Hollywood continues to waste big budgets on blockbuster movies that flop at the box office.
Hollywood Movies Flop Summer 2013 [infographic]
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$370 Million Dollars Worth Of Cocaine Found On Yacht
A multi-agency law enforcement operation across the South Pacific has resulted in the seizure of approximately 750 kgs of cocaine in Vanuatu. This operation has prevented in excess of 750,000 individual deals, worth about $370 million, from reaching Australian streets.
Dr. Martin Luther King jr. “I Have A Dream” Speech 50 Year Anniversary
On this day in 1963, 50 years ago, Dr. King delivered a speech that would be apart of American History forever. 50 years ago the US Government/FBI also had plan to kill Dr. King.
This is a letter sent to MLK anonymously by the FBI. It attempted to get King to kill himself before he could receive the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize. Accompanying the letter was a cassette that “contained allegedly incriminating audio recordings of King with women in various hotel rooms”
Hip Hop Album Sales: The Week Ending 8/25/2013
#5. Earl Sweatshirt – Doris – 49,000 (49,000)
#6. Robin Thicke – Blurred Lines – 46,000 (337,000)
#9. A$AP Ferg – Trap Lord – 32,000 (32,000)
#10. Jay Z – Magna Carta Holy Grail – 30,000 (912,000)
#14. K. Michelle – Rebellious Soul – 23,000 (94,000)
#20. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – The Heist – 19,000 (1,000,000)
#36. J. Cole – Born Sinner – 9,000 (579,000)
#44. Kendrick Lamar – good kid, m.A.A.d. city – 8,000 (1,000,000)
#49. Kanye West – Yeezus – 7,000 (517,000)
#56. Tech N9ne – Something Else – 7,000 (92,000)
#87. Eminem – Eminem Show – 4,000 (10,000,000)
* data comes from Nielsen Soundscan, rounded to nearest thousandth for units above 10,000, nearest hundredth for units below 10,000.
I Forgot My Phone [short film]
Written by/Starring Charlene deGuzman
Directed by Miles Crawford
History of Creating Value [infographic]
source: FundersandFounders
Weekend Box Office: August 23-25, 2013
Title / Weekend Gross (in million usd)
- Lee Daniels’ The Butler $16.5 m
- We’re the Millers $13 m
- The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones $9.3 m
- The World’s End $8.7 m
- Planes $8.5 m
Worlds Top Paid Tennis Players [infographic]
Source: forbes
Yahoo Surpasses Google in Web Traffic
comScore, Inc., a leader in measuring the digital world, today released its monthly ranking of U.S. web activity at the top online properties for July 2013 based on data from the comScore Media Metrix service. Yahoo is #1 for web traffic surpassing google for the first time since 2011.
Hip Hop Album Sales: The Week Ending 8/18/2013
#2. K. Michelle – Rebellious Soul – 72,000 (72,000)
#4. Robin Thicke – Blurred Lines – 48,000 (291,000)
#6. Jay Z – Magna Carta Holy Grail – 37,000 (882,000)
#14. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – The Heist – 16,000 (998,000)
#28. Hoodie Allen – Americoustic EP – 11,000 (11,000)
#33. Tech N9ne – Something Else – 10,000 (85,000)
#36. Kendrick Lamar – good kid, m.A.A.d. city – 9,000 (1,000,000)
#61. Kanye West – Yeezus – 6,000 (510,000)
#76. Stevie Stone – 2 Birds, 1 Stone – 4,700 (4,700)
#131. Aubrey O’Day – Between Two Evils – 3,000 (3,000)
* data comes from Nielsen Soundscan, rounded to nearest thousandth for units above 10,000, nearest hundredth for units below 10,000.
Detroit to receive $52.2M to Demolish Abandoned Buildings
The city of Detroit will receive more than half of $100 million in newly allocated federal funds to tear down dilapidated structures.
The city riddled with thousands of abandoned buildings will begin demolishing some of them later this month with the help of $52.2 million in federal money
Playstation 4 Coming November 15th
The next-generation PlayStation 4 will go on sale on Nov 15. in North America, Sony announced at its Gamescom press conference Tuesday. It will go on sale on Nov. 29 in Europe.
The PlayStation 4 will cost $399
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