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One of the biggest box office failures in film history will have a second chance. A totally different one

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The year was 2012. Facebook bought Instagram, Apple launched the iPhone 5we all sang ‘Gangnam Style’, we were afraid that the world ended because of a Mayan prophecy and Disney launched its next great franchise: ‘John Carter‘. He did it with great aspirations, with the aim of ushering in a new era of science fiction (after all, it is a story with 11 much-loved novels), but it ended up being quite the opposite. The bases weren’t even that bad. ‘John Carter‘ is an original literary work by Edgar Rice Burroughs, creator of ‘Tarzan’, and has influenced great titles such as ‘Star Wars’, ‘Dune’, ‘Super Man’ or ‘Avatar’. The ingredients were there, but they didn’t work. With John Carter, Disney signed one of the biggest financial disasters in film history. That is why it is striking that they are going to try again, not with a live-action film, but with an animated series. Context: the John Carter disaster The story of John Carter is curious. It’s not that the movie was bad, but the desire to eat and hunger came together. On the one hand, the feature film had an excessive budget of approximately 300 million dollars, to which about 100 million had to be added in marketing. That already sets the bar very high as far as box office is concerned, so high that 284 million were not enough. On the other hand, its director, Andrew Stanton, had just made ‘Finding Nemo’ or ‘WALL-E’ and I had no experience directing films with live actors. Filming an animated film and a live-action film is totally different in terms of filming, effects, repeating scenes, etc., which also raised the final cost. Finally, it never hurts to remember what happened to the name. The original work is titled ‘John Carter of Mars’, and Disney, at that time, was not in the mood to go back to betting on things from Mars after the failure of ‘Mars Needs Moms‘. He chose, therefore, to leave the title in ‘John Carter’, which, together with some most confusing trailerscaused the public to not understand the film. The production left the Mickey Mouse company a hole of about 180 million euros ($200 million). That’s more than enough for the movie to appear. in the Guinness Book of Records as the biggest box office failure in history. ‘Brave’ live returns to Mars More than 14 years after this disaster, John Carter will have a second chance. Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., the company that manages the copyright, is developing the animated series ‘John Carter, Warlord Of Mars’. This time the approach is totally different: instead of a movie for theaters, it will be a series; and instead of real action, we will bet on animation. Although the project was initially announced in 2025, it is now that it has taken its most important step. Mark Andrews, an Oscar-winning animation specialist, has been hired as lead director and co-showrunner. Andrews already knows John Carter very well, since he was one of the screenwriters of that failed Disney film. Mark Andrews directed alongside Brenda Chapman the Pixar film ‘Brave‘, which won the Oscar for best animated film in 2013. In ‘John Carter, Warlord Of Mars’ he will work closely with Michael Kogge, known mainly for his ‘Star Wars’ novels, who will serve as main scriptwriter and co-showrunner. Andrews has assured that he has been passionate about the John Carter universe since he was a child, especially for its mix of science fiction and fantasy. The new series aims do justice to the scale of the original work thanks to the possibilities offered by current animation: “Animation is the perfect medium to bring Burroughs’ world to life,” he explained, justifying why he believes that the result will be very different from that of three decades ago. This new project is not, under any circumstances, a sequel to the Disney film. The series will be based directly on the novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs and will rewrite the story completely independently. At the moment the voice actors, the visual style or the platform on which it will be distributed have not been revealed, nor is there a planned release date. Via | filmstarts Image | disney

For the first time, Tokyo allows men to wear shorts to the office. And that is causing a revolution

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Noboru Watanabe is 53 years old, works as a civil servant in the Tokyo Metropolitan Government and a few days ago His office colleagues saw his shins for the first time. The heat was pressing and Watanabe, like another handful of colleagues (few), decided to swallow his shame and skip the rigid code of etiquette that dictates that office workers must wear a shirt, jacket, tie and long pants. He didn’t do it just because. With his gesture he joined an initiative launched in April by the authorities to make the heatwave more bearable. There are those who are not so clear. calves in the air. It is not easy to combat extreme heat waves. In Spain there are institutions that have begun to distribute thermal bracelets among the workers who work on the street and in France have reached restrict alcohol so that emergency services can prioritize heat strokes. However, there are few initiatives as peculiar (and extravagant) as the one they have activated in Tokyo. There, in April, anticipating what was to come, the Metropolitan Government gave carte blanche his employees to come to the office in shorts. Not only that. With its measure, the Executive hope to set an example and that companies also relax their dress codes. Dating back to 2005. To understand the measure we have to go back to 2005, when the Ministry of the Environment launched a campaign called “Cool Biz” to promote energy savings. Its premise was simple: the strict Japanese etiquette code leads office workers to go to their jobs with a tie, jacket and long pants, which in turn forced companies to spend more money (and energy) on air conditioning to make their day more bearable. So… Why not change it? “It’s liberating”. As part of the campaign, the authorities agreed that the thermostats in public offices should set at 28ºC and they relaxed the dress code for their employees. Of course, not too much. The ‘flexibility’ was limited to jackets and ties, which became optional items of clothing. “There were complaints and resistance, but they soon realized that not wearing a suit and tie in 35ºC is liberating,” remember Sumie Kawakamiprofessor at Yamanashi Gakuin University. The idea was to set an example from the public to the private sector to control energy expenditure and pollution in the country. one step further. The great architect of that measure was Yuriko Koikethen Minister of the Environment and since 2016 governor of Tokyo. Hence, he has taken advantage of his new position to go one step further in the capital: in spring Koike publicly encouraged his administration officials to leave their long pants in the closet when the heat hits. The idea was the same: to make the heatwave more bearable without having to skyrocket the energy bill, an important objective if two keys are taken into account. And what are they? First, last year Japan experienced a summer of record temperaturesabove 40ºC, and begins to get used to supporting extreme heat waves. He even named them: kokushobi. The second key is that when Koike launched the measure, in April, the energy cost was a national concern, both in Japan and in much of the planet. It had been barely two months since the start of the Iran war and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz had shot the price of oil, taking it to levels not seen for years. It is estimated that 90% of imports of oil that Japan receives arrive through that strategic maritime passage. The great enemy: taboo. However, ending a habit carried on for decades is not so easy. When the AFP agency visited the office government where Noboru Watanabe works, a week ago, he only saw five men wearing shorts. And that day they reached 34º. Among those brave few was Watanabe himself, who admits that at first he was embarrassed to walk among his colleagues showing his shins. The reporters of The New York Times they met with a similar panorama: They only saw 11 men wearing shorts, just 16% of a staff of 70 men. And the great debate began. The shorts perhaps they are more comfortable for the summer (Watanabe himself recognize that once the initial reservations are overcome, they are “comfortable” and even make you feel “younger”), but that doesn’t mean they convince everyone. In June The Japan Times public a column in which it was slipped that the Tokyo government may have gone “too far.” Other Asian media have collected testimonies from Japanese who do not quite accept the new Tokyo directive. “I’ve been to business meetings in Pakistan, Thailand and the Philippines and people there don’t wear tights when it comes to something important,” explains a 56-year-old businessman. A new concept: Sune Hara. It’s not just a question of whether to go with shorts to a meeting is appropriate or not. In Japan, a new term has been coined that indicates a deeper debate: sune hara“bullying because of leg hair.” Its approach is very simple. Now that men can wear shorts, will they also experience the pressure that women feel to have perfect legs? Why does society expect a woman to spend time and money getting rid of hair but tolerate it in a man? Will women still be expected to wear long skirts or stockings in certain areas? “Wearing shorts in the workplace has started to gain acceptance, but will society accept women showing bare, stockingless, hairy legs (because women have hair on their legs too) in a business environment?” a user launched one recently on the Weekly Women’s Prime platform. “If it is acceptable to men, it stands to reason that women’s legs should also be accepted.” Images | Egor Myznik (Unsplash) and Fikri Rasyid (Unsplash) In Xataka | 30 years ago we laughed at China and Japan for their obsession with sun protection. Now we’re following your path

In record time since its release in theaters, one of the most resounding box office failures of the year arrives tomorrow on Prime Video

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‘He-Man and the Masters of the Universe’ comes to Prime Video this Wednesday, July 22, just forty-seven days after its release in theaters. The reason for arriving at streaming With such a short margin of time it is its failure at the box office: it opened with 29.4 million dollars in North America, remained at 64.6 million domestically and closed the world tour at 113.3 million, very far from recovering a budget of between 170 and 200 million dollars. The rapid arrival of films that better captured the public’s attention, such as ‘Toy Story 4’ or the surprise hits of ‘Backrooms’ and ‘Obsession’, ended up burying it. However, the film is very enjoyable and moves away from the greatest temptation that a project to adapt a toy franchise from the eighties like this one can have: making it adult and reflective. Travis Knight, director of the excellent ‘Bumblebee’, does not darken Eternia: he opts for bright colors and Jared Leto’s Skeletor who enjoys every line of the cartoon villain without taking himself too seriously. Nicholas Galitzine builds a clumsy rather than heroic He-Man, closer to a clueless kid from a family movie from the decade in which dolls were rampant than to Dolph Lundgren, and that character is what guides the entire film. Seeing her now, at home and without paying an entrance fee, is a good way to meet her again. It works better for someone who recognizes the names Roboto or Tri-Klops than for someone looking for the founding film of a new fantasy franchise, mind you. But Luckily, the film also holds up without the need for those winks.with action shot with skill and a cast that delivers performances (Idris Elba as Duncan, Camila Mendes as Teela, Alison Brie as Evil-Lyn) that are in the perfect (and not at all complacent) space between self-parody and more or less sincere emotion. It is not clear if the film will find an audience as the even better ‘Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves’ from 2023 ended up finding, but what is guaranteed is that the Mattel franchise has just definitively entered a period of hibernation that, hand in hand with another summer puncture, ‘The Mandalorian & Grogu’, leaves a very clear lesson: nostalgia millennial It is no longer enough, on its own, to sustain a blockbuster. In Xataka | If you think Nicolas Cage can’t go any further, try this strange gem that just arrived on Prime Video

“Microsoft built the concept of office work because they wanted to sell more software”

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For many, the office work and spending eight hours a day in front of a screen is little less than a unnatural torture for the human being. In fact, this type of “knowledge work” is a relatively recent inventionwhich has been evolving as an adaptation of technology to the world of work. Aravind SrinivasCEO of Perplexity has gone a little further by ensuring that office work is an invention by Bill Gates to carry out his plan to bring a PC to every desk. Srinivas developed his hypothesis during his interview at the Joe Rogan Podcast and even left the presenter confused. “Microsoft built the concept of office work because they wanted to sell more software.” Gates’ dream Srinivas links the creation of office jobs directly to the Microsoft founder’s historical obsession with putting a computer in every house and on every desk. “That idea of ​​putting a PC on every desk and making you glued to it was Bill Gates’ vision,” explained the Perplexity CEO. It’s no secret. Gates himself has repeated that same idea for decades: he wanted a computer in every house and on every desk. In fact, his vision of the future of computers was published in the specialized press of the time even before Microsoft sold its first BASIC. Rogan, in his direct style, summed up the merit of Gates’ plan with a powerful phrase: “Wow, genius. What an achievement, because they certainly nailed it.” The truth is that it is difficult to contradict him. Few business strategies have changed the daily routine of billions of people as much as the arrival of computers and office automation in the world of work. A masterstroke from Microsoft Srinivas’s thesis is that the 9 to 5 job in front of a screen was not a natural evolution of employment, but a Microsoft business plan so that people used computers all day. The more hours and more people worked in front of a screen, the more software licenses were sold. According to the manager, the office routine was designed to create a daily dependence on Word and Excel, starting in schools, so that companies would then pay for these licenses. The juiciest part of the interview is the contrast between the two founders. According to Srinivas, Microsoft’s goal was never design. “It was not about making computing beautiful, as Steve Jobs conceived it,” he said verbatim, marking the difference with Apple. Jobs was pursuing something else: machines almost obsessive in their aesthetic care, which he himself defined as ‘insanely great‘. Microsoft, on the other hand, sold hardware to put software on top of. The more time you spent in front of the screen, the more licenses you needed. Microsoft’s business was not about creating a beautiful product, it was about generating dependency of your tools to sell licenses. Microsoft invented Office, not the office Despite Srinivas’ shocking statements, Bill Gates did not invent the eight-hour day nor office work. Its history comes from long before, from workers’ struggles of the 19th century and laws like Fair Labor Standards 1938 in the United States. What is true is that, as Rogan pointed out, “this type of lifestyle is something very recent that we have come to accept as normal.” The scientific evidence testifies that, with the arrival of computers and technology, the productivity at work skyrocketed. That Microsoft won that game by contributing to the increase in that productivity It is undeniable. Word, Excel or PowerPoint have been training entire generations since school. When these students arrive at their first job, they already know how to use those tools and companies pay for the license without thinking twice. In Xataka | Companies have returned to the office to improve productivity: a McKinsey study is not so clear Image | Unsplash (Jan Baborak), Flickr (European Parliament), Xataka

Today in streaming, one of the most epic box office failures of recent decades receives a portrait worthy of its legend

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Mike Figgis sent an email congratulating Francis Ford Coppola for resuming, forty years after imagining it, a project called ‘Megalopolis‘, a film financing and collection apocalyptic He added a postscript half jokingly: if he felt like it, he could document the filming. Coppola accepted, and thus ‘MegaDoc‘, that Filmin premieres today. Figgis had full access to the filming, without a script or preconditions. Figgis and Coppola had known each other since the nineties, when the Briton directed Nicolas Cage, the director’s nephew, in ‘Leaving Las Vegas’. In November 2022, when filming began, ‘Megalopolis’ was the biggest unknown in American independent cinema: a science fiction fable set in a New York inspired by Catiline’s conspiracy against republican Rome, financed entirely by Coppola with more than 120 million dollars from the sale of part of his wine business There is a very interesting detail in the nature of ‘MegaDoc’. Eleanor Coppola, the director’s wife for more than sixty years, died on April 12, 2024, just a month before the premiere of ‘Megalopolis’. It was she who in 1991 directed ‘Corazones en tinieblas’, the documentary about the filming of ‘Apocalypse Now’ that became the making of in its own genre within documentaries. ‘MegaDoc’ inherits that family tradition of documenting the creative process from withinalthough this time it is a filmmaker from outside the clan who holds the camera. In ‘MegaDoc’ we will see Shia LaBeouf’s confrontations with Coppola, who even told him that he was the most difficult actor he had ever worked with. Aubrey Plaza turned Figgis almost into another character in the film, ordering her without leaving her role as the Wow Platinum presenter to follow him as if it were her personal camera. Adam Driver, the protagonist, asked not to be filmed during filming and only gave an interview at the end. The result is a documentary as eventful and as peculiar in its destiny as the film it portrays. In Xataka | Today on Netflix, the exciting third installment of one of the most viewed sagas in the history of the platform

Today on Disney+, the film that, despite exceeding one billion at the box office, has left the continuity of its franchise up in the air

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‘Avatar: Fire and Ashes’the third installment of James Cameron’s billion-dollar saga, lands in Disney+. A film that opens with a statement against AI, introduces the franchise’s first major Na’vi villain, and leaves the future of two sequels in the airsequels that, despite the extraordinary collections of the franchise’s films, are still not guaranteed to survive. The film picks up where ‘The Way of Water’ left off: the Sullys, grieving the death of their eldest son Neteyam, try to protect another family member while facing two simultaneous threats. The RDA returns with reinforcements and the Mangkwan, known as the People of Ash, also appear: a volcanic Na’vi clan that has renounced the spiritual entity that underpins the entire cosmology of Pandora. It is the first time in the franchise that the Na’vi occupy the role of antagonists, which breaks the moral structure of the first two films: until now, only humans were the aggressors. The film’s visual effects were carried out by Wētā FX, the New Zealand studio that was linked to Peter Jackson. The team signed 3,132 visual effects shotsand the rendering process accumulated 1.248 million computing hours. One of the key technical innovations for the film was Kora, a set of tools for chemical combustion simulations, developed to solve a problem they had already identified in ‘The Way of Water’: photorealistic fire was extraordinarily difficult for artists to handle. Kora makes creating these types of images remarkably easy. In its opening weekend, the film grossed $347 million worldwide, and has already grossed $1,490. It is Cameron’s fourth film to exceed one billion, after ‘Avatar’, ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ and ‘Titanic’. The three films in the saga total more than $6 billion at the global box office, making it the first trilogy in history to reach that figure. However, calculations say that Disney needed to exceed one billion to make a profit, and that figure is increasingly being exceeded more closely. Without a doubt, an obstacle in the way of an ambitious story that may not tell everything that Cameron has in his portfolio. In Xataka | Today on Prime Video, a disaster movie that lost 45 million in theaters but is sweeping streaming

Teams will be able to know if you are in the office via WiFi

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Presence at work long ago stopped depending only on sitting at a table. Now it also lives in shared calendars, statuses Teamsscheduled meetings and small signals that we use every day almost without thinking about it. Microsoft wants to add one more layer to that invisible map of hybrid work. We’re not just talking about knowing if someone is busy or available, but about bringing physical location closer to the tools we use to coordinate. And that’s where a seemingly practical feature starts to strike a much deeper chord. The concrete novelty. The idea is that this change of “today I work from the office” does not always depend on us marking it by hand. The function is called workplace check-in via WiFi and is designed for Teams and Microsoft Places. The scene is easy to imagine: you arrive at the office, open your laptop, connect to a corporate network set up by the company and the system can update your work location during the day. Microsoft proposes it as a way to keep that information up to date without forcing the employee to touch their status every time they change plans. How it works. Microsoft is not talking about following the employee’s cell phone around the city as if it were a GPS, but rather a signal generated within a specific work environment. The company must previously register its office networks in Microsoft Places, with its SSID and, to associate them with specific buildings, the BSSIDs of the WiFi access points. Microsoft’s documentation adds another important limit: this detection requires the Teams desktop app on Windows or macOS, not the web or mobile versions. If the device is not connected to a network configured as a work location, Microsoft notes that the person will appear as “Remote.” A coordination tool. It’s not just about putting an “office” label next to someone’s name, but about making that information serve to better coordinate the team, according to Microsoft. The company gives very everyday examples: knowing who is there to have a coffee, reserving a table near colleagues or converting a meeting planned as remote into a face-to-face meeting. You can also keep your work plan up to date and check-in an existing desk reservation. The nuance of control. Microsoft insists that this feature is not enabled by default for the entire workforce. Check-in is disabled initially for each tenant and must be enabled by administrators, who can configure the experience as opt-in or opt-out. The company says that each employee retains control over whether and how their device works, and that location permissions are required at the operating system level. It also points out that the user can modify their settings at any time, manually define their work location or overwrite it if necessary. And in practice? Microsoft says the employee retains decision-making power, but corporate work rarely occurs in a neutral environment. Many companies, especially on Windows, manage laptops, Teams policies, operating system permissions, and Microsoft 365 settings from administrative layers that the user does not fully control. This does not allow us to conclude that this function can be imposed ignoring the employee, because Microsoft itself insists otherwise. It does force us, however, to read the promise of control with obvious caution: it will depend on the actual deployment. Why it matters. Microsoft’s announcement is not accompanied by a public list of countries or a closed date for each organization. The company talks about an enterprise rollout with Microsoft Places later this year, while its technical documentation still describes wireless check-in as a feature in preview. To use it, each company will have to prepare its tenant, which in practice is the Microsoft 365 environment that each company manages, configure buildings and add approved corporate networks. The bottom line is in scale: Teams is not a minor tool within the corporate desktop, but a platform with more than 320 million monthly active users. Images | Xataka with Nano Banana In Xataka | Knowing how to use AI is not a simple advantage: it is the difference between being in a labor market that is growing or one that is stagnating.

pay them extra to return to the office

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One of the advantages offered work in Administration public was that, if the position allowed it, the teleworking option was enabled. However, that is about to change for all those officials who depend on the Generalitat of Catalonia. The Government does not prohibit teleworking, but it has put some measures on the negotiating table to discourage civil servants from requesting it. To achieve this, he is even willing to pay them a salary supplement between 90 and 200 euros for those who give up remote work. The battle began a year and a half ago. In January 2025, the Government eliminated teleworking for his senior officials. The measure affected about 500 officials directly: general directors, general secretaries and similar positions. The Ministry of the Presidency, led by Albert Dalmau, argument that such positions require “effective and constant presence” to ensure effective supervision. The reaction from officials It didn’t take long to wait. More than 200 senior officials signed a manifesto in which they described the measure as a “19th century model.” That episode was only the first step of something broader. Now this measure is extended to the rest of the workforce of around 14,900 Catalan administration officials who currently have permission to telework. What exactly does the Government propose?. The Generalitat has put on the table the so-called “immediate operational assistance complement.” This is a supplement of between 90 and 200 euros per month that will be incorporated as a salary extra for those who voluntarily give up the teleworking days recognized in their position. The Catalan administration points out that the decision to take advantage of this supplement is completely voluntary and not an obligation. But monthly payroll changes depending on what you choose. The exact details about the final amount, who will be able to collect it and whether the officials whose teleworking was revoked would also receive it, are points that are still are being negotiated at the Public Service Board. The price of teleworking. The next meeting of the Public Service Board is scheduled for July 1. And everything indicates that the agreement, if it arrives, would not come into force before January 2027. In any case, with this measure a price has been put on teleworking in public administration. This represents an important change in the regulations that regulate remote work in the civil service since, until now, the general rule in the Spanish public service says that teleworking is neutral from an economic point of view: they neither pay you more for doing it nor do they deduct anything for not doing it, as stated in the article 47 bis 3 of the Basic Statute of Public Employees: “Personnel who provide their services through teleworking will have the same duties and rights.” However, with this complement, the Generalitat would give economic value to presence and opting for the office represents a salary improvement that those who opt for teleworking do not have, maintaining the same obligations. Moncloa pushes the opposite. What makes the Catalan bet more striking is that it goes against the current of the central Administration’s bet, which precisely bets for more teleworking. According to data from the Ministry for Digital Transformation and Public Service published by Digital Economy52.4% of employees of the General State Administration work remotely at least once a week, with more than 93,600 officials in hybrid mode. This percentage comes in full implementation of the day of 35 hours per week for civil servants. Catalonia is also negotiating the reduction of the working day to 35 hours, starting from the current 37.5. But the Government has linked this reduction in hours to the reduction in teleworking. The unions, divided. The measure has not been well received by the different union platforms. The IAC-CATAC, the center with the most delegates, is positioned “radically against.” UGT and CCOO, despite remaining against the measure, are more open to negotiating the conditions. From CCOO they assured that “we understand that this supplement should apply to everyone who works in person all day” and not only to those who expressly renounce teleworking, to avoid a remuneration offence. In Xataka | Companies have put an end to teleworking, but employees are making a move: the key is schedule flexibility Image | Pexels (Miguel Saddi Vitorino), Unsplash (Major Tom Agency)

Schwarzenegger was the absolute king of the box office in the 80s and 90s. His next two films will go directly to streaming

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Let Schwarzenegger’s next thing go straight to streamingcoming from the actor who dominated the global box office for fifteen years (from ‘Terminator’ to ‘The End of Days’, passing through ‘Predator’, ‘Total Challenge’ and a ‘Dangerous Lies’ that raised almost 400 million dollars and it was the first film in history to exceed a budget of 100 million), it may seem like a step backwards. But yes: while those two projects land, he is also working on what he considers the definitive project of his career, and that one is going to theaters. First movie. The first of these productions is titled ‘The Man with the Bag’ and arrives on December 2, 2026 on Prime Video. Adam Shankman (‘Modern Family’, ‘Only Murders in the Building’) directs a Christmas action comedy in which Schwarzenegger plays Santa Claus, whose magic bag of gifts is stolen and is forced to turn to an ex-thief recently released from prison and signed off his own list of naughty children to recover it. Alan Ritchson (‘Reacher’), Awkwafina and Ken Jeong complete the cast of this action-packed family entertainment. Second movie. ‘The Kellys’ has a different register: it is a police thriller directed by Brad Peyton (‘San Andrés’), also for Prime Video. Liam Hemsworth is a New York cop whose wife is taken hostage by terrorists inside an abandoned military building. To rescue her he will have to team up with his own family. Among them is Schwarzenegger, although his exact role has not been detailed. The premiere is scheduled for 2027. How we got here. We are not talking about a career exactly in decline: since his greatest hits triumphed in cinema, Schwarzenegger’s career has gone through unusual interruptions, such as his political career. When he returned to the (other) showbiz, in 2023, he made his television debut with ‘FUBAR’, a spy comedy for Netflix that started with 11 million views in its first two days. The second season, however, barely lasted a week in the Top 10, and was canceled. However, his eternal rival and business partner Sylvester Stallone has gone in another direction. In ‘Tulsa King’, Stallone has found solid television continuity for his career, which has already been going on for two seasons and counting. One possible cause is that Stallone built a new image from scratch on television, while Schwarzenegger tried to export his action image to streaming, and it didn’t quite stick. Conan King. Meanwhile, the actor is working on what he describes as the central project of this last phase of his career. ‘King Conan’ is scheduled to begin filming in 2027, with Christopher McQuarrie (director of the last four ‘Mission: Impossible’) at the helm, for 20th Century Studios and with distribution planned in theaters. Schwarzenegger described the project with a reference that says a lot about the tone and intentions of the project: ‘Unforgiven’ by Clint Eastwood. The idea is to portray a Conan who has been king for forty years, who has aged, who no longer has the physique of his glory years and who is beginning to be vulnerable. An action hero in decline as dramatic material: very far from what he is going to try now for streaming. In Xataka | Romantic series continue to arouse passions and Amazon has 25 million viewers to corroborate it

The breakfast that ruins your energy in the office is the same one that saves a cyclist: the paradox of "empty calories"

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The busy and stressed life that a good part of society leads can mean that in the mornings the lack of time means that breakfast is quickly resolved with a coffee accompanied by a few cookies or a bun. Something that is known by many that is not healthy, but the clock pressing from behind makes it difficult to find time to make some toast with something healthy on top. However, with this quick breakfast there is a problem: energy ends up falling in a few hours. The empty calories. a term which is increasingly heard to refer to those more processed foods such as pastries, cookies or any sweet that we eat. And here is the great debate, and it raises many questions about its usefulness and if we really eat foods that serve no purpose in the short term beyond making us fat. In Xataka Nutrition science is becoming clearer: it is not that important "that" We have breakfast but at what time do we do it? A roller coaster. To understand what happens in our body at 8:00 in the morning when we eat a coffee and four cookies, we must look at the biochemistry of digestion. And it is that industrial pastries o cookies are mainly composed of refined flours and free sugars. This is a problem because, lacking fiber, protein or quality healthy fats, the body You don’t have to make a great effort to digest them. That is, they are broken down at a high speed in the intestinal tract and enter the blood in the form of glucose almost suddenly. In energy terms, it is the equivalent of trying to heat a house by lighting a fire with sheets of newspaper: it burns very quickly, generates an intense flare, but goes out after a few minutes. {“videoId”:”x7zo910″,”autoplay”:true,”title”:”Added sugars: How to avoid them and improve your diet?”, “tag”:”sugar”, “duration”:”220″} There is no need to demonize to glucose because it is essential as fuel for our body and especially for the brain. However, this sugar peak which is produced by the consumption of these products or others that represent a large release of glucose in the blood, forces the pancreas to secrete a large amount of insulin at once to remove excess blood sugar towards the muscle or adipose tissue. The result here is a drastic drop in glucose just a couple of hours after eating these foods, which causes ravenous hunger or fatigue that makes us need to eat again to have sugar in our body. A continuum of sugar. If you have a slower breakfast with much more varied, healthy and fiber-rich foods, this does not happen. When there is a good amount of fiber, the digestive system has to spend more time processing food and, therefore, the transfer of glucose to the bloodstream is slower and more sustained over time. This gives you a ‘more sustained’ energy throughout the morning without feeling the classic mid-morning ‘slump’. In Xataka We’ve been believing oatmeal is the perfect breakfast for years, but science has a warning: there’s a limit It’s not always bad. Although on many occasions these empty calories are demonized for not having quality nutrients, sometimes it is necessary to have extra quick energy. without thinking about fiber or vitamins that may be presented. This is something we see in the world of sports, where a hyper-sugar chocolate or a cookie can work a miracle when you are at kilometer 80 of a stage, climbing a hill or when the dreaded ‘bird’ is lurking. In this context of high sports performance, fiber or fat would be a hindrance, since they would slow down gastric emptying, stealing blood from the legs to send it to the stomach and causing heaviness or gastrointestinal problems. That glucose spike that in an office causes lethargy after two hours, on the bicycle is immediately burned in the muscle as high-octane fuel, allowing the intensity to be maintained. Images | Bayu Syaits In Xataka | To the question of whether “eating breakfast as soon as you wake up is good for your body”, science offers a clear answer (function() { window._JS_MODULES = window._JS_MODULES || {}; var headElement = document.getElementsByTagName(‘head’)(0); if (_JS_MODULES.instagram) { var instagramScript = document.createElement(‘script’); instagramScript.src=”https://platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js”; instagramScript.async = true; instagramScript.defer = true; headElement.appendChild(instagramScript); – The news The breakfast that ruins your energy in the office is the same one that saves a cyclist: the paradox of “empty calories” was originally published in Xataka by José A. Lizana .

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