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Weekend Box Office: ‘Ride Along’ Three-Peats On Slow Weekend
The Super Bowl weekend is typically one of the slowest weekends of the year at the box office, with everyone staying home to watch the game and only a couple of token counterprogramming releases put out for people who don't want to watch the game (typically ai...
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Quentin Tarantino Is Suing Gawker Over Leaked Script
You don't want to piss off Quentin Tarantino. Last week, someone leaked the script for his new film, The Hateful Eight, and it was a blessing and a curse because he decided to not make the movie due to how betrayed he felt, but it has also provided an entertai...
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Weekend Box Office: “Frankenstein” Tanks, Everything Else Holds
With small further expansions of Oscar nominees and only one major release otherwise, it was a quiet weekend at the box office, which will only get quieter next week with the Super Bowl approaching. The top 5 was almost identical to last week, with Ride Along ...
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Weekend Box Office: “Ride Along” Rides Away
In a weekend crowded with new releases and expansions of the Oscar nominees, along with a Monday holiday, there were plenty of winners and few losers at the box office. The big winner was the Ice Cube/Kevin Hart comedy Ride Along, blew past its $28 million pre...
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Oscar Nominations Are Mostly Unsurprising, Reliably Disheartening
Early this morning, the Oscar nominations were announced by Thor and there were some nice things, some less nice things and some unforgivable things (Lana Del Rey snubbed!). Nine films are up for Best Picture: American Hustle, Captain Phillips, Dallas Buyers C...
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Ted Hope Announced as New CEO of Fandor
Fandor, the online community that allows audiences to watch a broad array of independent and international cinema, is getting a new CEO, and that man is film veteran Ted Hope.
Ted Hope has a long history in the film business. Formerly, he served as the San ...
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Steven Spielberg Contemplates Montezuma and Cortez Film Starring Javier Bardem
The year is still young, but what better way to start it out than by getting the rumor mills running with one of the bigger blockbuster epics potentially coming down the pipeline? With over a year past since Lincoln hit theaters, the world is long overdue for ...
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The Bane of Cinema: Awards and Armond White
The perpetually polemical Armond White spiced up the 79th annual New York Film Critics Circle awards last night when he heckled director Steve McQueen.
While McQueen was accepting his Best Director award for 12 Years a Slave, White yelled out from his table...
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Weekend Box Office: ‘Frozen’ Closes Out Holiday Movie Season On Top
The Christmas/New Years holiday movie season drew to a close this weekend, with the kids going back to school and everyone returning to work tomorrow. Considering that there's an absolutely brutal cold front moving in to most of the upper part of the U.S. and ...
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A Familiar Story: Hayao Miyazaki May Not Be Retiring
Correction: upon further examination of the radio interview with Miyazaki, it would appear that his remarks are more suggestive than declarative. At this time we can't accurately or confidently claim that he's not retiring.
A funny thing happened on New Ye...
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