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Boy, 14, shot in Roseland: CPD

A 14-year-old boy was shot in the foot early Sunday in the Roseland neighborhood, Chicago police reported.

The boy was walking on the 100 block of West 95th Street near Abbott Park at around 3:50 a.m. when he was shot. He was taken to OSF Little Company of Mary Medical Center in good condition, police said.

No one is in custody and detectives are investigating.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/14/boy-14-shot-in-roseland-cpd/ 

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Attacker who killed US troops in Syria was a recent recruit to security forces, official says

BEIRUT — A man who carried out an attack in Syria that killed three U.S. citizens had joined Syria’s internal security forces as a base security guard two months earlier and was recently reassigned amid suspicions that he might be affiliated with the Islamic State group, a Syrian official told The Associated Press Sunday.

The attack Saturday in the Syrian desert near the historic city of Palmyra killed two U.S. service members and one American civilian and wounded three others. It also wounded three members of the Syrian security forces who clashed with the gunman, interior ministry spokesperson Nour al-Din al-Baba said.

Al-Baba said that Syria’s new authorities had faced shortages in security personnel and had to recruit rapidly after the unexpected success of a rebel offensive last year that intended to capture the northern city of Aleppo but ended up overthrowing the government of former President Bashar Assad.

“We were shocked that in 11 days we took all of Syria and that put a huge responsibility in front of us from the security and administration sides,” he said.

The attacker was among 5,000 members who recently joined a new division in the internal security forces formed in the desert region known as the Badiya, one of the places where remnants of the Islamic State extremist group have remained active.

Attacker had raised suspicions

Al-Baba said the internal security forces’ leadership had recently become suspicious that there was an infiltrator leaking information to IS and began evaluating all members in the Badiya area.

The probe raised suspicions last week about the man who later carried out the attack, but officials decided to continue monitoring him for a few days to try to determine if he was an active member of IS and to identify the network he was communicating with if so, al-Baba said. He did not name the attacker.

At the same time, as a “precautionary measure,” he said, the man was reassigned to guard equipment at the base at a location where he would be farther from the leadership and from any patrols by U.S.-led coalition forces.

On Saturday, the man stormed a meeting between U.S. and Syrian security officials who were having lunch together and opened fire after clashing with Syrian guards, al-Baba said. The attacker was shot and killed at the scene.

Al-Baba acknowledged that the incident was “a major security breach” but said that in the year since Assad’s fall “there have been many more successes than failures” by security forces.

In the wake of the shooting, he said, the Syrian army and internal security forces “launched wide-ranging sweeps of the Badiya region” and broke up a number of alleged IS cells.

A delicate partnership

The incident comes at a delicate time as the U.S. military is expanding its cooperation with Syrian security forces.

The U.S. has had forces on the ground in Syria for over a decade, with a stated mission of fighting IS, with about 900 troops present there today.

Before Assad’s ouster, Washington had no diplomatic relations with Damascus and the U.S. military did not work directly with the Syrian army. Its main partner at the time was the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces in the country’s northeast.

That has changed over the past year. Ties have warmed between the administrations of U.S. President Donald Trump and Syrian interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa, the former leader of an Islamist insurgent group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham that used to be listed by Washington as a terrorist organization.

In November, al-Sharaa became the first Syrian president to visit Washington since the country’s independence in 1946. During his visit, Syria announced its entry into the global coalition against the Islamic State, joining 89 other countries that have committed to combating the group.

U.S. officials have vowed retaliation against IS for the attack but have not publicly commented on the fact that the shooter was a member of the Syrian security forces.

Critics of the new Syrian authorities have pointed to Saturday’s attack as evidence that the security forces are deeply infiltrated by IS and are an unreliable partner.

Mouaz Moustafa, executive director of the Syrian Emergency Task Force, an advocacy group that seeks to build closer relations between Washington and Damascus, said that is unfair.

Despite both having Islamist roots, HTS and IS were enemies and often clashed over the past decade.

Among former members of HTS and allied groups, Moustafa, said, “It’s a fact that even those who carry the most fundamentalist of beliefs, the most conservative within the fighters, have a vehement hatred of ISIS.”

“The coalition between the United States and Syria is the most important partnership in the global fight against ISIS because only Syria has the expertise and experience to deal with this,” he said.

Later Sunday, Syria’s state-run news agency SANA reported that four members of the internal security forces were killed and a fifth was wounded after gunmen opened fire on them in the city of Maarat al-Numan in Idlib province.

It was not immediately clear who the gunmen were or whether the attack was linked to the Saturday’s shooting.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/14/attacker-us-troops-syria/ 

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Reales traspasan al venezolano Ángel Zerpa a Cerveceros por Isaac Collins y Nick Mears

KANSAS CITY, Missouri, EE.UU. (AP) — Los Reales de Kansas City enviaron el domingo al relevista zurdo venezolano Angel Zerpa a los Cerveceros de Milwaukee por el versátil jardinero Isaac Collins y el lanzador derecho Nick Mears.

Collins, de 28 años, bateó para .263 con nueve jonrones y 54 carreras impulsadas en 130 juegos el año pasado, su primera temporada completa en las Grandes Ligas. Fue titular 100 veces en el jardín izquierdo, seis en el jardín derecho y dos como bateador designado, además de una en la segunda base.

Los Reales han estado buscando mejorar su jardín en las últimas dos temporadas bajas. El intercambio por Collins se produce días después de que acordaron un contrato de 5,25 millones de dólares con el veterano jardinero Lane Thomas para la próxima campaña.

Mears, de 29 años, tuvo una efectividad de 3.49, la mejor de su carrera, para Milwaukee la temporada pasada. También ha lanzado para los Piratas y los Rockies.

Zerpa, de 26 años, hizo un máximo de 69 apariciones en su carrera para los Reales la temporada pasada, cuando tuvo una efectividad de 4.18. Ha demostrado ser un relevista confiable para las entradas intermedias de Kansas City, que lo firmó como agente libre internacional en 2016.

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https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/14/reales-traspasan-al-venezolano-ngel-zerpa-a-cerveceros-por-isaac-collins-y-nick-mears/ 

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Guatemala declares state of emergency after armed attacks kill at least 5

GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala — Guatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo on Sunday said he had declared a state of emergency in two municipalities in western Guatemala a day after armed men attacked a military post and a police station, cut off roads and hijacked buses, killing at least five people.

Criminal gangs are attempting to force security forces to withdraw in order to take control of the region, Arévalo said. He said his government would reinforce security.

This state of emergency, the first declared by his government, will last for 15 days in the municipalities of Nahuala and Santa Catarina Ixtahuacan in the department of Solola.

“We are at a critical moment for the department of Solola and the security of the country,” Arévalo said, accompanied Interior Minister Marco Villeda and José Giovanni Martínez Milán, the acting Defense Minister and head of General Staff.

Arévalo showed videos and photos from Saturday’s events, in which armed men – some dressed in camouflage or military uniforms, wearing helmets and bulletproof vests and carrying high-caliber weapons – can be seen shooting or taking cover just meters away from a busy main road.

The criminal groups are linked to extortion and drug trafficking and pose a threat to the local communities, Arévalo said.

“The communities are not alone,” he said.

Interior Minister Marco Villeda said that five people had died. On Saturday, the director of the National Civil Police, David Botero, said that six people had died, including a soldier.

The incidents are believed to have started last Thursday when armed men attacked the military post, leaving four people wounded at that time.

The two municipalities have had disputes for several decades over water sources and local roads they both claim as their own. These disputes have led to dozens of deaths.

“In this case, there was no attack between the communities. This was an attack on the military post, intentionally and specifically,” Arévalo said.

The state of emergency limits the rights to open-air meetings, public demonstrations and events. It allows for the dissolution by force of any unauthorized gatherings, groups, or public demonstrations, particularly those involving weapons or violent acts.

It also limits the right to protests that affect free movement or public services, which can be forcibly dissolved, and restricts the right to carry weapons.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/14/guatemala-state-of-emergency/ 

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Gunman Who Killed 3 Americans In Syria Was Member of Syrian Government Forces

Gunman Who Killed 3 Americans In Syria Was Member of Syrian Government Forces

Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com

The gunman who killed two members of the Iowa National Guard and an American civilian interpreter in an attack in Palmyra, central Syria, on Saturday was a member of the Syrian government’s security forces, according to the Syrian Interior Ministry.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) first reported that the attacker was a member of the security forces and called for the Syrian government, which is led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, an offshoot of al-Qaeda, to get rid of members who have an “ISIS ideology.”

The Syrian Interior Ministry claimed that, before the attack, Syrian authorities had “decided to fire him” for having “extremist Islamist ideology” and had planned to do so on Sunday. “We discovered him in December and were going to dismiss him, but we didn’t make it in time because it was a holiday,” said ministry spokesman Nour al-Din al-Baba, according to The Cradle.

US Army Sergeant with a translator & two Syrian soldiers during a training in Syria on April 30, 2025. US Army photo

A Syrian security official told AFP that the attacker had been in the security forces “for more than 10 months and was posted to several cities before being transferred to Palmyra.”

According to Wael Essam, a Palestinian journalist who has covered the conflict in Syria for many years, the perpetrator has been identified as Tariq Satouf al-Hamd from the Aleppo countryside. Essam said that al-Hamd was previously a member of ISIS, but after the fall of former President Bashar al-Assad, he traveled to Idlib, the former home base of HTS, and joined the General Security.

The attack occurred when US military officers were meeting with Syrian Interior Ministry officials while US and Syrian troops stood guard at a base near the city of Palmyra. According to The Wall Street Journal, a lone gunman appeared in a window and opened fire on the US and Syrian soldiers, and he was pursued by Syrian troops and killed. However, according to Essam’s report, the attacker blew himself up.

“The attacker tried to reach the meeting room in the headquarters of the General Security in Palmyra (formerly the Military Security headquarters) where senior officers are present, and in the corridor he clashed with the American guards and the translator and blew himself up,” Essam wrote on X.

Essam also suggested that other members of the Syrian security forces were involved in the attack. “Security sources confirmed to me that Syrian intelligence, along with the Coalition forces, arrested six elements from the General Security at the headquarters in Palmyra, accused of coordinating the operation with him, and it is said that they are from the group that moved with him from the desert to the General Security in Idlib,” he said.

He added that Syrian authorities were “unable to identify his previous affiliation with the organization (ISIS), and there are hundreds like him, due to the large numbers who joined and which the security apparatus needed after the fall of the regime.”

President Trump and other US officials have called the incident an “ISIS attack” and have left out the detail that the perpetrator was a member of the Syrian military, which the US has allied itself with despite HTS’s al-Qaeda past, and as of Sunday, ISIS hasn’t taken credit for the shooting.

“This was an ISIS attack against the US, and Syria, in a very dangerous part of Syria, that is not fully controlled by them,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

He added that Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa is “extremely angry” about the attack. Trump recently hosted Sharaa at the White House despite his past as an al-Qaeda leader and ally of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the founder of ISIS.

The Syrian government itself has contradicted the below Trump claims…

Trump on Syria:

We had 3 great patriots terminated by bad people.

It was not the Syrian government, it was ISIS.

The Syrian government fought by our side. pic.twitter.com/oIO0ntdHvL

— Clash Report (@clashreport) December 14, 2025

Both Trump and US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth vowed there would be retaliation for the attack, and according to the SOHR, there’s been an escalation of US operations in the region, including surveillance flights and arrests of people on suspicion of “affiliating with ISIS and/or adopting its ideology.”

The Syrian government has also announced its escalating operations against Syria. During Sharaa’s visit to the Oval Office, his government officially joined the US-led anti-ISIS coalition despite its al-Qaeda links and many of its soldiers having a similar ideology to ISIS, putting US troops operating in Syria at risk of insider attacks.

Tyler Durden
Sun, 12/14/2025 – 15:10

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/gunman-who-killed-3-americans-syria-was-member-syrian-government-forces 

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Para jugadores como Kolek de los Knicks, la Copa de la NBA podría llevar a un gran pago

Por TIM REYNOLDS

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Los Knicks de Nueva York podrían obtener un trofeo. El padre de Tyler Kolek podría obtener un coche.

San Antonio y Nueva York se enfrentarán el martes en la final de la Copa de la NBA en Las Vegas. El partido no contará para la clasificación, y las estadísticas no se sumarán a ningún total oficial. Pero hay un trofeo, derechos de presumir y dinero en juego.

Al llegar a la final, los Knicks y los Spurs ya han asegurado 212.373 dólares por jugador del fondo de premios de la Copa de la NBA. El equipo perdedor el martes no recibe nada extra. Los jugadores del equipo ganador obtienen 308.560 adicionales, elevando sus ganancias de la Copa a 530.933 cada uno. Los jugadores con contratos de dos vías reciben la mitad de lo que reciben los jugadores con contratos estándar.

“Significa mucho para algunos”, dijo Kolek. “Quizás no tanto para otros, obviamente”.

Él está en el grupo de los “algunos”.

Kolek, un base suplente de los Knicks, está ganando 2,2 millones de dólares esta temporada. En el mundo real, eso es mucho dinero. En el mundo de la NBA, no tanto.

Echa un vistazo a los salarios de algunos otros jugadores de los Knicks: Karl-Anthony Towns está ganando 53,1 millones esta temporada, OG Anunoby está ganando 39,6 millones, Jalen Brunson está ganando 34,9 millones, Mikal Bridges está ganando un poco menos de 25 millones y Josh Hart alrededor de 19,5 millones.

Esos chicos, y muchos de los jugadores de los Spurs también, están acostumbrados a ver cheques que superan los 500.000 dólares. Kolek seguramente no lo está. Pero se ha ganado su oportunidad de ganar a lo grande en Las Vegas, siendo una gran razón por la que los Knicks llegaron a la final.

Nueva York superó a Orlando por 18 puntos en los 16 minutos que Kolek estuvo en la duela en las semifinales del sábado. Cuando Kolek no estaba en la cancha, el Magic superó a los Knicks por seis. Terminó con cuatro puntos y cuatro asistencias; las estadísticas pueden no parecer impresionantes, pero su energía fue un gran plus para Nueva York.

“Tyler hizo un trabajo fantástico hoy, nuestro joven, impactando en la victoria”, dijo Towns después del partido. “Y lo hizo en un gran escenario… Uno de sus mejores partidos como jugador de la NBA fue esta noche, y puede que no aparezca en la hoja de estadísticas, pero todos en nuestro vestuario saben lo importante que fue para nosotros”.

Kolek tomó su bono de cuartos de final de la Copa NBA de la temporada pasada, un poco más de 50.000 dólares, y le compró un coche a su madre. Este año, ha dicho que podría ser el turno de su padre para un vehículo nuevo. La pregunta es si el bono más grande de este año llevará a un mejor coche para su padre.

El entrenador de los Knicks, Mike Brown, ha elogiado la competitividad de Kolek y le ha recompensado con un papel más grande en las últimas semanas, está ansioso por averiguarlo.

“Solo quiero saber si su papá va a obtener un coche mejor que su mamá o viceversa, porque pronto descubriremos a cuál de los dos padres quiere más”, dijo Brown, riendo. “Mejor que sea su mamá… Oye, no estoy causando problemas. Solo tengo los ojos bien abiertos. Espera a ver qué va a hacer. Solo cuida de tu mamá. Solo recuerda eso. Cuida de tu mamá”.

Es un buen problema para tener, sin duda.

“Esa es una gran cantidad de dinero para un tipo como yo”, dijo Kolek. “No se trata solo del dinero. Queremos ganar esto para levantar el trofeo y para los fanáticos”.

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https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/14/para-jugadores-como-kolek-de-los-knicks-la-copa-de-la-nba-podra-llevar-a-un-gran-pago/ 

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Zelenskyy Open To Dropping NATO Bid As Peace Talks Continue On Berlin

Zelenskyy Open To Dropping NATO Bid As Peace Talks Continue On Berlin

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is willing to drop efforts to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) if the United States and European allies offer “security guarantees” in order to end the war.

“Thus, today, bilateral security guarantees between Ukraine and the US, Article 5-like guarantees for us from the US, and security guarantees from European colleagues, as well as other countries — Canada, Japan — are an opportunity to prevent another Russian invasion,” Zelenskyy said in a WhatsApp chat with reporters on Dec. 14.

As Jacki Thrapp reports for The Epoch Times, Zelenskyy insisted that the “compromise” must be legally binding and supported by the U.S. Congress in order to bring an end to the years-long conflict.

The Ukrainian leader’s comments to journalists came ahead of his meeting in Berlin with U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff and President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner on Sunday.

“We are preparing for a meeting with the American side,” Zelenskyy posted on X Sunday morning.

“There are many important details, and we are working thoroughly on every point of every draft. The key thing is that all the steps we agree on with partners must work in practice to deliver guaranteed security. Only reliable guarantees can deliver peace. We count on our partners to continue working constructively as well.”

Zelenskyy is expected to meet with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz after the meeting with U.S. officials on Sunday night.

Ukraine’s openness to dropping a NATO bid is a move that is welcomed by Russian President Vladimir Putin, who does not want any NATO troops stationed there.

Kushner and Witkoff met with Putin on Dec. 2 for a five-hour-long negotiating session.

Putin’s top foreign policy aide, Yuri Ushakov, told reporters afterward that the meeting was “constructive” but “compromises have not yet been found.”

Russians want Ukraine to withdraw forces from the part of the Donetsk region that the United States proposed making a demilitarized free economic zone, which was rejected by Kyiv.

Zelenskyy confirmed on Dec. 10 that Ukraine supported key parts of an economic outline to rebuild the country once the war ends, which has been a major aspect of peace discussions.

The rebuilding plan was a refined version of Trump’s initial 28-point proposal, in which Ukraine would yield territories such as Crimea, Luhansk, and Donetsk to Russia, Ukraine having a constitutional block from joining NATO, and allowing Russia to return to the G7.

Russia has launched more than 1,500 drones, nearly 900 guided aerial bombs, and 46 missiles at Ukraine in the past week, Zelenskyy said on Sunday.

Recent attacks have left hundreds of thousands without power, heat, or water in multiple regions across the country.

Tyler Durden
Sun, 12/14/2025 – 14:35

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/zelenskyy-open-dropping-nato-bid-peace-talks-continue-berlin 

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Vuelo de JetBlue cerca de Venezuela casi choca con avión cisterna de Fuerza Aérea de EEUU

Por CHRISTOPHER RUGABER

WASHINGTON (AP) — Un vuelo de JetBlue desde la pequeña nación caribeña de Curazao detuvo su ascenso para evitar colisionar con un avión de reabastecimiento de la Fuerza Aérea de Estados Unidos el viernes, y el piloto culpó al avión militar por cruzarse en su camino.

“Casi tuvimos una colisión en el aire aquí arriba”, dice el piloto de JetBlue según una grabación de su conversación con el control de tráfico aéreo. “Pasaron directamente en nuestra ruta de vuelo… No tienen su transpondedor encendido, es una locura”.

El incidente involucró al Vuelo 1112 de JetBlue desde Curazao, que está justo frente a la costa de Venezuela, con destino al aeropuerto JFK de la ciudad de Nueva York. Ocurre mientras Estados Unidos ha intensificado sus actividades de interdicción de drogas en el Caribe y también busca aumentar la presión sobre el gobierno de Venezuela.

“Acabamos de ver tráfico aéreo directamente frente a nosotros a menos de cinco millas de nosotros —quizás dos o tres millas— pero era un avión de reabastecimiento en vuelo de la Fuerza Aérea de Estados Unidos y estaba a nuestra altitud”, dice el piloto. “Tuvimos que detener nuestro ascenso”. Añadió que el avión de la Fuerza Aérea luego se dirigió al espacio aéreo venezolano.

Derek Dombrowski, un portavoz de JetBlue, manifestó el domingo: “Hemos reportado este incidente a las autoridades federales y participaremos en cualquier investigación”. Añadió: “Nuestros tripulantes están entrenados en los procedimientos adecuados para diversas situaciones de vuelo, y apreciamos que nuestra tripulación haya informado rápidamente de esta situación a nuestro equipo de liderazgo”.

El Pentágono remitió a The Associated Press a la Fuerza Aérea para comentarios. La Fuerza Aérea no respondió a una solicitud de comentarios.

El mes pasado, la Administración Federal de Aviación emitió una advertencia a las aeronaves estadounidenses instándolas a “tener precaución” cuando estén en el espacio aéreo venezolano, “debido al empeoramiento de la situación de seguridad y la creciente actividad militar en o alrededor de Venezuela”.

Según la grabación del tráfico aéreo, el controlador respondió al piloto: “Ha sido una locura con las aeronaves no identificadas dentro de nuestro espacio aéreo”.

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El corresponsal Ben Finley contribuyó con esta nota.

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Esta historia fue traducida del inglés por un editor de AP con ayuda de una herramienta de inteligencia artificial generativa.

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Cifra de muertes por ataque en Australia sube a 16, dice ministro de Nueva Gales del Sur

SYDNEY (AP) — Cifra de muertes por ataque en Australia sube a 16, dice ministro de Nueva Gales del Sur.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/12/14/cifra-de-muertes-por-ataque-en-australia-sube-a-16-dice-ministro-de-nueva-gales-del-sur/ 

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“Zootopia 2” vuelve al número 1 en taquilla y supera los 1.000 millones de dólares a nivel mundial

Por JAKE COYLE

NUEVA YORK (AP) — “Zootopia 2” recuperó el puesto número uno en la taquilla nacional con 26,3 millones de dólares en su tercer fin de semana de estreno, según estimaciones del estudio el domingo, y la secuela animada de The Walt Disney Co. se convirtió en la segunda película del año en recaudar 1.000 millones de dólares a nivel mundial.

Con la llegada de “Avatar: Fire and Ash” el viernes, fue un fin de semana relativamente tranquilo en los cines. No hubo grandes estrenos nuevos, dejando a “Zootopia 2” y “Five Nights at Freddy’s 2” para disputarse el primer lugar.

La ventaja fue para “Zootopia 2”, que ha acumulado rápidamente 1.140 millones de dólares en ventas de boletos a nivel mundial gracias, en gran medida, a su enorme éxito en China. Allí, ha recaudado 502,4 millones de dólares, convirtiendo a “Zootopia 2” en el mayor éxito de Hollywood en el país en años.

El único otro título de Hollywood de 2025 que superó los 1.000 millones de dólares a nivel mundial fue “Lilo & Stitch” de Disney (1.040 millones de dólares). Sin embargo, la película más taquillera del año es el éxito chino “Ne Zha 2”, que recaudó casi 2.000 millones tan solo en China.

En su segundo fin de semana de estreno, la secuela de Universal Pictures y Blumhouse Productions “Five Nights at Freddy’s 2” recaudó 15,4 millones de dólares, una caída brutal del 70% desde su debut por encima de las expectativas. Aun así, con un total nacional de 95,5 millones de dólares, la producción de 36 millones es un gran éxito para Blumhouse, añadiendo otra franquicia de terror a su portafolio.

El estreno más notable del fin de semana fue “Ella McCay” de James L. Brooks, su primera película dirigida en 15 años. “Ella McCay” ganó escasos 2,1 millones de dólares en 2.500 salas, convirtiéndose en uno de los peores estrenos del año.

Pero las expectativas de taquilla no eran altas para “Ella McCay”, una comedia dramática sobre una mujer de 34 años (la debutante Emma Mackey) que se convierte en gobernadora de su estado natal. Las críticas (22% “fresco” en Rotten Tomatoes) fueron malas, y el tipo de comedias dramáticas ganadoras de premios en las que Brooks (“Terms of Endearment”, “Broadcast News”) se ha especializado durante mucho tiempo hoy en día rara vez encuentran grandes audiencias en los cines. “Ella McCay”, con un elenco de apoyo que incluye a Jamie Lee Curtis, Ayo Edebiri y Woody Harrelson, costó 35 millones de dólares.

Con las ventas de boletos en general del año corriendo cerca de igualar las decepcionantes cifras del año pasado, según datos de Comscore, Hollywood espera que el próximo corredor de vacaciones, tradicionalmente el período de mayor asistencia al cine del año, termine 2025 con una nota alta. Las películas en cartelera incluyen “Avatar: Fire and Ash”, “The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants”, “Marty Supreme”, “Anaconda” y “Song Sung Blue”.

Las 10 películas principales por taquilla nacional

Con las cifras finales nacionales a publicarse el lunes, esta lista toma en cuenta las ventas estimadas de boletos de viernes a domingo en los cines de Estados Unidos y Canadá, según Comscore:

1. “Zootopia 2”, 26,3 millones de dólares.

2. “Five Nights at Freddy’s 2”, 19,5 millones.

3. “Wicked: For Good”, 8,6 millones.

4. “Dhurandhar”, 3,5 millones.

5. “Now You See Me: Now You Don’t”, 2,4 millones.

6. “Jujutsu Kaisen: Execution”, 2,1 millones.

7. “Ella McCay”, 2,1 millones.

8. “El Grinch” (2000), 1,9 millones.

9. “Eternity”, 1,8 millones.

10. “Hamnet”, 1,5 millones.

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Esta historia fue traducida del inglés por un editor de AP con ayuda de una herramienta de inteligencia artificial generativa.

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