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Box Office: How Did 'Warm Bodies' Come Alive to Win the Weekend?
"Warm Bodies" may be a strange horror hybrid, a zombie romance with a dearth of big stars, released in the dead of winter over Super Bowl weekend, but it still managed to top the box office chart with...
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Oscars 2013: Is the Academy Awards Race Over?
Right now, the "Argo" train to the Best Picture podium seems unstoppable. After all, over the weekend, it won the Directors Guild Award for Ben Affleck, the movie's last major hurdle on the way to...
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'Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs': 25 Things You Didn't Know About The Disney...
Sergei Eisenstein reportedly called "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" the greatest movie ever made. That's especially high praise coming from the director who virtually invented avant-garde cinema, but...
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James Bond at the Oscars: The Long, Shared History Behind the Academy's...
It's not clear yet what form the Oscars' tribute to the James Bond franchise will take. On Friday, the Academy announced it had booked Shirley Bassey for her first-ever Oscar show appearance, so at the...
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'Identity Thief': What's Behind its Surprising Box Office Haul?
Should Melissa McCarthy be thanking Rex Reed?Before her comedy "Identity Thief" opened this weekend, it was expected to earn maybe $20 million, perhaps less if the blizzard nicknamed Nemo kept theaters...
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'Groundhog Day' Cast: Where Are They Now? (PHOTOS)
Aptly enough, it took fans watching "Groundhog Day" over and over to transform the film from a modest hit into a modern-day comedy classic. The film, released 20 years ago this week (on Feb. 12, 1993),...
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Oscars 2013: Is There Still Time to Campaign?
If you search the Academy Awards acceptance speech database, you'll find that, over the past four decades or so, winners have thanked Jesus three times and Harvey Weinstein 20. Which sort of makes...
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Box Office: Where in the World Did 'Escape From Planet Earth' Come From?
At the box office, President's Day weekend offered one big out-of-this-world shocker.Sure, "A Good Day to Die Hard" opened at No. 1, as expected, and "Safe Haven" did well over Valentine's Day weekend,...
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'The King of Comedy' at 30: Why Martin Scorsese's Bleak Celebrity Satire...
In Jerry Lewis' original "The Nutty Professor," when his nerdy Julius Kelp transformed into oily, abrasive lounge lizard Buddy Love, many viewers thought Lewis was making fun of his old partner, Dean...
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'How the West Was Won': 25 Things You Didn't Know About the Classic Western
When they say, "They don't make 'em like that anymore," this is what they're talking about. "How the West Was Won," released in America 50 years ago this week (on February 20, 1963) was probably the...
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Oscars Predictions 2013: Who Will Win?
Remember back in ancient times -- oh, about eight weeks ago -- when it seemed "Zero Dark Thirty" was going to sweep the Academy Awards? The Oscar race has twisted and mutated a lot over the past two...
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Box Office: How Big a Bounce Have the Best Picture Oscar Nominees Enjoyed?
Lest we forget, the Oscars are, on the most basic level, a marketing tool for the film industry. The Academy's seal of approval is supposed to be accompanied by a financial windfall for each honored...
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Oscars 2013: Snubs and Surprises
Let's face it: we actually like it when Oscar night provides us with snubs and surprises. They add suspense to what is often a predictable show, they remind us that the conventional wisdom is not...
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Oscars 2013: How Did Seth MacFarlane Do as Host?
To use the kind of arbitrary pop culture reference Seth MacFarlane loves, hosting the Oscars is sort of like the opening sequence of "Raiders of the Lost Ark." It's your job to get that giant boulder...
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'Hairspray' Cast: Where Are They Now?
"Hairspray" was a radical movie by the standards of radical filmmaker John Waters: it was his first film to earn a family-friendly PG rating, and the result was his most popular foray into mainstream...
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Box Office: 'Jack the Giant Slayer' Bombs; Is Fairy-Tale Movie Boom Over?
"Jack the Giant Slayer" may have easily won this weekend's box-office race with an estimated $28 million, but its victory over a weak field of new releases and moldy holdovers may not be worth a hill...
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John Garfield at 100: Remembering Hollywood's Original Rebel
Given how fond we are of our anti-heroes, it's a wonder that John Garfield doesn't loom larger in our moviegoing memory. We love our Sean Penns and Ryan Goslings, our Al Pacinos and Robert De Niros,...
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Box Office: How Did 'Oz the Great and Powerful' Succeed Where 'Jack the Giant...
On the surface, this week's "Oz the Great and Powerful" and last week's "Jack the Giant Slayer" would seem to have a lot in common. Both are lavish, modern updates of familiar fantasy tales, inspired...
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Box Office: How Did Halle Berry's 'The Call' Beat Steve Carell and Jim...
A repeat box office victory for "Oz the Great and Powerful" was a given this weekend, so all the action was on the undercard with the battle for second place between newbies "The Call" and "The...
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Box Office: Five Reasons 'Olympus Has Fallen' Deserves to Brag
White-House-under-siege thriller "Olympus Has Fallen" debuted this weekend in second place with an estimated $30.5 million, a full $14 million behind the top finisher, new cartoon "The Croods."...
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