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'Beetlejuice' Cast: Where Are They Now?
If we say Michael Keaton's name three times, will we summon him back into the limelight? It's been exactly 25 years since we learned how to bring forth the undead (or send them back to limbo) by...
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Box Office: Is 'G.I. Joe: Retaliation' a Success or a Disappointment?
Sure, "G.I. Joe: Retaliation" marched to an easy box office victory this weekend, earning an estimated $41.2 million in North America and landing in second place on the all-time list of top Easter...
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'Bye Bye Birdie': 25 Things You Didn't Know About the Classic Ann-Margret...
Today, it seems audiences know "Bye Bye Birdie" only from the prominent mention of it on "Mad Men," when the Sterling Cooper agency tried to copy Ann-Margret's minimalist opening number for a diet soda...
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Remembering Roger Ebert
We will never see Roger Ebert's like again.There was much to admire about the legendary film critic -- his taste, his generosity to friends and strangers (especially writers who basked in his...
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How 'Evil Dead' Grew From Indie Horror Cheapie to Studio Blockbuster in Just...
To no one's surprise, the remake of "The Evil Dead" opened at No. 1 this weekend, scaring up an estimated $26 million from horror film fans. Still, that's a remarkable number, considering that its...
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Margaret Thatcher and the Movies
Former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, who died Monday at 87, had a much greater impact on the world of film than just inspiring an Oscar-winning role for Meryl Streep in 2011's "The Iron...
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Jonathan Winters Remembered: His 5 Best Movies
Jonathan Winters, who died Friday at 87, was a beloved comic whirlwind for generations, one whose influence on movie comics from Robin Williams to Jim Carrey to Sacha Baron Cohen is very apparent. So...
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Box Office: How Did '42' Hit a Home Run?
Baseball may be the national pastime, but baseball movies generally don't do very well at the box office. Neither do movies with unknown stars, or thoughtful historical dramas for grown-ups (at least,...
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'Flashdance' Cast: Where Are They Now?
According to legend, Jennifer Beals was so broke before she landed the starring role in "Flashdance" that she spent the night before her audition sleeping in Central Park. Since then, she's done pretty...
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Box Office: How Tom Cruise Stays on Top
Even before Tom Cruise's "Oblivion" opened in North America on Thursday night, the 50-year-old must have been grinning his famous grin. Before the movie had sold a single ticket here, it was a surefire...
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'Valley Girl' Cast: Where Are They Now?
"Valley Girl" could have (like) been a (totally) lame teensploitation comedy (fer shure), created to capitalize on the novelty 1982 hit song by Frank Zappa and his 14-year-old daughter, Moon Unit....
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Box Office: What Will Be Summer 2013's Biggest Hits and Misses?
It doesn't take a brainiac like Tony Stark to predict that "Iron Man 3" will be one of the summer's biggest hits. All you have to do is look at the nearly $200 million it already earned in overseas...
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Box Office: Why Do Hollywood Blockbusters Like 'Iron Man 3' Open in the Rest...
If you saw "Iron Man 3" in a North American theater this weekend and didn't have its major plot twist spoiled for you, consider yourself lucky. After all, people in nearly every movie market around the...
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Leonardo DiCaprio Most Memorable Death Scenes, From 'The Quick and the Dead'...
"The Great Gatsby" has been a staple on the high school and college syllabus for nearly a century, so it's probably not a big spoiler to remind you that Jay Gatsby dies near the end, shot to death in...
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Box Office: Why Did People Stay Away From Tyler Perry's 'Peeples'?
On paper, "Tyler Perry Presents Peeples" should have done decent business this weekend. Even though he didn't write or direct it, the meet-the-parents comedy had Perry's name on it as producer and...
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'Star Trek' Movie Villains: Ranking the Best (and Worst)
Much of the buzz surrounding the forthcoming "Star Trek Into Darkness" has centered on the new villain John Harrison (Benedict Cumberbatch), a mysterious man who may have ties to familiar menaces from...
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Box Office: Is 'Star Trek Into Darkness' a Hit or a Miss?
On paper, 'Star Trek Into Darkness' looks like a smash. It earned a starship-load of money, debuted at No. 1, and dethroned two-week box office champ "Iron Man 3." And yet, box office analysts think it...
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'Return of the Jedi': 25 Things You Didn't Know About the Original 'Star...
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away... well, OK, 30 years ago (on May 25, 1983) in our own galaxy, came the theatrical release of "Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi." The installment...
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Box Office: What's Behind the Woozy Debut of 'The Hangover Part III'?
It was supposed to be a close race. Ages ago, when Universal and Warner Bros. scheduled "Fast & Furious 6" and "The Hangover Part III" to open against each other on Memorial Day weekend 2013, it...
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The Most Unlikely Actors in Disney Animated Features
It's a little weird to watch a trailer for an upcoming Disney cartoon like "Planes" and hear among the characters the voice of Dane Cook. What's a typically adults-only comic like Cook doing in the...
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