Though 55 films have grossed $1 billion globally, just a dozen have managed to hit that benchmark from overseas markets alone — and 11 of those movies were live-action. While Disney’s 2019 “The Lion King” earned a staggering $1.1 billion internationally, the studio has categorized the remake as live-action rather than computer generated, so “Inside Out 2” is technically the first animated release to join the coveted club. (Rubin, Variety)
Read MoreYoung adults are the ones most in crisis. Even Richard Weissbourd, who led the study in 2022, was taken aback. His team found that 36 percent of participants ages 18 to 25 reported experiencing anxiety and 29 percent reported experiencing depression—about double the proportion of 14-to-17-year-olds on each measure. (Hill, The Atlantic)
Read MoreStudent behavior problems, cellphones in class, anemic pay and artificial-intelligence-powered cheating are taking their toll on America’s roughly 3.8 million teachers, on top of the bruising pandemic years. (Barnum, The Wall Street Journal)
Read MoreStarbuck, who has been waging campaigns against corporate DEI programs, approached Lowe’s last week, telling the company he planned to target the home-improvement giant over policies such as their employee resource groups and donations to Pride events. The company responded Monday with preemptive changes, Starbuck said in a post on X. (Telford, The Washington Post)
Read More“If we look at the West against a global background, the striking thing about our situation is that we are in a competition of beliefs, whether we like it or not.” (Davies, New Statesman)
Read MoreAfghanistan's Taliban formally codified a long set of rules governing morality this week, ranging from requiring women to cover their faces and men to grow beards to banning car drivers from playing music, the Justice Ministry said. (Yawar & Greenfield, Reuters)
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