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Paul Feig’s comedy did the expected and took the top spot, but came in with a soft $30 million, lower than expected.
San Andreas held steady and came in second, with $26.4 million, while
Insidious: Chapter 3 was third in its opening weekend, with $23 million.
Entourage finished fourth with a disappointing $10.4 million, giving it a total of $17.8 million since it opened on Wednesday.
Mad Max: Fury Road rounded out the top five.
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Fun Home won Best Musical and earned five awards total, as did best play winner
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, which had been a Tony favorite since it opened in the fall. “American in Paris” danced away with four trophies.
Skylight won the award for best revival of a play, while Helen Mirren surprised pretty much no one by winning for her role as Queen Elizabeth II in
The Audience.
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Warner Bros. and CBS Films are nearing a deal with Showtime to produce an eight-part
The Stand miniseries that will conclude with a big-budget feature film. The plan is to shoot this thing as one cohesive production, with an aim to start filming by early next year. Josh Boone previously planned on making one R-rated, three-hour movie version of the book, then changed course to four films, before the studios settled on this.
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The
San Andreas star announced his latest project at Saturday night’s Spike TV Guy’s Choice Awards – a grand scale, celebrity-studded variety show called
Rock the Troops that will entertain and support U.S. troops stationed overseas. While no participants have been formally announced – and the overseas location hasn’t been determined – the show will feature headliners from “the world of music, movies, comedy, sports and more.
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Oscar-nominated writer-director of
Wild Tales is already writing the script for Mark Wahlberg’s
The Six Billion Dollar Man, and now he is writing and directing the limited series, a sci-fi tale called
The Stranger. Plot details are under wraps. Szifron is currently writing the project, and the plan is to find the talent and build an attractive package before shopping it around.
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His latest effort as writer-director-star, currently shooting in Toronto, is
Special Correspondents, which also features Eric Bana, Vera Farmiga, Kelly Macdonald, Kevin Pollak, America Ferrera, Raúl Castillo and Benjamin Bratt in the cast. Story follows a struggling radio journalist, whose arrogance and decadent lifestyle has hindered his career. With his job on the line, he fakes front line war reports from the comfort of his hideout above a Spanish restaurant in Manhattan.
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It used to be that summer TV was a fallow garden of reruns and unwatchable eye-garbage, leaving movies to reign supreme over the season. Not anymore. Netflix, Hulu and Amazon have lots of new stuff for viewing, and then there is the Summer Movie Season. Prepare to get overwhelmed with this guide to all the daylight-stealing movies, books, and albums, etc., sure to leave so many kites un-flown this month.
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Universal and Legendary have released the last — and possibly best — trailer for the highly anticipated thriller, it just happens to be an international one. Starring Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard, and directed by Colin Trevorrow, the movie opens on Friday.
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Twentieth Century Fox has released the first teaser for the upcoming sci-fi adventure movie, based on the bestselling book by Andy Weir. Matt Damon, essica Chastain, Michael Peña, Kate Mara, Kristin Wiig, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Jeff Daniels, Donald Glover, Sean Bean, Sebastian Stan and Mackenzie Davis star and Ridley Scott directs. It hits theaters November 25th.
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Recently, comedian Jerry Seinfeld was asked what he thought the most important ingredient to comedy was, and he responded with one word: structure. This seems especially true of the high-concept comedy. While comedic structure can be taught, to be successful, comedy must have a very distinctive voice to deliver even the funniest concept. And that voice resides in your characters.
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