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money lessons playlist! It was The Beatles who sang this song which made fans worldwide scream with joy (at the sight of the boy band extraordinaire, more likely) and the band laughed all the way to the bank. But we’re at the end of 20023 and if you’re feeling a tad mellow, I’m sure you will love this version by Blackstreet Sometimes we value money over everything else as we allow the rat race to overwhelm us. This fun song also reminds us to step back and take a breather.

dreams of Indian fans as Australia won the title for the sixth time. Number 9: Stylish middle-order batsman Suryakumar Yadav continued his rise in 2023. He was the leading run-scorer for India in T20Is.

video of superstar Rajinikanth appearing inconsolable at the last rites of Tamil actor-politician Vijayakanth has left fans teary-eyed. In the video, the ‘Jailer’ star is seen weeping, while other mourners try to console him. The actor appears to be seated in a car. A media handle shared the video on X (formerly Twitter), and wrote, “Superstar Rajinikanth got very emotional for Captain Vijayakanth!” Another user shared a clip of the ‘Enthiran’ star consoling the family and friends of the late DMDK founder and wrote, “Never seen #SuperstarRajinikanth teary-eyed anywhere recently.

Nani and Mrunal Thakur's romance drama 'Hi Nanna' will make its streaming debut on Netflix on January 4, the streamer announced on Saturday. Directed by Shouryuv, the Telugu movie was released in theatres on December 7 to positive reviews.

Salaar Box Office collection Day 8: Prabhas' 'Salaar: Part One- Ceasefire' has been earning big numbers at the Box Office and collected ₹318.23 crore net in India within eight days of its release. Salaar was released on December 22 before a long weekend that included Christmas but its collection dropped to the lowest on Friday ahead of the New Year period. As per reports of industry tracker Sacnilk, Salaar minted ₹10.23 crore net in the domestic market at the Indian Box Office on its eighth day of release.

Bollywood has made a financial comeback this year worthy of one of its traditional singing-on-top-of-the-hills moments. India's Hindi language movie industry made an impressive recovery after a pandemic-driven slowdown, audience fatigue with big studio productions and Bollywood megastars, and streaming platforms taking away a large chunk of viewership. According to consultancy firm Ormax Media, the cumulative box office in 2023 pulled in $1.3 billion, making it one of the best-grossing years of all time. Indian moviegoers — both the masses and niche film lovers — are back in theaters and the massive commercial success of big-ticket Bollywood films has set at ease fears that Mumbai's glitzy dream factory was losing its shine. As one of the largest film producers in the world, India rolls out more than 1,500 movies yearly, its diverse storytelling traditions reflected in its prolific cinematic entertainers. The films that made the cut this year were a mixed bag of visual delights.

New Year's Eve Live: Nashville's Big Bash" is taking place this Sunday night. This concert is free and accessible to the public. The five-hour CBS special is scheduled to be broadcast live on Sunday, December 31, at 6:30 pm (CT) on the CBS Television Network and Paramount+. Gates will open at 4:30 pm (CT).

ReBoot.The pioneering program was the first full-length 3D animated show on TV, predating even Toy Story.Produced in Vancouver by Mainframe Entertainment, it aired on YTV between 1994 and 2001, and decades later still has a committed fan base.Among those super fans are Jacob Weldon and Raquel Lin, a B.C.

Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour concert film. Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour concert film which broke the haul of $457 million at the box office globally, has announced its next part, as well as the conspicuous Las Vegas residency for the year 2024. The North American leg of the tour will start in Vancouver on 7th February 2024, running through 8th December 2024 and wrapping up in Vancouver, British Columbia. The extension of 33 days, is founded on the run of 52 days, thereby becoming the largest grossing tour in history with ticket sales of $ 2 billion worldwide.

For the first time in more than two decades, the top three movies at the box office this year didn't include a sequel or a remake

Hawaii’s governor and mayor are welcoming tourists back to the west side of Maui months after August wildfires killed at least 100 people and destroyed more than 2,000 buildings

A civil rights leader was escorted by police out of a North Carolina movie theater after he insisted on using his own chair for medical reasons

₹318 crore in the domestic market, according to trade monitoring website sacnilk.com. In the Hindi-speaking belt alone, Salaar earned ₹110.48 crore, and on the eighth day -- till 9 pm, the collection was ₹10 crore. As for worldwide, the film’s team claimed that Salaar has crossed the ₹550 crore mark, becoming the seventh film of the year to cross the mark after Pathaan, Jawan, Leo, Gadar 2, Jailer, and Animal. ALSO READ: Salaar vs Dunki: Survey reveals clear winner among fans; Prabhas or Shah Rukh Khan? Check pre-release winner On the contrary, Bollywood king Shah Rukh Khan's Dunki's 7-day box office collections at the domestic market stood at ₹160.22 crore.

Indian film industry, in general and for Bollywood in particular, with four Hindi films crossing ₹500 crore each in box-office earnings and the gross box-office collections projected to touch a new high of ₹12,000 crore. Bollywood's resurgence has been driven by diverse content offerings, innovative marketing, and pent-up demand among audiences for experiencing movies on the big screen notwithstanding the rise of streaming platforms, industry executives and experts said. While star-studded films like Gadar 2, Pathaan and Animal did send the cash registers ringing, mid-budget films such as 12th Fail and Sam Bahadur have performed reasonably well. After a challenging 2022, Bollywood delivered four films — Gadar 2, Pathaan, Jawan, and Animal — with box-office earnings of over ₹500 crore. In 2022, the gross box-office collection of ₹10,637 crore was driven largely by South Indian films KGF: Chapter 2, RRR and Kantara, according to a report of consultancy firm GroupM-Ormax Media.

Mary Tyler Moore, born on December 29, 1936, in Brooklyn, New York, aspired to be an entertainer from a young age. She expressed her early determination in a 1997 interview with the Archive of American Television, stating, «I knew at a very early age what I wanted to do.» Moore, who passed away on January 25, 2017, due to complications of type 1 diabetes, humorously described her passion as «just showing off,» a trait she exhibited since around the age of 3.

Barack Obama has shared his favorite songs of the year including Beyoncé's "America Has a Problem" featuring Kendrick Lamar, Tyla's "Water," and Mitski's "My Love Mine All Mine." His diverse list spans various genres, featuring tracks like Karol G and Shakira's Latin hits, country and folk tunes from artists like Zach Bryan and Jason Isbell, rap hits by Dave and Burna Boy, and indie rock selections including Blondshell, Big Thief, and Indigo de Souza.

Anatomy of a Fall directed by French director and screenwriter, Justin Triet was released in the theatres in August 2023. It received the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in May. The film is produced by David Thion and Marie-Ange Luciani.

Dunki has experienced a mix of ebb and flow in its Box Office collections. Kicking off with a robust start, Dunki raked in ₹29.2 crore on its opening day, a Thursday. Despite a dip on the following day, the film bounced back over the weekend, with collections peaking at ₹30.7 crore on Sunday.

The global mind industry’s most popular spurious advice is that we must maintain a ‘work-life balance.’ This view is popular because it has the word ‘balance’ in it. People tend to believe that anything that seeks balance must be wise, healthy and correct. But from what I have seen, the best way to live is to have a singular preoccupation and bet most of one’s life on pursuing it.

Yash Raj Films' revenue for the fiscal ended March 31, 2023, surged almost 2.5 times on-year to '1,508 crore on the back of Shah Rukh Khan-starrer Pathaan's superlative box office performance. The company had recorded revenues of '619 crore in FY22, according to its regulatory filings with the Registrar of Companies (RoC). «It's been one of our best years in our 50-year history,» Akshaye Widhani, chief executive of Yash Raj Films (YRF), said about calendar 2023. «Our hits have been more than our misses due to our focused content approach,» he told ET, referring to the performances of Pathaan and Salman Star-starrer Tiger 3, which was released in November. Widhani refused to comment on the financials since YRF is a privately held company. Global box office collections of Pathaan, which made its theatrical debut on January 25, and Tiger 3 stood at '1,100 crore and '480 crore, respectively.

New York Times sues OpenAI and Microsoft for feeding their generative AI beasts fodder from the organic food trough of the Grey Lady, we ponder over what happens to the news that is not fit to print, but comes out of ChatGPT and Bing Chat smelling of NYT anyway. Apart from the newspaper making a lot of money if it wins the case, there is a chance that those emulating the two most famous generative AI models will find a way to tweak language learning models by leaving no — pardon the pun — paper trail. As every college plagiarist worth his or her salt knows (by picking this knowledge up from somewhere else), nearly nothing is original or new, and certainly no information is anyone's monopoly.