Megamind continues US box office chart reign

Animated comedy Megamind has topped the North American box office chart for a second week, early figures show.

The film, which features the voices of Will Ferrell, Brad Pitt and Tina Fey, took $30m (£18.6m), bringing its two-week haul to nearly $90m (£56m).
Opening at number two was runaway train action thriller Unstoppable starring Denzel Washington and Chris Pine with $23.5m (£14.6m).

 

 

Brad Pitt provides the voice for hero Metro Man in Megamind

 

Robert Downey Jr comedy Due Date fell one place to three.
Among the weekend's other new releases, sci-fi thriller Skyline opened in fourth place with $11.7m (£7.3m) and Harrison Ford comedy Morning Glory rounded out the top five with $9.6m (£6m).
Hollywood.com analyst Paul Dergarabedian said Megamind's success was due to it being a rare family film in the current cinema market.

"Up until Megamind the marketplace was virtually devoid of any family films," he said.

"The R-rated films were dominating - you had Paranormal Activity 2, Saw 3-D, 'Jackass 3D. Then there was a plethora of adult-oriented dramas."
However next week sees the release of the highly anticipated Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, which is expected to knock Megamind from the top spot.

 

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the biggest number of socks on a rope

Making the biggest numbers that it's entering the Guinness book is now a model in the world these days , and everyone is searching on what he likes to make it .
In Germany , it was the biggest number in the world of making the tallest rope of socks, his tall was 2334
meters made in a park, 10 000 of persons had gives their socks , and the last number of the rope's tall was 300 meters of this one.

Soyuz capsule docks with International Space Station

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The crew is set to spend 159 days on the space station

A Soyuz capsule carrying two Russian cosmonauts and an American astronaut has docked successfully with the International Space Station (ISS).

The men will complete a five-month tour of duty aboard the laboratory, joining three crew members already on board.
The capsule lifted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in southern Kazakhstan.
Alexander Kaleri, Oleg Skripochka and Scott Kelly reached the orbiting platform on Saturday.
Assuming the February flight of the US shuttle Endeavour is not delayed, Scott Kelly will be joined in orbit by his brother, Mark - the first time that siblings have been in space together.
Scott Kelly will act as a flight engineer on Expedition 25 to the ISS, before assuming command of the orbiting platform with the Expedition 26 team.
The rest of the 26 team, due to launch in December, includes Paulo Nespoli, Europe's next long-duration ISS resident.
The next shuttle mission will be undertaken by Discovery next month. It will carry a storeroom to the station.
Endeavour's task will be to deliver the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, a particle physics experiment.
US legislators want the US space agency, Nasa, to add one further flight to the shuttle manifest next year before the orbiters are put in museums.
If this goes ahead, the mission, to loft spare parts for the ISS, would most probably be completed by the Atlantis ship.
Once the shuttles are retired, the only way of getting people to the station in the next few years will be by Russian Soyuz craft.
Expedition 25: Nasa astronauts Commander Doug Wheelock, Scott Kelly and Shannon Walker; Russian cosmonauts Oleg Skripochka, Alexander Kaleri and Fyodor Yurchikhin.
Expedition 26: Nasa astronauts Commander Scott Kelly and Catherine Coleman; Russian cosmonauts Alexander Kaleri, Oleg Skripochka and Dmitry Kondratyev; and Esa astronaut Paolo Nespoli.

Pirate Johnny Depp makes surprise school visit

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Hollywood star Johnny Depp has made an unannounced visit to a London primary school after receiving a letter from one of its pupils.

The actor turned up at the school in Greenwich, south-east London, dressed as his Pirates of the Caribbean alter-ego Captain Jack Sparrow.

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He said nine-year-old Beatrice had written to Captain Jack, asking him to lead a mutiny against her teachers.

Depp, 47, has been filming the latest instalment of the franchise in London.
After his arrival, a special school assembly was called and the film star - along with other members of the cast dressed in full costume - walked in.
Depp produced Beatrice's letter and performed for the children for 15 minutes.
But he told the schoolgirl that a mutiny might get them into trouble.
Footage of the surprise appearance was sent to CBBC's Newsround programme.