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The era of Michael Moore is over. No one wants to watch his dumb TV show and TBS knows it.

Only one movie, Miss Bala, opened this weekend setting up the Box Office to post it’s slowest Super Bowl weekend take in nearly 20 years.

Matthew McConaughey notched one of the worst debuts of his career, Oscar nominees saw only modest bumps, and M. Night Shyamalan’s “Glass” easily remained No. 1 on a quiet weekend in movie theaters.

Oscar voters on Tuesday showered Alfonso Cuaron’s “Roma” and Yorgos Lanthimos’ “The Favourite” with a leading 10 nominations for the 91st Academy Awards, while two dominant but contentious Hollywood forces — Netflix and Marvel — each scored their first best picture nomination.

At 88-years of age, Clint Eastwood has another major box office success on his hands. As of this weekend, The Mule, which Eastwood both stars in and directs, has cleared an incredible $81 million.

Despite taking the top spot at the Pre-Christmas weekend box office, DC superhero flick Aquaman rang in as the worst debut of any DC film to date.

‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’ took an estimated $35.4 million for its opening weekend, the biggest ever animated movie to open in Dec.

NEW YORK (AP) — In the calm before the Christmas storm at the box office, “Ralph Breaks the Internet” remained No. 1 for the third straight week, while the upcoming DC Comics superhero film “Aquaman” arrived with a cannonball-sized splash in Chinese theaters.

NEW YORK (AP) — On a typically sleepy post-Thanksgiving weekend in movie theaters, leftovers led the box office and Disney’s “Ralph Breaks the Internet” repeated as No. 1 with $25.8 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.

Even though the film industry will close 2018 with record box office receipts, that might not necessarily mean more people went to the movies. Nevertheless, a win is a win is a win, and Hollywood will celebrate that win. But 2018 might be remembered as a perfect storm that will be difficult to repeat.

Sylvester Stallone appeared to say goodbye forever to his Rocky Balboa character in an Instagram video posted on Wednesday.

Michael B. Jordan’s ‘Creed II’ scored a record Thanksgiving Day weekend earning a whopping $55 million during its Wednesday to Sunday opening

LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald” crawled, slithered and flew its way to the top of the weekend box office with a $62.2 million opening in the U.S. and Canada, according to studio estimates Sunday.

“Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch” made off with $66 million to top the weekend North American box office, according to studio estimates Sunday.

NEW YORK (AP) — The Freddie Mercury biopic “Bohemian Rhapsody” and 20th Century Fox are — for now, at least — champions of the world.

Aquaman, the latest chapter in the DC movie universe, is expected to open on December 21 anywhere between $40 and $60 million.

Director Damien Chazelle’s “First Man” has officially flopped, and not just here at home, but all over the world.

NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Meyers — or is it Jamie Lee Curtis? — can’t be stopped. “Halloween” dominated the North American box office for the second straight weekend, carving up an estimated $32 million in ticket sales.

This week’s cancellation of a feature film starring the bounty hunter character Boba Fett tell us just how much trouble the Star Wars franchise is in.  

Latest slasher film Halloween smashed box office expectations this weekend with an impressive $80 million, beating the likes of Venom and First Man. 

First Man tanked at the box office, coming in well below expectations, with just a $16.2 million opening weekend.

Damien Chazelle’s intergalactic thriller First Man hits theaters on Thursday. Its box office success may depend on how well viewers receive the movie’s internationalist theme.

The end of Michael Moore began almost immediately after Moore’s greatest triumph, back in the summer of 2004 when Fahrenheit 9/11 grossed an incredible $222.5 million worldwide.

The box office figures are in — Venom and A Star is Born were major winners, bringing October box office numbers to an all-time high.

Closing out September, the Kevin Hart comedy Night School went to the head of the class for this weekend’s box office earnings, leaving the Channing Tatum and LeBron James-voiced cartoon Smallfoot in the dust — but still at number two.

NEW YORK (AP) — The gothic family fantasy “The House With a Clock in Its Walls” exceeded expectations to debut with an estimated $26.9 million in ticket sales at the weekend box office, while audiences showed considerably less interest in Michael Moore’s Donald Trump-themed documentary, “Fahrenheit 11/9,” than his George W. Bush-era one.

Michael Moore’s anti-Trump documentary Fahrenheit 11/9 tanked at the box office, according to Deadline.

Another action-packed re-boot of the Predator series eked out a disappointing $26 million for this weekend’s box office, which is at the lower end of its projected take.

‘The Nun’ scored a box office win this weekend, earning $53.5 million in the United States and $77.5 million overseas in its debut.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Crazy Rich Asians” isn’t slowing down at the box office even in its third weekend in theaters, and is helping to send a strong summer moviegoing season off on a high note.

Movie attendance for the summer of 2018 at the box office is the second worst in 25 years.

Melissa McCarthy could not save the R-rated puppet murder mystery, Happytime Murders, which was killed at the box office upon its debut this weekend.

Glitz has won out over guns at the North American box office this weekend as the gilded romance “Crazy Rich Asians” took No. 1 over Mark Wahlberg’s action-packed “Mile 22.”

Disgraced actor Kevin Spacey’s latest film, Billionaire Boys Club, earned a shockingly low $126 on its opening day, Friday.

Despite reams of favorable press coverage, director Spike Lee’s ‘BlacKkKlansman’ debuted in fifth place well behind the whacky prehistoric shark action flick ‘The Meg.’

Tom Cruise sped past Winnie-the-Pooh at the box office to lead all films for the second straight week with an estimated $35 million in ticket sales for “Mission Impossible — Fallout.”