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Paramount CEO Defends Tom Cruise And Co’s Reasoning Behind Holding Top Gun: Maverick For Years And Whether Or Not A Sequel Makes Sense

Martina Ward 0
Movies
Top Gun Maverick is the highest grossing movie of the year and, barring the massive success of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever or a late box office run from Avatar: The Way of Water, it’s going to end the year that way. It’s a clear vindication of Paramount’s decision to wait until the box office was in a state to better ensure the film’s success. However, that ended meaning the film was delayed for a really long time.Top Gun: Maverick was originally set to open in June of 2020 and while that obviously didn’t happen due…

Kushner Cos. Offers to Buy Rival Real Estate Company

Helen Gray 0
Business
Kushner Cos. is making an unsolicited bid for Veris Residential Inc., an owner primarily of New Jersey rental apartments, in a deal that would value Veris at about $4.3 billion including debt, according to a person familiar with the matter. Kushner, best known as Jared Kushner’s family real-estate company, offered $16 a share for the real-estate investment trust, the person said. The shares of the company, formerly known as…

iOS 16 takes off, TikTok clones BeReal, social cos go to Congress • TechCrunch

Frances Hunter 0
News
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. Global app spending reached $65 billion in the first half of 2022, up only slightly from the $64.4 billion during the same period in 2021, as hypergrowth fueled by the pandemic has decreased. But overall, the app economy is continuing to grow, having produced a record number of downloads and consumer spending across both the iOS and Google Play stores combined in…