Forgotten 80s Mystery Click: Vienna Ice EditionSie war jung, das Herz so rein und weiss
Und jede Nacht hat ihren Preis
Sie sagt, "Sugar sweet, ya got me rapping to the heat!"
Ich verstehe, sie ist heiss
Sie sagt, "Babe, you know, I miss my funky friends."
Sie meint Jack und Joe und Jill
I'll be taking Thanksgiving and Friday off. I've got a lot of open threads to post, so at least there'll be some pretty pictures and videos. And if there's something big that happens, I might throw up a quick link-and-quote. But otherwise, I'll just be posting open threads and mini-Cafes. -- Ace

CBD and J.J discuss: Censoring TikTok and the question of the 1st Amendment, the educational rot that makes TikTok even more effective, Starbucks' and Anheuser Busch's corporate malfeasance as a measure of our societal decline, Buck Throckmorton's great rant against NOAA lying about the climate, NYC, a judge upholding the Second Amendment rights of a convicted felon, and more!
Variety:
Meanwhile, "The Marvels" is facing a steep tumble in its second outing. The Marvel Studios production earned $2.8 million on Friday, down a staggering 87% from its opening day last week. It'll be lucky to hit $10 million in its sophomore [weekend] outing. Last spring's "Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania" cinched the Marvel Cinematic Universe superlative for biggest second weekend plummet when it dropped 69.9%. Only a few months later, "The Marvels" seems likely to break that record.
Hefty percentage drop-offs from opening weekends are pretty commonplace among superhero entries, but "The Marvels" also got off to a slow start with a franchise record-low $46.1 million debut. Now, the film is fading quickly in a marketplace that will only get more crowded over the Thanksgiving holiday. Ten-day domestic total will fall around $64 million -- a grim result considering the film's $220 million production budget.
It's more like a $270 million budget. Note that the earlier figure for Friday was boosted for propaganda purposes.
Corrected: I thought they meant the movie would be lucky to make $10 million on Saturday. No, they mean the movie will be lucky to make $10 million for the whole weekend.
SpaceX Successfully Launches Superheavy and Starship
Per Bob Zimmerman of Behind the Black:
This rocket was built entirely from private funds. Though SpaceX has a contract with NASA for Starship as a manned lunar lander, SpaceX has spent almost none of that money because its focus is getting the rocket launched, not designed to land on the Moon. Thus, a rocket more powerful than the Saturn-5 but designed from the get-go to be reusable is being built by private American citizens, independent of the government. If that isn't a demonstration of thepower of freedom, I don't know what is.
[J.J. Sefton]
Ooof: Deadline reports that "Disney/Marvel Studios' The Marvels at 4,030 [total screens] is seeing a second Friday of $3.5M and second weekend of $12.25M (-73%) for a running total by Sunday of $67M." Minus 73%. Nice. Meanwhile the pilgrim-hatted slasher film Thanksgiving made $3 million on Friday night.
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