Met Office delivers verdict on chances of August heatwaves in UK

Shia LaBeouf will make his stage debut in Pulitzer Prize winner David Mamet’s world premiere play, Henry Johnson, directed by The L Word: Generation Q Showrunner, Marja-Lewis Ryan at The Electric Lodge in Venice, CA. The cast features Academy Award Nominee, David Paymer; Mamet’s frequent collaborator, Dominic Hoffman; and Broadway’s Evan Jongkeit in the show’s titular role of Henry Johnson.

The Met Office has warned that people all across the UK will be subjected to intense winds, heavy rain and potentially thunderstorms in the coming days.

Refresh for latest…: It’s still a Barbie world this weekend as the Greta Gerwig-directed charmer reached a global cume of $1.184B. Last session, Margot Robbie’s living doll crossed the $1B threshold, and in this 4th frame added $45.1M in 75 offshore markets (a 47% dip) to bring the international box office cume to $657.6M. 

Anyone heading to Spain has been issued crucial safety advice pertaining to a serious crime.

Meg 2: The Trench is out now, and the numbers are in!

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter “Meg 2: The Trench,” the second Jason Statham-led shark thriller, is swimming to $112 million in its international box office debut, bringing its global total to $142 million. It’s a strong start for the $130 million-budgeted film, which was co-financed by Warner Bros. and China Media Capital.

Barbie has hit the $1billion dollar mark at the global box office, just two weeks after its release.Greta Gerwig‘s film is the 53rd movie of all time to hit the milestone, and the first ever to be solely directed by a woman.The dual release of Barbie and Oppenheimer on July 21 led to a sizeable uptick in UK box office numbers last month.On the films’ first weekend, Gerwig’s comedy brought in $110million (£86.6million) at the US box office, over twice the expected takings of Christopher Nolan’s biopic about the creator of the atomic bomb.Barbie is currently the third-highest grossing film of 2023, behind The Super Mario Bros. Movie and Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol.

Aside from the heatwave that bridged May and June, this summer in Scotland has been largely damp and gloomy.

As she heads into the third weekend of release, Warner Bros’ Barbie has hit two new milestones, crossing both $500M at the international box office and the nine-century mark worldwide. The Greta Gerwig-directed phenomenon added $16.8M from 69 offshore markets on Thursday, bringing the overseas total to $509.7M through yesterday. Globally, the doll is standing tall with $916.1M as she looks to rollerblade past $1B this weekend. 

Forecasters have predicted a return to sunshine and warmer weather following a gruelling period of wet and unsettling.

The Met Office has provided its prediction for when the UK will finally see a picturesque summer.

EXCLUSIVE: The UK box office is booming thanks to Barbenheimer.

After a glorious June, the weather in July has been has pretty disappointing.

July has experienced an unseasonably wet month as rain and temperatures have regularly dipped below average.

Blake Lively went to extreme lengths to make sure her 2022 Met Gala dress looked perfect while on display in Kensington Palace.

After a blowout debut weekend, Barbenheimer showed strong continued momentum at the international box office on Monday. Warner Bros’ Barbie for its part had the best Monday ever for the studio overseas at $32M from 69 markets (it also scored the studio’s best Monday domestically). The running offshore total through yesterday is $226.3M, bringing the global Kenergy to $414.4M.

Once high-flying, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle seem to be in a downward spiral, sustaining blow after blow in a summer that has emerged to be a washout. At risk of schadenfreude, it couldn’t happen to a nicer couple. While I would never wish it personally, things are so stressed, rumors have even been flying that their marital union could be imperiled.

The UK Foreign Office has issued a travel update for Greece as wildfires continue to blaze. Parts of Corfu and Rhodes were evacuated over the weekend as wildfires swept the islands on opposite sides of the country.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter The battle of the bomb versus the bombshell has gone global. Over the weekend, Greta Gerwig’s very pink fantasy-comedy “Barbie” collected a stunning $182 million at the international box office, bringing its worldwide total to $337 million. Meanwhile, Christopher Nolan’s R-rated historical drama “Oppenheimer” held its own, igniting to $93.7 million from 78 markets for a huge global tally of $174 million. The two seemingly different blockbusters, which were jokingly pitted against each other, crushed already-stratospheric expectations thanks to the cultural phenomenon known as “Barbenheimer.” Hundreds of thousands of moviegoers booked a double feature for the ages, attending same-day viewings of “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer.”

The UK Foreign Office has issued a travel warning to anyone heading to Greece this summer. The Government alert comes as temperatures have soared across southern Europe, with heatwaves in many popular British family holiday hotspots such as in Spain, Italy and Greece.