Weekend news roundup 13/11: Box Office latest, England call-ups & more

Monday 13 November 2023 by Jonathan Victoria  News

Southgate promotes Under-21s pair

Gareth Southgate has promoted Chelsea’s Cole Palmer and Manchester City’s Rico Lewis to the England senior squad from the Under-21s for the upcoming International fixtures.

The young stars have been given the promotion after James Maddison, Callum Wilson and Lewis Dunk all pulled out of the squad due to injury. Jude Bellingham is also a doubt to play.

Along with Lewis and Palmer, Aston Villa defender Ezri Konsa has also earned his first England call-up.

While its happy days for these three, players such as James Ward-Prowse and Raheem Sterling must be scratching their head, wondering what more they have to do to add to their national team appearances. Sterling especially has found form again for Chelsea, but has been left out once again.

The Marvels tops box office despite worst-ever MCU opening

The latest MCU title, The Marvels, was released over the weekend and while it has claimed the top spot in the box office, it has also slumped to the worst opening for an MCU title.

The Marvels won the weekend with a $47m domestic opening, breaking the previous low for an MCU title, which was 2008s The Incredible Hulk, by $8.4m.

Internationally, the film brought in $63.3m to bring the combined total to $110.3m. Part of the reason for the low numbers may be down to the movie’s stars, such as Brie Larson (Room) and Samuel L. Jackson (Pulp Fiction), not being able to do as much promotional work as Marvel would usually do for their films due to the SAG-AFTRA strikes, which only ended shortly before the films release.

McIlroy wins Race to Dubai title… without playing

Rory McIlroy has won the DP World Tour Race to Dubai title for the fifth time - and he hasn’t even played since the Ryder Cup ended on 1st October.

The most recent event on the tour was the Nedbank Golf Challenge, played at The Gary Play Golf Course and Country Club in Sun City, South Africa, and was won by Max Homa.

Adrian Meronk and Ryan Fox were the only two players in the field that could catch Rory, but they both failed to even break the top 10, meaning they didn’t get enough points to keep the championship going until the DP World Tour Championship this coming weekend.

Biggest reveals from Netflix Geeked Week

Netflix hosted their annual Geeked Week last week and it provided some looks at a number of exciting and highly-anticipated projects coming to the service soon.

Geeked Week is a week-long virtual event that brings sneak peeks and announcements for upcoming Netflix projects.

Geeked Week 2023 was one to be excited for as it featured announcements and trailers for some top new films and series, including:

• New live adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender
• Zac Snyder’s sci-fi epic Rebel Moon
• Terminator anime
• Umbrella Academy Season 4
• The Witcher: Sirens of the Deep animated movie

Kane breaks Bundesliga scoring record

Harry Kane has broken the Bundesliga scoring record for the most goals scored after 11 games, scoring his 17th goal of the season already while netting a brace in Bayern’s 4-2 win over Heidenheim.

The previous record was held by the club's former main talisman Robert Lewandowski, who scored 16 in the first 11 games in 2019.

His remarkable goal-scoring has taken Bayern to the top of the league by one point.