Either a jack-off intern was left in control of the social media accounts of Magnolia Pictures’ genre arm, Magnet Releasing, or the higher-ups at the Mark Cuban-owned distributor have some serious explaining to do. Here’s what was posted earlier today on Magnet’s Twitter and Facebook: Granted, this post was consistent with the tone of the […]
At its upfront presentation today, NBC announced that it would be airing six new shows as part of its fall lineup. Four are comedies: “Go On,” starring Matthew Perry as a sportscaster; “The New Normal,” from “Glee” creator Ryan Murphy; “Animal Practice,” with “Weeds”‘ Justin Kirk playing a zany veterinarian; and “Guys with Kids,” produced by Jimmy
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In yesterday’s box office report, I professed how tired I was of using Avengers images to head blog posts, but it’s impossible to avoid today. The team of Marvel superheroes earned another $100 million at the domestic box office this weekend, once again surpassing my personal prediction by a wide margin, and crossed the $1 billion
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It would be appropriate to begin this post with another photo of The Avengers, which trounced all competition at the box office again yesterday, but frankly, I’m tired of heading posts with photos of The Avengers. By now, everyone’s aware of the record-breaking going on. Instead, I’m highlighting Girl in Progress, starring Eva Mendes, which yesterday, out
Whenever a great South Korean art-house hit like “Oldboy,” “The Chaser,” or “Mother” reaches the United States, American critics invariably offer a glowing assessment of that country’s “screen quota,” which legally requires theaters to play native productions for at least 73 days out of the year. This regulation has undoubtedly grown the Korean film industry
Hello and welcome back to my weekly Box Office Beat column, in which I hopelessly predict how much cash the movies of the moment will be able to rake in. The beauty of this game is that even the experts often miss the mark, meaning that when I underestimate the gross of a blockbuster like
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It’s been a rocky road for fans of NBC’s comedy “Community” over the past few years – with constant gossip about low ratings outside of its core fan-base and cancellation looming. But the show’s fervent, if small following can now breathe a sigh of relief – NBC has placed a 13-episode order for more Jeff
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While I have long detested the employment of the phrase “wait for HBO” among critics–as a staunch defender of the theatrical experience, I believe most films are either good enough to warrant a night out or aren’t worth seeing, period–“The Five-Year Engagement” so perfectly fits the cliché that I may have to break with tradition
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In a Deadline exclusive, Mike Fleming reports that the final installment of the so-called “Blood and Ice Cream Trilogy,” the celebrated collaboration between director Edgar Wright and actors Simon Pegg and Nick Frost (following Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz), will begin production in December. The project, titled The World’s End, is expected to be
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The first trailer for Gangster Squad, Reuben Fleischer’s (Zombieland, 30 Minutes or Less) first film not starring Jesse Eisenberg, has hit the web and is embedded above. The film, a chronicle of the L.A.P.D.’s fight to keep East Coast Mafia types out of Los Angeles in the 1940s and ’50s, stars Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone,
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