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Weekend Box Office: Teen Lit Wins Again
Despite its omnipresence in movie theaters since the advent of Twilight and The Hunger Games, it's never really a sure thing to bring a young adult book franchise to the big screen. For every Hunger Games that does crazy good box office numbers, there's a Gold...
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Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett to Remake “I Saw the Devil”
My immediate reaction to this can best be exemplified by this moment from Community. I am both furious and excited at the same time. I want to vomit in disgust but I also want to pump my fist in celebration. To be fair, there have been rumblings of a remake fo...
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Weekend Box Office: “No Good Deed” Finally Shakes Things Up
After many weekends of low box office numbers, an unchanging top 2 and little in the way of new releases anyone wanted to see, there was finally some movement at the box office this weekend. Despite riding into town sans critic's screenings (and the critics ga...
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Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman” Still Happening According to Al Pacino
Well just about anything regarding what Martin Scorsese is doing is good news, so this update from Al Pacino is certainly welcome. For those unfamiliar, The Irishman is an adaptation of the true crime book I Heard You Paint Houses about the man who claims he k...
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Weekend Box Office: Zzzzzz……
September is always a slow month at the movies since it's one of the "dump" months, when kids are back in school, the summer weather is winding down, it's not quite time for horror movies and Oscar season, and studios are free to let loose with all the movies ...
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Martin Scorsese to Direct Ramones Biopic
Musical biopics are a tricky film to make, with most falling into trite idolization of their subjects and refusing to acknowledge the flaws. Then there's the whole process of getting the family estates to sign off on the films, and if and when they do it usual...
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Weekend Box Office: End Of Summer Sameness
The summer movie season officially ended this past weekend as it usually does, with a crop of newcomers doing middling business and some early-August holdovers doing quite well. The unusual aspect of this weekend was twofold, and of course involved the late su...
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Weekend Box Office: Summer Repeats
As the curtain begins to draw on the summer movie season, old favorites are still topping the box office, and the new releases represent a mix of good and bad news. The top two slots remained exactly the same for the second weekend in a row; Teenage Mutant Nin...
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“Godzilla 2” Release Date Set For June 2018
We've known there was going to be a followup to this year's smash hit Godzilla, and now we have know when we'll see it. Variety reports that Legendary and Warner Bros. have set a June 8th, 2018 release date for the sequel currently just referred to as Godzilla...
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Michael Bay Leaving “Transformers” Behind, Again
If there is one man who can lay claim to box-office supremacy this summer, that would be Michael Bay. His latest directorial effort, Transformers: Age of Extinction, has brought in over $1 billion worldwide. Add in the success as the producer of this weekend's...
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