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Godzilla Minus Zero is stomping records. $13.5 million on Friday, including $6.7 million in previews, across 3,254 theaters — and it’s now tracking $30–33 million for the weekend. If that holds, it’s the biggest opening ever for a live-action foreign-language film in North America, nearly doubling the record Hero set back in 2002 ($17.8M). And audiences love it: an A CinemaScore, matching Minus One, which is almost unheard of for a subtitled release. 91% on Rotten Tomatoes, worldwide opening tipped around $60 million

This one is a relic! Salon, one of the early internet’s most influential websites that featured sharp voices and political and cultural journalism with a liberal sensibility, announced Thursday it would shut down after 31 years of publication. “It has been an extraordinary privilege,” the outlet said in a farewell note..

Reported November 2 2026: Carbondale, PA is throwing a UFO festival this weekend. The Carbondalien Festival runs Nov. 6–7, built around the town’s 1974 UFO pond incident — yes, a thing allegedly crashed into a pond there in 1974, and the town has decided to lean all the way in.

Free paranormal speaker series at the Hotel Anthracite, plus a cosmic light parade on Friday night. It’s in your backyard, it’s weird, and it is free..

November 2 2026: Clayface just became the highest-grossing body horror movie ever. The DC body horror hit crossed $83 million worldwide in its second weekend, passing The Substance ($77M) for the title of highest-grossing R-rated body horror film in history. Domestically it took $10.4 million, good enough for No. 2 behind the Elizabeth Holmes doc You Can See Everything ($10.6M) — but worldwide, Clayface was No. 1. Its domestic total is now $44.1 million, which covers its entire production budget in ten days.

A comic book villain melting people into goo was never supposed to be a box office story.