Kanguva Telugu box office collections day 3: Suriya’s film sees massive decline

Kanguva is Suriya’s latest film, made on a massive budget of close to Rs. 300 crore. The period drama hit the screens on November 14, 2024, in a large number of theaters worldwide. However, bad word-of-mouth and negative reviews from Tamil audiences spread quickly, impacting the film’s collections in the Telugu states as well.Kanguva’s first weekend Telugu collections are hereKanguva started on a positive note, earning Rs. 5.1 crore on day one in the Telugu states. But, due to poor reviews, the film’s occupancy dropped significantly, earning only Rs. 2.2 crore on day two. The decline continued on day three, with collections amounting to just Rs. 1.8 crore. This brings the total collection in the Telugu states to Rs. 9.2 crore to date.While these are not terrible numbers, the film has been critically slammed, making it challenging for Kanguva to reach the safe zone. We at OTTplay have already reported that the film’s pre-release business was locked at Rs. 25 crore, requiring at least Rs. 21 crore to break even. Considering its current performance, Kanguva is likely to end as a major flop.Poster detail. KanguvaJyothika slams negative reviews of KanguvaThe word-of-mouth reviews in Tamil are even worse. Suriya’s wife, Jyothika, has publicly criticized the media for their overwhelmingly negative reviews, and her statement has gone viral, keeping Kanguva in the spotlight. Whether these controversies will help the film stay in theaters remains to be seen.Director Siva has helmed the project and has already announced that he is working on a sequel. Despite Suriya’s massive stardom and dedicated fan base, Kanguva has struggled, with viewers criticizing its weak narration and excessively loud BGM. DSP, who composed the film’s music, has faced brutal trolling on social media.Numerous memes have been created about the film, causing significant distress for Suriya and his team. We will have to wait and see how much Kanguva can collect in the coming days. Stay tuned for more updates.

NJIT visits George Washington following Robinson’s 20-point game

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NJIT Highlanders (0-4) at George Washington Revolutionaries (3-0)Washington; Monday, 7 p.m. ESTBOTTOM LINE: NJIT takes on George Washington after Sebastian Robinson scored 20 points in NJIT’s 81-69 loss to the Morgan State Bears.George Washington finished 15-17 overall with a 12-6 record at home during the 2023-24 season. The Revolutionaries averaged 76.8 points per game while allowing opponents to score 77.3 last season.

NJIT went 7-21 overall with a 2-13 record on the road last season. The Highlanders averaged 67.9 points per game last season, 13.4 from the free-throw line and 21.6 from 3-point range.The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.

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Inside the horrifying rise of ‘predatory women’ like Bonnie Blue who make millions by filming sex with teenage boys

WITH her flawless makeup and Love Island-esque looks, Bonnie Blue has amassed an impressive social media following – but it’s not her blonde hair and piercing blue eyes garnering all that attention. Shockingly Bonnie, 25, has built up her huge fanbase and accrued millions of views by engaging in highly controversial sex marathons with ‘barely legal’ students – many of them eager for her to take their virginity.  Bonnie Blue claims to have slept with hundreds of young students for free – in return for being able to film itCredit: InstagramShe has had sex with as many as 158 men in just two weeks after posting ‘bonk me for free’ adverts at university freshers’ events, creating a queue of students outside her hotel room door, all keen to take up her offer.The well-spoken influencer – real name Tia Billinger – grew up in a small Derbyshire village and formerly worked in recruitment. But the controversial social media star is now worth £3million and makes up to £350,000 a month posting the footage on her OnlyFans account, where subscribers pay to watch her have sex with a conveyor belt of strangers.And we can reveal that disturbingly, her sex challenges are now being copied by other women seemingly happy to trade their bodies for likes on social media in a horrifying trend.READ MORE FABULOUS FEATURESBonnie reportedly had sex with 30 in one night during one of her toursCredit: Kennedy News’I want to do their dads as well’ A Sun probe has found that at least three more women in their 20s have started taking part in similar sex marathons and are promoting the footage on websites including TikTok and Instagram.Last month, Lily Phillips, 23, from Derbyshire, claimed to have had sex with 101 men in 14 hours at an Airbnb – and she received over one million views when she posted the footage online.Lily said the youngest man she slept with was 18 and the oldest was in his 60s. Insisting she didn’t complete the feat for money alone, she said: “I didn’t need to sleep with 101 random men, I did that out of enjoyment.”Most read in Fabulous“If you had a grown male hanging around student halls, ready to film, in her own words by the way, ‘barely legal’ girls, to profit off on an account he had, I’m sorry but he’d end up in court and being put on a register.Jade KatyBonnie, from Nottinghamshire, had previously opted not to make her real name public and it’s little wonder, given the furious backlash she received after bragging about sleeping with teenagers – and their married dads and grandfathers.Appearing on the popular Saving Grace podcast with internet personality GK Barry recently, Bonnie, who has 139k Instagram followers and 28k on TikTok, said: “I don’t want to discriminate. I don’t want to just to students – I want to do their dads as well.“To be fair, I need to give credit to this student, he came with his dad.”I was like, ‘Are you joking?’ When I first saw him with his dad, I thought he was going to come and tell me off. No, it was the opposite, he wanted to join in.”Lily Phillips claimed to have had sex with over 100 men in just 14 hoursCredit: instagram/@lilyphillip_sMy dad’s so proud I’ve helped hundreds of students lose their virginity – he even wears stamps about having SEX with me to the pub’She’s toxic, greedy & predatory’The podcast appearance has proven so controversial that there have been calls for GK Barry, real name Grace Keeling, to be removed as a contestant on this year’s season of ITV’s I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here!In Australia, where Bonnie previously travelled with two bodyguards to attend ‘Schoolies’ university induction events, thousands have signed a change.org petition calling for her to be barred from re-entering the country.I am shocked that a grown woman would be so persistent in her mission to exploit young men. Who profits here other than her?Child safety expert Kristi McVeeChild safety expert Kristi McVee is one of those supporting the ban.She told The Sun: “The main thing is, she is a grown woman exploiting barely legal and young men who don’t and won’t understand the impacts until they get older.“Some of these young men – after the high of being with her, the overall excitement and potential disappointment wanes – will have regrets.“For some it won’t even register, and they will be ok. It will depend on their level of emotional intelligence during and after.  “The point though is that 18-year-old men, who are just leaving school, haven’t had the life experiences or skills to make critical decisions that could impact their future and careers, such as having these videos on the internet for all to see, and most won’t think through the potential long-term consequences before getting involved.“Only in the aftermath will we see the potential overall harm.   “Quite frankly, I am shocked that a grown woman would be so persistent in her mission to exploit young men.“Who profits here other than her? I haven’t considered her motivations but she’s toxic, greedy, and predatory.“She is feeding the beast of child abuse and exploitation by creating content using teenagers. Anyone who does this is, regardless of their gender, is a predator.”Bonnie appeared on GK Barry’s podcast – sparking a huge backlash against the hostCredit: Youtube/@Saving Grace’It’s the ‘Karens’ that have got an issue’ Despite claims of ‘predatory’ behaviour, Bonnie Blue has insisted her content is ‘educational’, adding: “It allows you to understand consent better.”Bonnie hit back this week, blaming so-called ‘Karens’, or privileged white women, for trying to force her out – and pointing out that 18-year-olds are allowed to vote and join the army. She said of the lads she films with: “They have to sign a consent form [saying] they have not been drinking or have done drugs in the last 24 hours.“It’s the ‘Karens’ that have got an issue with it. I understand what I do is out there, but sex is focused on one thing. It’s pleasure and enjoyment, and that’s all I see it as. It’s not anything more than that.”In the same interview, Bonnie doubled down on previous comments she’d made about married men having a right to cheat if their wives won’t sleep with them.She said: “You can come home, deal with your wife’s whinging, look after the kids – but you’re just sneaking off elsewhere to get pleasured.“If [men] are going to work and do a hard day’s shift, they need to be treated.”Bonnie claims what she’s doing is ‘educational’ and has dismissed allegations she is ‘predatory’Credit: Instagram Having sex to ‘create content’ Bonnie is also facing a growing chorus of hate in the UK.A&E doctor Maddy Lucy Dann recently posted on TikTok: “I’m just going to say it, there’s a woman on this app that is creating content centred around having sex with freshers.“Freshers in the UK are people who have just started university and broadly speaking they are fresh out of six form, fresh out of school and they are probably about 18 years old.“In this person’s content, she makes a comment about how a lot of them might be virgins, sexually inexperienced, and I’m sorry but this kind of behaviour is predatory.If you had a grown male hanging around student halls, ready to film, in her own words by the way, ‘barely legal’ girls, to profit off… I’m sorry but he’d end up in court and being put on a register.Lifestyle creator Jade Katy “She’s an older woman and these are younger, inexperienced, vulnerable people that she seeks out via social media in order to have sex with them to create content.“This person cares far more about their social media presence and making loads of money than they do about these people they are having sex with, who I do not believe are correctly informed and therefore cannot fully consent to what is happening.“The ramifications of having sex with the person can be plentiful, but the ramification of having sex with somebody that is filming it and posting it – the internet is forever.”The OF creator’s actions have attracted a storm of criticismCredit: Instagram’Bonnie Blue belongs on sex register’ Dubai-based lifestyle creator Jade Katy also slammed Bonnie on TikTok, saying: “Guys, Bonnie Blue belongs on a sex offenders register.“I said what I said, I’m not going to take it back.“I’m convinced the woman’s frontal lobe isn’t fully developed the way she goes about her life but that’s by the by.“If you had a grown male hanging around student halls, ready to film, in her own words by the way, ‘barely legal’ girls, to profit off on an account he had, I’m sorry but he’d end up in court and being put on a register.“So I’m standing by the fact that this woman also deserves fully to belong on a register.”Meanwhile, TikTok influencer Kayla Barker compared Bonnie to former kickboxer Andrew Tate, who is accused of spreading sexist views and is currently facing charges of sex trafficking and rape.Kayla said: “Giving women like Bonnie Blue a platform contributes to violence against women and girls and if you think that’s a reach, please let me educate you.“It’s clear to see that we’re in a femicide. Violence against women and girls is growing literally every single year.“It doesn’t come from nowhere, men aren’t born as rapists and abusers, it grows as misogynistic values grow.“Misogynistic values passed on from creators like Andrew Tate and now Bonnie Blue coming on to the internet and saying, ‘Oh if you’re not having sex with your husband, he has a free pass to cheat on you.’“It’s so much cheaper than rage bait, it contributes to the objectification of women and it reinforces the idea that men are entitled to have sex with us whenever they want basically.”Some critics have compared Bonnie Blue to hugely controversial figure, Andrew TateCredit: InstagramTurning sex into ‘a commodity’ Psychotherapist Lucy Beresford also fears that women like Bonnie might end up regretting their actions.  She said: “Sleeping with so many people will mess you up to some degree, because it turns sex into a commodity rather than being an intimate act.“It runs the risk of anaesthetising you to the joy and pleasure that sex can bring in a healthy relationship.“There is an argument to say such behaviour is pathological because they’re doing it like a job.“Clearly, the lines between the act and the emotions that arise through intimacy might be warped – because they are doing it with so many people.” However, she adds: “But then what is too many? And why is it OK for men to have lots of lovers, but it’s not OK for women?”Sex addiction expert Dr David Ley also accuses Bonnie’s critics of having double standards.What is OnlyFans?OnlyFans is a subscription content service based in London.As of 2023, it is thought to have more than 220million registered users and over three million content creators.Sex workers charge monthly fees for access to pictures, videos and more.While popular for porn, the site isn’t exclusively designed with that in mind – anyone who wants to build up a fan base and charge them for it can set one up.Celebs like Katie Price and Kerry Katona are popular personalities on the platform. “Whether you’re uploading tutorials, tips, behind-the-scenes footage or just endless selfies, a lot of your followers would be willing to pay for them,” the company states.For every subscription that’s sold to a viewer, performers get 80 per cent of the cash while OnlyFans gets the rest.It isn’t limited to adult content, as it has become popular with physical fitness experts and musicians.He said: “Many lay people and therapists alike believe that females engaging in casual sex is a sign of low self-esteem, neediness, or even severe mental health.“An old professor once told me that women who engage in gang bangs are likely pre-psychotic and the multiple men they sleep with fulfil the needs of a fragmenting psyche.“But we now know these beliefs are all driven by misogyny, sexism and sexual double-standards in our societies.READ MORE SUN STORIES“The only reasons that women who engage in promiscuity or group sex experience negative outcomes is because of social judgment and stigma. “If we want women to not experience such harm, we as a society must consider our role in it.”Psychotherapist Lucy Beresford fears Bonnie might end up regretting her actionsCredit: A P Wilding

Latest Business News Roundup In Nigeria November 10th – 16th 2024

Hello Readers, Bizwatchnigeria brings you the latest business news highlights in Nigeria for the week of November 10th–16th, 2024. Table of Contents Nigerian Government Redirects N5.4 Trillion Fuel Subsidy Savings To National Development Projects The Nigerian government confirms that it is redirecting an estimated N5.4 trillion in savings from the removal of fuel subsidies in 2024 towards…

German low-season tourism in Mallorca set for a new record

The Balearic low season of November to March has for years been dominated by the German market supported by a Spanish market that has owed some of its presence to Imserso subsidised holidays.
The islands’ foreign tourism profile is not about to change. The German market is in fact set to strengthen. German flight bookings are already up seven per cent over last year, this increase contrasting with falls in two other main Spanish holiday regions – Catalonia (-18%) and Madrid (-4.6%).

Forecasts for the growth in tourist numbers are in line with the 8.5% increase from January to September. For the November-March 2023/2024 period, there was a record number of German tourists – 597,684.
German tourist spending in the Balearics this year has been up 17% compared with 2023 and has outstripped the average of all markets by six per cent. Fears about recession in Germany have not been reflected in the desire to travel – to the Balearics especially.

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The number of hotels open all year in Mallorca is up from 20% to 23%, according to hotelier federation figures.
But contrasting with this positive trend, there is some uncertainty because of the increase in German air tax. Ryanair, for example, has cut its capacities to Spanish airports from Berlin, Dortmund, Dresden and Leipzig and is expected to add Hamburg and Bonn/Cologne. Eurowings has said it will stop operating more than a thousand flights from Hamburg in 2025 because of the “disproportionate” rise in the air tax.
The British low-season market is only around a quarter of the German. There were 147,622 UK tourists from November 2023 to March 2024, a total that represented pretty decent growth: +53% in November and +29% in January, for instance. But the trend in the summer was down – eight per cent in September, 4.8% in August, ten per cent in July.

The Balearic Government and the hoteliers are giving this a positive spin. There is a seasonal redistribution of tourists that is sought for all tourism. Maybe so, but it still amounts to an overall decrease. Up to September there was a four per cent drop in the annual total.

Crawford County Quorum Court and library spar as book spat legal bills near $500,000

VAN BUREN — Crawford County’s legal quagmire over LGBTQ-related books in its library system has thrust other volumes into the spotlight: specifically, the budget books for both the library system and the county itself.
Leaders of both entities say they cannot afford to pay more than $118,000 in plaintiffs’ legal fees that they expect to be ordered by a federal judge to cover.
That sum would bring the taxpayer bill to almost $500,000 in legal expenses thus far over this issue.
Since May 2023, Crawford County has faced two lawsuits related to its treatment of LGBTQ-related books in its libraries. The issue bubbled up after some residents complained to the Quorum Court in late 2022 and early 2023.
Public comments regarded “some material that was being displayed at our county library on LGBT in which our county tax dollars are being used,” according to minutes from the Dec.

Tourism festival themed on ice and snow opens in China’s Inner Mongolia

Tourists take part in an ice and snow event at a skiing park in Ulanqab, north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Nov. 16, 2024. A tourism festival themed on ice and snow opened in Ulanqab on Saturday, which will last for five months. (Photo by Wang Zheng/Xinhua)Tourists take part in an ice and snow event at a skiing park in Ulanqab, north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Nov. 16, 2024. A tourism festival themed on ice and snow opened in Ulanqab on Saturday, which will last for five months. (Photo by Wang Zheng/Xinhua)A drone photo taken on Nov. 16, 2024 shows tourists at the foot of Ulan Hada volcano group in Ulanqab, north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. A tourism festival themed on ice and snow opened in Ulanqab on Saturday, which will last for five months. (Photo by Wang Zheng/Xinhua)A folk artist gives fire pot performance at the foot of Ulan Hada volcano group in Ulanqab, north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Nov. 16, 2024. A tourism festival themed on ice and snow opened in Ulanqab on Saturday, which will last for five months. (Photo by Wang Zheng/Xinhua)A folk artist gives fire pot performance at the foot of Ulan Hada volcano group in Ulanqab, north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Nov. 16, 2024. A tourism festival themed on ice and snow opened in Ulanqab on Saturday, which will last for five months. (Photo by Wang Zheng/Xinhua)

8-year-old boy raising money for Boston nonprofit with pop-up book stand

An ambitious second grader has started his very own pop-up book stand in Winchester, Massachusetts, and it’s all to benefit a local charity.

When 8-year-old Bobby Atchinson had books piling up in his bedroom, he wanted to give them away to give other kids the chance to enjoy them. But with help from his mom, Jeanna Atchinson, Bobby was able to take his idea to the next level.

“We started donating them and then I said to my mom, ‘why can’t we make a bookstore?’ And she said yeah and then she said we could give them to charity, and I said, ‘yeah, we can do that.'”

So Bobby and his mom put together “Bobby’s Books” — a pop-up book stand right in Winchester’s town center.

“It got on the newspapers and the radio and the newspaper and it started spreading out,” he said.

On the stand’s first day, 200 books were sold raising $1,000 that day alone for The Home for Little Wanderers — a Boston-based nonprofit helping children get housing and support.

“When he got the word out to his friends at school and to other families in town, they all dropped books off to our house and they all offered to help with the bookstore,” Jeanna Atchinson said. “And it’s been incredible to see other families excited about the option to raise money for other kids and help Bobby with this bookstore mission.”

Bobby’s Books will be open for its last day next Saturday, and then Bobby will present a check to the Little Wanderers on Giving Tuesday.

“He loves to read so it’s exciting to see that we’re able to do something with that passion and make him feel good about himself and also help kids in need,” his mom said. “It’s been a fantastic project for us as a family.”

How a small group of Amazon workers took on big business and challenged traditional unions | Kenan Malik

‘The union wants to protect workers. The employer wants to protect workers. How do I choose between them?” So asks one young worker in Union, a documentary about the battle to unionise an Amazon warehouse on Staten Island, New York. It is a telling comment on the confusion today about what it means to defend working-class interests and the difficulties in trying to build working-class organisations.Directed by Brett Story and Stephen Maing, two of the most engaging and innovatory documentary film-makers today, Union opens with a huge cargo ship piled high with containers, sailing slowly into view. The film then cuts to a line of people, half asleep in the early hours of the morning, waiting to be transported to an Amazon “fulfilment centre” – a vast warehouse stuffed full of commodities, both goods and humans. It cuts again to a shot of the Blue Origin rocket carrying Amazon owner Jeff Bezos and a few friends and fellow billionaires into space. It is a visual metaphor for the disparity of power that lies at the heart of the story.Union follows a small group of Amazon workers and ex-workers between the summer of 2021 and the spring of the following year as they try to establish the Amazon Labour Union (ALU). The central figure in the story is Chris Smalls, a former worker at the Staten Island warehouse who was sacked after leading a protest against Amazon’s failure to protect workers from Covid. He is charismatic and passionate, someone as comfortable in front of a camera as in a campaign meeting.Union is, though, no hagiography. Filmed in vérité style, with no narrator or talking heads, it is as much a portrait of the difficulties and conflicts that attend attempts to forge solidarity, as it is of the ALU. It is to the credit of Story, Maing and Smalls himself that the film shows Smalls not just as a hugely inspiring leader – which he is – but also as someone others often find exasperating and who leaves some feeling unheard. It is not simply a feelgood David and Goliath drama but an exploration of the messy reality of building solidarity, the disorderliness of democratic decision-making, the frustrations that come with challenging overwhelming odds.Amazon is a company with seemingly limitless resources and a long history of often devious manoeuvres aimed at crushing unions. Its tactics were all on display on Staten Island: a deluge of anti-union propaganda; constant surveillance; threats to, even sackings of, those who push for a union; the use of police to harass campaigners. That Amazon would rather pay millions of dollars to lawyers and union busters than provide even half-decent wages and conditions to its employees tells us much about how people and profits are valued in today’s world. Amazon may be a particularly shoddy employer but it is not unique. From Boeing to Volkswagen, from Tesla to Walmart, the same calculations apply in every dystopian workplace.Yet, despite the odds, the ALU triumphed, winning sufficient support among the warehouse workers to force Amazon to recognise the union in April 2022. The triumph, though, was bittersweet, revealing not just the fortitude of the campaigners but also the enormous capacity of big business to resist them. Disdaining the ALU’s victory, Amazon has refused for more than two years to negotiate with the union, using its lawyers to drag out the process.The experience of being working class is significantly different today than it would have been even half a century ago. Unionisation has plummeted (just one in 10 American workers are in a union, half the figure of that in 1983) and many people have no generational experience of being part of a labour movement. Class is perceived less as a collective identity than as a cultural identifier.As they have lost members and power, unions themselves have transformed, their leaders preferring to cultivate political influence than to organise industrial action. “Unions have renounced class warfare,” the late sociologist and activist Stanley Aronowitz observed in his book The Death and Life of American Labor, while corporations “pursue it with a vengeance – against the workers unions are supposed to represent and defend”. The consequence is a disconnect with workers, many questioning the very purpose of a union.There is equally a disconnect with, and a sense of betrayal by, political parties, from the Democrats in America to social democratic parties in Europe, which once were seen as representing working-class interests, but have long since abandoned such a commitment. That sense of betrayal, combined with a lack of any alternatives, has pushed sections of the working class towards politicians and parties that are among the most hostile to working-class interests, from the far right in Europe to Donald Trump in America.Trump’s presidential triumph illuminates both the failure of the old and the cynicism of the new. Elon Musk, Trump’s new cheerleader, whom the president-elect has tasked with cutting government bureaucracy and spending, is more rabidly anti-union than even Bezos. He has refused to countenance unions at Tesla, threatening to remove stock options from any employee who went on strike, an act the courts have deemed legal, and sacked workers for union activity and for criticising his policies. Trump has praised Musk’s willingness to sack striking workers. He has also previously claimed that US workers’ wages are too high. Musk has joined Bezos in bringing a legal challenge to the National Labor Relations Board, the federal agency that regulates collective bargaining.skip past newsletter promotionafter newsletter promotionWhy should working-class people give their support to parties and politicians so hostile to working-class interests? For the same reason that a worker in an anonymous, alienating, algorithm-driven factory run by a company that pays execrable wages, monitors their every activity and maintains order though fear and intimidation, cannot decide whether the company or the union might better protect her. So disenchanted have many become with the traditional organisations that claimed to safeguard working-class interests, so enraged with their failures and betrayals, that they feel it more rational to look elsewhere for answers.In such a world, an organisation such as the ALU, that shows the practical possibilities of building solidarity, of challenging corporations and of defending working-class interests without tumbling into bigotry or divisiveness, becomes more important than ever.