Movies

The international box office this weekend was again led by Korea, with major local release #Alive taking a 70% share of the market. The zombie horror thriller from Spackman Entertainment’s Zip Cinema sold 1.06M tickets in its first five days for a gross of $7.4M through Sunday, again demonstrating the strength of new offerings, particularly
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John Lewis has always been fighting for civil rights, voting rights, gun control, health-care reform and immigration. He’s been doing it for over 60 years so to say that his narrative is relevant more now than ever is a wild understatement. In the documentary John Lewis: Good Trouble, director Dawn Porter (Trapped, Gideon’s Army) chronicles
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Great Interviews With Laverne Cox, Lilly Wachowski, Brian Michael Smith, And More As mentioned above, Disclosure is given great perspective and reflection through its impressive roster of interview subjects, all of whom are trans, queer and/or non-binary. Laverne Cox, who also serves as an executive producer, is one of the most prominent celebrities seen throughout
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Sony’s PlayStation5 could use AI to create dynamic auditory combat encounters based upon player input. The company recently patented an all new music generating system designed exclusively to improve immersion within a gaming space. Audio cues and soundtracks could organically adapt to reflect how a player is feeling in a given moment in order to produce a more realistic
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Following big circuits AMC and Regal, Cinemark has reversed its face mask policy for guests as the chain plans its reopening from the COVID-19 shutdown. “For the safety of our guests, employees and communities, Cinemark will require that face masks be worn throughout our theatres. Masks may be removed when eating and drinking inside the
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Micah Bell may be the villain of Red Dead Redemption 2, but judging from John Marston’s actions in both the original Red Dead Redemption and its sequel, it appears John may not be much better than him. It may seem counter-intuitive to suggest that Micah and John Marston are both the same level of evil, especially since John
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The Disney catalog joined Universal’s this weekend in playing whatever theaters were open at the box office as the majority of exhibition’s 5,9K theaters remain shuttered nationwide due to COVID-19. Overall, ticket sales continued to be distressed. Disney’s 2016 Oscar-winning hit Zootopia took the top spot with an estimated $280K, putting its liftime total at $341.5M,
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The leading live streaming platform, Twitch, is pulling in bigger numbers than hit network television shows these days. As big name streamers and Esports competitions rack up hundreds of thousands of concurrent viewers throughout the day, the total audience numbers for the video game and lifestyle streaming videos on Twitch are rivaling the viewership of mainstream
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After Warner Bros. put Wonder Woman 1984 on Oct. 2, Paramount has moved Skydance’s Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse to Feb. 26, 2021.  This is a delayed move by Paramount having nothing to do with the recent Tenet shift from July 31 to Aug. 12. Two weeks ago, Warners moved their Petty Jenkins-directed Gal Gadot sequel to the autumn weekend they
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But seriously, there’s no better movie in the franchise than Christmas Vacation. It has the best Cousin Eddie moments (“Shitter’s full,” “You serious Clark?”), as well as the “hap, hap, happiest Christmas” meltdown you’ll see anywhere. My wife and I make it a tradition each year to watch Christmas Vacation before anything else after we
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