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Weekend Box Office Report: The Box Office Goes 'Home'

In one of the strongest box office weekends of 2015 so far, both Home and Get Hard opened strong while Insurgent and Cinderella continued to perform well. This was the rare weekend that literally...

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'The Dukes of Hazzard' Star James Best Dead at 88

Prolific character actor James Best, most known for playing the bumbling Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane on The Dukes of Hazzard, has passed away from complications following a battle with pneumonia. He was...

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Weekend Box Office Report: 'Furious 7' Outpaces 'Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2'

For the third week in a row, Furious 7 took the top spot at the box office and made it look easy. Not even a trio of newcomers could slow down the latest entry in the crowd-pleasing action series,...

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Weekend Box Office Report: 'Avengers: Age of Ultron' Has the Second Biggest...

There’s a bizarre narrative floating around the internet: Avengers: Age of Ultron is already a disappointment because it didn’t open higher than The Avengers in its first weekend. This seems to be...

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Weekend Box Office Report: 'Avengers 2' Leaves 'Hot Pursuit' in the Dust

As expected, Avengers: Age of Ultron dominated the box office for the second weekend in a row, pulling in numbers that would be the envy of most summer blockbusters’ opening three days. And while the...

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'The Fugitive' Is Going Back on the Run, But Will Harrison Ford Return?

It should come as no surprise that Warner Bros. is planning to resurrect The Fugitive in some capacity. After all, a major film studio returning to the well of the comfortably familiar for a remake or...

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New 'Pixels' Trailer Pits Adam Sandler Against Video Game Aliens

It’s no secret that Pixels began its life as a short film, a special effects demo that showed off some inventive and amusing imagery that wasn’t required to have things like, you know, a plot or...

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Weekend Box Office Report: 'San Andreas' Shakes Everything Up

In news that should surprise absolutely no one, the massive disaster movie starring Dwayne Johnson stomped all over the box office this weekend, effortlessly topping the top 10. San Andreas may not...

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Cameron Crowe Apologizes For 'Aloha', Casting Emma Stone as a Native Hawaiian

Aloha may have opened to scathing reviews and poor box office, but the latest film from writer/director Cameron Crowe did touch a nerve. It just so happened to a nerve that no one ever wants to touch....

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'Everest' Trailer: All of Your Favorite Actors Get Their Asses Kicked by a...

Hollywood has seen its fair share of movies where man attempts to conquer nature, only to find himself thoroughly humbled. Everest looks to continue that trend, putting one of the best ensembles in...

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'The Program' Trailer: Ben Foster Brings Lance Armstrong and His Lies to Life

Lance Armstrong went from being one of the greatest sports heroes in modern history to its greatest villain. Few human beings have ever turned heel with such cinematic flair, so it makes sense that...

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Weekend Box Office Report: 'Jurassic World' Has the Biggest Opening of All Time

Everyone knew that Jurassic World was going to open big, but no one saw this coming. The fourth film in the beloved dinosaur-centric franchise had the second biggest domestic opening of all time, the...

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Weekend Box Office Report: 'Inside Out' and 'Jurassic World' Battle It Out

Here’s how crazy this weekend is: Pixar’s Inside Out had the biggest opening for an original, non-sequel of all time...and it still came in second to Jurassic World’s second weekend. There’s literally...

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'Lawrence of Arabia' and 'Doctor Zhivago' Star Omar Sharif Dead at 83

Omar Sharif, the legendary actor best known for key roles in classic movies like Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago, has passed away. He was 83 years old. The BBC has a statement from Sharif’s...

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Weekend Box Office Report: 'Minions' Takes Over the World

Universal was already bathing in its Furious 7 and Jurassic World money Scrooge McDuck-style before Minions opened this week. Now the studio is looking at its third truly massive hit of the year, a run...

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Weekend Box Office Report: 'Ant-Man' Goes a Little Small With Its Big Opening

It would be easy to label the opening weekend for Ant-Man a failure. After all, it’s significantly lower than the openings for recent Marvel Studios movies and it’s a good $130 million less than the...

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Bruce Willis Departs Woody Allen's Latest Film Under Mysterious Circumstances

Yesterday, photos of Bruce Willis filming director Woody Allen’s latest (and currently untitled) movie surfaced online and the everything seemed fine. Just another late-era Allen production that...

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'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' Will Monopolize All IMAX Screens For an Entire...

We’ve known for a long time that Star Wars: The Force Awakens would screen in IMAX theaters because director J.J. Abrams filmed one key sequence with IMAX cameras. But now, we’ve learned the full...

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Bill Murray Explains Why He Agreed to Make a 'Ghostbusters' Cameo

There’s one reason and one reason only why we’re getting a Ghostbusters remake in 2016 instead of an actual Ghostbusters 3 five years ago. That reason is named Bill Murray and he’s been the...

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Weekend Box Office Report: Nobody Won This Boring Weekend

Summer is officially over, September is here, and the movies stink. While the big releases and heavy-hitters of the fall movie season make the festival rounds or rev up their marketing campaigns,...

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