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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“Cougar Town” fans worried that they might never again see Cougar Town High or take a walk through Cougar Town Park can now breathe a sigh of relief, but they will have to adjust their DVRs. It was announced today that cult favorite ABC sitcom would be moving to TBS for its next season. Additionally,
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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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Quentin Tarantino’s latest film has just lost two of its biggest stars. Sacha Baron Cohen and Kurt Russell have both exited Django Unchained, Tarantino’s latest work that’s currently filming. Cohen told Howard Stern that he was unable to shoot his part because of press work for his upcoming comedy The Dictator. On the other hand,
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Fox has spoken, and one low-rated drama has received a reprieve, while another takes the long walk. “Touch,” starring Kiefer Sutherland and from “Heroes” creator Tim Kring, has been given a second season. The heavily-promoted series stars Sutherland as the father of an autistic child who has the ability to anticipate events through reading numbers.
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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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Inking a sweetheart deal that will earn her $15 million for offering little more than words of encouragement to wannabe recording artists, former Princess of Pop Britney Spears will join Simon Cowell and L.A. Reid in judging Season 2 of FOX’s “The X Factor.” Spears replaces Paula Abdul, whose presence on Season 1 of the
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It’s good to know that the FBI, ICE, and MPAA are working diligently to prevent the movie industry from losing billions of dollars of revenue to piracy through entirely practical, pragmatic means, isn’t it? I’ll tell you, I have long wanted to bootleg a movie, but every time I come close to hitting the record button on
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