Lightsabers at the ready star wars the rise of skywalker is out in cinemas in the uk later today with the european premiere held here in london. Experts are talking about a cinema revival, while the uk industry is banking on the final star wars instalment setting a record for ticket sales in 2019. Theres been much talk of streaming services, like netflix with its 160m army of global subscribers, killing off the traditional big screen. Streaming on our devices at home is on the rise global Home Entertainment spending jumped 16 in 2018 to 55. 7 billion, according to trade organisation mpaa. But cinemas have spruced up, Offering High tech, immersive and niche experiences and upgrading booking systems to entice us out of our homes. Last year was a blockbuster in the uk alone admissions hit 177 million even without Luke Skywalker and chewbacca in the frame. Will 2019 be peak cinema . A record nine films are tipped to have made more 1bn dollars at the Global Box Office by year end, with froz
Low pressure sitting around here, spiralling around that we have kyle jameson outbreaks of rain, the stripe of culture sitting in place, not moving anywhere quickly, so the wettest weather continue across parts of lincolnshire and the north midlands, wet weather to merseyside, north east wales, dangling down into cornwall. The same areas will see cloud and persistent rain through the rest of this afternoon. Where it was so wet in the south east yesterday, we see sunshine but also some heavy, fungible shallots. Light winds here, pretty brisk winds elsewhere. You will notice the strength of the north easterly winds and you can see gusts of a0 mph or more, 11 degrees in birmingham, 12 in hull. Northern ireland, the far north of england and scotland predominantly dry with some sunny and scotland predominantly dry with some sunny spells and a few showers in the far north of scotland. The band of cloud and rain moves erratically North West Woods overnight, some rain into north west england a
Dixon and im Ellie Costello, and this is breakfast on gb news. So we start with breaking news in the last hour or so, and israel has reportedly launched an attack on iran overnight in a retaliatory strike, with reports of explosions near a military base in isfahan and thats according to us officials. Yes. Iranian state media have been quick to downplay the situation, claiming their air Defence Systems were able to destroy three drones in the centre of the country. Now yet to get any official statement from israel on the attack. Well, meanwhile, the Australian Government has urged its citizens to leave israel over fears of a revenge attack by iran. Lets talk to our security editor , mark white, who joins us editor, mark white, who joins us now. Morning, mark. What do we know at this stage . Morning well, we are still waiting on any official word from israel as to what this attack was, whether, of course, it was israel. We suspect it was, as israel. We suspect it was, as its being widely
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