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Mohanlal’s L2: Empuraan has been marching towards success since its release on March 27, setting record after record. Directed by Prithviraj Sukumaran, the film has collected over Rs 100 crore (gross) at the Indian box office, becoming only the fourth Malayalam movie to achieve this feat. The movie is also inching closer to Manjummel Boys’ global box office total to be the biggest Malayalam grosser of all time, as per industry tracker Sacnlik. Manjummel Boys had grossed Rs 241 crore worldwide. Empuraan has earned Rs 236 crore till date and is likely to overtake Manjummel Boys soon.

box office. On its ninth day, the Malayalam action thriller earned around Rs 3 crore, continuing its strong run. Starring Mohanlal and directed by Prithviraj Sukumaran, the film has become one of the highest-grossing Malayalam movies ever made. But what has grabbed the spotlight is that the film charted history by becoming the first Malayalam movie to cross Rs 100 crore in worldwide theatrical share. Released on March 27, L2: Empuraan has now minted Rs 91.51 Cr, its India net collection. Mohanlal celebrated the Rs 100 crore milestone on X, calling it a proud moment for Malayalam cinema.

A Minecraft Movie is off to a positive start at the box office. The movie has exceeded expectations and is on track to earn $90 to $100 million over its opening weekend. As per Deadline, A Minecraft movie earned $18.4 million in 55 offshore markets on Thursday, excluding China. The Warner Bros. film earned $10.55 million in previews domestically on Thursday, April 3.

From overwhelming perfume to clumsy sunglasses, the French president's quirky habits may be more than mere personal quirks; they may be deliberate shows of strength. French President Emmanuel Macron's image management seems to be designed to reinforce charisma, control, and presence, blending political theater and personal branding in a distinctly French manner. According to a shocking new book, Emmanuel Macron makes fun of his aides by wearing «industrial amounts» of cologne and carrying a box of «ugly» sunglasses.

Salman Khan’s Sikandar has seen a further drop in its earnings. The movie, which released on March 30, has witnessed declining box office collections since Eid. On Thursday, April 3, Sikandar saw a fall of 41.03 percent in its collection. As per Sacnilk, Sikandar grossed Rs 5.75 crore on April 3, bringing its total domestic earnings to Rs 90 crore.

Joe Rogan has ridiculed Disney’s Snow White remake after its disappointing box office debut. He suggested that Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) should probe its production costs. The film, as per reports, had a budget of around $250 million but earned just $43 million at its opening weekend across the United States and Canada. In the second week of its running, the film saw a steep decline of 66 per cent in viewers. The film has become one of Disney’s biggest box office failures in recent years. As per reports, during an episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, comedian Kurt Metzger joined Rogan in dissecting the film’s downfall. Playing the footage of CGI dwarfs, Rogan said that it looked bad and did not look real at all. Responding to his comments, Metzger said that the makers put it all on the lead actor, Rachel Zegler. He said that her performance might not have been great, but that she’s young. He commented that Zegler did not write the script and that she did not decide to remove the dwarves. He added that Peter Dinklage did.

Khalid Rahman’s upcoming Malayalam sports comedy Alappuzha Gymkhana has got a release date. The movie, which stars Naslen in the lead, will hit theatres worldwide on April 10. The makers made the announcement on April 2, at the launch of Alappuzha Gymkhana’s second song, Panchara Punch. The movie will compete with Basil Joseph’s Maranamass and Mammootty’s Bazooka at the box office. Alappuzha Gymkhana will also face stiff competition from Mohanlal’s L2: Empuraan. The Prithviraj Sukumaran directorial has been going strong at the box office since its release last month.

batteries. Toys sold in slimmed-down boxes or no packaging at all. More household goods that shoppers need to assemble themselves. These are some of the ways consumer product companies are retooling their wares to reduce costs and avoid raising prices as President Donald Trump levies new import taxes on key trading partners as well as some materials used by American manufacturers. The economic environment in which the president has imposed, threatened and occasionally postponed repeated rounds of tariffs is more precarious than during his first term. U.S. consumers are feeling tapped out after several years of inflation. Businesses say tariffs add to their expenses and eat into their profits, but they are wary of losing sales if they try to pass all of the increase on to customers. Instead, some companies are exploring cost-cutting options, both ones that consumers likely would notice in time — remember “shrinkflation?” — and ones that exist too far down the supply chain for them to see. The changes may help minimize price increases yet won't be enough in every case to offset them completely.

Rashmika Mandanna, the film is directed by A R Murugadoss and produced by Sajid Nadiadwala's under his production banner Nadiadwala Grandson Entertainment. It released on March 30. Production banner shared the box office collection on the X handle. «Eid was special, only because of your love! We're truly grateful! Watch #Sikandar in your nearest cinemas TODAY! Book your tickets NOW,» read the caption.

Amit Shah on Monday highlighted the Modi government's achievements in the health sector at the inauguration program of Maharaja Agrasen Medical College. During an event in Hisar, Haryana, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said, «In ten years, the Modi government lifted 25 crore people out of the poverty line. Four crore houses have been constructed to give shelter to 20 crore people. 81 crore people get five kg free ration per month.» He further added, «Until 2014, 12 crore families did not have toilet facilities. Today, I congratulate the Haryana government for becoming the first state government in the country to provide toilets in every house in the state...With a holistic approach, the Narendra Modi govt has thought about the health sector in the country.» «The Narendra Modi government has done a lot of work in the area of medical infrastructure. Rs 64,000 crores have been spent on creating Public Health Centres and Community Health centres,» Shah added. Amit Shah said that the Modi government has done a lot of work in the health sector and in medical infrastructure; over Rs 64,000 crores have been spent on creating Public Health Centres and Community Health centres.

Excitel, a Delhi-based home broadband provider, is gearing up to transform India’s cable TV households into fiber broadband users by replacing traditional set-top boxes with Android-enabled IPTV boxes. The company aims to onboard 2 million new users in 18 months through this hybrid model. “We want to replace legacy cable TV boxes with Android boxes and give users OTT, YouTube and live channels, all at the same price they pay today,” said Vivek Raina, CEO and co-founder of Excitel. “The user gets more, the cable operator runs just one network, and we grow faster without laying new fiber ourselves.” IPTV, or Internet Protocol Television, is a method of delivering television content over the internet offering an alternative to traditional cable or satellite TV. India’s largest telecom company Bharti Airtel also rolled out IPTV across 2000 cities last week.

Customs officials seized exotic wildlife, including including king snakes, monitor lizards and turtles, at Biju Patnaik International Airport (BPIA) in Bhubaneshwar on Saturday. The seized wildlife were concealed in chocolate boxes and were being smuggled from Thailand capital, Bangkok. They were being taken to Chennai, Injeet Kumar Mohanty, a Customs official engaged at the airport, told PTI. The luggage of a person from Chennai was searched after officials received a tip-off. Following the search, seizures were made, he said, adding the passenger was detained and was being questioned. As many as nine California king snakes, 10 pig nose turtles and 12 Nile monitor lizards were seized, of which three lizards were dead, he said. The wildlife species have been handed over to the forest department.

Ranveer Allahbadia, stand-up comedian Swati Sachdeva finds herself in trouble and received backlash from social media users for her recent YouTube episode. The in clip, which has now gone viral, Sachdeva jokes about her mother finding her vibrator. Social media users are questioning whether there should be limits to humour, especially when it involves parents and family. The episode was uploaded by Sachdeva on YouTube eight days ago. It shows her recounting how her mother, trying to be the «cool mother,» found the device and awkwardly initiated a conversation. She joked, «I was sure she (her mother) was going to ask me to lend the vibrator. She started calling it (the vibrator) a gadget, a toy. I was like, 'I swear, Mom, it belongs to Papa.' She said, 'Don't speak nonsense; I know his choice.' Sachdeva makes joes on various subjects on the he episode, named 'Family First'. She added a disclaimer in the description box, which reads, „The video contains occasional use of strong language and adult humour for comedic purposes; viewer discretion is advised.“

Kanakia Group’s listed movie exhibition company Cineline India has sold its hotel property Hyatt Centric in Goa to Sparsh Vidhyut at an enterprise value of Rs 270 crore. The hotel asset was owned by Cineline India’s wholly owned subsidiary R&H Spaces. The monetization has helped Cineline India to reduce its debt by Rs 120 crore pertaining to the hotel asset at subsidiary level, the company said in a release. Cineline India is planning to utilize the sale proceeds to fully repay its outstanding debt of Rz 108 crores related to the film exhibition business, achieving a debt-free status. The remaining surplus will be allocated towards expansion of the film exhibition business, the company said.

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L2: Empuraan, starring Mohanlal and Prithviraj Sukumaran, has set a new benchmark at the box office with a record-breaking Rs 22 crore collection on its opening day. The film has reportedly shattered previous records, surpassing even the highest day-one earnings in Malayalam film history by more than double. According to trade tracker Sacnilk, L2: Empuraan raked in Rs 22 crore in India on its release day, a figure that dwarfs the previous record of Rs 8.95 crore set by Prithviraj’s The Goat Life earlier this year. The previous top opening was set by Lucifer in 2019, which earned Rs 6.10 crore. Notably, the film enjoyed a strong 60% occupancy across all Malayalam shows, with certain regions like Kochi and Kozhikode—where Mohanlal enjoys immense popularity—seeing occupancy rates soar past 90%, with almost all shows selling out. The impressive Rs 22 crore total includes Rs 19.45 crore from Malayalam audiences, while the Telugu version earned Rs 1.2 crore. However, the film's dubbed versions in Hindi, Tamil, and Kannada saw more modest returns, contributing just Rs 1.35 crore combined on opening day.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Salman Khan’s return to the big screen on Eid, which has yielded great box office returns in the past, offers cinemas hope that the tried-and-tested formula will end the drought of blockbusters since December. Khan’s latest action film Sikandar, hitting cinemas on Sunday (30 March), is estimated to rake in ₹20-30 crore on opening day.

In October 2024, the OBR said it expected UK GDP to grow by 2% in 2025, but leaks in February revealed that the agency was considering downgrading its forecast. At the dispatch box today, Reeves confirmed that due to «increased global uncertainty», the independent body had revised its growth forecasts down.  Spring Statement 25: UK markets hold steady following Reeves' speech She said: «I am not satisfied with these numbers,» and pledged to «increase investment», cut public spending on welfare by a net £3.2bn, «tear down regulatory standards» and carry out infrastructure reforms su...

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Despite the growing wave of nationalistic cinema in India, overseas audiences remain largely unmoved by its fervour. While films like Chhaava, Sky Force, and The Kashmir Files have struck a chord domestically, their overseas performance tells a different story.

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