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Weekend Roundtable: Screen Legends Who Never Won Oscars

Josh Zyber — Fri, 01 Mar 2019 17:00:51 +0000

Earlier this week, Glenn Close was denied the Academy Award that everybody thought she’d win. The actress can take comfort that this puts her in good company with plenty of other veteran actors and filmmakers who also somehow went without ever winning an Oscar in competition. Maybe Close will get an honorary or lifetime achievement...

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Weekend Roundtable: 2014 Oscar Snubs

Josh Zyber — Fri, 28 Feb 2014 20:00:44 +0000

Regardless of whether they win or not on Sunday, all of this year’s Academy Award nominees have already earned the respect of their peers in the industry and the privilege of announcing that fact on their résumés. (You just know that Jonah Hill will never let anyone forget that he’s a two-time Oscar nominee.) The...

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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of July 14th, 2013 – Math Is Hard

Josh Zyber — Mon, 15 Jul 2013 13:00:36 +0000

What do you get when you multiply 3840 x 2160, divide by 4, and then add 42? You get some of this week’s notable Blu-ray releases. New Releases Not that I have anything against Brian Helgeland (whose batting average as both a screenwriter and director has hovered somewhere around .260), but it just feels wrong...

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Weekend Box Office: ‘Gatsby’ Sees Great Return

Luke Hickman — Mon, 13 May 2013 16:00:05 +0000

I imagine that Baz Luhrmann and the folks at Warner Bros. must be doing “jazz hands” right about now. While they didn’t pack enough punch to dethrone the ‘Iron Man’ behemoth, they still put up a pretty damn fantastic fight. Defending champion ‘Iron Man 3‘ is unstoppable right now. Its second weekend brought in another...

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Weekend Box Office: ‘Iron Man’ Flies to New Heights

Luke Hickman — Mon, 06 May 2013 16:00:08 +0000

The Disney/Marvel combination has once again proven to be a powerful partnership. Together, the two companies push each much farther than either reached separately. After last summer’s ‘The Avengers‘, Iron Man as both a character and a film series will never be the same. The $98 million and $128 million debuts for ‘Iron Man‘ and...

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Weekend Box Office: ‘Pain’ Gains an Audience

Luke Hickman — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:00:28 +0000

Michael Bay’s weekend win would typically be big news, but this one is overshadowed by the international debut of ‘Iron Man 3’. The third movie in Marvel’s franchise (fourth if you count ‘The Avengers‘) opened in 42 markets one week prior to its U.S. release and earned $195.3 million, which is $10 million more than...

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Weekend Box Office: Cruise in Control

Luke Hickman — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 15:00:21 +0000

Tom Cruise’s career took a hard hit in the early 2000s. Over the past four years, his personal life has slipped back out of the public eye and, in the process, the actor climbed back up to the top of the box office. This weekend marks Cruise’s highest opening since 2005’s ‘War of the Worlds‘....

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Box Office Pick’em: April Draft

Aaron Peck — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 13:00:13 +0000

March wasn’t pretty (for Luke). In April’s round of Box Office Pick’em, Aaron gets to draft first… again. Pick #1: Aaron Selection: ‘Oblivion’ Reasoning: I understand that this is a risk. ‘Oblivion’ is hardly a proven franchise, which could turn out bad if people don’t end up seeing it. I’m hoping that its blockbuster look...

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Weekend Box Office: Jackie Robinson Hits It out of the Park

Luke Hickman — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 15:00:37 +0000

Here in the U.S., the Jackie Robinson bio-pic hit a home run this weekend. But the domestic market is apparently oblivious to what’s going on overseas. On 3,003 screens, ‘42‘ beat the competition with a $27.2 million debut. That’s a great start for a film expected to open around the $20 million range. The last...

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Now Playing: Life, The Universe, Baseball

Bryan Kluger — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 16:00:52 +0000

’42’, which is the answer to the ultimate question in the universe, is also that historic and legendary uniform number held by Jackie Robinson, the first African-American to play Major League Baseball. Brian Helgeland’s bio-pic film tells a polished and engaging version of the story of the baseball hero who changed the nation. With a...

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Weekend Movies: Fun with Math

Luke Hickman — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 13:00:11 +0000

What does this mild weekend have in store for us? Nothing great. There’s a moral-pushing sports drama and the fifth title in a spoof franchise that never should have made it past the first. The only thing that these two movies have in common is that both have numbers in their titles. Surprising to me,...

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