The highest bicycle backflip is 2.8 metres (9 ft 2.23 in) and was achieved by Ben Wallace (UK) on the set of Zheng Da Zong Yi-Guinness World Records Special in Beijing, China, on 9 December 2010. The take-off ramp was 1.91 m (6 ft 3.19 in) high. Angela Wu adjudicated.
The highest bunny hop on a bicycle is 1.42 m (4 ft 8 in) and was achieved by Benito Ros (Spain) at the 2009 “bike the rock” festival, Heubach, Germany, on 17 May 2009.
The highest wall ride on a mountain bike measured 62 cm (2 ft 1 in) completed by Jim DeChamp (USA) at Miller Motorsports Park in Tooele, Utah, USA, on 18 November 2008 for the MTV show ‘Nitro Circus’. The GWR episode will air January 2009.
Michael Patrick Buonocore (USA) (b. 19 May 2001), survived a blood sugar level of 147.6 mmol/L (2,656 mg/dl) when admitted to the Pocono Emergency Room in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, USA, on 23 March 2008. The normal blood sugar range is between 4.4 to 6.6 mmol/L (80-120 mg/dl).
Rising cinema ticket prices mean the all-time top-grossing movies are nearly all recent films. Although Gone with the Wind (USA 1939) took just US$393.4 million (then £88 million) at the international box office, in an inflation-adjusted list it comes top with a total gross of US$5,362,000,000 (£2,916,000,000). In the US alone, Gone with the Wind had 283,100,000 admissions compared with 130,900,000 for Titanic (USA 1997).
Now officially the most successful movie in history – at least in terms of box-office takings – James Cameron’s (USA) Avatar (USA, 2009) achieved the box-office triple, topping first the foreign chart (23 January 2010), then the world chart (25 January 2010) and finally the domestic (2 February 2010). It grossed a global total of $2,768,463,014 as of 23 September 2010. First movie to gross over $2 billion
Hero (2004) has taken $177.4 million (£111.7 million) worldwide and $53.7 million (£33.3 million) at the US box office to date. It is often thought that Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) is the most internationally successful Chinese film of all time, earning $128 million (£80.6 million) in the USA and $213.5 million (£134.5 million) worldwide], but although it is set in China and filmed in Mandarin Chinese, the film was actually a co-production between Taiwan and Hong Kong, earning it the joint honour of the
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To date, City of God (2003) has taken $30.6 million (£19.2 million) worldwide and $7.5 million (£4.7 million) at the US box office.
Directed by Guillermo del Toro (Mexico) El Laberinto del Fauno (Pan’s Labyrinth; Mexico/Spain/USA, 2006) has taken $83.2 million (£52.4 million) worldwide and $37.6 million (£23.6 million) at the US box office.
Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and starring Audrey Tautou, Le Fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain (2001), (UK title: Amélie from Montmartre), first released in France on 25 April 2001, took the foreign box office by storm by amassing $174 million (£109.6 million) worldwide to date.