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Box Office: How Scarlett Johansson Beat Dwayne Johnson at the Action Movie Game
In a normal summer, a debut like the estimated $29.0 million opening for Dwayne Johnson's "Hercules" would be reason for its creators and distributor to rejoice. After all, the movie did better than...
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These Are the 30 Best Movies Set in New Jersey
I live in New Jersey -- go ahead, get the jokes out of the way now. ("Which exit?" Heh heh heh.) After all, for much of its history, Jersey's been the butt of jokes, not just because easy targets like...
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What's to Become of 'The Big Bang Theory' Now That There Are Contract Disputes?
The eighth season of "The Big Bang Theory" is supposed to premiere on CBS on Sept. 22, but barring some new wrinkle in the space-time continuum, that seems unlikely to happen. In fact, the new season...
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Box Office: 'Guardians of the Galaxy' & 'Get On Up' Prove Older...
Hollywood thinks of summer as the time when kids buy most of the movie tickets, but this weekend's movies owed much of their sales to older audiences. Yep, even the comic-book adventure about the...
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24 Mind-Blowing Movie & TV Plot Twists
Admit it: you were fooled by the big plot twist in "The Sixth Sense" the first time you saw it. There's no shame in that; when the movie was released 15 years ago this week (on August 6, 1999), most...
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Feeling Nostalgic? TV Might Remind You That the Past Wasn't So Great
If you're feeling glum about the state of the world today, just watch basic cable. There, you'll stumble across a number of current shows set in past decades -- or reruns from a few decades ago -- and...
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Box Office: How Did 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' Overtake 'Guardians of the...
Here's a sentence I didn't expect to write: A film starring Megan Fox opened at No. 1 this weekend with an estimated $65.0 million and dethroned a Marvel movie after just one week atop the chart. I...
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Here's How Robin Williams Changed TV
Much has been said since Robin Williams' death on Monday of his contribution to movies. Certainly, his performances in such films as "Aladdin," "Mrs. Doubtfire," and "Good Will Hunting" are likely to...
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Box Office: Why Did 'The Expendables 3' Flop?
Really? "The Expendables 3" was supposed to be the last big action release of the summer, just as its predecessors were in 2010 and 2012. Even though the all-star action series had been trending...
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14 Coma Movies That Won't Put You to Sleep
You'd think there'd be a lot more comatose characters in movies, like the heroine of "If I Stay" (opening Aug. 22), a teen played by Chloe Grace Moretz who must choose between life or death after a...
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9 Things to Expect During the 2014 Emmys
Remember last year's Emmys, when "Nurse Jackie" co-star Merritt Wever won a stunning upset victory in the supporting actress category and delivered a flustered but delightfully human speech that...
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Box Office: Why Did 'Sin City: A Dame to Kill For' Tank?
Judging by the pre-release hype, you'd think "Sin City: A Dame to Kill For" was a long- and eagerly-awaited sequel, a comic book movie for connoisseurs, whose all-star cast, eye-popping visuals, and...
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Emmys 2014 Recap: Was This a Rerun?
What do you suppose Sarah Silverman meant by the bizarre remark in her Emmy acceptance speech Sunday night that we're all made of molecules hurtling through space? Maybe it was an oblique reference to...
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The 30 Best Disney Live-Action Movies Ever Made
As you know if you watched last year's "Saving Mr. Banks" -- Disney's own Disney-fied version of the creative struggles behind the making of "Mary Poppins" -- the author who created the magical nanny,...
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What Makes a Great TV Series Finale?
What makes a good series finale? Three events this week bring this question into focus: Sunday's "True Blood" series ender, Monday's celebration of the departed "Breaking Bad" at the Emmys, and...
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Summer Box Office 2014: What Went Wrong?
Remember last summer, when movie industry insiders as lofty as Steven Spielberg and George Lucas were predicting that it would take only a couple of megaflops to bring Hollywood's entire...
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Is Television 'A Woman's Medium'?
After winning two Emmys last week, Allison Janney said something that should be considered a truism but isn't. Explaining her successful return to TV after a sojourn in movies, the 54-year-old told...
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Box Office: What's Behind the Celestial Failure of 'The Identical'?
"The Identical" was the only new wide release movie opening this weekend, so, in the absence of competition, why didn't it do better? The faith-based film, which follows such recent Christian-marketed...
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Is Cable as We Know It Dead?
It's not hard to envision a future where your TV programming comes from just the content providers you select, whenever you want, on whatever platform you like. You won't be the captive audience to...
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Box Office: How Did 'No Good Deed' Beat 'Dolphin Tale 2'?
On paper, "Dolphin Tale 2" looked like a stronger box office contender than "No Good Deed." Star-filled, family-friendly, upbeat animal sequel playing on nearly 3,700 screens vs. grim, modest-budget...
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