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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.

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.

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.

While Banks is blaming men for not showing up, her joyless movie could not even attract 15 percent of the single women in two of the most left-wing cities in America.  

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.

The 2019 reboot/sequel of “Charlie’s Angels” just opened to a catastrophic $8 million, making it the fifth man-hating, woketard franchise to get wiped out at the box office.

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.

Midway, the old-fashioned, pro-American war movie critics dismissed and the experts said no one would see, is beating the latest horror movie from far-left novelist Stephen King.

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.

“Joker,” Todd Phillip’s R-rated comic-book hit, regained the top spot at the weekend box office, besting “Maleficent: Mistress of Evil.”

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.