Sunday, October 25, 2026

USA box office for the 43rd weekend 2017-2026

 
USA box office on the 43rd weekend of 2026 is up 23% compared to same weekend last year when Chainsaw Man -- The Movie: Reze Arc was the top-grossing movie for the weekend. Clayface is the #1 movie this weekend.

But it's down 20% from 2023's peak when Five Nights at Freddys ruled the box office on weekend.


 

Variety, 10/25/2027

Rebecca Rubin reports:
Just when you thought you’d seen everything… A three-hour documentary (in its second weekend of release) has earned almost as much as a new comic-book adaptation at the domestic box office. 
Although Warner Bros. and DC’s R-rated “Clayface” was comfortably at No. 1 with $24 million from 3,458 North American theaters in its debut, A24’s buzzy Elizabeth Holmes doc “You Can See Everything” was surprisingly close behind after defying box office expectations again. The stranger-than-fiction film collected a spectacular $19.5 million while expanding to 2,655 venues in its sophomore outing.


Other box office posts:
2026
42nd weekend.  (10/18)
41st weekend.  (10/11)
40th weekend.  (10/4)
39th weekend.  (9/27)
38th weekend.  (9/20)
37th weekend.  (9/13)
36th weekend.  (9/6)
35th weekend.  (8/30)
34th weekend.  (8/23)
33th weekend.  (8/16)
32nd weekend.  (8/9)
31st weekend.  (8/2)
30th weekend.  (7/26)
29th weekend.  (7/19)
28th weekend.  (7/12)
27th weekend.  (7/5)
26th weekend.  (6/28)
25th weekend.  (6/21)
24th weekend.  (6/14)
22nd weekend.  (6/7)
21st weekend.  (6/6)
20th weekend.  (5/17)
19th weekend.  (5/10)
18th weekend.  (5/3)
17th weekend.  (4/26)
16th weekend.  (4/19)
15th weekend.  (4/12)
14th weekend.  (4/5)
13th weekend.  (3/29)
12th weekend.  (3/22)
11th weekend.  (3/15)
10th weekend.  (3/8)
9th weekend.  (3/1)
8th weekend.  (2/22)
7th weekend.  (2/15)
6th weekend.  (2/8)
5th weekend.  (2/1)
4th weekend.  (1/25)
3rd weekend.  (1/18)
2nd weekend.  (1/11)
1st weekend.  (1/4)

2025
52nd weekend.  (12/28)
51st weekend.  (12/28)
50th weekend.  (12/14)
49th weekend.  (12/7)
48th weekend.  (11/30) 
47th weekend.  (11/23)
46th weekend.  (11/16)
45th weekend.  (11/9)
44th weekend.  (11/2)
43rd weekend.  (10/26)
42nd weekend.  (10/19)
41st weekend.  (10/12)
40th weekend.  (10/5)
39th weekend.  (9/28)
38th weekend.  (9/21)
37th weekend.  (9/14)
36th weekend.  (9/9)
35th weekend.  (9/9)
34th weekend.  (8/24)
33rd weekend.  (8/17)
32nd weekend.  (8/10)
31st weekend.  (8/3)
30th weekend.  (7/27)
29th weekend.  (7/20)
28th weekend.  (7/13)
27th weekend.  (7/6)
26th weekend.  (6/29)
25th weekend.  (6/22)
24th weekend.  (6/15)
23rd weekend.  (6/8)
22nd weekend.  (6/1)
20th weekend.  (5/18)
19th weekend.  (5/11)
18th weekend.  (5/4)
17th weekend.  (4/27)
16th weekend.  (4/20)
15th weekend.  (4/13)
14th weekend.  (4/6) 
13th weekend.  (3/30)
12th weekend.  (3/23)
11th weekend.  (3/16)
10th weekend.  (3/9)
9th weekend.  (3/2)
8th weekend.  (2/23)
7th weekend.  (2/16)
6th weekend.  (2/9)
5th weekend.  (2/2)
4th weekend.  (1/26)
3rd weekend.  (1/19)
2nd weekend.  (1/12)
1st weekend.  (1/5)

2024
Easter weekend.  (3/31)

2023

2022
Third weekend in December.  (12/19)First weekend in December.  (12/5)Going down: October 2022 box office drops 44% compared to 2018. (11/3)

Wisconsin 2026 elections: Republican nutcase Michelle Magadance Skinner challenges freshman Democratic Sen. Jeff Smith in 31st Senate District

 
Prior to redistricting, the Wisconsin GOP gerrymandered 29th Senate District sprawled from northwest to southeast through 
  • all but the town and city of River Falls in Pierce County
  • southern portion of Dunn County
  • all of Pepin and Buffalo counties
  • portion of packed and cracked Eau Claire County and the City of Eau Claire
  • all but the Town of Sumner in Trempealeau County
  • haphazardly drawn half of Jackson County

Redistricting created a more compact district that includes:
  • all of Eau Claire County
  • southern tier of Chippewa County, including the City of Chippewa falls, one-half of a community of interest with Eau Claire
  • northern tier (towns of Albion, Unity, and Sumner) in Trempealeau County
  • southeast corner (cluster of 6 townships) of Dunn County
See close-up views below

Election results and newest map:  Ballotpedia

Then and now close-up
  

 
Even after redistricting, the 31st District remains a competitive district that leans Democratic.  Ini 2022, Democrat Jeff Smith won the election by less than a percentage points -- by just under 700 votes out of 77,223 cast.  

Based on the results of the August 11th primary elections, Smith should be able to hold onto his seat.  He received 23,645 votes out of 23,717 cast.  His GOP opponent, Michele Magadance Skinner received just 11,402 votes out of 11,443 cast.   "Magadance" was a catchy moniker to have on the ballot in 2024, when Skinner came within 3.2 percentage points of defeating incumbent GOP Assembly member Jodi Emerson, but with Trump's approval rating in the toilet, she doesn't have that going for her now.

Actually, she has a much bigger problem than her name.
 


Related reading:

Malia Jones explains:
Two core concepts of gerrymandering were central to the arguments presented to the high court: cracking and packing. A third process, known as stacking, also crops up in gerrymandered political maps, but was not the focus of Gill v. Whitford.
Cracking and packing both refer to specific ways of drawing legislative boundaries with the outcomes of elections in mind. These two processes operate in tension with one another, but both can be implemented by a party in power seeking to maximize its electoral chances through gerrymandering. 
Packing refers to the practice of drawing particular districts in such a way as to ensure that another party's candidate wins that seat by a tremendous margin. Although the opposing party is all but guaranteed the seat, packing makes surrounding districts less competitive, and thus tips the balance of power in the legislative body overall toward the ruling party. 
Cracking involves drawing districts in such a way as to divide a concentration of specific types of voters across several districts such that they are a minority in each one, with practically no hope of achieving representation in any of the districts. This practice also helps make districts less competitive. [emphasis added]

Other Wisconsin 2026 election posts:
1st Assembly District.  (6/11/2026)
2nd Assembly District.  (6/14/2026)
3rd Assembly District.  (6/15/2026)
4th Assembly District.  (6/17/2026)
5th Assembly District.  (6/18/2026)
6th Assembly District.  (6/20/2026)
7th Assembly District.  (6/21/2026)
8th Assembly District.  (6/21/2026)
9th Assembly District.  (6/22/2026)
10th Assembly District.  (6/23/2026)

11th Assembly District.  (6/23/2026)
12th Assembly District.  (4/17/2026)
13th Assembly District.  (6/25/2026)
14th Assembly District.  (6/25/2026)
15th Assembly District.  (6/25/2026)
16th Assembly District.  (4/17/2026)
17th Assembly District.  (6/30/2026)
18th Assembly District.  (6/30/2026)
24th Assembly District.  (4/19/2026)
26th Assembly District.  (4/17/2026)
29th Assembly District.  (7/10/2026)

30th Assembly District.  (7/11/2026)
31st Assembly District.  (7/12/2026)
33rd Assembly District.  (7/15/2026)
34th Assembly District.  (4/24/2026)
35th Assembly District.  (4/15/2026)
36th Assembly District.  (7.16.2026)
37th Assembly District.  (4/20/2026)
39th Assembly District.  (7/18/2026)

40th Assembly District.  (7/19/2026)
41st Assembly District.  (7/20/2026)
42nd Assembly District.  (7/21/2026)
45th Assembly District.  (7/23/2026)
46th Assembly District.  (7/24/2026)
47th Assembly District.  (7/25/2026)
48th Assembly District.  (7/27/2026) 
49th Assembly District.  (7/28/2026)

50th Assembly District.  (7/29/2026)
51st Assembly District.  (7/30/2026)
52nd Assembly District.  (7/31/2026)
58th Assembly District.  (4/12/2026)
59th Assembly District.  (4/10/2026)

61st Assembly District.  (8/16/2026)
62th Assembly District.  (8/11/2026)
63rd Assembly District.  (8/16/2026)
64th Assembly District.  (8/17/2026)
65th Assembly District.  (8/18/2026)
67th Assembly District.  (8/24/2026)
68th Assembly District.  (8/25/2026)
69th Assembly District.  (8/26/2026)

70th Assembly District.  (8/27/2026)
72nd Assembly District.  (8/29/2026)
73rd Assembly District.  (8/31/2026)
78th Assembly District.  (9/14/2026)
79th Assembly District.  (9/15/2026)

80th Assembly District.  (9/16/2026)
81st Assembly District.  (9/17/2026)
83rd Assembly District.  (9/20/2026)
84th Assembly District.  (9/21/2026)
85th Assembly District.  (9/22/2026)
86th Assembly District.  (9/23/2026)
87th Assembly District.  (9/24/2026)
88th Assembly District.  (9/25/2026)

90th Assembly District.  (9/27/2026)
91st Assembly District.  (9/28/2026)
92nd Assembly District.  (9/29/2026)
93rd Assembly District.  (9/30/2026) 
94th Assembly District.  (10/1/2026)
96th Assembly District.  (10/3/2026)
97th Assembly District.  (10/4/2026)
98th Assembly District.  (10/5/2026)
99th Assembly District.  (10/6/2026)

1st Senate District.  (10/7/2026)
3rd Senate District.  (10/8/2026)
5th Senate District.  (10/9/2026)
7th Senate District.  (10/11/2026)
9th Senate District.  (10/12/2026)
11th Senate District.  (10/13/2026)
13th Senate District.  (10/14/2026)
15th Senate District.  (10/15/2026)
17th Senate District.  (10/16/2026)
19th Senate District.  (10/17/2026)
21st Senate District.  (10/18/2026)
23rd Senate District.  (10/19/2026)
25th Senate District.  (10/20/2026)
27th Senate District.  (10/21/2026)
29th Senate District.  (10/23/2026)
31st Senate District.  (4/15/2026)

GET ME REWRITE: Spineless Louisiana GOP U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy M.D. voted to confirm another incompetent DHSS nominee

 
Dr. Bill is chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP). He voted to confirm RFKjr as secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. He values his personal political survival over public health.  He groveled and sold his soul to obtain an endorsement from Trump but was left hanging with lame duck status.

Top headline:  Politico via Facebook
Headline:  New York Times

Apoorva Mandavilli reports:
Health officials in California and Washington, facing outbreaks of measles this past spring, asked the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in May to validate a test that can diagnose 500 cases in eight hours.
They did not hear back for two months. Officials from the West Coast Health Alliance — California, Washington, Oregon and Hawaii — recounted the experience this week in a letter to Dr. Erica Schwartz, the C.D.C.’s new director, who assumed the position in August, shortly after they got the agency’s reply. According to the letter, obtained by The New York Times, the C.D.C. had told them that it had “other.   [emphasis added]

Related posts:
September -October 2026

July-August 2026
Spineless Louisiana GOP U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy M.D. is mum about lies told by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during confirmation hearings.  (8/29)Dear Louisiana GOP US Senator Bill Cassidy M.D.: You had a chance to prevent this quackery on February 13, 2025, but you misplaced your spine. Best, Retiring Guy.  (8/11)Louisiana GOP U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy M.D. misplaces his spine again/  (7/11)

May 2026
What happens when a physician does harm (Spineless Louisiana GOP Sen. BIll Cassidy M.D. edition).  (5/12)

April 2026

March 2026
It's likely that spineless Louisiana GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy M.D. will cower and cave when it comes to a vote on Casey Means For Surgeon General.  (3/16)

February 2026

January 2026

November-December 2025

August--October 2025

June-July 2025

But wait, there's more!!
March 2025
Chapter 1.  (3/10)   Censored
Chapter 2.  (3/10)
Chapter 3.  (3/10)
Chapter 4.  (3/11)
Chapter 5.  (3/12)
Chapter 6.  (3/12)
Chapter 7.  (3/13)
Chapter 8.  (3/14)
Chapter 9.  (3/14)
Chapter 10.  (3/14)
Chapter 11.  (3/14)
Chapter 12.  (3/14)
Chapter 13.  (3/15)
Chapter 14.  (3/18)
Chapter 15.  (3/19)
Chapter 16.  (3/19)
Chapter 17.  (3/21)
Chapter 18.  (3/22)
Chapter 19.  (3/26)
Chapter 20.  (3/28)
Chapter 21.  (3/29)
Chapter 22.  (3/30)

April 2025
Chapter 23.  (4/1/)
Chapter 24.  (4/2)

May 2025

June 2025
RFK Jr. Is systematically undermining vaccine science and endangering health while spineless Louisiana GOP U.S. senator Bill Cassidy M.D. dithers.  (6/27)

July 2025

competing priorities” and could not dedicate time to making a high-volume test available to state labs.  [emphasis added]