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Fans apparently can’t get enough of Marvel’s “Deadpool.”
Look for the 88th Academy Awards to spread the love — assuming Johnny Avello is correct. Avello, director of race and sports operations at Wynn Las Vegas, has “The Revenant” winning best director (Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu) and actor (Leonardo DiCaprio), with the other four top awards spread out among “Spotlight,” “Room,” “Creed” and “Carol.”
Despite receiving an honorary Oscar at last year’s Governor’s Awards, Spike Lee posted on Instagram on Martin Luther King’s birthday Monday, saying he and his wife would not be attending the Oscar ceremony.
“Star Wars: The Force Awakens” took in a record breaking $57 million at the U.S. box office for its preview showings on Thursday night.
Here are your five best bets for movies in the coming week.
Someone is assassinating the world’s most beautiful people — a list that includes Demi Lovato, Usher, Miley Cyrus, Lenny Kravitz and, most satisfyingly, Justin Bieber — in the first trailer for “Zoolander 2.”
As “Star Wars” fans (and theaters) continue to count down to the release of “The Force Awakens,” Disney and Lucasfilm treated them to the new official poster for the movie on Sunday.
Three actors from the 1979 award-winning, coming-of-age bicycle movie, “Breaking Away,” staged a reunion at Interbike and the film’s 36-year-old clever lines were heard being uttered throughout the convention center ballroom.
“Goodfellas” is an enduring classic, yet hardly anyone knew when the Martin Scorsese-directed film was released on September 19, 1990, it would become as renowned as it is.
Not long into “Black Mass,” director Scott Cooper’s grim tale of Boston mobster James “Whitey” Bulger and his dealings with the FBI, I started trying to guess the fate of each new character as part of a game I called “Whacked or Not Whacked.” Spoiler alert: The result was usually Whacked.
With M. Night Shyamalan’s “The Visit” being released, we’re taking a moment to reflect on the Shyamalan library, beginning with the worst and working our way to his number one.
The movie industry is having a slightly better summer than last year, industry experts say, but the persistent problem of filling seats isn’t going away any time soon.
Disney/Marvel‘s "Ant-Man" is living large, heading for a $58 million opening at the U.S. box office, while Amy Schumer‘s raunchy "Trainwreck" looks likely to launch with $29 million.
Indominus rex and the rest of the prehistoric beasties are expected to run right over this week’s newcomers, including “Inside Out,” only the second non-sequel from Disney/Pixar since 2009’s “Up.”
