Title / Weekend Gross (in millions usd $$$)
- One Direction: This is Us $15.8 m
- Lee Daniels’ The Butler $14.8 m
- We’re The Millers $12.6 m
- Instructions Not Included $7.8 m
- Planes $7.7 m
Weekend Box Office: August 30 – Sept. 1, 2013
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Tyler Perry Gives TD Jakes $1 Million Dollars
Filmmaker Tyler Perry (net worth $350 million) donates $1 million to pastor TD Jakes (net worth $18 million).
“The Power of Giving”
Kwame Kilpatrick The Untold Story [documentary]
directed by Flip Wilson
#AllAccess: Mayweather vs. Canelo (preview)
Mayweather Promotions CEO Leonard Ellerbe sets the record straight on the contracted catch weight of 152 pounds for the impending marquee matchup. Ellerbe takes it a step further and reveals how Team Mayweather’s thus far unbeatable strategy begins in the boardroom, long before the pound-for-pound champ even hits the gym.
Hip Hop Album Sales: The Week Ending 8/25/2013
#5. Earl Sweatshirt – Doris – 49,000 (49,000)
#6. Robin Thicke – Blurred Lines – 46,000 (337,000)
#9. A$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.
History of Creating Value [infographic]
source: FundersandFounders
Worlds Top Paid Tennis Players [infographic]
Source: forbes
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
Chinese Artist Behind $80 Million Art Fraud
A struggling Chinese artist faked dozens of paintings as part of an elaborate $80 million New York art fraud, according to prosecutors.
Pei-Shen Qian is said to have created the works for Glafira Rosales, a dealer who sold them to galleries as genuine newly-discovered masterpieces by modernists such as Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko.
World’s Highest Paid Models (2013)
1: Gisele Bündchen $42 million
2: Miranda Kerr $7.2 million
3: Adriana Lima $6 million
4: Kate Moss $5.7 million
5: Liu Wen $4.3 million
6: Hilary Rhoda $4 million
7: Carolyn Murphy $3.6 million
8: Joan Smalls $3.5 million
9: Candice Swanepoel $3.3 million
10: Lara Stone $3.2 million
source: Steve Forbes
Top Paid DJs 2013
Forbes Electronic Cash Kings list.
Music: “Dream Away” by CMA
Average Cost To Raise A Kid: $241,080
It will cost an estimated $241,080 for a middle-income couple to raise a child born last year for 18 years, according to a U.S. Department of Agriculture report released Wednesday. That’s up almost 3% from 2011 and doesn’t include the cost of college.
At the same time, wages aren’t keeping up. The country’s median annual household income has fallen by more than $4,000 since 2000, after adjusting for inflation, and many of the jobs lost during the recent recession have been replaced with lower-wage positions
source: CNNMoney
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