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Box Office: ‘Fantastic Four’ Craters By 66% in Second Weekend, ‘Naked Gun’ Debuts to $17 Million

Marvel’s First Family might not save the day after all. “The Fantastic Four: First Steps” is quickly losing steam in its second weekend, signaling the comic book adventure isn’t connecting at the box office beyond the film’s core demographic of superhero fans.

After a healthy $117.6 million debut, “The Fantastic Four” suffered a hefty 66% drop in its sophomore outing with $40 million from 4,125 theaters. Heading into the weekend, box office analysts anticipated a decline of 55% to 60% from its opening. (By comparison, “Superman” dropped by 53% in its second weekend after launching to $125 million earlier in July.) This painful fall is surprising because the Marvel

Lionel Messi exits Inter Miami match v Necaxa with injury: ‘He did feel a pull’

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Lionel Messi exited Inter Miami’s Leagues Cup match against Necaxa on Saturday night after suffering an apparent hamstring injury in the opening minutes.

After the match that Inter Miami won in a penalty shootout, coach Javier Mascherano indicated that Messi would undergo testing on Sunday to determine the severity of the injury.

“He felt discomfort,” Mascherano said through an interpreter. “We will not be able to know until tomorrow how severe the injury is. There’s probably something there. He was not in pain, but he did feel a pull.”

Messi was injured around the eighth minute when he fell while being challenged by a pair of defenders near the penalty area. He

Jerry Jones downplays Micah Parsons’ public comments as teammates rally to player’s side

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Dallas Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones does not intend to trade Micah Parsons after the star defensive end said he wants to leave the team amid a breakdown in negotiating a contract extension.

“Surely you guys have been around this stuff and know how to recognize negotiation talk, that type of thing. And so that’s where I put that,” Jones said after practice Saturday, one day after Parsons posted on social media to request a trade.

No stranger to public and prolonged disputes with standout players, Jones insisted the standoff with Parsons is no different than past situations ranging from alternating approaches by quarterback Dak Prescott and wide receiver

Sydney Sweeney’s Republican voter registration revealed amid jeans ad controversy

Sydney Sweeney registered as a Republican voter in Florida a few months before Donald Trump won a second US presidency, it has been revealed, as the public continues fixating on a new jeans ad campaign featuring the actor and a pun about her genes.

The Euphoria and White Lotus star registered to vote in Florida on 14 June 2024 – shortly after buying a mansion in the Keys – and listed her party affiliation as Republican, according to publicly available records reviewed by the Guardian on Sunday. That was about two weeks after Trump, another registered Republican Florida voter, was convicted in New York City of criminal falsification of business

US women set world record in relay at swim worlds, while Summer McIntosh wins fourth gold

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Summer McIntosh capped a brilliant world championships with the 400 meters individual medley (IM) title and a fourth individual gold medal, while the United States set a world record in the women’s 4×100 medley relay to win the final title in Singapore on Sunday.

France’s Leon Marchand roared to victory in the men’s 400 meters IM, while the United States topped the medals table with nine golds, one more than Australia.

France finished third with Canada fourth, all four of their golds won by 18-year-old McIntosh, who missed out on becoming only the third swimmer to win five individual medals at a world championships, joining Michael Phelps (2007) and Sarah Sjostrom

Hungarian Grand Prix: F1 updates from Hungaroring – live

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Hamilton is the next challenge for Verstappen to overtake and says he’s a “bit of a sitting duck”. Pray for Lewis.

Lap 25/70: Max Verstappen has come out of the pit lane in P12 and sounds completely baffled with Red Bull re “this really terrible idea… coming out into traffic”. After some good work earlier in the race, he’s got another big fight on his hands.

Lap 24/70: Now most of the leaders have pitted, here’s a rundown of the standings, a third of the way into this race:

Norris (hasn’t pitted)

Leclerc

Piastri

Alonso

Russell

Bortoleto

Stroll

Lawson

Bearman

Hadjar

How McKinsey lost its edge

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“Business has been forced to adjust itself to staggering acceleration in the rate of change,” observed McKinsey, a consultancy, in a promotional pamphlet it published in 1940. “What period in history has ever presented more difficult problems for the executive?” Naturally, demand for McKinsey’s advice was soaring, it wrote.

Is sarcasm the lowest form of wit? If not, what is?

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Is sarcasm the lowest form of wit? If not, what is? Jason Frank, Cumbria

Post your answers (and new questions) below or send them to nq@theguardian.com. A selection will be published next Sunday.

The problem is far bigger than Jeffrey Epstein | Rebecca Solnit

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On 2 July, the jury delivered a guilty verdict on some of the charges against the music mogul Sean Combs, accused of horrific sexual abuse of women with the help of his extensive staff and deep pockets. He’s also accused in many civil suits of sexual abuse of adults and minors. It seems like everyone promptly forgot about Combs when the facts about the financier Jeffrey Epstein’s decades of horrific sexual abuse of at least a 100 girls and women, with the help of his extensive staff, deep pockets, banks, and elite connections became the next front-page ruckus.

In June, the movie producer Harvey Weinstein was found guilty in a

The best way to age? Forget the longevity bros – and be more Mariah Carey

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Big news, everyone: time is cancelled. Mariah Carey says so. “I don’t allow it – it just doesn’t happen,” the diva delle dive told Harper’s Bazaar. “I don’t know time. I don’t know numbers. I do not acknowledge time.” Carey made this proclamation in response to a question about how she deals with ageing while wearing “white Fendi pyjamas over a plunging black bra, with six-inch Gianvito Rossi heels”, which is exactly how I want my supreme planetary dictator to dress.

Carey is famous for cancelling stuff – stairs (won’t do them), J-Lo (doesn’t know her), James Corden’s Carpool Karaoke (refused to sing) and overhead lighting (no) – but this