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Box Office: ‘Sinners’ Scores $45 Million in Massive Second Weekend, ‘Star Wars’ Re-Release Beats ‘Accountant 2’. AI-Generated.
“Sinners” towered over the box office again, scoring a mighty $45 million in its second weekend of release. Ticket sales declined a mere 6% from its $48 million start, making “Sinners” the rare film with a sophomore outing that nearly matched its debut. It’s especially impressive for horror, a genre that’s known to fall sharply after opening weekend.So far, “Sinners” has grossed $122.5 million in North America and $161.6 million globally against a $90 million production budget. Glowing reviews and audience enthusiasm seem likely to keep turbocharging the film at the domestic box office even as the summer movie season kicks off. Over the weekend, director Ryan Coogler and star Michael B. Jordan’s vampire thriller stayed strong as several new movies landed on the big screen.After a close race, “Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith” looks to have pulled ahead of Ben Affleck’s “The Accountant 2” for second place on box office charts.
By md tawbar ali9 months ago in Filthy
DOGE’s mass federal workforce cuts may cost taxpayers $135 billion this fiscal year alone. AI-Generated.
Although DOGE asserts that it has saved the government $150 million from waste, fraud, and abuse, some federal workforce and policy experts believe that Elon Musk's efforts to cut costs have cost taxpayers money. The chaos of personnel changes have tanked productivity, one expert claims, costing the government billions in wasted payroll. Another person argued that fired IRS employees are no longer able to conduct audits that generate significant revenue. As Elon Musk prepares to step back from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), his goal to rout out government waste, fraud, and abuse may have fallen short. DOGE initially promised to identify and eliminate $2 trillion in the first months of President Donald Trump's second term, but Musk drastically cut that figure down to $150 billion—only 7.5% of his original estimated savings. Some experts warn that his efforts may actually be costing the government billions in lost labor and revenue. According to calculations made by Reuters, these spending cuts have affected 260,000 federal employees who have been fired, given buyouts, or retired early since Trump's return to the White House. The Internal Revenue Service may lose up to a third of its 100,000 employees through resignations and layoffs, according to a report in The New York Times earlier this month. About 22,000 of these employees may accept Trump's most recent offer to resign. According to Max Stier, chief executive of the government efficiency and workforce nonprofit Partnership for Public Service, "We do need to have our government work better, but the approaches that have been adopted so far are taking us in the exact wrong direction." The mass exodus of federal employees may result in the government paying out fewer salaries, but it also may severely limit the amount of work that it is able to carry out, including collecting revenue from tax audits. “The end result will be that the American public will be holding the bag as Elon Musk goes back to his private enterprises.”
By md tawbar ali9 months ago in Serve
