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All posts by Wes Lawson
Birthday Wishes: Brendan Fraser, The Missing Link
Brendan Fraser, born 1968, is 45 today. Brendan's an actor with a particular screen presence, a certain airy goofiness that can be just right in the right roles. Although he hasn't worked much in prominent films in recent years, he's still getting work, with 4...
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Weekend Box Office: “Catching Fire,” “Frozen” Dominate Thanksgiving
As it does every year, the Thanksgiving holiday brought increased box office numbers all around, although the number 1 slot remained a holdover from before the holiday. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire held on with $74.5 million for the three-day window, a 52 p...
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Birthday Wishes: Mark Margolis DING DING DING
Mark Margolis, born 1939, is 74 today. An indomitable character actor whose career has spanned some 36 years, his presence has been felt in numerous films and television shows. Though he's been around for almost four decades, his most successful and prominent ...
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Weekend Box Office: Odds In Catching Fire’s Favor
Given that its predecessor opened to $152 million and went on to gross $408 million in America alone, it's a shock to no one that The Hunger Games: Catching Fire claimed the top spot this weekend. It took $161.1 million over the three-day period, which is a sl...
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Birthday Wishes: Mark Ruffalo Smash
Mark Ruffalo, born 1967, is 46 today. Most mainstream audiences at the moment know him as Bruce Banner/The Incredible Hulk in the ongoing Avengers series, but they might also know him from the various indie and mainstream films he's popped up in since 2000. Ru...
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Sony Cuts Summer Movie Schedule In Half
Despite releasing nine films this past summer, Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Pictures Group (which includes Columbia, Tristar, Screen Gems, Sony Pictures Classics, and others, but whose primary releasing arm is Columbia Pictures) announced that it is only...
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Birthday Wishes: The Female Christopher Walken, Allison Janney
Alison Janney, born 1959, is 54 today. As the headline says, she has what Roger Ebert once referred to as the Walken Factor - she rarely plays the lead role, but is almost always one of the best, most interesting and fully realized elements in any film or tele...
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Weekend Box Office: “Best Man” And “Thor” Have Strong Showings
The weekend box office was a surprising one, but only if you predicted that a superhero movie wouldn't win against little competition, and that a film aimed at a "niche" audience wouldn't have a strong showing against it. As predicted by most, Thor: The Dark W...
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Birthday Wishes: Yaphet Kotto
Yaphet Kotto, born 1939, is 74 today. Though now retired from film and television, Kotto had a long and industrious career spanning four decades, culminating in a seven year stint as Lieutenant Al Giardello on the acclaimed NBC series Homicide: Life On The Str...
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Don Cheadle To Play Miles Davis, Finally
A project that was first reported in 2007 by Variety will finally see the light of day. Don Cheadle has secured financing and added Ewan McGregor and Zoe Saldana to the cast of Kill the Trumpet Player, a film about renowned trumpeter Miles Davis. Cheadle will ...
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