05.11.12
From headlines to watercoolers, likes to dislikes, dollars to sense, here's what kept the world abuzz over the last week.

5 Movies Last Weekend

  • Marvel's The Avengers
    Studio: Buena Vista
    Weekend Gross: $207,438,708
    Total Gross: $207,438,708
    Week #:  1
  • Think Like a Man
    Studio: Sony/Columbia
    Weekend Gross: $8 million 
    Total Gross: $73 million
    Week #: 3
  • The Hunger Games
    Studio: Liongsate
    Weekend Gross: $5,587,661
    Total Gross: $380,614,659
    Week #: 7
  • The Pirates! Band of Misfits
    Studio: Sony
    Weekend Gross: $5,502,482
    Total Gross: $18,655,941
    Week #: 2
  • The Lucky One
    Studio: WB
    Weekend Gross: $5,368,115
    Total Gross: $47,775,060
    Week #: 2

5 Movies Opening This Weekend

  • Dark Shadows
  • God Bless America
  • Girl in Progress
  • Hick
  • The Road

Billboard Top 10

  • Somebody That I Used To Know by Gotye Featuring Kimbra
  • We Are Young by fun Featuring Janelle Monae
  • Payphone by Maroon 5 Featuring Wiz Khalifa
  • Call Me Maybe by Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Wild Ones by Flo Rida Featuring Sia
  • Glad You Came by The Wanted
  • Starships by Nicki Minaj
  • Boyfriend by Justin Bieber
  • What Makes You Beautiful by One Direction
  • Stronger by Kelly Clarkson

Top Trending Twitter Stories

  • The Avengers biggest opening ever
  • The Supermoon
  • Maurice Sendak's death
  • Obama/Gay Marriage
  • TIME Magazine Cover
  • Justin Bieber's new song
  • The Voice Winner
Film Campaigns
  • Will Ferrell and Zach Galifiankis in political ads for The Campaign

    The viral marketing for Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis’ The Campaign has finally hit. New ads show the two men introducing themselves in character for the film. The film's website also features separate pages for the characters. Read..

  • Gangster Squad Trailer: Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone Reunite in 1940's Action Drama

    WB has released the first official trailer for Gangster Squad from the director of Zombieland. The film follows a group of 1940's rogue cops who will stop at nothing to catch LA's most wanted gagsters. It has an all-star cast including Sean Penn, Ryan Gosling, Josh Brolin, Emma Stone and Nick Nolte. It hits theaters later this year. Read..

  • First trailer for Ben Affleck's Argo

    The first official trailer for Ben Affleck's Argo was released today. The film is based on the true story of the rescue of the hostages held at the American Embassy in Tehran, Iran after the revolution. Argo involves government agents, Hollywood studios and a fake science fiction movie that assisted in the rescue of hostages. It reaches theaters in October. Read..

Social Media
  • Google+ to release "Hangouts on Air" feature to all users

    Google+ announced on Monday that it will gradually roll out its "Hangouts on Air" feature in the coming weeks. The new feature lets users broadcast live sessions foranyone to watch. It was previously available only for a small group of broadcasters starting in 2011. Read..

  • Airing hotel problems on Twitter can pay off

    Travel customers have found that sharing their experiences and airing their hotel problems on Twitter is effective. The tweets coax hotels to solve problems quicker because they are made public. Some guests have even found that Twitter is frequently faster than calling the front desk or corporate to get results. Read..

Trending
  • Obama declares support for gay marriage

    President Obama announced today that he supports same-sex marriage. The announcement sent the social media world in a tizzy, especially following North Carolina’s passing of Amendment 1 to ban same-sex marriage this morning. Read..

  • Time breastfeeding cover sparks controversy

    TIME Magazine’s cover has become a trending topic. The cover features a young mother breastfeeding her three-year-old son. The provocative cover and issue focuses on "attachment parenting" an approached outlined by Dr. Bill Sears in his book "The Baby Book. It includes recommendations on extended breast-feeding, co-sleeping and "baby wearing". Read..

Technology
  • Facebook is making its own app store called App Center

    Facebook has announced it will create a new app store called App Center. Their app store will help Facebook users download apps on any platform – Facebook, the web, iOS, Android and more. It also shared that it will recommend apps based on users’ tastes, rather than by popularity. Read..

  • Clothes hangers show real-time Facebook likes

    Retailer C&A has begun a marketing push called FashionLike. When shoppers “like” a clothing item online at C&A Brasil's site, the thumbs-up is tallied on a screen embedded in clothes hanger on the store's physical racks. Shoppers can then consider the amount of likes an item has when deciding what to buy. Read..

Entertainment
  • Avengers exceeds $200.3m prediction

    Disney's The Avengers opened with a staggering $207.4 million box office over the weekend. The film now holds the top spot for the biggest three-day opening of all time in North America. The Avengers also took in another $151.5 million overseas, bringing it’s overseas total to $441.5m. Read..

  • "Mad Men" pays for The Beatles

    Sunday's night’s episode of "Mad Men" featured The Beatles song "Tomorrow Never Knows” from the Revolver album. To snag the rights to this song it cost about $250,000, according to "Mad Men" creator Matthew Weiner. It goes down as one of the most expensive songs for TV ever. Read..

  • Stars give the finger to Hollywood and flock to YouTube

    YouTube has created a new channel called Wigs, which will feature short scripted dramas about strong female characters. The channel’s videos will star a surplus of well-known actresses, including Jennifer Garner, Julia Stiles and Dakota Fanning. Black Swan director Jon Avnet and “In Treatment” creator Rodrigo Garcia will helm the channel. Read..

Pop Culture
  • Maurice Sendak dead at 83

    Maurice Sendak died Tuesday in Connecticut from complications to a recent stroke. The celebrated author and illustrator of "Where The Wild Things Are" was 83 years old. Read..

  • Tom Gabel of Against Me! comes out as transgender

    In the latest edition of The Rolling Stone, thesinger for the rock band Against Me!, Tom Gabel, has revealed that he plans to begin living as a woman. He will eventually take the name Laura Jane Grace and will remain married to wife Heather. Gabel, who has dealt privately with gender dysphoria for years, will soon begin the process of transition. Read..

Campaigns
  • Ad of the day: Orbitz urges viewers to take their vacation days

    Along with their new website design, Orbitz has designed a new campaign. The spot encourages allAmericans to "take vacation back" by using all those days off they've earned grinding away at work. They urge viewers to take a stand and plan a vacation – with the help of them of course. Read..

Hospitality
  • Will hotels someday embrace Ava the iRobot?

    Hotel guests may one day walk into a hotel and have a robot escort them to their rooms. Ava the iRobot will begin to appear in pilot programs in health care, retail and building security. Ava is able to navigate the offices based on a map that it had generated in its "head." Read..

  • Denihan Hospitality Group selects Telkon's EcoSmart Energy Management

    Telkonet, Inc. developer of the revolutionary EcoSmart energy management platform, has announced that the Deniham Hospitality Group has chosen the cloud-based EcoSmart energy management platform for five of its hallmark boutique hotels in NYC. Over 1,100 rooms will have the system installed. Read..