initial ticket sales are significant given “F1” is an adult-skewing tentpole that’s not part of an existing film franchise — a rarity in today’s I.P.-dominated movie theater landscape. Directed...
  • Anita Bryant singing "Fly Me To The Moon" on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1964

    01/11/2025 10:19:12 AM PST · by ReformationFan · 14 replies
    Youtube ^ | 12-13-1964 | The Ed Sullivan Show
    To honor the memory of the conservative Christian singer, beauty queen, commercial spokeswoman, and culture warrior who recently passed, this video clip shows her in her prime performing a cover of the classic hit song on show biz legend Ed Sullivan's show back in 1964.
  • MH370 Captain Plotted Route To Southern Indian Ocean On Home Simulator

    06/22/2014 11:27:59 AM PDT · by Steelfish · 28 replies
    Telegraph (UK) ^ | June 22, 2014
    MH370 Captain Plotted Route To Southern Indian Ocean On Home Simulator Detectives investigating the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 three months ago discover new evidence which has renewed suspicions about its pilot 22 Jun 2014 The pilot of the missing Malaysia Airlines plane which disappeared in March with 239 people on board had plotted a flight path to a remote island far into the southern Indian Ocean where the search is now focused, investigators have discovered. The route, which was deleted before MH370 disappeared on March 8, was made on a home flight simulator machine used for practice by...
  • Richard Branson and Burt Rutan Form Spacecraft Building Company

    07/27/2005 1:32:13 PM PDT · by Young Werther · 68 replies · 1,091+ views
    Space.comn ^ | July 27, 2005 | Leonard David
    British entrepreneur, Sir Richard Branson, has teamed up with aerospace designer, Burt Rutan of Scaled Composites to form a new aerospace production company. The new firm will build a fleet of commercial suborbital spaceships and launch aircraft.
  • ZOT - GA banned from Washington, D.C (but trolls want special privileges)

    01/08/2005 3:56:03 PM PST · by Robinson Winslow · 156 replies · 2,398+ views
    GA banned from Washington, D.C., for inauguration D.C.'s mayor and AOPA's Boyer incensed over closures For eight hours on Inauguration Day, Washington, D.C., and the skies for miles around it, will be completely off-limits to general aviation. Similarly, the streets of the nation's capital will be closed to vehicular traffic. Security officials have declared that President Bush's inauguration on January 20 is a "national security event," and the FAA, responding to orders from the Defense and Homeland Security departments, has issued a flight advisory prohibiting all general aviation VFR flight within or above the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Air Defense Identification...