Box Office: ‘Project Hail Mary’ blasts off with $80.5M, a best for Amazon MGM

Box Office: ‘Project Hail Mary’ blasts off with $80.5M, a best for Amazon MGM

“Project Hail Mary” is bringing audiences to movie theaters in numbers the industry hasn’t seen for a non-franchise film since “Oppenheimer.” The science fiction epic starring Ryan Gosling earned around $80.5 million in ticket sales in its first weekend playing in North America, according to studio estimates Sunday. Box office tracker EntTelligence estimates that translates…

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Weight-loss drugs do work – but not on their own | Weight-loss drugs

Weight-loss drugs do work – but not on their own | Weight-loss drugs

Your editorial (15 March) is right to highlight the growing evidence that GLP-1 medicines influence the brain’s reward systems and may have potential in treating addiction. These drugs represent an important therapeutic advance, and the moralising that has historically surrounded obesity treatment is both unhelpful and scientifically outdated. However, in clinical practice it is also…

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