"Lisa Frankenstein" didn't come to life at the North American box office in its first weekend in theaters. The horror comedy written by Diablo Cody and starring Kathryn Newton and Cole Sprouse earned 3.8 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. It debuted in second place on a very slow Super Bowl weekend, behind the spy thriller "Argylle." Matthew Vaugn's "Argylle" got first place with only 6.5 million, which brings its running domestic total to 28.8 million in two weekends. The 200 million production is Apple's first major theatrical flop.

Much of 2023 so far has been dominated by the accelerated adoption of generative Artificial Intelligence. Starting with research organisation OpenAI's ChatGPT platform, the first three months of this year has seen several such AI chatbot platforms being launched by the tech giants – ranging from Microsoft, Google, Meta, China's Baidu, as well as a plethora of other tech companies across the world. As per a report by Comscore, OpenAI registered more than 1 million actions on social media in January 2023 – double the number it had generated in the entire fourth quarter of 2022. For ChatGPT, the numbers are even higher, with 9.2 million actions in January 2023, a 330% increase compared to Q4 2022. OpenAI has just released its latest offering, GPT-4, on March 14, 2023 to scale up deep learning.

"How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World" breathed some fire into a slumping box office with a franchise-best $55.5 million debut over Oscar weekend. Writer-director Dean DeBlois' third and supposedly final installment in the "How to Train Your Dragon" series notched the best opening of the year in U.S. and Canadian theaters. Going into the weekend, overall ticket sales for 2019 were down 18 percent, according to Comscore, throwing cold water on the record box office of 2018. But as Hollywood was set to gather for the Academy Awards on Sunday, "The Hidden World" lent the industry some good news -- albeit not a hint at all of the magnitude of what that was in theaters last Oscar weekend when "Black Panther" was the top film. Made for $129 million, "The Hidden World" rode good reviews (91 percent fresh on Rotten Tomatoes) and warm audience reaction (an A CinemaScore) to exceed the $43.7 million opening of the 2010 original (which ultimately made $494.9 million worldwide) and the $49 million opening of the 2014 sequel (which amassed $621.5 million).

NEW YORK – The taskmaster toddler of "The Boss Baby" dethroned Disney's "Beauty and the Beast" at the box office with a $49 million debut, handing its star Alec Baldwin what President Donald Trump might call a "huge" no. 1 opening. Paramount Pictures suffered another flop with its controversy-plagued "Ghost in the Shell." The DreamWorks Animation release from 20th Century Fox, starring Baldwin as a suit-clad baby, narrowly edged out the previous two-week leader, according to studio estimates Sunday. The live-action "Beauty and the Beast" took in $48 million in its third weekend. Final North American ticket sales will be released Monday. "We expected a decent opening.

How many searches per year happen on Google? After nearly four years, the company has finally released an updated figure today of "trillions" per year. How many trillions, exactly, Google wouldn't say. Consider two trillion the starting point. Google did confirm to Search Engine Land that because it said it handles "trillions" of searches per year worldwide, the figure could be safely assumed to be two trillion or above.

Mobile has become an integral part of the shopping experience. As consumers spend more time with their mobile devices than with desktop and notebook computers combined, they're looking to their smartphones and tablets to complete more complex transactions. Yet, there is still room to grow for the retail industry's mobile experiences. While nearly one-third of retailer web traffic is from mobile devices, only 11 percent of sales come from mobile, according to Forrester's U.S. Mobile Phone and Tablet Commerce Forecast, 2015 - 2020. Mobile gives retailers opportunities to entice new customers, and retain returning customers, by allowing them to shop on their own terms.

Moviegoers bid adieu to 2016 and welcomed in 2017 over the four-day holiday weekend, spending about $200 million to see just the 10 top-grossing films, a pack led once again by "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story." The continued forceful showing by Disney's "Rogue One" was expected to add $64 million to its total by the time the weekend drew to a close, bringing its domestic total to $439.7 million, according to figures from ComScore. That would make it the second-highest-grossing film of 2016 after only 18 days in theaters, behind another Disney enterprise, "Finding Dory," which has taken in $486 million during the year. Globally "Rogue One" has grossed nearly $775 million through Sunday, ComScore reported. Close behind "Rogue One" over the holiday weekend was Universal's new animated musical comedy "Sing," with an estimated four-day take of $56.4 million to bring its two-week domestic box office total to $180 million.