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Box Office 2013: 6 Lessons From Hollywood's Biggest Summer Ever
This summer's box office tally was a record-breaking $4.75 billion, so why is Hollywood so glum? Well, there's still the perception out there that this was a summer of big, expensive, face-planting...
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'Boys Town': 25 Things You Didn't Know About the Spencer Tracy-Mickey Rooney...
"There isn't any such thing in the world as a bad boy." Even people who haven't seen "Boys Town" know Spencer Tracy's line, in character as Father Edward Flanagan, as the credo of the real Boys Town,...
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'True Romance' Cast: Where Are They Now?
When it was released 20 years ago this week (September 10, 1993), "True Romance" was not a hit (it earned just $12 million at the box office), but you'd never know it by the following the film...
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Bill Murray's Best and Worst Movies
With the release of "Lost in Translation" ten years ago, everyone was finally forced to take Bill Murray seriously. Even the Academy finally noticed him and gave him a Best Actor nomination, the only...
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Box Office: How Did 'Insidious: Chapter 2' Scare Up a Record-Breaking Debut?
It was no big surprise that "Insidious Chapter 2" won the weekend at the box office, since it's only competition was "The Family," a Robert De Niro mob action-comedy that played to older audiences....
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How Has the 'Lost' Cast Fared in Movies Since the Show Ended?
Seeing Josh Holloway's name atop the credits of this week's release "Battle of the Year" (he plays the coach of an American dance crew in an international competition) brought up the question: Where...
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Emmys 2013: With TV on the Rise, What's Become of Movies?
As the Emmys approach this weekend, you'll no doubt be seeing a lot of commentary on how we're in the midst of a golden age of television, and how current movies just can't compare. Sunday's awards...
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'Gorillas in the Mist': 25 Things You Didn't Know About the Sigourney Weaver...
Few movies can boast a real-world impact, but "Gorillas in the Mist," the biopic of slain primatologist Dian Fossey, is one of them. Released 25 years ago (on September 23, 1988), the film alerted the...
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Is Paula Patton America's Next Rom-Com Queen?
Can Paula Patton become Hollywood's next romantic comedy heroine? She's taking her shot this weekend with the release of "Baggage Claim." In it, she plays a flight attendant who, prompted by her...
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Box Office: The Oscar Race Begins to Take Shape
Kidnap drama "Prisoners" has a dark subject, a bleak tone, and big moral dilemmas to chew on, but it became the top movie this weekend not despite its thoughtful grown-up appeal, but because of it....
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'Dazed and Confused' Cast: Where Are They Now?
To paraphrase the most famous line in "Dazed and Confused," we keep getting older, but the movie stays the same age. A panoramic look at the last day of high school in a Texas suburb in 1976, the...
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Ask a Stupid (Movie) Question!
Happy "Ask a Stupid Question Day"! In honor of the annual holiday, which falls on September 28 (but is observed on the last school day of Sept.), we were inspired to look to the big screen and ponder...
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'The Big Chill' at 30: How the Boomer Nostalgia Classic Ruined Movies for a...
In a scene in 2000's "High Fidelity," Jack Black and Todd Louiso's record store clerk characters are coming up with a list of the top five songs about death. Black mentions "You Can't Always Get What...
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Box Office: How Did 'Baggage Claim' Beat 'Don Jon'?
It was a big weekend for romantic comedies at the multiplex, with three of them entering the top 15 on the box office chart. The experts predicted that the one that would come out on top was "Don...
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'Short Cuts' Cast: Where Are They Now?
"Carver soup" -- that's what Robert Altman called "Short Cuts," his landmark 1993 film that mixed together the loose adaptations of several Raymond Carver short stories into a typically Altmanesque...
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'Cool Runnings' Cast: Where Are They Now?
Like the Jamaican bobsled team members whose biographies it fictionalized, "Cool Runnings" was an underdog. When it was released 20 years ago this week (on October 1, 1993), who'd have imagined that...
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Box Office: What Made 'Runner Runner' Stumble Stumble?
This weekend, 20th Century Fox went all in on "Runner Runner," a $30 million drama about online poker starring Justin Timberlake and Ben Affleck, and even though just about everyone bet high on it,...
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'The Right Stuff' Cast: Where Are They Now?
Everett "The Right Stuff" wasn't just the definitive portrait of the early test pilots and astronauts who pioneered America's space program. Released 30 years ago this month (on October 21, 1983), the...
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Tom Hanks Has Secretly Become a Badass
For 20 years, audiences have viewed Tom Hanks as a nice, average Everyman. Older audiences may remember that he got his start as a drag comic and childlike goofball. Either way, it may come as a shock...
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Box Office: Why Did 'Machete Kills' Get Slaughtered?
With such a long blade, you'd think Machete would have taken a bigger cut of the box office. Not that anyone expected blockbuster numbers from "Machete Kills." Eight million, maybe even 12 million,...
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