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Hollywood is suffering one of the worst domestic March downturns in its recent history, according to the latest box office figures.

If you adjust for inflation, only two comedies have entered the list of the top 300 all-time box office successes. This sad fact is unprecedented in the 50-year history of modern movies.

Disney removing Christianity from the box office bomb A Wrinkle in Time not only hurt the story, it is an act of hostile bigotry, which is the opposite of inclusiveness.

Powered in equal parts by stars Oprah Winfrey and Reese Witherspoon along with Walt Disney’s mighty publicity machine, director Ana Duvernay’s Wrinkle In Time debuted to an anemic $33 million over the weekend.

Jennifer Lawrence’s big-budget Red Sparrow is under-performing big time at the box office. Already- modest predictions called for a $20 million opening. As of now, it looks like $17 million, which is a disaster.

“Black Panther” has scored one of the best second weekends ever with an estimated $108 million in ticket sales.

Marvel’s pro-Trump ‘Black Panther’ shattered box office records over the President’s Day weekend with a $235 million haul.

The 22-year drop in attendance is the least of Hollywood’s major problems coming out of a rather disastrous 2017.

Rian Johnson’s second installment in the third “Star Wars” trilogy rocketed to a debut of $220 million at the North American box office, according to studio estimates Sunday.

The ‘Justice League’ box office is so bad, Warner Bros. is planning a DC major shake-up that probably includes booting Ban Affleck as Batman.

Pixar’s ‘Coco’ sang its way to the fourth best Thanksgiving weekend ever with an estimated $71.2 million over the five-day weekend, a total that easily toppled Warner Bros.’ ‘Justice League.’

It was bad enough that the sycophantic Hollywood media was pretending that a $110 million opening weekend for Justice League would have been anywhere near acceptable. Unfortunately for all concerned, the cold reality of the Harveywood scandal combined with the loss of faith in DC to tell a worthwhile story delivered even worse news — a horrific opening of just $93 million.

Although the left-wing actor is only 56, George Clooney sounds like he is ready to quit acting because he is too old.

America’s largest theater chain AMC entertainment has posted third-quarter losses of $42.7 million, compared to a $30.4 million profit in the same quarter last year, a revelation that will further concern the entertainment industry.

At the box office, George Clooney’s ‘Suburbicon’ is projected to open with a humiliating $3.1 million weekend.

No fewer than four multimillion dollar wide releases dropped into your local multiplex this weekend. Not counting promotional expenses, we have the $38 million Only the Brave, the $35 million The Snowman, and the $120 million(!) Geostorm. Walloping all of them at the box office, is Tyler Perry’s $25 million Boo 2: A Madea Halloween.

After dipping to No. 2 last weekend, “It” has regained control of the North American box office in its fourth weekend in theaters.

Paramount Pictures is defending its latest release, the Jennifer Lawrence-starring horror pic mother!, after the film underperformed at the box office and earned a rare “F” CinemaScore from moviegoers over the weekend.

Although the entertainment media will never admit it, will do everything in its sycophantic power to write all around it (see: Line, Dead), the chickens have finally come home to roost for Jennifer Lawrence’s hateful mouth.

Naturally, regardless of what happens, no one in Hollywood or the Hollywood media will have the moral courage to speak the truth out loud, to admit that Lawrence’s bigotry and venom has in any way damaged her box office appeal.

Because it was not that long ago, we all remember when we still liked actress Jennifer Lawrence. At 19, she knocked us all out in 2010’s Winter’s Bone. The following year she was the best thing in the box office hit X-Men: First Class. The year after that she went certified platinum when The Hunger Games topped off a domestic gross of $408 million.

The Stephen King adaptation from New Line and Warner Bros. shattered records over the weekend earning $117.2 million from 4,103 locations according to studio estimates on Sunday.

Even before this catastrophic Labor Day weekend is factored in (more on this below), the domestic 2017 box office is in hideous shape. This year is -6.3% behind 2016 and continues to fall behind 2015, 2013, and 2012.

Can five titles — It, Kingsman: The Golden Circle, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Justice League and Thor: Ragnarok — save Hollywood? Because it ain’t just the summer stinking up the 2017 box office. After a dismal second quarter, the third-quarter box office is expected to collapse -21% when compared to last year. That is six months of fail, folks — and now theater chain stocks are crashing, even as the stock market itself enjoys a bull market.

Hollywood is headed for a historic decline, as summer box office revenue is projected to fall 16 percent from the same time a year ago.

Box office revenue this weekend is expected to hit a 15-year low — thanks to an August schedule devoid of any must-see films, theater closures in Texas in response to Hurricane Harvey, and Saturday’s much-hyped Floyd Mayweather vs. Conor McGregor pay-per-view fight.

Hollywood’s domestic box office receipts have tanked by more than 12 percent this summer over the same time period last year and could fall even further as the industry braces for a late-August schedule devoid of any must-see event films.

A summer movie slate stacked with remakes, reboots, and sequels has helped produce a disappointing domestic box office decline of 12 percent over the same time period last year.

The Floyd Mayweather-Conor McGregor fight struggles to sell out just two weeks before the fight.

“Spider-Man: Homecoming” swung past expectations, opening with an estimated $117 million in North America and giving a Sony Pictures a much needed hit.

Hollywood’s obsession with remakes, reboots, and sequels may finally be catching up as domestic summer box office receipts have fallen eight percent to date over summer 2016 due to a string of big-budget flops and underperforming tentpoles from major studios this year.

The hulking machines of “Transformers” are no longer box-office behemoths in North America. But they’re still big in China.

“Wonder Woman” fell to second place in its third weekend in theaters, but it’s still doing the heavy lifting for the otherwise lackluster summer box office.

Warner Bros. superhero tentpole Wonder Woman held on to the top spot at the box office while Universal’s Tom Cruise-starring The Mummy reboot failed to unwrap big gains domestically as Hollywood’s bleak summer continued this weekend.

It was smooth sailing to the top spot at the box office for “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales,” but the waters were choppier for the Dwayne Johnson comedy “Baywatch.”

The film business is off to a rocky start this summer as Hollywood box office revenue declined ten percent from 2016 through the first three weeks of the season after back-to-back weekends of big-budget flops.