The Cricket's Daily 3: 'Pets' proves popular

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Here's what's happening in pop culture:

• In a victory for mediocrity, the animated movie "The Secret Life of Pets" took in $103.2 million at the domestic box office in its opening weekend — a record for a non-sequel animated movie. Meanwhile, parents and children are roundly ignoring "The BFG," a far superior children's movie. [Box Office Mojo]

• Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry has been hospitalized after collapsing onstage in New York, where he was performing in the supergroup Hollywood Vampires with Alice Cooper and Johnny Depp. [CNN]

• Sydney Schanberg, whose reporting on the atrocities in Cambodia for The New York Times earned him a Pulitzer Prize, has died at the age of 82. Schanberg's reporting inspired the 1984 movie "The Killing Fields," in which he was portrayed by Sam Waterston. [The Huffington Post]