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Deadline’s annual film revenue tournaments have celebrated the triumphs of each year’s most profitable films. For a third year in a row, we decided to look at the ones that amounted to a big swing and a miss. Here are the movies our experts said posted the worst losses of 2019. X-Men: Dark Phoenix 20th …

US stocks made a wobbly climb Tuesday as Wall Street weighed how the global economy will look once it emerges from its coronavirus-induced coma. The Dow Jones industrial average gave up an early 1.5 percent jump to trade up 115.80 points, or 0.4 percent, at 24,249.58 as of 2:13 p.m. That put the blue-chip index …

We have been locked down for weeks. Classes have been canceled. Only essential activities are allowed. Although there is much to cover and analyze, I want to focus on the economics of the situation. To understate it, the situation today is simply not good. The COVID-19 crisis has caused the world to lock down the …

A US senator is calling on the Justice Department to open a criminal probe of Amazon’s “predatory data practices.” Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO.), who has long been critical of Silicon Valley’s biggest companies and their privacy practices, expressed concern Tuesday about a Monday report that Amazon collects data about third-party products it sells on its …

Everyone knows “The Great Wave,” the most famous of all Japanese works of art, even if they don’t know the name of the artist. His name was Hokusai and he published “The Great Wave off Kanagawa (Kanagawa-oki Nami Ura)” at some point between 1829 and 1833. It’s a woodblock print of the genre ukiyo-e, which …

Pop TV’s “One Day At a Time” is getting animated. The reimagining of Norman Lear’s classic will produce an animated special to air this spring. Like all other live-action Hollywood production, filming on the current fourth season of “One Day At a Time” was suspended in mid-March amid a growing coronavirus pandemic. Shortly after that, …

Charlie Ergen’s satellite TV company is calling foul on Disney for making it pay for ESPN at a time when there is no live sports programming, The Post has learned. Ergen’s Dish Network, the nation’s fourth largest TV provider, is pushing for refunds that it says it will pass along to its roughly 12 million …

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) is requesting that the Justice Department release documents that “question the accuracy and reliability” of former British spy Christopher Steele’s sourcing, following news that Steele himself has no records of his conversations with the primary sub-source for his infamous dossier. In a letter to attorney general William …

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo says now that he wishes he “blew the bugle” on the coronavirus threat back in January instead of waiting weeks to prepare New Yorkers to face the spread of the deadly pathogen. “I wish someone stood up and blew the bugle. And if no one was going to blow the …

Elon Musk is speeding toward a $750 million payday — even as Tesla employees are getting slammed by pay cuts and hundreds of hourly workers are furloughed. After getting hit by factory closures that the coronavirus epidemic mandated, Tesla shares have lately been making a comeback, with investors hoping for news that its plant in …