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Is 'The Longest Ride' the End of Nicholas Sparks's Box Office Ride?
You'd have thought that opening "The Longest Ride" opposite the still-strong "Furious 7" would have been a smart counterprogramming move. With all that testosterone on display in the latest installment...
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Every Alfred Hitchcock Movie, Ranked From Worst to Best
Seventy-five years ago, Alfred Hitchcock changed the face of American film -- and made it a lot creepier. Having already directed two dozen features in England, the filmmaker moved to Hollywood and...
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The 22 Coolest TV Nerds: An Evolutionary History
It seems quaint that there was a 1984 movie called "Revenge of the Nerds." Thirty-one years later, it's clear that the nerds have won. They dominate movies and TV with their superhero and sci-fi...
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The 19 Biggest Box Office Bombs in Movie History
Think your accountant gets creative at tax time? Consider the accountants who keep the books for the Hollywood studios. By their reckoning, almost every movie ever made is a flop. Even top-grossing...
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10 Sitcom Pilots Inspired by Real People: Which Will You Watch?
Last week, in the wake of Eddie Huang's complaints that he felt ABC's "Fresh Off the Boat" was distorting and softening his childhood experiences, this column examined how hard it is for any...
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The 27 Best Las Vegas Movies
If you thought the only thing that could have made 2009's "Paul Blart: Mall Cop" better was if it took place in Las Vegas instead of West Orange, New Jersey, then you're in luck. "Paul Blart: Mall Cop...
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Why Can't Any Movie Beat 'Furious 7'?
Everyone knew "Furious 7" would be big. But $300 million in less than three weeks big? This weekend, the car-chase sequel earned an estimated $29.1 million, with a comfortable lead of $5.1 million over...
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Jack Nicholson Facts: 25 Things You Didn't Know About the Iconic Actor
Let's hope Jack Nicholson has a pleasant birthday on Wednesday, or at least a less disturbing one than the birthday when pal Hunter S. Thompson showed up outside his house, turned on a spotlight,...
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The 19 Best Horror Movie Sequels Ever Made
Horror sequels have long seemed, like weeds or mosquitoes, something we just have to put up with, part of Hollywood's natural ecosystem. We tend to think of them as superfluous because it's hard to...
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The 21 Most Un-Fur-Gettable Disney Movie Cats
Is it already Hairball Awareness Day again? April 25th always rolls around so fast. It hardly seems like a year has gone by since the last time we were urged to groom our cats carefully and monitor...
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10 Ways YouTube Has Changed the Way We Watch TV
It's hard to believe that YouTube is just 10 years old. It seems like it's been around forever, and it's difficult to recall how we ever lived without it. Nonetheless, it was only 10 years ago this...
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U.S. Box Office Twiddles Its Thumbs, Waits for 'Avengers: Age of Ultron'
Nothing happened at the domestic box office this weekend. Well, almost nothing. The biggest news came from overseas, where "Avengers: Age of Ultron" opened almost everywhere except here. At home, the...
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Batman Facts: 25 Things You (Probably) Don't Know About the Dark Knight
Happy Batman Day, everyone! Around the world, May 1st may mark a spring holiday, but here, it marks the first appearance of the Dark Knight, in Detective Comics No. 27, in 1939. For the past 76 years,...
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Can Hulu Catch Up to Netflix and Amazon Prime?
At its annual "upfront" presentation to advertisers on Wednesday, streaming service Hulu unveiled its secret weapon, aimed at capturing the hearts and subscription dollars of millions of millennials:...
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Why Didn't 'Avengers: Age of Ultron' Open Bigger at the Box Office?
Before this weekend, the only question about "Avengers: Age of Ultron" was how big it was going to be. Would it break the opening-weekend record set by the first "Avengers" three years ago? But now...
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Every Best Picture Oscar Winner, Ranked From Worst to Best
This week marks the 10th anniversary of the release of "Crash" (on May 6, 2005), an all-star movie whose controversy came not from its provocative treatment of racial issues but from its Best Picture...
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Are Streaming Shows Really That Different From Network and Cable Shows?
To many viewers, streaming is just TV on a different screen. After all, you can watch "Seinfeld" reruns as easily on Netflix as you can on TBS. But what if the relatively new medium of streaming TV...
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The 21 Best Horror Movie Villains Ever, Ranked
Jason Voorhees didn't start out as much of a horror villain; after all, in the initial "Friday the 13th" (released 35 years ago this week, on May 9, 1980), he had to have his mother do all his dirty...
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Why Was Reese Witherspoon's 'Hot Pursuit' So Chilly at the Box Office?
Not that anyone expected huge numbers from Reese Witherspoon's new comedy "Hot Pursuit," especially with "Avengers: Age of Ultron" still sucking all the oxygen out of the multiplex. Even so,...
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George Lucas: 25 Things You Didn't Know About the 'Star Wars' Guru
George Lucas didn't just create the "Star Wars" universe. The filmmaker, who turns 71 on May 14, pretty much created the cinematic universe we live in now, the ones whose cornerstones include the THX...
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