Bob Mondello
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Project Hail Mary is not a sequel or a remake.
It's not animated or about superheroes, video games, or toys.
I'm several light years from my apartment, and I'm not an astronaut.
And yet film industry analysts were predicting a week ago that the Ryan Gosling film might open to as much as $50 million.
Two days ago, they upped that prediction to $60 million.
Now, based on previews and first-day ticket sales, it looks like The Weeknd will top $77 million.
If it does, that'll be Hollywood's best opening weekend of 2026.
It'll also be one of the best openings for a non-franchise film ever.
up there with the likes of Oppenheimer and Jordan Peele's Us.
In a fight, Chuck Norris tended to lead with his right foot.
He all but trademarked a roundhouse kick that villains never seemed to see coming.
It served him well in more than two dozen films after his pal Bruce Lee gave him his break as one of many villains in 1972's The Way of the Dragon.
On TV, Norris played Sergeant Cordell Walker, a decorated Vietnam vet with Cherokee ancestry and about 200 episodes of Walker, Texas Ranger.
Offscreen, he established philanthropies for children and veterans, became a nationally syndicated health and fitness columnist, and wrote nine books, including the conservative activist handbook, Black Belt Patriotism, How to Reawaken America.
He was also amused to find himself the subject of Internet memes, Chuck Norris facts, that celebrated his supposed toughness with hyperbole and exaggeration.