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Weekend Box Office: “Turtles” All The Way Down
There is perhaps no better illustration of the difference between the Internet echo chamber and the whims of the actual public than the opening weekends of the two movies Michael Bay was involved with this summer. His fourth entry in the Transformers franchise...
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‘A Wrinkle in Time’ Next For ‘Frozen’ Director Jennifer Lee
Jennifer Lee, who co-directed the smash-hit Frozen with Chris Buck has chosen her next project, A Wrinkle in Time.
Lee will begin work on a treatment of A Wrinkle in Time based on Madeleine L’Engle’s classic tale in which children travel through time and sp...
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Weekend Box Office: The Biggest Movie In The “Galaxy”
Remember how earlier in the year, several movies like Lucy and Jupiter Rising ran from their late July/early August release dates, and how two weeks ago, there was an absolute glut of movies released on the same weekend? There was a reason for that. Marvel's G...
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Simon West Would Make “Con Air 2” If It Was Set In Space
While speaking with Screen Daily about crowdfunding his new action comedy Salty, Con Air director Simon West elaborated on what we all really want to know: What would a sequel to Con Air be like? Here's what he had to say below.
I would do it if it was comple...
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Joe Cornish May Head to “Skull Island”
One of the bigger surprises to come out during this year's Comic-Con was that Legendary Pictures is keeping the monster train rolling by reviving King Kong in Skull Island, set to be released Nov. 4, 2016. Just a few days later they've announced who they'd lik...
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Comic-Con Catch Up 2014: Monsters for Everyone, More Superheroes, And Mad Max
Each year at Comic-Con, Studios fill up Hall H with various panels with one goal: get everyone hyped about the exclusive announcements, trailers, what have you. It seems that each year, every couple minutes some new big thing is announced, and if you have a li...
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Weekend Box Office: Luuuucyyyyyy!
A weak July ended with a relatively big bang; even though it was down 15 percent from the same frame last year, it was easily one of the bigger weekends of the month. Two star vehicles went head-to-head and the Scarlett Johansson-fronted Luc Besson action/sci-...
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Weekend Box Office: Apes and Anarchy
It was another fairly middling weekend at the box office, with overall receipts down 26 percent from this time last year, and down 30 percent overall for the month of July. It was also a fairly middling weekend for all the new releases, perhaps an inevitable c...
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Ron Howard to Chase ‘The Beatles’ in New Documentary
Director Ron Howard has been tapped to direct an official documentary on The Beatles. The film will focus on the 1960-66 period when the four lads from Liverpool captivated audiences around the world. It has the full cooperation of Apple Corps Ltd, the studio ...
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Weekend Box Office: “Apes” Rise
After a lackluster Fourth of July at the movies, things were pretty much back to normal this weekend. The big winner was the latest in Fox's Ape franchise, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, which took in $73 million over the three-day period. That's well above t...
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