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Oscars 2016 Recap: The 15 Best and Worst Moments
The elephant in the room? Consider it addressed. From the moment emcee Chris Rock first appeared in his white dinner jacket to the closing-credits playing out under Public Enemy's "Fight the Power,"...
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21 Unlikely Voice Actors You've Heard in Disney Animated Movies
Family-friendly studio Disney has a history, going back 60-plus years, of casting performers from the world of grown-up entertainment in its animated hits. In fact, Disney and Pixar's classics are...
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16 TV Shows and Movies to Fill the 'Downton Abbey' Void After the Finale
How are we going to get by without "Downton Abbey"? After the series finale airs on PBS on Sunday, March 6, how will we get along without regular doses of Mr. Carson glowering, Mr. Barrow skulking,...
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'The Birdcage': 11 Things You (Probably) Don't Know About the Robin Williams Hit
At times, while directing Robin Williams and Nathan Lane in "The Birdcage," Mike Nichols found himself laughing so hard that he had to work from beneath a soundproof blanket in order not to ruin the...
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How 'Zootopia' Conquered the Box Office
This was the weekend that adults came back to the multiplex. And, for the most part, what brought them back was a Disney movie about a city of talking animals. "Zootopia," which opened at No. 1 with an...
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'Fargo': 10 Things You (Probably) Didn't Know About the Coen Brothers' Classic
Has it really been 20 years since the release of "Fargo?" Yah, you betcha. The snowbound crime comedy-drama, released March 8, 1996, marked the first mainstream smash for Joel and Ethan Coen. It also...
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11 Greatest Female BAMFs in Movie History
What's the legacy of "La Femme Nikita," which opened stateside 25 years ago this week? Well, it spawned an American remake ("Point of No Return"), two TV series, and a filmmaking career (Luc Besson's)...
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6 Reasons '10 Cloverfield Lane' Took the Box Office by Surprise
Two months ago, no one had heard of "10 Cloverfield Lane." Today, it's a smash hit. The low-budget thriller, made by a first-time director and featuring no big box office draws, opened with an...
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'V for Vendetta': 10 Things You (Probably) Didn't Know About the...
"V for Vendetta" has only come to look more prophetic in the decade since its release on March 17, 2006. The adaptation of the Alan Moore/David Lloyd graphic novel, starring Hugo Weaving and Natalie...
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What Happened to 'Allegiant' at the Box Office?
In its opening weekend, "The Divergent Series: Allegiant" was supposed to give the still-strong "Zootopia" a run for its money. Analysts predicted that both the hit Disney cartoon and the third...
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5 Underrated Ben Affleck Movies You Need to See
Reportedly, the filmmakers of "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" (opening March 25) cast Ben Affleck as the Dark Knight because they wanted a slightly older Batman with some gravitas. Now, you're...
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The 7 Funniest Movies You've (Probably) Never Seen
Long before he was cranking out reliable Oscar-season fare like "Silver Linings Playbook," David O. Russell was a struggling indie writer-director with one squirmy comedy about incest ("Spanking the...
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All of Shonda Rhimes's Shondaland Shows, Ranked
"How To Get Away With Murder" may be over for the season, but Shonda Rhimes isn't about to give up her claim on your Thursday nights. The producer's latest offering, "The Catch," joins ABC's...
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'Hannah Montana' Cast: Where Are They Now?
Hard to believe, but the most famous member of the Cyrus family used to be papa Billy Ray. That all changed 10 years ago, on March 24, 2006, with the debut of Disney's "Hannah Montana," which...
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25 Greatest Horror Movie Heroines Ever, Ranked
Why is the horror audience mostly female? One reason has to be the genre's long tradition of heroines, scream queens, or final girls. They're the last ones left standing in the movie's final act,...
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How 'Batman v Superman' Beat the Haters and Became a Box Office Juggernaut
Have you seen some of the scathing reviews that "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" has received? Forget Lex Luthor and Doomsday; this week it seemed like the biggest threats to the DC superheroes...
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'Spy Kids' Cast: Where Are They Now?
Want to make a millennial feel old? Tell 'em it's been 15 years since the release of "Spy Kids" (on March 30, 2001). Robert Rodriguez's kiddie action/sci-fi film about a family of secret agents, whose...
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'That '70s Show' Cast: Where Are They Now?
Time to feel nostalgic about nostalgia. It's been 10 years since the end of "That '70s Show," or 36 years since the end of the actual 1970s. At any rate, it's been a long time since the teens of Point...
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Is 'Batman v Superman' Box Office Kryptonite?
Spare a moment's pity for Batman and Superman. They may be two of the most beloved superheroes in superherodom, and their movie opened huge last week, launching the DC Extended Universe mega-franchise...
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'All the President's Men': 10 Things You (Probably) Didn't Know About the...
When "Spotlight" won Best Picture in February, many observers recalled the Academy Awards race of four decades ago, when Watergate saga "All the President's Men" was a top contender. Both movies made...
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Box Office: 5 Reasons Why Melissa McCarthy Defeated the Dark Knight
Forget Wonder Woman or "Zootopia's" Officer Judy Hopps. The most commanding female at the box office this weekend was Melissa McCarthy's hard-charging tycoon Michelle Darnell. The battle this weekend...
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5 Things You Need to Know Before Seeing Disney's 'The Jungle Book'
Disney's latest live-action update of one of its classic animated features is "The Jungle Book." But don't expect just a shiny CG update of the 1967 cartoon that turned Rudyard Kipling's fierce beasts...
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'Bridget Jones's Diary': 10 Things You (Probably) Didn't Know About the Hit...
Hard to believe it's been 15 years since "Bridget Jones's Diary" surprised the world with blue soup, ugly Christmas sweaters, an unexpectedly funny Colin Firth, a shockingly nasty Hugh Grant, and a...
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'Scream': 15 Things You (Probably) Didn't Know About the Slasher Franchise
It's been five years since the release of "Scream 4" (on April 15, 2011), but like the Ghostface killer, the franchise refuses to die. Since the first film's release nearly 20 years ago (on December...
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5 Reasons Why 'Jungle Book' Roared to the Top of the Box Office
It wasn't a big surprise that Disney's new live-action "The Jungle Book" opened at No. 1 this weekend. What was a shocker, however, was just how big the latest version of Rudyard Kipling's tale turned...
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5 Reasons 'The Huntsman: Winter's War' Bombed at the Box Office
What were they thinking? That's the question you have to ask Universal and the makers of "The Huntsman: Winter's War." As expected, the messy prequel-sequel to 2012's "Snow White and the Huntsman"...
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'The Craft': 10 Things You (Probably) Didn't Know About One of Your Favorite...
Twenty years ago this week, four teenage girls dabbled in magic powers and unleashed forces more powerful than they could have imagined. We're not just talking about the plot of "The Craft" (released...
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5 Reasons Why Nothing Can Stop 'Jungle Book' at the Box Office
Many box office analysts predicted that "The Jungle Book" would not only three-peat atop the box office this weekend, but that it would earn more than three new wide releases combined. In fact, it...
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3 Ways 'Captain America: Civil War' Conquered the Box Office
Ho-hum, another first weekend of the summer movie season, another blowout by a Marvel Cinematic Universe movie featuring an all-star cast of superheroes. "Captain America: Civil War" premiered with an...
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'Twister': 10 Things You (Probably) Didn't Know About the Summer Blockbuster
Released 20 years ago this week (on May 10, 1996), "Twister" wasn't just a blockbuster special-effects spectacle that made viable movie stars out of Helen Hunt an Bill Paxton. It was also the...
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'Bridesmaids': 10 Things You (Probably) Didn't Know About the Hit Comedy
You can pinpoint the moment almost precisely when "Bridesmaids" changed comedy. Upon the movie's release five years ago this week (on May 13, 2011), it was that one notorious food-poisoning scene --...
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'Top Gun': 15 Things You (Probably) Didn't Know About the Tom Cruise Classic
Could there be a more quintessentially 1980s movie than "Top Gun?" All that lovingly-photographed military hardware, that synth-pop soundtrack featuring two Kenny Loggins tunes, and a grinning Tom...
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'Money Monster': Are George Clooney and Julia Roberts Still Box Office Draws?
15 years ago, a movie starring George Clooney and Julia Roberts would have been automatic box office gold -- a guaranteed $35 million opening weekend. This weekend, however, the pair's "Money Monster"...
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5 Reasons Why 'Angry Birds' Crushed the Competition at the Box Office
So much for the three-peat. "Captain America: Civil War" could have come out on top for the third straight weekend. It could even have lost 45 percent of last weekend's business (when it earned $72.6...
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'Mission: Impossible': 15 Things You (Probably) Didn't Know About the Tom...
Before 1996, "Mission: Impossible" was a long-since-cancelled TV spy series, beloved by Boomers but forgotten by anyone younger. Today, of course, it's a popular Tom Cruise movie franchise, known for...
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'X3': 10 Things You (Probably) Didn't Know About the Infamous Threequel
When it was released 10 years ago (on May 26, 2006), "X-Men: The Last Stand" seemed like the end of an era -- the conclusion of the "X-Men" trilogy, the end of director Bryan Singer's involvement with...
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Why Did 'Alice Through the Looking Glass' Tank at the Box Office?
It was supposed to be a competitive race this weekend, with two blockbuster sequels grabbing large hauls of Memorial Day weekend dollars. But it wasn't even close. As the holiday revelry ends, "X-Men:...
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The 57 Greatest Westerns Ever, Ranked
It's fitting that Clint Eastwood and John Wayne both have the same birthday week. (Wayne, who died in 1979, was born May 26, 1907, while Eastwood turns 85 on May 31). After all, these two all-American...
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7 Reasons Why 'TMNT2' Stumbled at the Box Office
Welcome to the first really bad weekend of the summer. Even though this weekend saw three new wide-releases, it's still the lowest-grossing weekend of Summer 2016 so far. The new "Teenage Mutant Ninja...
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'City Slickers': 10 Things You (Probably) Didn't Know About the Hit Comedy
It's hard to imagine being nostalgic for a midlife crisis. Nonetheless, it's been 25 years since Billy Crystal conceived of, produced, and starred in the funniest midlife-crisis movie ever. A...
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