Sunday, March 16, 2025

USA box office on the 11th weekend of 2017-2025

 
USA box office on the 10th weekend of 2025 is down 42% compared to last year when "Kung Fu Panda" was the top-grossing movie.  "Novocaine" is the top-grossing film this weekend. 

And it's down a whopping 82% compared to the peak year of 2017, when "Beauty and the Beast" ruled the box office.
 
Source:  Box Office Mojo


Variety, 3/16/2025
Despite five new nationwide releases, this weekend was among the year’s lowest grossing to date with $52 million across all films, according to Comscore. Even the Super Bowl frame, known to leave multiplexes barren, was bigger with $54 million in February. The year’s sluggish first quarter has been another blow to the badly bruised movie theater business, which is banking on 2025 to revive the business after COVID and Hollywood’s labor strikes. If that’s the case, there’s no time like the present. Year-to-date revenues are 5% behind 2024 and nearly 38% behind 2019, according to Comscore.



More box office posts:
2025
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)
Thranksgiving 2022 daily top 10 movie grosses (Wednesday-Sunday)  (11/28)
Pre-Thanksgiving box office weekend down 47% from 2017 peak.  (11/21)
Going down: October 2022 box office drops 44% compared to 2018. (11/3)

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Rape and unnatural intercourse in the Name of the Lord (#109 in a series)

 
Screengrab and headline:  WAPT, 3/13/2025\
A Copiah County man of God faces multiple sex related-charges. 
The Crystal Springs Police Department said they executed multiple arrest warrants Tuesday for Christopher Willett. Charges include statutory rape, sexual battery, unnatural intercourse, computer luring of a person and child pornography. 
Police said additional charges may be pending.

"But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God’s holy people."  (Ephesians 5:3)


Other miscreant posts:
March 2025
Daniel Menelaou.  (3/15)
Robert Morris.  (3/14)
Jose Saez Jr.  (3/12)
Waymon Jordan.  (3/8)

February 2025
Jesse Santos.  (2/26)
Ruel Barbee.  (2/16)
Lee B. Patrick.  (2/14)
Timothy Nall.  (2/7)

January 2025
John Fiedler.  (1/26)
James McMillan.  (1/25)
Jeffrey Merrow.  (1/18)
Johel LaFaurie.  (1/17)
Jeff Taylor.  (1/16)
Dallas Majewski.  (1/15)
Bruce Hollen.  (1/14)
Timothy Nall.  (1/9)
 
December 2024
Edward Monk.  (12/23)
Joshua Lough.  (12/22)
Ignazio Medina.  (12/20)
Anthony Odiong.  (12/19)
Vincent Bishop.  (12/9)
Arturo Alarcon.  (12/8)
Hunter Eubanks.  (12/7)
Roy Shoop.  (12/5)

November 2024
James McMillan.  (11/30)
Stephen Melton. (11/29)
Charles Sulivant.  (11/24)
Geoffrey Carter.  (11/22)
John Radcliff.  (11/21)
Garrett Harmon.  (11/20)
Edward R. Monk.  (11/16)
George Bell.  (11/14)
Jose Mora.  (11/13)
William Pounds.  (11/12)
Charles Randall.  (11/9)
Jackson Gatlin.  (11/7)
Charles Goff.  (11/1)

October 2024
Stephen Johnson.  (10/27)
Josh Howerton.  (10/26)
Craig Stone.  (10/26/2024)
Steven Lawson. (10/25).  
Scott Crenshaw.  (10/25)
Byron Copeland.  (10/25)
Josiah Anthony.  (10/25)
Ronald Goines.  (10/24)
Tony Cammarota.  (10/24)
Robert Morris.  (10/24)
Mike Buster.  (10/23)
Tony Evans.  (10/23)
Terren Dames.  (10/23)
James Randolph.  (10/23)
Matt Queen.  (10/18)
Roy Shoop.  (10/12)
Gabriel Mills.  (10/3)

September 2024
John Raymond.  (9/27)
Juan Barrios.  (9/23)
Demiro Johnson.  (9/22)
Glen Dean McCoy.  (9/22)
James Swanson.  (9/21)
William Dunfee.  (9/21)
Steven Lawson.  (9/20)
Rocky Goodwin.  (9/19)
William Johnson.  (9/17)
Tim Ballard.  (9/13)


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Joan Dunham Gerarde (1940-2025) Warren High School class of 1958

 
1958 Dragon yearbook

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1967 Warren City Directory
  • Dunham Chester A (C Dorothy) laborer Lake Erie Electric 42 North State Street North Warren 
    1983 Warren City Directory 

    The popularity of Joan as a baby name is graphed here.  Let's take a look at classmate Doyle.

    Source: Social Security Administration 

    Doyle managed to bounce his way into the top 300, where he spent 30 years (1917, 1920-1950, 1952), peaking at #191 in 1931. His decline accelerated during the 1970s, and he dropped off the chart in 1982.


    Other class of 1958 members (39)
    2024
    Robert Bowen.  (5/2)

    2023
    Richard Rossman.  (9/15)
    Joan Harrison.  (9/15)
    Joanne Smith Chew.  (4/13)
    Robert Yerg.  (3/31) 

    2022
    Sarah Ullrich.  (9/29)
    Theodore Bleach . (9/18)
    Rose Tasty Eck . (7/18)

    2021
    Robert Engstrom.  (10/10)
    John Acklin (8/11)

    2020
    Ardith McCool Atkins.  (12/27)


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    Linda Gustafson Youngquist (1945-2025) Warren Area High School class of 1963

     
    1963 Dragon yearbook


    1967 Warren City Directory

    1983 Warren City Directory

    The popularity of Linda as a baby name is graphed here.  Let's take a look at classmate Joel.



    Source:  Social Security Administration

    Savannah spent a few uneventful decades on the baby names chart in the early 20th century, finally dropping off for a long stretch in 1932.  She jumped back into the fray in 1983, and after a minor setback, vaulted into the top 100, where she has resided since 1993.


    Other class of 1963 graduates (21):
    2024
    Joan McIntyre.  (4/1)
    Barry Simon.  (2/6)

    2023
    Nancy Kane Lyon.  (9/24)
    Michael Miller.  (2/23)

    2022

    2020

    2021
    Sharyn Stone. (6/10)

    2020
    Charles Rounds.  (11/11)
    James Falvo.  (7/1)
    Ronald Morse.  (2/6)


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    Circular logic of one-man clown show Drunk Van Orden

     
    Headline:  Up North News email news aleert
    Elon Musk’s wrecking crew, nicknamed DOGE, has cost more than 100,000 Americans their jobs, many of them vital to security, health, and economic stability. But don’t try telling that to Congressman Derrick Van Orden. He’ll tell you DOGE hasn’t fired anyone. 
    “It had nothing to do with DOGE,” he said with a straight face during a tele-town hall. “All the people that you’ve heard about being released from different agencies, that was on the agency itself.” 
    Oh. 
    And yet, for those who were fired by their agency (and totally not DOGE 😉) and who felt their termination was unjustified, Van Orden was quick to offer advice on who to call for help. 
    DOGE, of course! 
    “Get ahold of the DOGE folks directly or through us,” he said, “and we’ll help try to rectify that.” 
    Who knew a junior congressman from western Wisconsin had Elon Musk’s personal phone number.

    In other words, Drunk sez DOGE had nothing to do with the firings, but if you've been fired, DOGE is the one to undo it.

    What an embarrassment not just to his constituents in the gerrymandered 3rd congressional district but to the entire State of Wisconsin.

    Wikipedia

    Other Drunk posts:
    2025

    2024

    2023
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    What’s the matter with Iowa? Taking away civil rights from a vulnerable population (transphobia edition)

     
    Headline:  Des Moines Register, 3/12/2025

    Marissa Payne reports:
    Pleading with her Iowa House colleagues last month to reject a bill stripping away protections against discrimination for transgender Iowans like herself, Rep. Aime Wichtendahl asked lawmakers if they had ever faced the humiliation of losing their homes. 
    “Have you ever had to look into your 3-year-old's eyes and explain to him why you don't have a house anymore, to have to explain to him why you're now living with strangers and what happened to his room and all his toys?” Wichtendahl, Iowa’s first publicly trans state lawmaker, asked during an emotional speech on the House floor. “Have you ever had to do that? Because I have." 
    The same week Wichtendahl transitioned at work, her property management company told her she had 30 days to vacate, though she had always paid her rent on time and the next-door unit had sat vacant for six months.

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