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(UPI) — Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness is once again the No. 1 movie in North America, earning an additional $61 million in its second weekend of release, BoxOfficeMojo.com announced Sunday.

“Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore” reportedly opens with two grown gay men discussing how much in love they once were with one another. The result? This Harry Potter spin-off spun right off a cliff with a pathetic $43 million opening weekend.

“The Batman” is still going strong three weeks into its theatrical run, with a tight grip on the top spot at the box office.

Joe Rogan and his guest, comedian Tom Papa, tried to come up with the name of the “last really good comedy movie” and discovered they couldn’t.

The 2022 Oscar nominations for Best Picture make up the biggest pile of box office stiffs and TV movies we’ve seen in a long time.

Chinese state media on Thursday giddily hailed the arrival of Watergate Bridge, the hastily-filmed sequel to China’s Korean War propaganda film The Battle at Lake Changjin.

After spending one weekend in second place, “Spider-Man: No Way Home” proved it still had some fight left.

NEW YORK — After a month at no. 1, “Spider-Man: No Way Home” has finally been overtaken at the box office. Paramount Pictures’ “Scream” reboot debuted with $30.6 million in ticket sales over the weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday.

China has allowed for the theatrical release of Disney’s animated Encanto, but the film flopped in the Chinese box office anyway.

The 355 an action movie that offers five fairly big stars — Jessica Chastain, Lupita Nyong’o, Penélope Cruz, Diane Kruger and Fan Bingbing — and with no serious competition at the box office, it dies a humiliating $4 million death.

China’s state-run Global Times on Saturday celebrated the ascension of the Chinese film industry over Hollywood in 2021, as China’s box office revenue became the highest in the world and reaped most of its income from Chinese productions like The Battle at Lake Changjin, putatively the top movie worldwide last year.

Director Steven Spielberg’s woketard remake of “West Side Story” is an even bigger worldwide flop than Cats.

While Hollywood made history in 2020 by fielding a record number of films from female directors, a new study laments that films helmed by women in 2021 were not popular with moviegoers.

This year, woke Hollywood movies tanked left and right as audiences wary of paying for a social justice lecture decided to stay away. Here are 7 of the wokest box-office bombs of the year.

“The Battle at Lake Changjin” is terrible, awful, and at times laughably inept. It is pro-communist, anti-American propaganda to its core.

According to studio estimates Sunday “Spider-Man” added $81.5 million over the three-day weekend, down 69% from its first weekend. The Sony and Marvel film has now grossed $467 million from North American theaters, more than doubling the domestic grosses of 2021′s previous No. 1 film, “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings.”

Never underestimate your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man, even with a mutating virus afoot.

All hope for Steven Spielberg’s racially divisive West Side Story remake died in week two when it plummeted 68 percent with a humiliating take of just $3.4 million.

Chinese filmmakers are preparing to follow up The Battle at Lake Changjin, which became this year’s top box-office attraction in China with a good deal of help from the Communist government, with another anti-American propaganda film about the Korean War called Crossing the Yalu River.

The woke-free “Spider-Man: No Way Home” earned an astonishing $50 million on Thursday, which crushed several box office records.

“Spider-Man: No Way Home” is about to make fools out of every fake entertainment “journalist” who’s blamed all these woketard flops on the China Flu pandemic.

Director Steven Spielberg’s woke “West Side Story” remake flopped all over the planet.

“West Side Story’s” weekend box office collapse continues Woke’s 100 percent box office losing streak.

AP laments: “Hopes had long been pinned on Spielberg, with his song-and-dance spectacular, to bring back some of the movies’ mojo.”

Director Steven Spielberg’s woke “West Side Story” remake is a box office catastrophe expected to open in the $10 million range.

Leftovers were on the menu for moviegoers in North America this weekend. “Encanto,” “Ghostbusters: Afterlife,” and “House of Gucci” repeated in the top three spots, according to studio estimates on Sunday. All three films are playing exclusively in theaters.

Nov. 28 (UPI) — The animated family adventure, “Encanto,” is the No. 1 movie in North America, earning $27 million in receipts in its debut, BoxOfficeMojo.com announced Sunday.

Despite rave reviews, Disney’s Encanto, an animated musical with songs from Lin-Manuel Miranda, took a nosedive at the holiday box office.

“No Time to Die,” the latest in the James Bond franchise and the last of the Daniel Craig era, is looking at a $100 million loss.

Nov. 21 (UPI) — Supernatural comedy Ghostbusters: Afterlife is the No. 1 movie in North America, earning $44 million in receipts this weekend, BoxOfficeMojo.com announced Sunday.

Disney and Marvel’s “Eternals” took a steep drop in its second weekend in theaters, but it’s still hanging on to first place ahead of newcomers like “Clifford the Big Red Dog.”

Marvel’s woketard Eternals opened to a disappointing $71 million. The predictions had been anywhere from $75 to $85 million.

After a record-breaking start, October’s box office closed out quietly this weekend with “Dune” repeating at number one and two prominent genre newcomers, “ Last Night in Soho ” and “Antlers,” stumbling.

China’s state-owned Jiangsu Satellite TV has a new talent competition called “2060” in which the competitors are computer-generated avatars controlled by virtual-reality (VR) headsets. The producers hope the show is successful enough to buy VR gear for all 200 members of the live audience, so they can experience the entire performance in virtual reality.

Chinese state media took another box-office victory lap on Monday, crowing that America’s current top film Dune cannot compete against the state-funded, state-pushed Korean War propaganda film The Battle at Lake Changjin at the Chinese box office.

The sci-fi -drama “Dune” — starring Timothee Chalament, Oscar Isaac, Zendaya and Jason Momoa — is the No. 1 movie in North America, earning $40.1 million in receipts this weekend, BoxOfficeMojo.com announced Sunday.