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The Universal and Illumination Entertainment flick posted the second-best opening ever for an animated flick, pulling in $115 million, a remarkable $97 million more than runner up
Jurassic World, which finished second at $18.1 million.
Inside Out came in third at $17.1 million, while
Terminator: Genisys was fourth with $13.7 million.
The Gallows opened up with $10 million to round out the top five.
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The telecom giant’s Xfinity Stream Internet-only TV service offers the pay cable net and the major broadcast TV networks, both live and on-demand programming, for $15 per month to Comcast subs with standalone broadband service. New service matches the retail price point of HBO Now, the premium cabler’s unbundled offering, but Comcast’s over-the-top service also includes broadcast nets and other on-demand content, plus a cloud-based DVR.
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Two-time Oscar-winner Tarantino was joined on stage by nearly his entire amazing cast, including Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Walton Goggins, Demian Bechir, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, and Bruce Dern, and announced that the legendary composter of such westerns as
Once Upon a Time In the West and
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly will be providing the music for his upcoming film. It will hit theaters Christmas Day.
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The two actors have joined the BBC’s re-launching of the classic kids’ animated series, with the
Last Week Tonight host voicing mad scientist wolf Dr. Augustus P. Crumhorn III, and Headey as U.S. Secret Agent Jeopardy Mouse. Show will air on kids’ channel CBBC in the fall. Brit comedian Alexander Armstrong is voicing the lead role of Danger Mouse, the eponymous British secret agent rodent. The show originally ran for over a decade from 1981 to 1992.
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Jackman showed up at the Fox Comic-Con panel and told the gathered throng, “Three words: Old Man Logan,” referring to a popular story that showed a much older Wolverine in an adventure long after everyone he knew was gone.
X-Men director Bryan Singer also gave more details about the upcoming film, which hits theaters Memorial Day weekend next year.
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The new film, due in 2020, will actually be called
Green Lantern Corps., meaning it will focus on the entire fictional universal police force that assigns a pair of Green Lanterns to each galactic sector. With that in mind, the rumors of both Chris Pine and Tyrese Gibson being cast in the film (as Hal Jordan and John Stewart, respectively), could indeed be on the money.
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After literally decades of Ford belittling his legendary character and making it seem like Han Solo meant nothing to him, he took the stage during a
Star Wars: The Force Awakens panel at Comic-Con and spoke lovingly about Solo and how it changed his life.
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Warner Bros. has finally released the first trailer for the much-discussed and highly anticipated superhero movie, starring Henry Cavill, Ben Affleck, Gal Gadot, Jesse Eisenberg, Holly Hunter, Laurence Fishburne, Amy Adams and Jeremy Irons. The film by Zack Snyder is due in theaters March 26th, 2016.
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The Starz network has released the first full-length look at its upcoming spinoff show, based on the popular trilogy originally directed by Sam Raimi and starring Bruce Campbell, who also stars in the new show. The new show will premiere, of course, on Halloween.
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You don’t have to be an artist to see when something is off in a picture. The same holds true for writers and screenwriting. But sometimes you have to see a problem before you can fix it.
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