Wonder Woman earned $100.5m in its first weekend at the box office, breaking the record for a woman director and taking in $223m worldwide. Patty Jenkins's only previous feature film was the very different Monster, an award-winning biopic of serial killer Aileen Wournos. Critics say Wonder Woman is also the first DC universe movie that isn't a grim, tedious trudge through the dark end of superhero fandom.
Wonder Woman smashes box office records
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Actual San Francisco bus driver's fantastic tweeted review of the Shang-Chi bus scene
Mc "Mack" Allen is a bus driver for San Francisco's Muni public transit system. Watching Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, which takes place in San Francisco, Allen was compelled to Tweet his take on the action-packed battle on a public bus racing through the city streets. Bus operator Allen is now deservedly… READ THE REST
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