2 h. ago 'Avatar: Fire and Ash' tops box office for fourth straight week with newcomer 'Primate' second

“Avatar: Fire and Ash” continues to dominate the box office, holding the top spot for a fourth consecutive week

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31 h. ago As Avatar makes $1 billion in 3 weeks here are the top 10 billionaire blockbuster films

James Cameron's latest sci-fi adventure Avatar: Fire and Ash is one of 60 films to have become billion-dollar blockbusters. We look at the top 10 films that have made nine-figures.

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51 h. ago Swiss fire survivors recall 'unbearable burning smell' after 'night of ashes' kills 40

The trio spoke out at an official memorial service, nine days after 40 people, including 20 children, were killed and 116 injured in the blaze at Le Constellation bar in the ski resort of Crans-Montana

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5 d. ago The strangest thing: is the future of cinema not new movies?

Netflix’s big-screen release of the Stranger Things finale is estimated to have made over $25m at the US box office, the latest example of event cinema proving popularIt was a lucrative holiday period at the North American box office these past two weeks, with titles like Avatar: Fire and Ash, The Housemaid, Marty Supreme, Anaconda, and Zootopia 2 bringing a welcome diversity of hit movies after an underwhelming fall. But during that period, the biggest single-day gross posted by any release wasn’t really a gross – or a movie. It was the series finale of the Netflix TV show Stranger Things.Netflix made a deal to put the feature-length episode in theaters simultaneously with its streaming debut, and estimates put the numbers for the 24 hours’ worth of shows, beginning at 8pm on New Year’s Eve and continuing throughout New Year’s Day, around $25m. That’s bigger than any single day of Avatar: Fire and Ash after its opening weekend. In fact, if the Stranger Things release banked over $3...

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6 d. ago How far can James Cameron’s Avatar saga go after its billion

Cameron warned that Avatars 4 and 5 might end up as novels if third instalment Fire and Ash bombed. But noise about its slow start is beginning to look like a ritual movies in the series must go through before the money pours inFor a movie saga that is, on paper at least, the world’s most popular fantasy trilogy of all time, Avatar doesn’t half have its sceptics. Maybe it’s James Cameron’s po-faced belief that he’s making the sort of films that could save planet Earth from future environmental apocalypse. Or perhaps it has simply become the kind of cultural behemoth that invites opposition merely by existing. Either way, it’s fair to say not everyone has exactly been sobbing over the idea that Fire and Ash might be the final time we get to see an Avatar film for the foreseeable future.Until recently, this had seemed like a genuine likelihood. The Hollywood trades have been filled with reports that the saga would be done and dusted if the new instalment fell short of expectations at ...

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7 d. ago New London girls defend home court in Firelands clash with Mapleton

New London girls defend home court in Firelands clash with Mapleton  Ashland Times-Gazette

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1 week ago New Year's Eve horror as person found dead in Wales house fire after home caves in

Emergency services responded to a fatal house fire in Glenboi, Mountain Ash, shortly before 2am on New Year's Eve, with the property suffering significant structural damage

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1 week ago My big night out: I realised I could leave the house party behind – and everything else that made me feel small

It was New Year’s Eve and there had been fireworks, drinking and dancing. Amid it all, I felt ashen and cold. As I walked out, I felt my first surge of quiet liberationWe drove out along the coast one afternoon, to a fireworks shop a couple of towns along. It was late in the year, and the light was low and dismal, rain scudding the windscreen. In a couple of days’ time it would be New Year’s Eve, and then our small town would scatter itself to parties held in bars and houses and nightclubs, and out along the harbour. At midnight, there would be an amateur firework display on the roof of the old lido.In the shop that afternoon, some of the fireworks sat behind a glass-fronted cabinet. They had names like Stinging Bees, Vendetta and Sky Breaker, and beneath each item was a small laminated caption: “One hundred shot roman candle firing high whistling bees,” read one. “Twenty-five secs of time rain salutes. Noisy,” read another. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Avatar: Fire and Ash continues to dominate box office as Marty Supreme and The Housemaid make decent showings

Third installment in James Cameron’s sci-fi fantasy franchise is expected to hit $1 billion by next week

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1 week ago Schoolgirl, 13, who died in Ashford house fire just days after Christmas pictured for the first time

We'll be bringing you the very latest updates, pictures and video on this breaking news story.

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1 week ago Neighbours desperately tried to put out house fire in Ashford that killed child

One neighbour tried to put out the blaze but said ‘it was really bad, we were all beaten back’

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1 week ago James Cameron says he’ll hold press conference if Avatar films end after Fire and Ash

Director says he doesn’t know if saga ‘goes beyond this point’

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2 w. ago Ashford house fire: Everything you need to know as child dies in Christmas tragedy

One child died at the scene and a second youngster has been taken to hospital following the fire in the village of Hamstreet in Ashford, Kent

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2 w. ago One child dead and another in hospital after house fire in Kent

Emergency services say ‘intense fire’ spread throughout semi-detached property in Hamstreet near AshfordA child has died and a second has been taken to hospital after a house fire in Kent, emergency services have said.The blaze occurred in White Admiral Way in the village of Hamstreet, near Ashford, on Sunday. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago One child is dead and another is in hospital after house fire

Six fire engines and a height vehicle were raced to the semi-detached property, where crews worked to extinguish the blaze, which had spread throughout the home.

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2 w. ago Child killed in 'intense' Kent house fire as second youngster rushed to hospital

A child has died following a house fire in Hamstreet, Ashford, Kent - a second youngster has been rushed to hospital

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2 w. ago 'Avatar' and 'Marty Supreme' propel strong ticket sales to wrap a turbulent 2025 for Hollywood

Hollywood has wrapped up a turbulent 2025 with big ticket sales for “Avatar: Fire and Ash” and “Marty Supreme."

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2 w. ago James Cameron calls out Amy Poehler’s ‘ignorant’ Golden Globes joke that ‘went too far’

‘The fact that people found it funny shows exactly what they think of me,’ director said

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2 w. ago Avatar Fire and Ash: harmony is no longer guaranteed in James Cameron’s threequel – discuss with spoilers

Crucial tonal shifts mean the film asks harder questions than the series ever has before. Share your thoughts in the comments below• This article contains spoilers for Avatar: Fire and AshFor more than a decade now, James Cameron’s Avatar films have been built on the reassuring idea that the universe is alive, connected and spiritually pure. Part of the pleasure of making it to the end credits of one of them is the comforting feeling that we are nothing like all those evil humans who want to destroy Pandora’s gorgeous bioluminescent utopia of giant blue cat people and navel-gazing whale creatures. Cameron wants to remind us that if we only spent less time chasing profit and more listening to nature, everything would probably be fine.Fire and Ash is where that reassurance starts to curdle. It is still recognisably an Avatar movie: the tech is absurd, the sincerity remains weaponised, and the creatures appear to have been designed by a benevolent god with a doctorate in marine biology...

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2 w. ago Avatar: Fire and Ash falls short at the box office while Biblical movie David smashes records

The third movie in the series brought in $345 million worldwide in its first three days

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