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On Friday November 22 2024, National Geographic broadcasts Destruction Decoded!

Space Disasters Season 2 Episode 5 Episode Summary

The upcoming episode of “Destruction Decoded,” titled “Space Disasters,” promises to take viewers on a deep dive into some of the most tragic events in the history of space exploration. Airing on National Geographic, this episode will explore the catastrophic incidents that have occurred as humanity has tried to conquer the final frontier.

The episode will cover significant events, starting with the Apollo 1 tragedy. This disaster occurred during a pre-launch test in 1967, resulting in the loss of three astronauts. The show will examine the factors that led to this incident and its impact on NASA and space travel safety.

In addition to Apollo 1, “Space Disasters” will delve into the Challenger and Columbia disasters. The Challenger explosion in 1986 shocked the world, as the shuttle disintegrated just 73 seconds after liftoff, claiming the lives of seven crew members. The...

After going dark last year due to the war in Gaza, the Cairo Film Festival now returns with a super-sized program and a more humanist remit. Running Nov. 13 – 22, this bulked out edition aims for wider international visibility and greater attendance, all while keeping the projectors running longer than ever before.

“We have to compensate,” says incoming artistic director Essam Zakarea. “We have to make a bigger edition with an unprecedented number of films.”

For this 45th edition, the Cairo Film Festival will screen 194 titles spread across 15 sections, including a number of competitive sections devoted to Palestinian stories and cinema.

This too was born of the similar instinct that the saw the lights dim in 2023.

“If last year was canceled in solidarity with Gaza, [we hold] this edition in that same solidarity,” Zakarea says. “Film festivals are just not for entertainment. They also can play a crucial role in politics, in making people more human,...

The movie “Decoded” tells the story of Rong Jinzhen, a gifted mathematician working in 1940s China. As a young man, Jinzhen demonstrates an uncanny ability to solve complex ciphers and codes. He is recruited by his country’s secret intelligence service to aid the war effort by decrypting intercepted enemy communications.

Jinzhen’s journey takes him from an isolated childhood, raised by guardians with unconventional teachings, to the heights of China’s codebreaking operations. Along the way, we see him develop from a shy but brilliant student to a valued asset racing against time to crack intricate puzzles with geopolitical stakes. His personal rival and one-time mentor, a professor played by John Cusack, begins designing ciphers for America, turning mentor against pupil in an international duel of wits.

Directed by Chen Sicheng and based on a popular novel, the film sets out with ambitions of dramatic tension and character depth.

The work of British filmmaker Christopher Nolan, past and recent, merits even greater appreciation when compared to Chinese director Chen Sicheng’s ambitious but saccharine and mostly dull “Decoded,” an adaptation of the 2002 novel of the same name by Mai Jia. This cradle-to-grave portrait of fictional character Rong Jinzhen (Liu Haoran), a prodigious orphan turned valuable government asset in the 1940s, chronicles how his unique skillset ultimately helped clear the path for China to establish its own nuclear weapons program.

While the magnitude of his task and its global repercussions might immediately induce comparisons to Nolan’s “Oppenheimer,” if one takes “Decoded” as “China’s answer” to the recent best picture Oscar winner, the moniker must come with the caveat that this means it’s a toothless film as it relates to moral ambiguity. It’s not a dissident work of art made to question the pursuit of such armament,...

Chinese family comedy-drama, “Successor” held on to its place at the top of the mainland China box office for the fifth week as “Deadpool & Wolverine” slipped out of the Chinese top five in its third weekend of release.

“Successor” earned RMB179 million ($25.2 million) between Friday and Sunday, according to data from consultancy firm Artisan Gateway. That gives it a total of $420 million since releasing on July 16. It is by far the biggest film of the summer season and has now become the fourth highest-grossing film of the year in China. Its latest weekend victory, however, was a narrow one.

In second place, Ruyi Films’ “Upstream” earned $23.4 million over its opening weekend (and even took top spot on Friday’s daily chart). With previews, the filmt has a cumulative of $25.8 million. The drama is directed by Xu Zheng and Tong Zhi-jian and tells the uplifting story of a former tech...

Liu Haoran and John Cusack are set to engage in a fateful showdown between mentor and prodigy. Join young genius Rong Jinzhen (played by Liu Haoran) as he navigates the realms of dreams and reality in a thrilling journey of extreme decoding.

Directed by Chen Sicheng, “Decoded” features a stellar cast including Liu Haoran, John Cusack, Chen Daoming, Daniel Wu, and Faye Yu. The movie is expected to be rolled out internationally after its premiere in China on August 3, 2024.

Cmc Pictures, the Chinese studio behind “The Meg” shark action franchise, has set plans for the global release of its John Cusack-starring cryptography thriller “Decoded.”

The film will release in Chinese theaters on Saturday and is headed for an international rollout at the end of August. Cmc Pictures will operate as the direct distributor in a limited number of territories and as the sales agent handling the rights in others.

The film has a strong pedigree and is on course to make a splash.

Directed by Chen Sicheng, one of China’s most consistently successful writer-director-producers, the film has a screenplay by Chen and Christopher MacBride that is adapted from a novel by the Mao Dun Literature Prize-winning novelist Mai Jia.

Set in the volatile era of the 1940s, “Decoded” chronicles the journey of Rong Jinzhen (played by Liu Haoran), an autistic young man with an exceptional talent for mathematics.

Chinese hit comedy “Successor” comfortably topped the mainland China box office over the weekend and advanced its haul to over $300 million. But “Deadpool & Wolverine” also enjoyed one of Hollywood’s strongest openings in the territory so far this year.

“Successor,” a Chinese-produced comedy drama about escape from poverty, earned RMB364 million ($51.3 million) in what was its second official weekend of release and its third in reality, according to data from consultancy firm Artisan Gateway. Its cumulative now stands at $317 million.

“Deadpool & Wolverine” took $23.9 million over the weekend. With previews, it has a total of $24.5 million. Some $5 million of the weekend total came from Imax screens.

That was the second biggest opening weekend performance by any Hollywood film this year and is only bettered by “Godzilla x Kong,” a film produced by Wanda-owned Legendary Entertainment and handled by its China subsidiary Legendary East. “Godzilla x Kong” earned an opening $44.6 million in China.