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Paramount is grinning widely this weekend as its creepy pic, Smile, continued to stay atop the chart in its sophomore outing with a projected gross of $17.6 million from 3,659 theaters. That’s a decline of just 22 percent, one of the best holds of all time for the horror genre.

The was just as good overseas. Smile earned $17.5 million from 61 markets for a foreign tally of $40 million and a global haul of $88.9 million to make the $17 million a major profit generator.

Smile earned more than enough to beat Sony’s new family  Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile, which opened to an estimated $11.5 million domestically. Sony expects the movie to benefit from the Indigenous Peoples’ Day holiday on Monday and earn a total of $13.4 million through Monday.

Heading into the weekend, most of Hollywood expected Lyle, Lyle, based on the kids book of the same name, to win the three-day frame, even if narrowly. The film presently has a 68 percent critics score on Rotten Tomatoes and earned an A- CinemaScore from audiences.

The bomb of the weekend is David O. Russell’s star-packed film Amsterdam. The mystery-comedy opened to an estimated $6.5 million from 3,005 locations after getting skewered by critics. It currently rests at a 33 percent critics score on Rotten Tomatoes, one of the lowest of the filmmaker’s career, along with stars Christian Bale, Margot Robbie and John David Washington. Audiences gave it a somewhat better ranking of a B CinemaScore.

Amsterdam is a New Regency film distributed by Disney. As reviews started coming in, tracking lowered its projection to $10 million, since the film’s target audience — older adults, and especially older females — are more swayed by critics. However, even $10 million proved to be bullish.

Universal, which made Bros, wasn’t left entirely bereft. Overseas, the studio’s George Clooney-Julia Roberts romantic-comedy Ticket to Paradise crossed the $60 million mark ahead of its domestic debut on Oct. 21.

At one point, box office analysts and exhibitors believed that Lyle, Lyle and Amsterdam could both open in the mid-teens.

The Woman King and Don’t Worry Darling rounded out the top five, followed by the Avatar rerelease.

Sony and eOne’s Woman King placed No. 4 with $5.3 million for a domestic total of $54.1 million. The movie’s early foreign total is $10 million, including $1.5 million from its opening in the U.K., where eOne is distributing.

Warner Bros.’ Don’t Worry Darling followed with $2.5 million for a domestic total of $38.5 million and global cume of $69.3 million.

The 3D rerelease of James Cameron’s Avatar continued to wow, earning $2.6 million for a domestic total of $23.3 million. All told, the release from Disney and 20th Century has grossed $71.9 million globally.

Unlike Smile, Bros was hardly happy in its second weekend. The gay rom-com, directed by Nicholas Stoller and co-written by Billy Eichner, tumbled to No. 6 or No. 7 with an estimated $2.2 million for a 10-day domestic total of $8.9 million (the film fell a hefty 55 percent). Eichner took to Twitter last weekend after the film’s fifth-place opening to say that homophobia was a major reason for the poor showing before encouraging everyone to see the film.

Elsewhere, the awards box office gets underway in earnest as Todd Field’s Tár and Ruben Ostlund’s Palme d’Or winner Triangle of Sadness open in select theaters to promising numbers.

From Focus Features and starring Cate Blanchett, Tár posted the top location average of the weekend and one of the best of the year, or $40,000, as it launched in four theaters in New York and Los Angeles. It was No. 1 in three of the cinemas, including the AMC Lincoln Square in New York and the AMC Grove in L.A.

Triangle of Sadness, from Neon, opted for a wider opening footprint, or 10 locations. The Woody Harrelson-starrer posted a location average of $21,007.

This article originally appeared on The Hollywood Reporter.

For abortion supporters who maintain that abortion is “safe and easy,” this Albany, New York woman may just have to disagree — and unfortunately, she has a terrible life experience to prove her point. A clear reminder that abortion is never healthcare but instead is a very real detriment to women’s health, yet another  lawsuit is being filed against Planned Parenthood in the wake of a medical catastrophe. Here’s what happened:  

Nakara Alston, a 25-year-old young woman from the capitol city of  New York, is suing Upper Hudson Planned Parenthood and the Capital Region’s largest hospital systems for allegedly neglecting to provide her proper medical care and instruction after a botched abortion. This failure on the part of the two parties resulted in weeks of pain, extreme and dangerous blood loss, and unfortunately, an eventual premature birth, according to Alston.  

In a report from the Times Union, Alston said she had an abortion committed at eight weeks at the Planned Parenthood facility in May 2020. After the abortion, medical records show that an abortion worker examined the fetal remains that had been suctioned out of Alston, and the worker determined the preborn baby’s age had been “consistent with documented gestational age.” In other words, the Planned Parenthood worker documented her abortion as complete — the baby had been killed.  

However, that was not the case — and Alston soon realized something was wrong. Over the next three months, she experienced bleeding and other complications as her baby grew, and Alston attempted to understand the situation and get medical assistance from emergency rooms, as well as her primary care provider. 

Alston had never been advised to come back in for a check-up at the Planned Parenthood facility, but when she went to her primary care provider and took a pregnancy test, she found out she was still pregnant. Her doctor advised her to call Planned Parenthood, but she only got their voicemail— and when she was given a call back, the Planned Parenthood worker invalidated her concerns, saying it was not possible she was pregnant as the abortion had been “successful” and bodily hormones can make pregnancy tests inaccurate.  

Alston began feeling a number of symptoms, including chest pain, difficulty breathing, numbness, near-constant pain, etc. — but instead of receiving help, Alston’s attorney alleges that she was merely “bounced around.” No medical provider took responsibility for her, and he stated that the Planned Parenthood workers and Albany Medical Center had numerous opportunities to help and educate Alston on her situation but didn’t take the time to do so.  

Of the hospital staff, Alston said, “The only choice they gave me was Planned Parenthood, but I didn’t want to go back to Planned Parenthood, because they are the ones that messed it up.” 

Still pregnant, Alston’s woes were not over as she kept coming back to the emergency rooms for such intense bleeding that there would be pools of blood on the floor every morning — and yet her questions and complaints allegedly never seemed to be taken seriously. She eventually gave birth to a still-born child, an experience which caused severe emotional trauma.  

While the hospital in question declined to comment, the president and CEO of the Planned Parenthood facility in question did offer a comment on Alston’s lawsuit — and it is a pretty pathetic one. Chelly Hegan stated,  

“All Upper Hudson Planned Parenthood health centers follow Planned Parenthood’s rigorous medical standards and guidelines for the provision of abortion care, including follow-up protocols.” 

Rigorous medical standards? Don’t make us laugh — and what a very insensitive comment for a case like this in which a mother was physically and emotionally traumatized, and a child was killed. But what does Planned Parenthood care, anyways? They’ve always been in this for the money.  

Students for Life of America’s (SFLA) thoughts and prayers go out to Alston and all the women like her who have been used and abused by the abortion industry into believing they need abortions to succeed and then being indescribably harmed in the process — along with the loss of their child’s life.  

Women in unplanned pregnancies don’t need Planned Parenthood — they need love and support in their journey toward parenthood or adoption — and in Alston’s case, they need justice for the wrongs committed against them by the abortion giant.  

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