18 percent The summer movie season this year is
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The summer movie season this year is absolutely stacked, and — given last year’s mid-summer flops — analysts anticipate an 18 to 20 percent increase at the box office compared to 2017. If eight sequels on the schedule sell 80 percent of the tickets sold by their franchises’ respective predecessors, that alone would be worth $2 billion domestic — about a fifth of 2017’s total. [The Wall Street Journal]
28 miles per hour
The diplomatic liaison between North Korea and South Korea has thawed relations between the countries, and President Moon Jae-in presented North Korean leader Kim Jong-un with a plan to link the two nations economically.
That plan includes the South potentially aiding the North in upgrading its rail system. Trains carry 90 percent of North Korea’s cargo and 60 percent of its passenger traffic, but the system is in such a state of disrepair that the fastest train — which connects Pyongyang to the Chinese border — runs at only around 28 miles per hour. [The New York Times]
The summer movie season this year is absolutely stacked, and — given last year’s mid-summer flops — analysts anticipate an 18 to 20 percent increase at the box office compared to 2017. If eight sequels on the schedule sell 80 percent of the tickets sold by their franchises’ respective predecessors, that alone would be worth $2 billion domestic — about a fifth of 2017’s total. [The Wall Street Journal]
28 miles per hour
The diplomatic liaison between North Korea and South Korea has thawed relations between the countries, and President Moon Jae-in presented North Korean leader Kim Jong-un with a plan to link the two nations economically.
That plan includes the South potentially aiding the North in upgrading its rail system. Trains carry 90 percent of North Korea’s cargo and 60 percent of its passenger traffic, but the system is in such a state of disrepair that the fastest train — which connects Pyongyang to the Chinese border — runs at only around 28 miles per hour. [The New York Times]
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