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Weekend Box Office: Avoiding Your Relatives At The Movies
It was a decent but not spectacular Thanksgiving weekend at the box office, with nothing really blowing away the competition gross-wise and none of the new releases doing insanely huge business. Although there were several new releases on the indie and mainstr...
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Weekend Box Office: Exactly What You Expected
Given that the previous two installments in the series racked up $840 million in the U.S. alone, each with $150 million opening weekends, and that there's plenty of Thanksgiving movies coming down the pike as the holiday approaches, no other major studio put a...
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Channing Tatum Won’t Stop, Plans to Co-Direct “Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock”
Channing Tatum is a fire you can't put out, and you don't want to either. He's so hot right now. It's weird to think that a few years ago I had no regard for the Chan-man, and here we are in 2014 and he's an actor that I'm a big fan of, and also one who may ge...
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First Look at Patrick Stewart as a Skinhead in Jeremy Saulnier’s “Green Room”
Jeremy Saulnier's Blue Ruin is one of my favorite films of this year, so naturally I'm very eager to see his followup. His next film, Green Room, follows a group of young punk rockers who find themselves fighting for their lives in a secluded venue against a g...
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Weekend Box Office: Dumb Winz
This mid-November weekend was crammed with new releases on both the wide and indie circuits, and there was stiff competition from last weekend's releases, but the weekend was won by a sequel to a 20-year-old comedy. Although it was on track to make $25 million...
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You Can Relax, Universal Expects At Least 3 More “Fast & Furious” Films
Usually when a studio announces three more films of something, and especially when that means stretching a franchise to ten films, that's usually bad news. This isn't though. This is great news. Why? Because the Fast & Furious franchise is the most excitin...
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Weekend Box Office: Interstellar Heroes and Not Much Else
After the super-slow Halloween weekend, the November box office began in full force, with two hotly anticipated movies making all of the money and the rest of the movies in release not making much at all. The winner of the weekend by about $6 million was Disne...
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“Toy Story 4” Is Coming Because Nothing Is Sacred
It feels like it might be too easy and knee-jerk reactionary to trash on this bit of news, but come, how can I not? Sometimes the low-hanging fruit is the tastiest. It's like the greedy and dark side of franchise filmmaking has finally made its way to my entir...
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Full Cast for “The Hateful Eight” Announced
Filming has begun on Quentin Tarantino's next revenge Western, The Hateful Eight, so accordingly the cast has been revealed to curious fans. Tarantino's cast of regulars Jackson, Madsen, Roth, and Russell are all reprising their parts from the live reading sev...
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The Story of Casting Elliot in “E.T.”
This week's new Academy Originals episode gives viewers a rare look behind-the-scenes at one of the crucial moments of the making of Steven Spielberg's ET: The Extra-Terrestrial.
E.T. is widely regarded as a classic film for movie lovers of all ages, but wi...
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