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Weekend Box Office: The ‘Shrek’ Phenomenon Is Ogre?

May 23, 2010 7:04 pm

Most people like to play "doomsday prognosticator" when a film doesn't open to unrealistic expectations. These people will tell you that "Shrek Forever After" disappointed at the box office this weekend, and th...

Weekend Box Office: ‘Iron Man’ Builds New Arc Reactor, Fends Off Doughy Oscar Winner With Arrows

Gabe Toro

May 16, 2010 5:30 pm

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Not exactly a photo finish, but no one expected anything to challenge "Iron Man 2" for the next couple of weeks, and here it looks like it might fall easily from the top slot next week. The superhero sequel ...

Weekend Box Office: ‘Iron Man 2’ Doesn’t Break Box Office Record, Is Now Worthless In The Record Books

Gabe Toro

May 8, 2010 6:00 pm

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It looks like Marvel can close up shop and cancel all plans for their shared universe. "Iron Man 2" has failed, loudly and embarrassingly. By not achieving the biggest box office weekend of all time, and onl...

Weekend Box Office: On Slow Weekend, ‘The Back-Up Plan’ Serves As Back-Up Plan To ‘Dragon’

Gabe Toro

April 25, 2010 7:13 pm

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In the slowest weekend of the moviegoing year, "How To Train Your Dragon" has managed to best all prognostications and blast its way back to first place, now in its fifth week. There was very little dropoff fro...

Box Office: ‘How To Train Dragon’ Makes 4th Week Comeback To Kick ‘Kick-Ass’ Ass Hard

Kimber Myers

April 18, 2010 5:45 pm

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Let's just say that it wasn't quite the brutal beating that Hit Girl and Big Daddy would have liked. Matthew Vaughn's hyperviolent "Kick-Ass" drew blood from fellow opener "Death at a Funeral" and holdover "Dat...

Box Office: ‘Date Night’ Sneaks By ‘Clash Of The Titans’ With $27 Million

Kimber Myers

April 11, 2010 6:30 pm

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"Clash of the Titans" proved less mighty in its second week, falling just behind action-comedy "Date Night" by $200,000 (do god-fighting warriors cry?). The Steve Carell-Tina Fey film earned $27.1 million, whic...

In Theaters: ‘Date Night,’ ‘After.Life,’ ‘When You’re Strange’

Hunter McClamrock

April 9, 2010 5:47 pm

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With a weekend like this one, you'd be forgiven for thinking it was deepest darkest January and the studios were dumping their surefire misses on an indifferent public. The key difference is that studios act...

Review: ‘Date Night’ Works Even If Its Script Sucks

Kimber Myers

April 9, 2010 4:01 am

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NBC's recent ratings woes have been well-documented. From their utter lack of any powerhouse shows to the Conan-Leno debacle, the network could use a break (and renewing "The Marriage Ref" isn't a good start). ...

New Photos From ‘Inception,’ ‘Warrior,’ ‘The Wolf Man,’ And More

Simon Dang

January 18, 2010 5:13 am

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Here are a few new looks at a host of upcoming 2010 slated films from the L.A. Times' 2010 preview.First up is Leonardo DiCaprio in Christopher Nolan's sci-fi-thriller "Inception" where the actor will play a CE...

The 65 Least Anticipated Films Of 2010

Rodrigo Perez

January 6, 2010 5:20 pm

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Ahh, the 2007/08 writers strike. We're still feeling the after-effects of that fiasco. Scripts greenlit into production because studio heads were afraid they'd have no product and then half of them sat on the ...

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