Bob Mondello
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Snowy weather is giving movie theaters very little mercy this weekend.
Mercy being the thriller about an artificial intelligence justice system that is this week's only wide release.
What was projected to be a $15 million opening now looks more like $12 million, and observers place the blame on Snow.
More than 20 states, from Texas to New York, have declared states of emergency.
And all three of the nation's biggest movie chains, AMC, Cinemark, and Regal, announced dozens of individual theater closings.
As a result, movie box offices overall will only take in about $58 million, making this the lowest weekend of the year so far.
With four awards for Best Limited Series and for three of its nominated performers, Owen Cooper, Stephen Graham, and Aaron Dougherty,
Adolescence, about a young boy charged with a terrible crime, was the most awarded television program at this year's Golden Globes.
But it was also a good night for the medical drama The Pit, which won for Best Dramatic Series and for Best Dramatic Actor, Noah Wiley, and for the showbiz comedy The Studio, which won Best Comedy Series and Best Comic Actor for Seth Rogen.
Best Actress in a Drama went to Ray Sehorne for Pluribus, and Best Actress in a Comedy to Jean Smart for Hacks.
Longtime TV comedian Amy Poehler, who has hosted the Globes in years past, won the first award in the Globes' new podcast category for Good Hang.
The Globes are widely thought to be the splashiest party of Hollywood's awards season, but they haven't always been known for seriousness.
Paul Thomas Anderson's ferociously political satire, One Battle After Another, took home four Globes in the comedy or musical category, including Best Picture, Screenplay, Director, and Supporting Actress for Tiana Taylor.
Hamnet, about the death of Shakespeare's son, took Best Drama and Best Dramatic Actress, Jesse Buckley.
Brazil's The Secret Agent, a fiercely political film set during that country's dictatorship, took best feature, not in English, and best actor drama for Walter Mora.
The best actor and actress in the comedy or musical categories went to Timothee Chalamet for Marty Supreme and Rose Byrne for If I Had Legs I'd Kick You.