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Scarlett Johansson’s Marvel adventure, Black Widow, is the No. 1 movie in North America this weekend, earning $80 million in receipts, BoxOfficeMojo.com announced Sunday.

The far-left Deadline is screaming “amazing” at F9’s $66 million opening weekend. I’m not so sure.

Box office predictions are low for this weekend’s “F9,” the ninth chapter of the 20-year-old “Fast & Furious” franchise.

“The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard” — an action-comedy starring Salma Hayek, Ryan Reynolds and Samuel L. Jackson — is the No. 1 movie in North America, earning $11.7 million receipts this weekend, BoxOfficeMojo.com announced Sunday.

The box office collapse of In the Heights cannot be blamed on streaming or HBO Max, where it also bombed.  

The box office failure of “In the Heights” is one more reminder of just how far removed Hollywood is from real life.

The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It is the No. 1 movie in North America, earning $24 million in receipts this weekend, BoxOfficeMojo.com announced Sunday.

NEW YORK — Moviegoing increasingly looks like it didn’t die during the coronavirus pandemic. It just went into hibernation.

Memorial Day weekend, the official start of the summer movie season, is so far looking pretty good at the box office.

Movie theaters were staring down the throat of another grim Memorial Day weekend and revoked their mask mandates.

Within a few weeks we will at long last know the answer to the question everyone’s been asking since the movie exhibition business all but shut down for a year: Is America ready to go back to the movies?

May 16 (UPI) — Chris Rock’s horror movie, Spiral, is the No. 1 movie in North America, earning $8.7 million this weekend, BoxOfficeMojo.com announced Sunday.

NEW YORK (AP) — The weekend at movie theaters featured something not seen for a while: a genuine box-office battle.

China’s state-run Global Times on Thursday told Hollywood it needs to do more than just throw a few “Chinese elements” into big-budget films if it wants to succeed at the Chinese box office, which surpassed the American box office during the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic.

“Godzilla vs. Kong” scored easily the best opening of the pandemic with an estimated $48.5 million since opening Wednesday, even as it was simultaneously streaming at home.

Thanks to the nationwide coronavirus closures and lockdowns in major movie markets from New York City to Los Angeles, the U.S. movie box office take crashed 80 percent last year, according to a new report by the Motion Picture Association.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York City movie theaters can open their doors again at limited capacity starting March 5, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday.

The Croods: A New Age is the No. 1 movie in North America this weekend, earning an additional $1.7 million in receipts, BoxOfficeMojo.com announced Sunday.

China’s state-run Global Times reported that Friday, the first day of Lunar New Year, broke the box-office record for a single movie market anywhere in the world.

The Nicolas Cage-Emma Stone animated adventure, The Croods: A New Age, is the No. 1 movie in North America, earning $2.04 million in receipts this weekend, BoxOfficeMojo.com announced on Sunday.

As the release clock ticks, the big question now is what to do about Black Widow, F9, and No Time to Die in a world where most movie theaters remain closed and Wonder Woman 1984 just crashed and burned at the box office.

It is now official: the ultra-woke “Wonder Woman 1984” is a worldwide box office catastrophe. 

The far-left Deadline reports that as far as the 2021 box office, “in the short term, sources expect Q1 and Q2 2021 to be quite soft.”

“Wonder Woman 1984” can blame only itself for its death at the international box office, not the coronavirus.

The year 2020 was the year China surpassed the United States as the largest cinema market in the world – thanks, of course, to the Wuhan coronavirus.

NEW YORK — Despite premiering simultaneously by streaming service, “Wonder Woman 1984” managed the best box office debut of the pandemic, opening with $16.7 million over the Christmas weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday.

The superhero sequel “Wonder Woman 1984” has earned an estimated $38.5 million in ticket sales from international theaters, Warner Bros. said Sunday. Most of the earnings came from Chinese theaters, where it earned an estimated $18.8 million. It wasn’t enough to take first place in the country, however — that honor went to a local release.

The 2020 box office collapsed 80 percent in North America, which is right around a 40-year-low. What a catastrophe for movie theaters. What a gift to the movie studios.

No wonder Hollywood is worried.

We’re terrorizing our own people to fear the risks associated with everyday life.

The U.S. box office is expected to drop by 81 percent this year as the coronavirus continues to decimate domestic moviegoing, according to new analyst report from MoffettNathanson. The report recommends that cinema chains swallow their pride and team up with streaming services like Netflix as a “lifeline to get more product on movie screens.”

“John Fithian, head of the National Association of Theatre Owners, believes that the main stumbling block preventing movie theaters from rebounding is Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s decision to keep cinemas closed indefinitely.”

With Christopher Nolan’s Tenet doornail dead at the box office, a number of other big movies have just lost their nerve and scurried to next year or much later this year, which means 2020 is a total washout, a lost year for the movies. Something that has never before happened in this country. Not during world wars or previous pandemics.

This idea that there’s some pent up desire to return to the movies just isn’t true. There seems to be plenty of pent-up desire to do a whole bunch of other things, but sitting in a movie theater is not one of them.

Moviegoing audiences in North America are not rushing back to the theater just yet and “Mulan” is also faltering in its China release as the global box office slowly comes back online in the COVID-19 era.

NEW YORK (AP) — In a litmus test for American moviegoing in the pandemic, Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet” brought in an estimated $20.2 million through the holiday weekend in U.S. and Canadian theaters.