the missing british boy who was found after six years is expected to travel back to the uk over the weekend. the grandmother of the now 17 year old said she can t begin to express her relief and happiness. now on bbc news: talking movies: review of 2023. hello from new york. i m tom brook and welcome to our talking movies review of 2023. in today s programme, highlights from the world of cinema in the past 12 months. hi, barbie. hi, ken. we ll be revisiting barbenheimer one of the more memorable movie events of 2023. he s going to now. pull me off the train. also, during the year, tom cruise did it again, bringing us a new mission: impossible film, but it didn t perform as well as expected. and 2023 was defined by industrial strife in hollywood, with both writers and actors going on strike. we hear from an actor who spent time on the picket lines. i m the king of rock and roll! and year s end brought forth a wealth of documentaries poised for awards all kinds of stories,
place to land troops and equipment in a crushing blow to russian morale. and later, it s been a blockbuster summer at movie theaters. audiences return for action on the big screen. having fun yet? so why is hollywood bracing for a big chill? the problem is there weren t enough blockbusters this summer for the theater chains to really say that we are back. announcer: this is the cbs weekend news. from new york, with jericka duncan. good evening and thanks for joining us on this sunday. tonight, millions of americans from texas to louisiana are under threat of flash flooding. torrential rain is swamping drought-stricken land near flagstaff, arizona rushing water made the roads unpassable. and this week there s more rounds of rain to come as storms move east. cbs s danya bacchus is tracking it all. reporter: good evening, jericka. it is still extremely dry here in los angeles, but across the west and southwest there s a rush to clean up in the wake of powerful st
seaborne russian oil are significant. they underline the european chief said they will cut 90% of europe s russian oil imports by december. the discussion of some interim status for ukraine on the way to being a full member of the european union is important. i wish they would find some speedy transition plan but it is not there. so, they re trying to find ways to keep faith with ukraine and in a period where i think the pressure on ukraine is growing. i think your right to express some concern about europe. they ve got their own economic troubles and political splits. but this last weekend that they held together more strongly than i might have feared. i was going to say, pretty remarkable that they held together even pulled hungary along when they had to know this inflation number was coming out. they have the same problem on the other side with nato. but do you remain optimistic like so many observers that when it comes to nato, turkey, at the end, will back down and a
and the stuff that we ve accomplished has never been seen before on screen. three, two, one, action! we ve even built built our own train to destroy it. this film, the first of a two parter, does what you d expect a mission: impossible film to do. it s set around the world in glamorous locations and has an intriguing and timely plot around artificial intelligence which might even be able to outsmart ethan hunt. it s only the beginning. but it cost $300 million to make and so, the pressure was on to top the last mission: impossible film, 2018 s fallout, which made more than $800 million for cinemas. at the time of release, the cast were hoping for even more with dead reckoning. is that what you re hoping forfor mission: impossible? that it ll be a huge blockbuster summer? of course. i d love crack a bill wouldn t you?