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WAG Hits Milestone with “Super-Pets”

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“DC League of Super-Pets” (opening next Thursday July 28th) is the 10th release from Warner Animation Group. The studio kicked-off with a bang in February 2014 with blockbuster and critical and audience darling “The LEGO Movie”. WAG’s second film “Storks” arrived two and a half years later, in September 2016. It was a double dose […]
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‘Minions’ Attracting Teens & Twenty-somethings

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Many analysts have been surprised that teenagers and twentysomethings are making up a large percentage of the moviegoers seeing “Minions: The Rise of Gru”. I’m not. And here’s why. 1) If you were six years old when the first “Despicable Me” was released in 2010, you’re now 18. And if you’ve been following along with […]
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James Burrows will be on ‘Back To You’ Podcast

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11-time Emmy winner and television legend James Burrows, who directed and executive produced all 17 episodes of cult classic sitcom “Back To You”, will appear on a special new episode of the “Back To You Podcast” this September. In an insightful conversation with the podcast’s Emmy-winning host, Jackson Murphy, Burrows discusses all aspects of being […]
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Best Films and Performances of 2022 So Far

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We’ve reached the halfway point of 2022. So it’s time for me to name the best movies and performances of 2022 so far. Please note that while some of the films listed below qualified for awards consideration and were first screened to some audiences in 2021, I — and general audiences in the U.S. — […]
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Major Summer for Keke Palmer

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Like many, I discovered actress Keke Palmer through her breakthrough performance in 2006’s “Akeelah and the Bee”, for which she earned a Critics Choice Awards nomination. (Then I found out she and I share a birthday.) Two years later, she was starring opposite Ice Cube in football film “The Longshots” and headlining her own Nickelodeon […]
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Chris Evans Goes ‘Beyond’ Marvel as Lightyear

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Chris Evans became a household name through his role as Johnny Storm / Human Torch in the “Fantastic Four” movies from 2005 and 2007. He soon followed them up with voice work in “TMNT” and “Battle for Terra” and roles in moderate live-action hits “The Nanny Diaries”, “Street Kings”, “Push” and “The Losers” (along with […]
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Every Director Wants to Work with Mark Rylance

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By the time “Bridge of Spies” opened in October 2015, Mark Rylance was already a three-time Tony Award winner. But Steven Spielberg’s Cold War drama would take Rylance’s career to a new level — from the theatre to the movie theater. He earned the BAFTA and Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his performance as […]
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Three New Movies Based On TV Shows

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Over the next two weeks we have not one, not two, but THREE movies with TV series foundations. “Downton Abbey” was a global phenomenon. Here in the states, it broke ratings records for PBS and took home plenty of awards gold. Focus Features jumped at the chance to bring it to the big screen in […]
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Zac Efron Career ‘Highs’ and Lows

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In January 2006, just days into my career as a film critic, a made for TV movie premiered and instantly became a phenomenon. It was Disney Channel’s “High School Musical”. Leading man Zac Efron had done some notable work before (including on “Summerland”). But now… he was a superstar. Efron was one of the first […]
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Cruise and Paramount on a Box Office Mission

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When “Top Gun: Maverick” finally opens on May 27th… or actually May 26th (Thursday showings)… or actually May 24th (pay preview screenings in premium formats)… it will be the first Tom Cruise film to be released in nearly four years. The last time Cruise appeared in a movie was exactly 3 years and 10 months […]
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