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DreamWorks Animation’s newest offering confounds the critics and sweeps into first, ahead of the Will Ferrell-Kevin Hart comedy
Get Hard, which came in second place with $34.6 million.
The Divergent Series: Insurgent finished third with $22 million, giving it a 10-day total of just shy of $86 million to date.
Cinderella came in fourth, while the recently expanded
It Follows came in fifth and looks on track to become TWC-Radius’ biggest ever grosser.
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The 46-year-old actor revealed over the weekend on Instagram that he will be playing the
X-Men character one last time, probably in the next
Wolverine movie that
The Wolverine helmer James Mangold will direct. Jackman had previously been reported as having at least some sort of role in
X-Men: Apocalypse, Bryan Singer’s next
X-Men film that’s due to start shooting soon, so technically, there are two more chances.
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Though the South African comedian just joined
The Daily Show as a contributor only at the end of last year, he is now the face of the network’s signature program. The announcement came down today that Stewart’s replacement will be Noah, with his debut to be announced at a later date.
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Vincent D’Onofrio has just signed on for the film, which will pit him against a cast of good guys that includes Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, and Ethan Hawke. Haley Bennett also stars, as a character who sets the entire plot in motion. The Sony/MGM project is based on the 1960 Western of the same title directed by John Sturges and Yul Brynner. The “original” was itself a remake, of Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 film
Seven Samurai.
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Spielberg’s upcoming adaptation
of Roald Dahl’s book was scripted by Melissa Mathison, an old collaborator of the director who last teamed up with him for the 1982 film
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (ironically released the same year Dahl's
The BFG was published)
. DreamWorks acquired the rights to the children's work back in 2010 and will co-produce it with Walden Media with shooting to take place in Vancouver. Mark Rylance and Ruby Barnhill also star.
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After Queen’s manager Jim Beach announced that the
Borat star would be writing, directing, producing
and starring in the film, the band’s guitarist, Brian May, shot it down. May said that Beach was playing “a small joke” on people, and that the creative differences that led Baron to leave the project two years ago are still in place.
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Before Don Draper and his associates at Sterling Cooper ever graced the cable network’s Sunday nights, its biggest coups were acquiring good movie packages on decent terms. Now, the network looks to build out nights of original programming and become a year-round ratings powerhouse.
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The story of
NewsRadio’s five-season run on NBC is so full of intrigue and drama that it could be its own series. Twenty years ago this week, the employees of the fictional AM news station WNYX found their way into our living rooms, and the show was unlike anything that NBC had aired to that point. Twenty years later, though, you can mention
NewsRadio in a conversation about the best shows in TV history and faces light up.
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A couple days late, sadly, because this was first released Friday night, but still, the first teaser trailer for Bond 24, aka
Spectre, Daniel Craig’s fourth outing as the world’s greatest spy is here. Directed by Sam Mendes, also starring Ralph Fiennes, Ben Whishaw, Naomie Harris, Dave Bautista, Monica Bellucci, Lea Seydoux, Stephanie Sigman, Andrew Scott and Christoph Waltz, the movie comes out in November.
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Many successful novels, memoirs, and short stories have been adapted for the screen and made into equally popular and often award-winning movies, including the most recent
American Sniper, The Imitation Game, The Theory of Everything, and
Wild. It can be a daunting task particularly when the novel is long – very long — like 500 pages or more! This page-length challenge presents the inevitable next step and question: What to keep and what to cut?
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