Know about Box Office collection of Mission Impossible, MurphyToo, Seagal

Shakira and Elton John played one-off concerts in Lebanon in recent months but the summer music festivals that helped make the country a cultural lodestar for the Arab world are struggling.

Box Office: 'Mission: Impossible - Fallout' Cruises Past 'Christopher Robin'

Tom Cruise easily conquered Winnie the Pooh at the domestic box office. "Mission: Impossible - Fallout" generated $35 million from 4,395 locations in its sophomore frame, while Disney's "Christopher Robin" opened at the lower end of forecasts with $25 million from 3,602 screens.

Weekend #BoxOffice Estimates: #MissionImpossible - Fallout $35m; #ChristopherRobin $25m; @SpyWhoDumpedMe $12.35m https://t.co/nD9uWBiMeN pic.twitter.com/qtCUPYfuMT

— Box Office Mojo (@boxofficemojo) August 5, 2018

Lebanon's glamorous music festivals struggle in tough times

Shakira and Elton John played one-off concerts in Lebanon in recent months but the summer music festivals that helped make the country a cultural lodestar for the Arab world are struggling. In the 1960s and 1970s, jazz legends such as Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone, and Miles Davis, and the greatest Arab singers, Um Kulthoum and Fairouz, performed at ruined Roman temples during the Baalbek festival or at pretty seaside towns.

Singer Demi Lovato speaks out, says will keep fighting addiction

U.S. pop singer Demi Lovato spoke out on Sunday about her battle with addiction, saying she needed "time to heal and focus on my sobriety" days after media reports said she was taken to a Los Angeles hospital suffering from a suspected overdose. "I have always been transparent about my journey with addiction," the 25-year-old Grammy-nominated recording artist wrote on Instagram. "What I've learned is that this illness is not something that disappears or fades with time. It is something I must continue to overcome and have not done yet."

My truth... https://t.co/tmDhhBGLNQ#sober out now pic.twitter.com/Uwfg6PFPk9

— Demi Lovato (@ddlovato) June 21, 2018

'Murphy Brown' revival to tackle sexual misconduct with #MurphyToo

Emmy-winning comedy "Murphy Brown" will return to CBS television for the first time in 20 years with an episode that addresses the #MeToo movement of women breaking their silence about sexual harassment, the series' creator said on Sunday. The new season starring Candice Bergen as a pioneering newswoman is scheduled to premiere on Sept. 27.

#MurphyBrown will tackle #MeToo with the fourth episode titled #MurphyToo. More intel on the revival: https://t.co/zszIUwSgnq

— Chris Harnick (@chrisharnick) August 5, 2018

Actress Charlotte Rae, star of 'Facts of Life,' dead at 92

Charlotte Rae, the actress, singer, and comedienne who won acclaim on Broadway and was best known for her starring role as girls boarding school housemother on U.S. television's "The Facts of Life" from 1979 to 1986, has died at the age of 92. Rae died at her home in Los Angeles on Sunday afternoon surrounded by her family, her manager Paul Hilepo wrote in an email.

I was just thinking about Charlotte Rae the other day when they announced the Facts of Life reboot and how hard it's going to be to replace her memorable Mrs. Garrett. RIP. pic.twitter.com/x4805A8qwi

— John Cohen (@JohnCohen1) August 6, 2018

Russia tasks Hollywood actor Seagal with improving U.S. ties

Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Saturday it had made U.S. actor Steven Seagal its special representative for Russian-U.S. humanitarian ties, a role it said was meant to deepen cultural, art and youth ties between the two countries. President Vladimir Putin presented a Russian passport to U.S. actor Steven Seagal in 2016, saying he hoped it would serve as a symbol of how fractious ties between Moscow and Washington were starting to improve.

I am deeply humbled and honoured to have been appointed as a special representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry in charge of Russian and American Humanitarian ties.I hope we can strive for peace, harmony and positive results in the world.I take this honour very seriously pic.twitter.com/LTuUxsk1aZ

— Steven Seagal (@sseagalofficial) August 5, 2018

(With inputs from Reuters)