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NEW YORK (AP) — “Ford v Ferrari” left its competition in the rearview, racing to a $31 million debut at the box office in a No. 1 finish that counted as a win for big-budget originality.

Elizabeth Banks is basically remaking “Kingsman,” but a tedious, joyless, colorless, direct-to-video version of “Kingsman.”

Let’s look at Arnold’s box office performance since Schwarzenegger’s embarrassing decision to become a girly-man Never Trumper.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Despite a fresh injection of four big movies into the marketplace including a Stephen King adaptation, a World War II epic, a glossy, holiday-themed romantic comedy and a family friendly comedy, audiences largely stayed away from theaters this weekend and the North American box office is hurting.

This is a country more than willing to accept female action heroes, if they are presented to us as fellow human beings, as opposed to these obnoxious, anti-male political statements that pretend American women live in some sort of repressed patriarchy.

What we have here is worst opening for a Terminator sequel ever.

Kathleen Kennedy killed off all of our beloved Star Wars characters, introduced new characters no one cares about, and poisoned everything with Year Zero Feminism.

With a $790 million worldwide gross, Joker is now the biggest R-rated movie ever produced.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Walt Disney Co.’s “Maleficent: Mistress of Evil” has knocked “Joker” out of the No. 1 spot at the box office, but just barely.

My personal belief is that all those woketard hot takes were inspired by only one thing: the movie daring to put RESIST signs in the hands of Joker’s anarchist followers.

“Joker” kept winning at the box office. The R-rated comic book villain origin story had a phenomenal second weekend box office, topping the charts once more over newcomers like the animated “The Addams Family” and the Will Smith action pic “Gemini Man.”

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Warner Bros.′ R-rated “Joker” has set a new record at the October box office.

NEW YORK (AP) — The DreamWorks animated adventure “Abominable” topped the box office with $20.9 million in ticket sales over the weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday, while the Renee Zellweger-led Judy Garland tale “Judy” got off to a strong start.

The butler did it for September’s week three with a $31 million plus debut for Downton Abbey, not only landing in the top box office slot but also handing its studio its biggest opening ever.

Horror flick It: Chapter Two remains at on top, the Jennifer Lopez crime drama, Hustlers, opened larger than expected this weekend, while mystery film The Goldfinch bombed in its debut.

The surprisingly successful R-rated kid comedy “Good Boys” pushed “Hobbs & Shaw” out of the top box office spot.

The first Fast and Furious spin-off starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Jason Statham feature some gruesome shooting scenes and very big guns, one the same weekend that Hollywood stars where seen calling for stricter gun control laws in the wake of two deadly mass shootings across the U.S.

The Disney juggernaut has scored another recording-breaking box office opening for July with “The Lion King” roaring into theaters. 

Solo bombing at the box office is the most significant event to hit the movie business in decades. The surest thing in the history of sure things is no longer a sure thing.  

LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Spider-Man: Far From Home” is celebrating another weekend at No. 1, but non-franchise fare continues to struggle at the box office. Fresh studio-released counterprograming such as the horror movie “Crawl” and the action-comedy “Stuber” barely made a dent in the web-slinger’s earnings, although there is a glimmer of hope in the independent world.

What, you mean Americans aren’t interesting in paying $12 for a Stuber lecture about the dangers of toxic masculinity? Go on!

What should terrify the movie business all the more is that things are even worse than they seem, because there is only one studio holding up the year, and that’s Disney,

The fact that “Toy Story” is in its fourth chapter and over-performing its predecessors is pretty amazing. Unfortunately, all this wishcasting about breaking the $180 to $200 million mark dimmed an otherwise stellar debut.

Woke-comedies are dying at the box office while the tried-and-true Adam Sandler breaks Netflix viewing records, and… The utterly useless Hollywood Reporter is blaming this death of comedy at the box office on everything but what is actually causing the

This year might not be that catastrophic year, but as the golden geese continue to die off, you can bet that year will arrive sooner rather than later.

This weekend’s box office was an all-around disappointment for several Hollywood studios as two sequels, and a “woke” comedy all found lower than expected debuts with Men in Black: International, Shaft, and Late Night coming nowhere near expected ticket sales.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Brand familiarity isn’t everything when it comes to attracting audiences to the multiplex, and Hollywood is learning that lesson the hard way this summer with a slew of underperforming sequels and reboots. That so-called franchise fatigue came to a head this weekend with the releases of “Men in Black: International” and “Shaft.”

Another bomb is Mindy Kaling’s Late Night, which was sold as woke-female-of-color-lecture, because we all go to the movies to get talked down to. Oh, wait — actually we don’t.

What do all these flops have in common? An insufferable air of self-importance, a suffocating sense of sanctimony and smug.

After 19 years and a lot of great movies (“X-Men,” “X-Men 2,” “Logan,” “Days of Future Past”) it is a real shame the whole thing had to implode in a toxic, SJW-influenced mess.

The Secret Life of Pets 2 topped the latest superhero flick, Dark Phoenix, at the weekend’s box office. But no one is popping any Champaign corks since both seriously underperformed.

Six years ago, “The Wolverine” opened to $53 million. That is now the second lowest. “Dark Phoenix” — even with the “First Class” cast, even with Jennifer Lawrence, came in $17 million below that.

When you’ve insulted and alienated half your customers, killed the concept of the movie star, and run out of bankable franchises, how does the movie business get out of the corner it painted itself into?

The domestic box office was not supposed to look like this going into Memorial Day of 2019, and it doesn’t look as though this Memorial weekend is going to be a barn burner.

Rogen should look into hosting the Mid-Daily Show on Comedy Central, or something — you know, something that can still be spun as a hit even if only 13 people tune in.

Avengers: Endgame, the culmination of ten years of Marvel superhero movies, has already smashed the global box office record after only two days in theaters. By Friday, the latest Marvel blockbuster had already made $644 million, making it the biggest opening of any film in history, according to CNN Business.