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‘Three Billboards’ wins big at female-focused SAG Awards

The Western-inspired revenge tale “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri” swept the female-focused and led Screen Actors Guild Awards Sunday with wins for best ensemble, best actress for Frances McDormand and best supporting actor for Sam Rockwell.

‘Jumanji’ remains king of box office for third straight weekend

“Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle” outdid another weekend’s worth of newcomers to top the North American box office for the third straight weekend, making the surprise hit the fifth-highest grossing film of all time for Sony Pictures.

FBI said ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ was communist propaganda

J. Edgar Hoover’s Communist-hunting agents thought the classic movie was a Trojan horse sneaking anti-American propaganda to the masses. This argument was compiled in a memo written by an unnamed special agent in the FBI’s Los Angeles field office about “communist infiltration” of the motion picture industry.

‘Kingsman: The Golden Circle’ a less original sequel

Among the many questions raised by “Kingsman: The Golden Circle” are: Did Kentucky manage to hurt director and co-writer Matthew Vaughn in some way as a child? And why does he think Kentucky’s stereotypes are identical to those of Texas?

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‘Transformers: The Last Knight’ makes very little sense

Twenty years ago, Troma, the makers of “The Toxic Avenger” series, launched a screenwriting contest where each week, fans would submit the next two pages of a script, taking the story in any direction they chose.

‘Alien: Covenant’ wins weekend with $36M

As this weekend approached, the question lingered if “Alien: Covenant” would be able to unseat “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” from the top spot at the domestic box office. Now, we have an answer.

Disney facing copyright infringement lawsuit over ‘Zootopia’

The Walt Disney Co. was sued Tuesday by a longtime Hollywood screenwriter and producer who accused the studio of copying its blockbuster, Oscar-winning animated film “Zootopia” from his work without permission.

Movie in the works for Chicago Cubs’ 2016 World Series win

Ted Field’s Radar Pictures is developing a movie about the Chicago Cubs winning the 2016 World Series — their first in 108 years — with the team and its recently-retired catcher David Ross.

Noted movie critic Richard Schickel dies at 84

Richard Schickel, the longtime film critic for Time who also wrote 37 books, mostly on film, and directed a number of documentaries on film subjects, died on Saturday in Los Angeles of complications from a series of strokes. He was 84.

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