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WWE vet Dwayne Johnson learned about his Achilles heel at the box office this weekend in Taylor Swift and Leonardo DiCaprio, after his R-rated drama The Smashing Machine, hit the mat as the blockbuster star’s lowest opening ever with $5.9M U.S. Indeed, this is quite upsetting for Johnson, for the story of UFC champ Mark Kerr was a passion project; …

President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced on social media Friday that they bombed another boat in the Caribbean—at least the fourth alleged drug-smuggling vessel attacked by the US military since early September. Critics, including congressional Democrats, legal scholars, and human rights groups, have stressed that even if any of the boats recently bombed by the Trump …

Taylor Swift‘s Life of a Showgirl special theatrical event is rocking at the domestic box office, where it’s headed for a first-place finish with a weekend haul of at least $28 million to $30 million from 3,702 theaters, according to estimates from Swift’s team and partner AMC Theatres. Rival distributors, however, have it earning north of $35 million. Whatever the …

NASA studies plan to destroy asteroid with nuclear bombs before it can hit the Moon  TechSpot Astronomers weigh nuclear option to stop Moon-bound asteroid  Yahoo NASA: Nuclear Explosion Could Save Moon From Asteroid Strike in 2032  ScienceAlert Scientists eye nuclear options as asteroid barrels toward moon  NewsNation We could nuke ‘city killer’ asteroid 2024 YR4 before it hits the moon — if we act …

“Him,” a sports thriller about a football player training to be the greatest of all time, won’t be the box office G.O.A.T. after all. The film opened slightly behind expectations with $13.5 million from 3,168 North American venues. Earlier in the weekend, “Him” seemed on track to debut to $15 million. Either way, those ticket sales weren’t enough to enough …

SATURDAY AM: Refresh for chart and more analysis After two weekends of overperforming, the September box office steps on the brakes, down -49% from last weekend to $76.9M. Sony/Crunchyroll’s Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle and Universal/Monkeypaw’s Him are in a dead heat with $15M-$16M apiece— it’s still too early to call which one is No. 1. Infinity Castle is playing exactly …

This year’s August dump of indie films that gathered dust for years hasn’t been kind to Sydney Sweeney, one of Hollywood’s most in-demand young actresses whose summer of discontent also includes a major backlash over an American Eagle Jeans campaign that even resulted in President Donald Trump giving her a shoutout for being a registered Republican. Sweeney has been riding …

While the months-long tabloid coverage of its stars apparently paid off for the romantic comedy Anyone But You, which emerged as a runaway hit at the end of 2023 and grossed over $200 million worldwide, similar online attention doesn’t seem to have worked in Sydney Sweeney’s favor this time around. The young star headlined the Quentin Tarantino-inspired Western Americana last …

Sydney Sweeney‘s latest movie flopped on opening weekend, mere weeks after starring in a controversial ad campaign for American Eagle. “Americana,” a modern western which also stars singer Halsey and Paul Walter Hauser, opened to an estimated $500K box office take at over 1100 theaters. That’s well behind weeks-old releases like “Jurassic World: Rebirth,” “Superman” and the Tamil-language action movie …

A couple of weeks ago, American Eagle launched a new ad campaign for its blue jeans line that featured actress Sydney Sweeney. In one of the ads, Sweeney weirdly broached the topic of genetics (she said, and I quote: “genes are passed down from parents to offspring, often determining traits like hair color, personality and even eye color. My jeans …