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The weekend box office estimates (Fri-Sun) are in, and things aren’t looking great for  Marvel’s Inhumans . The movie brought in just $2.6 million globally, earning it the last place in a chart of 25 films tracked by  ComScore . Amongst 18 features with domestic box office takes this weekend,  Inhumans  ranks 15th, with $1.5 million. Dunkirk clearly won the weekend from a global perspective, raking in $36.5 million for its openings in China and Italy. The Hitman’s Bodyguard won in the U.S., with $10.25 million. Still, this Labor Day weekend is the worst in terms of overall domestic box office revenue since 1999. Though  Inhumans  wasn’t expected to bring in big bucks at the box office, the negative reviews and press circling the show like vultures doesn’t bode well for its future when it debuts on ABC on September 29th. With no money and a net negative word of mouth gained from it, one might wonder what purpose was served by releasing the show’s first two e...

Her Grandfather’s whole family was wiped out in the Warsaw Ghetto In the popular show Finding Your Roots, celebrities from around the world find out about their ancestry and where they came from. Scarlett Johansson participated in the show. She knew she had Jewish origins but never really investigated her family history and she was not prepared for the sad information she discovered during the show. She discovered that her great grandfather Sol was a holocaust survivor who lost his entire family in the Warsaw Ghetto. “I couldn’t believe the horror,” Scarlett said tearfully. Sol used to sell bananas as a street vendor in America while at the same time, his brother and their entire family was under the command of the Nazis in the Warsaw Ghetto and was eventually murdered. “This revelation makes me feel even more connected to this side of my family,” Scartlett said while crying as she held documents about them from Yad Vashem in her hands which confirmed what happened to them. Scarlett re...