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Warner Bros has made some release date changes, unrelated to its pending marriage with Paramount. DC’s Robins-origin puppets-meet-animation feature Dynamic Duo is moving from June 30, 2028, to Septemer 22, 2028. The reasoning is that Warner Bros distribution believes this will be a good back-to-school animated feature slot for not just K-12 but also teens
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Broadway enjoyed a crisp upturn last week as autumn peeked around the corner, with a few shows benefiting from popular new cast members and one production seeing a final-week boost from last-chancers. In the former category were Oh, Mary!, a sell-out with newly arrived Bowen Yang in the lead, for a big gross of $1,517,710,
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Long-awaited returns are a recurring gimmick in the worlds of television, movies, and the streaming services where they frequently coexist. They bring fans surprisingly unhinged and uninhibited new seasons of acclaimed hits like Twin Peaks: The Return and aggressively more violent revivals like Daredevil: Born Again. Anime, in particular, has seen a rise in similar
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As a result of the enormity of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, there are countless hours worth of interesting things to do, places to explore, and Easter eggs to discover—so much so that most players will never find some of the most expertly concealed content hidden around the Kingdom of Hyrule. The
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It’s a busy specialty weekend with fewer new studio releases. Well-reviewed Depression-era western The Weight starring Ethan Hawke and Russell Crowe in wide release joins comedic doc The History of Concrete by John Wilson in an exclusive engagement. GKids opens Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom and Johnny Knoxville stars in R-rated Tiny
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The Musical is the feature directorial debut of actor Giselle Bonilla (Freedom Writers, Grey’s Anatomy), and it is the kind of low-key indie comedy that cinema used to get by the barrelful in the 2010s. Even though it has its fair share of flaws, it is nevertheless a welcome return to a shrinking subgenre. The
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After a record $4.67B summer, last weekend’s Warner Bros/Alcon’s Practical Magic 2 didn’t exactly light the fall on fire. But this weekend’s Sony/Constantin‘s revival of Resident Evil from Zach Cregger could very well do the trick with a $40M-$50M domestic start and another $31M overseas for a global around $80M on the high end. While
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Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie became one of Hollywood’s marquee couples after they became romantically involved in 2005. From there, the pair were the subject of much media speculation, and that was still the case by the time they got married in 2014. Ultimately, Jolie filed for divorce in September 2016, and those legal proceedings
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Few filmmakers have done more to turn science fiction into event cinema than James Cameron. From The Terminator and Aliens to the record-breaking Avatar franchise, Cameron has spent decades pushing the genre technically while proving that ambitious sci-fi can also bring enormous audiences into theaters. His obsession with the genre started long before Hollywood gave
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Indies including newcomer Runner and holdover Buddy nabbed five of the top 10 spots at the domestic box office this weekend. If I Go Will They Miss Me had a terrific exclusive opening in L.A., and documentary American Doctor passed $400k. Late-summer original horror-comedy hit Buddy from Roadside Attractions and Saban Films grossed $3.5 million in
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FRIDAY PM: Warner Bros/Alcon’s Practical Magic 2 is looking at a $12.5M Friday on its way to a $30M weekend opening stateside at 4,146 theaters. That opening isn’t that far from Bullock’s The Lost City ($30.4M opening, which wound up at $105.3M final in North America). It’s also slightly under the opening of her 2009
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The Legend of Zelda movie is coming to bring one of the most popular video game franchises to live-action in a major way, and it will do so with a title secret. Over the past few years, video game adaptations, be they animated or live-action, movies or TV shows, have finally started to gain strength
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