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That being Dr Strange and the Mutiverse of Madness - at $550 Million worldwide and nearly $231M North American Box Office as of Thursday and what is only 1 weeks opening.

Little Mix Live at the O2 is showing in most cinemas tonight.

To all the sad trolls on here talking about cost of living crisis on a cinema ticket that actually costs less than a packet of fags.

Its £155 for a ticket at the back of the O2 or £238 at the front at the 02. Parking and transportation to and from and eats.

Or it will cost you about £10 to £16 for a ticket to view the same concert in a nice comfy with an unobstructed view on the livestream at Cineworld at 8p.m.

And it would surprise you how many are going @CINE and indeed other cinema chains.

Win-win as it is another revenue stream for Cinemas on top of football, opera, ballet, and also gaming revenue streams and the artists get extra revenue also from the wider audience.

Some very catchy songs and I'm tempted myself.

Forget thee not when talking about lack of content.

Can somebody tell flicker that he doesn't need to post from between the aisles when he is cleaning them as many here attend regularly.

Has kissed $110 a barrel (Brent) and BP is beating us in percentage gains point today by 1% roughly 1%. Buy order filling?

Far better concentrating on the things that could act as catalysts for ultimately a saving face success and ceasefire.

All press and media has some form of bias. Read widely and from both sides.

Get the seriously injured out the Azovstol steelworks and we move another step forwards / closer and things are looking a lot more positive there.

Probably the best place for updates on Top Gun.

One Republics Top Gun single out today. Probably down to the last threads on their jeans waiting for the royalties to start accumulating. Cruise will also have been without any success payments so I'll leave it to him and the Studio to do the marketing on the run up.

https://twitter.com/TopGunMovie

25p yesterday with seller gone seemed like a good buy in price. Last time it was there was in the pandemic where it was working payment deals with tenants for rent. Now fully open and working on repurposing.

The sad thing in all this is that it is peoples lives that are being used as sacrificail pawns in a wider game of political chess.

Get the seriously ill out then next part are the die hards. Extraction to Turkey looking like a highly feasible option as trusted by both sides.

Could all have been agreed when Guterres stepped in. Land bridge established and face saving success declared + ceasefire and talks.

It heartens me that Turkey is now involved again.

Looks like Turkey have heeded the call to mediate on this.

https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/05/13/7345847/

Brent is pushing $108 a barrel having hit $109 just earlier this morning so its looking like $110 per barrel again and we all know TLW is too cheap at these levels for near $110 / barrel oil. Halfaway through the quarter as well.

Waiting on news on 2 fronts:

*The EU is working up its Russian oil embargo whilst trying to accomodate Hungary so news on that should appear either over the weekend or early next week. Should push things higher.

*Kenya

Mining stocks all seem to be reversing yesterdays falls well due to Jerome Powell's decision to stick to the script yesterday.

On another note managed to get my tickets booked for Topgun Maverick @ Cineworld. Some excellent 5 star reviews out on this and the trailer looks amazing. Didn't want to leave it to chance for opening night on 25th May.

Anybody lucky enough to have gotten tickets and know who will be attending the Red Carpet.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/tom-cruise-jerry-bruckheimer-sam-mendes-hollywood-london-b2052798.html

Saw the trailer for Bullet Train at Dr Strange MoM and it looks a good. Brad Pitt film. Top Gun does well and you might also find another Tom Cruise film might move itself forward.

It'll be interesting to see how Stephen King's "Firestarter" debuts tomorrow. Zac Efron in this one and the horror genre brings in a different crowd. Circa 20 Million views on Youtube is why it intrigues me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59MJfJPP5eo

Nick, unfortunately he is subject to a travel ban as part of his sanctioning so he can't travel through Europe. Would in any case probably be subject to an arrest warrant for war crimes.

Had my tea and just checked I booked the right seats.

Now got people booked either side of us.

The next two links are kind of the latest in this. They are negotiating to try and get the wounded out in a PoW swap. There is also mention of the "Extraction procedure" for the remaining fighters.

At a sensitive point I'd say
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/05/12/7345778/

Appeal to Erdogan and others for extraction to a 3rd country and laying down weapons.
https://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/831732.html

Head Honcho suspended and adding to many others.

It's simply not going the way VP had envisaged this.

This should either have been a quick in and out in a few days and the toppling of Zelenski or the East taken quickly and Ukraine shocked into surrender by all the destruction and atrocities. Still can't even say they have a land bridge to declare a face-saving success.

Instead
*Russia is sanctioned up to the eyeballs to stop the funding of the conflict.
*Teetering on Sovereign Debt default
*Oligarchs are sanctioned up to the eyeballs + seizure of assets under active consideration
*Many Western companies withdrawing from Russia
*Nordstream 2 abandoned.
*International Condemnation + UN committee expulsion
*Persona Non-grata diplomatic expulsions
*United Europe
*4 countries set to join NATO due to the atrocities and destruction. Finland, Sweden, Bosnia and Kosovo. Finland having just formally given the green light today.
* NATO parked up with enhanced weaponry right on the whole Western front with Russia.
*Western Intelligence and far superior weaponry now only going to make it worse.
* Kyiv assault failed, Kharkiv now the same
* Stalemate in the East
* Flagship of the Black Sea - Moskva sunk. Plus several other vessels.
* Abundance of Fires and Explosions mysteriously occurring across the border in Russia.
* About 27K Russian soldiers now dead and as of today that includes 9 Generals and 41 Colonels.
* Unparalleled military armour blown to smithereens with handheld equipment.
* War crimes evidence being compiled.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10809829/Ukraine-war-Putin-purges-army-brass-Gerasimov-suspended.html

All booked up for opening night with family.

Having waited a couple of years for this one last thing I wanted was either an obscure seat in the corner or sat in the front row. Really looking forward to it.

Also got coverage over another 8 tickets for extended family across 3 generations at this time and that should grow by at least another 4.

Heading back imminently to $107 a barrel as it was yesterday.

MM's just trying to take the p1## with the share price to get stock.

I did mention previously that there were 5 gas pipelines that traverse Ukraine from Russia through to Europe and Turkey. Cuts off revenues to Russia at the blink of an eye if you close off the supply in any way.

"Russian gas to Europe via Ukraine down by almost a third
Russian gas transiting via Ukraine to Europe has dropped by a third after Kyiv suspended supplies through a key route, Russian energy giant Gazprom said.

Ukraine's pipeline operator GTSOU said that it was halting gas transport at the Sokhranivka transit point from Wednesday as Russian occupying forces now in control were interfering with operations.

The move comes as Russia's military campaign in pro-Western Ukraine enters its third month.

Gazprom told the Interfax news agency that supplies transiting Ukraine on Thursday were at 50.6 million cubic metres in total, compared to 72 million cubic metres the day before.

Ukraine's GTSOU on its website provided slightly different figures, saying 53 million cubic metres would transit on Thursday compared to 73 million cubic metres the day before."