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Box Office: Warner Bros.’ “The Kitchen” Cooks Up Disaster with Just $5.5 Mil Weekend — Latest Female Star Film to Fail
It's been a rough summer for films starring women, or toplining women.
Now we have a big disaster with "The Kitchen," starring Melissa McCarthy, Elisabeth...
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Bruce Springsteen Song from “Harry Potter” Repurposed for “Blinded by the Light,” the Newest Rock Star Soundtrack
A really terrific Bruce Springsteen song has never been included on an album-- until now. "I'll Stand By You Always" was featured in a...
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Oscars: Good News as Academy Gets First Casting Director as President (About Time), David Rubin Worked on “The English Patient,” “Men in Black” and...
The Motion Picture Academy has its first casting director as president. David Rubin now steps in as head of the Oscars, and it's about...
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Shocker: Controversial Director of 2016 “Birth of a Nation” Bringing New Film to Venice Festival, Produced by Spike Lee
Nate Parker: in 2016, his "The Birth of a Nation" was going to be an Oscar contender. Then everything fell apart as it was...
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Sell Out and Sell Off for DeNiro as Murdoch Family Becomes Tribeca Film Festival’s Main Investor Under Post-Fox Lupa Fund
It's all about the money.
Robert DeNiro, who hates Donald Trump and presumably Rupert Murdoch, has sold out to...Murdoch.
DeNiro, Jane Rosenthal, and Craig Hatkoff have...
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RIP: DA Pennebaker, Legendary, Oscar Winning Documentary Filmmaker of “The War Room,” “Monterey Pop,” “Don’t Look Back,” Was 94
The world is a much sadder place today. My friend and mentor, DA Pennebaker, the great documentary filmmaker, has passed away at age 94....
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Box Office: “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” Crosses $70 Mil, “Fast and Furious” Spin Off Will Have $60 Mil Weekend
Box office news: Quentin Tarantino's "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" will cross $70 million tonight or tomorrow, which is pretty great no matter...
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New Academy Rules for Oscar Campaigns — We Told You Last Month — Limits The Way Studios Can Entertain Guests
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is going to announce its new rules for campaigning for Oscars. I told you this was...