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Time to check the Monday morning box office and the big weekend winner is "Twisters". The action flick starring Glen Powell as a tornado chaser is on track to gross 80-point-five-million dollars in its premiere weekend. In second, "Despicable Me 4" looks to have pulled in 23-million dollars in its third weekend of release. "Inside Out 2" hit 12-point-seven-million dollars for a third-place finish. Horror films rounded out the top five, with Neon's surprise hit "Longlegs" taking fourth with eleven-point-seven million and Paramount's "A Quiet Place: Day One" taking fifth with six-point-one million.
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It looks like the Boss has gone from the big city to the backwoods. Bruce Springsteen is making his first-ever appearance on the country music charts. The New Jersey rock icon is featured on Zach Bryan's song, "Sandpaper," which debuted at number 26 on the country songs chart. In addition, the song has put Springsteen back on the Hot 100 music chart for the first time in 15 years. "Sandpaper" was listed at number 71.
A man from Ghana is in trouble for trying to smuggle dangerous Giant African Land Snails into the United States. The Customs and Border Protection Office says they seized 90 of the snails from the man who flew into Detroit Metropolitan Airport last month. The passenger had declared that he was carrying fresh food items for his own use. Airport agents located the illegal snails after detecting a strong smell in the man's luggage. Giant African Land Snails are considered an invasive species and have the potential to cause significant crop damage, making them a public health risk.
The week kicks off with the release of new postage stamp today. The United States Postal Service is honoring long-time Jeopardy host Alex Trebeck on what would have been his 84th birthday. The Daytime Emmy Award winner died in 2020 from pancreatic cancer. The new first-class Forever stamp's design is in the form of a Jeopardy!-style question.
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The Boss is officially a billionaire. Forbes reported the news on Friday, estimating Bruce Springsteen's net worth to be around one-point-one-billion-dollars. Springsteen released his breakout album "Born to Run" in 1975 but admitted in his memoir that he didn't reach a place of financial stability until the early 80s. A big portion of his monetary gains came in 2021, when he sold his music catalog to Sony for an estimated 500-to-550-million dollars.
Britney Spears is responding to the Osbourne family's comments about her dancing videos on social media. During a recent episode of "The Osbournes" podcast, Ozzy Osbourne said he's fed up with the singer's videos saying they're "very sad." His family pitched in an agreed with Sharon Osbourne referring to Spears as a "poor little thing." Britney defended herself on Instagram by telling the family off and called them the "most boring family known to mankind."