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Joan Plowright (Martha Wilson) Dame Joan Plowright, who played Martha Wilson, the kinder and more patient neighbor of Dennis Mitchell, is perhaps one of the most decorated and prolific actresses in all of show business, and it’s amazing she’s not brought up more often. The widow of Laurence Olivier, Plowright, whose legal name is Joan
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Captain Marvel’s (Brie Larson) beeper seen during Avengers: Infinity War‘s post-credits scene features a hidden detail connecting to SWORD. The new organization that Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) is managing debuted in Spider-Man: Far From Home‘s stinger. As it turned out, the former SHIELD director asked Talos (Ben Mendelsohn), who’s a Skrull, to disguise as himself
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The fight for freedom of the press and against the oppressive political regime in the Philippines takes center stage in Ramona S. Diaz’s A Thousand Cuts, which opens in theaters and in virtual theaters nationwide. As journalists around the world face threats and the term “fake news” is thrown around recklessly by world leaders, A Thousand Cuts puts Filipino
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Fresh product continued to rule in a distressed exhibition marketplace as RLJE Films’ Tax Collector grossed an estimated $317K at 129 theaters. Tax Collector is the third new title after Universal/DreamWorks Animation’s Trolls World Tour and IFC’s The Rental to top the box office since the pandemic began in mid-March. We’ll know for certain which film is No. 1 tomorrow, but it’s
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Despite receiving mixed reviews, Seth Rogen’s latest offering, An American Pickle, is thematically rich and possesses real heart — especially during its final act. In 1920, Herschel — a Jewish immigrant — falls into a vat of pickles and is preserved for 100 years. Revived in 2020, he connects with his great grandson, Ben, and
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China’s third Friday back to the movies scored a slight increase on last week’s comparable day at $4.38M. It’s short of the $7.6M generated last Sunday which was boosted by Warner Bros’ reissue of Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar, but still a jump on last Friday, while midweeks were solid. Play today was led by DreamWorks/Amblin/Universal’s 1917
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A new international trailer for Tenet gives fans new insight into time reversal, the concept at the heart of Christopher Nolan’s espionage thriller. The movie is finally set to release in international markets in late August, and will hit theaters in the US and China in early September. Initially meant to lead the summer blockbuster season, Tenet
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On today’s earnings call for the No. 1 financially challenged exhibitor AMC, CEO Adam Aron took the high road in not damning Disney for their recent seisimic-shifting choice to take Mulan to Disney+ instead of theaters where the streaming service is available. “You might thing I’m disappointed that Mulan is moving, but AMC has no bigger friend
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MSG Entertainment said it is canceling the annual Christmas Spectacular Starring the Radio City Rockettes due to concerns about COVID-19. The move is not a major surprise, given that Broadway theaters and other indoor arts venues in New York like Lincoln Center remain indefinitely shuttered. Still, it drives home the fact that the coronavirus will remain
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Twitter is again in the media spotlight due to a recent cyber attack which took place using an intrusion method called ‘spear phishing’, and included a number of big-name celebrity accounts being compromised to generate Bitcoin. Hacking enjoys a unique place in the media whether related to video games or as news in the business and tech world. However, what hacking
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