| Rank | Title | Domestic Gross (Weekend) | Worldwide Gross (Cume) | Week # | Percentage Change | Budget |
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| 1 | Ocean's 8 | $41,500,000 | $53,700,000 | 1 | N/A | $70M |
| 2 | Solo: A Star Wars Story | $15,154,000 | $312,205,474 | 3 | -48.5% | $250M - $300M |
| 3 | Deadpool 2 | $13,650,000 | $655,258,593 | 4 | -41.1% | $110M |
| 4 | Hereditary | $13,037,336 | $13,037,336 | 1 | N/A | $10M |
| 5 | Avengers: Infinity War | $6,836,000 | $1,998,033,699 | 7 | -34.9% | $315M - $400M |
Notable Box Office Stories:
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Ocean's 8 - Whenever a film like Solo bombs it's always interesting to see what comes in to fill the vacuum of space left where the bombed film was supposed to just rule the weekends ahead. Now with this weekend over it seems like Incredibles II will be the big victor but Ocean's 8 still likely got some of that residual heat as the female lead sequel/reboot of the heist series has opened to a franchise high of $41.5M. Of course adjusting for inflation it's not so high, in fact it's the worst! Queue angry comments about title, etc. I've never been a big fan of adjusting for inflation but here I can accept it as we are just 11 years out from the last film and the landscape is much similar than say comparing a film from 30 years ago. Still I think Ocean's 8 is in the right spot for an Ocean's film opening, a franchise that always opened low but had fabulous multipliers with the last two over 3x and the first an incredible 4.8x multiplier. Ocean's 8 could hold well in the coming weeks as the female audiences came out for the film with 69% of the audience female and scoring great marks for women under the age of 18 who could have the social media power to keep the film running. Overall the film scored a B+ on Cinemascore, the same as 11 and 13 so expect it to hold pretty well barring a major drop-off in the wake of Incredibles II. Time will tell if this film has the staying power of the others but with a modest budget of $70M (what a world where that is considered restraint) it's aiming for a pretty good return and it is a good example of revitalizing a seemingly dormant franchise.
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Hereditary - The Sundance critics favorite finally came out this weekend and made a major splash in many ways as it became the highest opening ever for A24 (hell the only time a film of theirs has opened in double digits) as the horror film opened at #4 with $13M. The debut feature film from writer/director Ari Aster received widespread critical acclaim and
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> " 1.... The European Union, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Norway, and Singapore "must be investigated for blocking a faster global vaccine rollout leading to the loss of countless lives.
> More than two million nurses from 28 countries across the globe filed a complaint Monday calling on the United Nations to investigate the rich countries that are blocking a proposed patent waiver for coronavirus vaccines, an appeal that came as public health experts raced to understand the newly detected Omicron variant.
> "This unequal distribution of vaccines is not only grossly unjust for the people in low- and moderate-income countries who remain at high risk for contracting and further transmitting Covid-19, it also provides for the possibility for the development of new variants, some of which may be resistant to the current available vaccines," the filing reads.
> The complaint specifically targets the European Union, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Norway, and Singapore, wealthy nations that have stonewalled the patent waiver at the World Trade Organization, defying the will of a majority of that institution's member countries.
> In its complaint on Sunday, the coalition of nursing unions argues that the proliferation of variants is a predictable outcome of rich nations' refusal to "distribute vaccines and treatments equitably to the vast majority of people of low- and moderate-income countries.
> "High-income countries have procured upwards of 7 billion confirmed vaccine doses, while low income countries have only been able to procure approximately 300 million doses.
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After looking over my old textbooks from school with a sudden interest in The Norman Conquest, I wondered how valuable the claimant's other landholdings were in comparison to England. Mostly, I am interested in:
- How did William the Conqueror and Harald Hardrada's kingdoms differ in size and population
- How they differed in wealth and perceived status
- How they differed in importance
So I created the Kingdom of Norway because one of the main goals of the campaign is to create the Scandanavian Empire. Due to the succession laws my player heir will only inherit the Kingdom of Sweden title, and the Norway Kingdom will be given to my second son, so I assume he will split off into his own realm and I will lose all the land that is de jure part of Kingdom of Norway? Not sure if I should disinherit my second son or just abolish the title or if both of those are bad ideas since I started playing yesterday and don't know jack shit. Thanks in advance
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Or should only the ruler of a kingdom be hereditary and governors and mayors be appointed (either with nobles or non-nobles depending on your ideal monarchy even having a noble class)? What if a heredity sub-ruler isn't that good at governing like he's failing to maintain the roads/infrastructure or failing to modernize his part of the kingdom, or just mismanages things. Would a king appoint a regent for that province or city until the next heir comes of age? Would a hereditary sub-ruler get a salary with bonuses if he does well or can he uses the revenues from the land he controls as he see fits aside from the taxes he sends to the kingdom?
Also on a related question, what about government departments? Should there be a hereditary Lord of Trade or Lord of Housing and Development?
