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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.”

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) — The first wave of big new movies released since the beginning of the pandemic, including Christopher Nolan’s mind-bending thriller “Tenet” and the long-delayed “X-Men” spinoff “The New Mutants,” arrived in theaters over the weekend, testing the waters of a radically different theatrical landscape.

NEW YORK — The United States had its first real weekend back at the movies with the reopening of theater heavyweights AMC and Regal — but film fans made only a timid return in a country which continues to register more than 40,000 new cases of coronavirus a day.

Box Office earnings will drop by as much as 70 percent over the course of 2020 as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, according to an analysis by Eric Handler of the sales research MKM Partners.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — With reported cases of the coronavirus surging, Warner Bros. on Thursday postponed the release of Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet,” further delaying Hollywood’s summer kickoff.

While it’s unclear who asked for it, Disney is reportedly developing a new female-fronted “Pirates of the Caribbean” that will be written by screenwriter Christina Hodson and will star actress Margot Robbie. 

At just three movie theaters in San Antonio, Texas, some 3,000 ticket-buyers showed up during the first open weekend since the coronavirus pandemic struck.

“Trolls World Tour” has earned more money in its three weeks as a pay-per-view offering than the original did in theaters over five months.

The Hollywood box office took a punishing blow from the coronavirus over the weekend, with ticket revenue hitting a two-decade low of about $55.3 million. While Pixar’s Onward once again took the No. 1 domestic spot, the animated movie saw its business plummet more than 70 percent from its opening weekend.

So what’s going so horribly wrong at the box office, you ask? In a word: Woketardism.

Audiences are desperate for some lecture-free entertainment, some old school action and sex appeal, and Bad Boys 3 is the first to dare to deliver that in a while.

Though Jim Carrey is a critic of Trump, Sonic the Hedgehog celebrates the virtues of life among the “deplorables” in small-town America.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The hedgehog edged the sled dog by a nose at the box office.

NEW YORK (AP) — The redesigned “Sonic the Hedgehog” showed plenty of teeth at the box office, speeding to a $57 million debut, according to studio estimates Sunday, while “Parasite” saw one of the largest post-Oscars bumps in years following its best picture win.

Warner Bros’s latest superhero movie “Birds of Prey” has been retitled to incorporate its lead character, Harley Quinn, after bombing at the box office on its opening weekend.

We go to the movies to be thrilled, moved, sexually turned-on, laugh, taken away, and told we have it in us to aspire, to be better… We don’t go to the movies to hectored by sexless harpies with a chip on their shoulder.

The problem with “Birds of Prey” is not that it’s all about hating on men — all men, every single guy in the movie — the problem is that it’s dull to the point of numbing.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Bad Boys of Life” went for a three-peat at the box office during Super Bowl weekend.

PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — “Boys” trumped “Gentlemen” in movie theaters over the weekend as Will Smith and Martin Lawrence’s “Bad Boys for Life” easily remained the top ticket seller over newcomer “The Gentlemen.”

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Two “Bad Boys” were too good for one “Dolittle” at the box office.

Naturally, the sycophants in the entertainment media are blaming the movie ticket slump on everything and everyone but Hollywood.

Disney has a huge, huge problem on its hammy, left-wing hands.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — It took the Great War to finally take down “Star Wars.”

Hollywood is flopping harder than ever as the major studios throw more money at each new movie, hoping that fatter budgets equal bigger box office returns. Instead, the blast radius of each bomb is only getting wider.

Hollywood is closing out 2019 on a sour note thanks to a new report showing that North American ticket sales fell an estimated 3.6 percent in 2019 compared to last year, the largest percentage drop in five years.

The major motion picture adaptation of the long-running stage play Cats has been a cat-tastrophe despite featuring stars with names as big as Taylor Swift, Jennifer Hudson, Idris Elba, Judi Dench, and more.

NEW YORK (AP) — The Force was a little less strong with “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.” J.J. Abrams’ Skywalker finale couldn’t match its recent predecessors on opening weekend, but it still amassed a $175.5 million debut that ranked as the third largest weekend of the year.

J.J. Abrams’ Skywalker finale, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, couldn’t match its recent predecessors on opening weekend, but it still amassed a $175.5 million debut that marked the lowest box office opening among the Disney franchise’s latest Star Wars trilogy.

“Jumanji: The Next Level” topped the weekend box office in its debut, bringing in $60.1 million, while Clint Eastwood’s “Richard Jewell” underperformed, debuting at the No. 4 spot with just $5 million.

NEW YORK (AP) — “Frozen 2” blanketed multiplexes for the third straight weekend, continuing its reign at No. 1 with $34.7 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.

Advance ticket sales for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker are “not overly robust,” reports the far-left Deadline.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Frozen 2” kept a wintry wind at its back in its second week, setting a Thanksgiving record with a whopping box office bounty, while newcomer “Knives Out” found its own broad audience.

NEW YORK (AP) — Six years after “Frozen” kicked up a pop-culture blizzard, the sequel to Elsa, Anna and Olaf’s adventures snowed-in the box office with an estimated $127 million debut domestically and $350 million worldwide. The opening sets a