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Vue International has mentioned it had the most important weekend for UK cinema ticket gross sales in 4 years following the discharge of Barbie and Oppenheimer.The cinema chain mentioned on Sunday {that a} fifth of its prospects had bought tickets to see each movies in a social-media-inspired double invoice referred to as "Barbenheimer". The two movies, launched on Friday, have very totally different storylines, with Greta Gerwig's comedy concerning the eponymous doll, and Christopher Nolan's biographical thriller chronicling physicist J Robert Oppenheimer's function in creating the primary atomic bomb.More than 2,000 of Vue's screenings for Barbie have been offered out, based on the corporate.The cinema chain's largest websites for Barbie included Cambridge, Glasgow St Enoch...

The veteran chief government of M&C Saatchi, the highest London promoting company, is to step down, marking the most recent section of a management overhaul on the group.Sky News has learnt that Moray MacLennan, who has labored for M&C because it was based in 1995, is to retire from the corporate within the coming months. M&C is predicted to announce plans to kick off a seek for his successor in an announcement to the London Stock Exchange on Monday morning.The announcement will come simply weeks after Zillah Byng-Thorne, the previous boss of The Week's writer, Future, joined M&C as chairman.Mr MacLennan is without doubt one of the most distinguished and revered figures within the British promoting trade. He started his profession at Saatchi & Saatchi in 1...

The specialist retail investor which owns Homebase has pumped tens of millions of kilos of extra funding into Wilko to assist salvage its future.Sky News has learnt that Hilco has agreed to lend about £5m to Wilko as the overall merchandise chain faces an intensifying money squeeze. The new debt comes along with a £40m mortgage Wilko secured from Hilco in the beginning of the yr.One retail trade supply stated the newest injection confirmed Hilco's intention to assist the family-controlled retailer because it races to safe a long-term answer to its financing challenges.Last week, Sky News revealed that the Wilkinson household, which established the enterprise in 1930, was exploring a change of possession for the primary time because it faces working out of money inside weeks. ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt’s ongoing feud with most of the Native American tribes within the state has grown so contentious that fellow Republicans within the Legislature and the state’s legal professional common are contemplating pushing him out of tribal negotiations altogether. ...

ST. LOUIS (AP) - No winner for the Mega Millions prime prize has despatched the jackpot hovering to an estimated $820 million. The numbers drawn lat...

NASA is simply over three months away from launching a spacecraft to an asteroid made largely of metallic orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter.  ...

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. — The Kansas City Chiefs consider Arrowhead Stadium stays structurally sound and like to renovate their well-known facility within the coming years, even when the neighboring Royals undergo with plans to construct a brand new ballpark elsewhere. ...

RALEIGH, N.C. — Most of the destruction from a twister that tore by means of japanese North Carolina Wednesday and struck a big Pfizer pharmaceutical plant affected its storage facility, quite than its medication manufacturing areas, the corporate mentioned Friday. ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Members of a U.N. company that governs worldwide waters have been locked in a fierce debate late Friday over whether or not to permit deep sea mining and set a brand new deadline for proposed laws nonetheless caught in draft mode. ...

Jeremy Clarkson has warned some bottles of his Hawkstone Cider may explode.The former Top Gear presenter, who owns the craft drink model, warned there had been a "massive cock-up" in a sweary Twitter replace. He wrote: "If the cap has the code L3160, open it underwater, pour it away and get in touch for a refund." Image: Only bottles with the code 'L3160' on the cap are stated to be affected. Pic: Hawkstone Clarkson pressured that Hawkstone Beer is "fine and still delicious" - and "almost all" cider bottles are unaffected.On Instagram, Hawkstone defined that "a small amount" of cider had over-fermented. "Take a photo of the caps and we will send you a fresh batch or a refund," the corporate added.The drinks mo...