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'Twilight' Sequel Confirmed: 'New Moon' will be made

Stephanie Meyer's best selling sequel to Twilight will be made into a movie. 'New Moon' already has a screenwriter and riding high on the success of Twilight at the box-office, it would be silly not to make the...

created by Amy Judd | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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Batman closes in on Star Wars and Titanic

Batman finished as the number one movie at the box office for the fourth straight weekend, bringing it within firing range of the top two on the all-time domestic box office charts, the Titanic and the original...

created by Rob Peters | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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Rob Peters

Hancock a box office hit despite bad reviews

I don't get this. I saw Hancock last week, and it was thoroughly and undeniably average. And I'm not the only one underwhelmed--it garnered a measly 36% on Rotten Tomatoes, and a 49 on Metacritic.Yet despite all...

created by Rob Peters | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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Svelte718

Met Opera at the Movies Draws Huge Audience

When I first heard about the concept of showing Met Opera performances live in HD, at movie theatres around the world, I wondered whether or not anyone would be into watching opera while crunching through a bag...

created by Jarrett Martineau | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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Lohan voted worst performance in online movie poll

"Fifty-eight percent of voters in an online poll by AOL's Web site Moviefone gave Lohan that dubious honor for her turn as a woman escaping a sadistic killer in the box-office flop, "I Know Who Killed Me."The...

created by uusjio | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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Manny Castro

Spidey 3 Destroys Box-Office Records

Even though online and on-demand content is getting bigger, $148 million is a massive amount of money. Cinema traditionalists will point to this as proof that the system works, but the making of a film like...

created by Jordan Yerman | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
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'Grindhouse' hacked in half for overseas release

Patience is a virtue, but if you're a US film audience, virtue seems to be in short supply. Audiences who are short on the kind of patience required to sit through a three hour movie are the reason why--according...