While a movie’s first week at the box office has always been important in terms of marketing and drawing interest in the film, it’s become even more crucial as studios release greater numbers of films, effectively shortening the window that a movie has to make money in the theater. Ticket sales represent only a fraction of a movie’s potential profits. And on top of all that, even the movie’s haters are its motivators. The History Channel. “Spider-Man Is First Movie to Top $100 Million in Opening Weekend.” Date Unknown. Today, this once humble private collection now consists of a nearly forty million dollar, state-of-the-art facility continuing the legacy of education & preservation of history. Which brings up another point: At no time in history have we had less of a need for travel and more of a need to conserve resources. Minions, a spinoff of the highly successful Despicable Me franchise, has the interesting distinction of being more financially successful than any of the three Despicable Me movies but a worse movie on pretty much all fronts. By contrast, Minions is too much of a good thing, as it’s difficult to structure a decent narrative around a group of shrill-voiced creatures who converse in their own gibberish language.

However, the reason the Minions work so well in the Despicable Me movies is because they’re used just enough to not prove irritating or overshadow the touching parenting story between Gru (Steve Carrell) and his adopted daughters. On the home front, in a partnership with Syracuse University, Wolverton Environmental is engineering systems consisting of modular wicking filters tied into duct work and water supplies, essentially tying plant-based filters into heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems. NASA’s Cassini mission spotted a giant plume of water vapor erupting from multiple jets near the south pole of Saturn’s ice-covered moon Enceladus. NASA’s quest to expand human knowledge has driven us to develop sophisticated, technically advanced satellites that provide critical information about our home planet, revealing in detail how unprecedented amounts of greenhouse gases being released into our atmosphere are causing a climate crisis that threatens our existence. Information on planet Earth and its atmosphere and oceans is essential for our way of life.

The Dragon cargo craft will bring 4,969 pounds of cargo to the orbiting laboratory and returning 3,578 pounds to Earth. The reason for this miniscule-yet-impactful slowdown over millions of years is largely due to Earth’s gravitational pull, which creates a slight convex “bump” on Earth directly underneath the moon. Many of them survived (though a few days in space is not the same as 50 years in space). Despite its failure to break records its first few days on the market, “Avatar” went on to become a mega-success. Major films that fail to hit $100 million are often dismissed as disappointments or failures, or at best, deemed modest or respectable in terms of returns — not what you want to hear when you’ve spent a few hundred million to make a film. While Depp and co. wore out their welcome long ago with critics, On Stranger Tides still managed to make over $1 billion worldwide, proving that general audiences have yet to grow tired of this creaky ship. Electricity rates vary greatly from place to place, so someone living farther north may still want to consider going solar if their rates are particularly high.

The suit is a direct descendant of the United States Air Force high-altitude pressure suits worn by SR-71 Blackbird and U-2 spy plane pilots, North American X-15 and Gemini pilot-astronauts, and the Launch Entry Suits worn by NASA astronauts starting on the STS-26 flight. It’s expected to earn $150 million during its North American opening over the four-day Presidents Day weekend. Opening weekend ticket sales are a strong predictor of a film’s overall financial success. U.S. ticket sales have largely flat-lined, even as foreign markets display a growing desire to spend money at the movies. A stellar opening weekend lays a solid foundation for international ticket sales, TV and cable sales and even the DVD and home entertainment markets. Another 22 percent of sales would come from international theaters, an additional 36 percent from DVD sales and the remaining 20 percent from TV and cable deals. Consider “Avatar,” which, as of 2014, is the highest-grossing movie of all time, with worldwide box office sales just shy of $3 billion.