Maze Runner 2: The Scorch Trials with Dylan O’Brien: Beating latest Johnny Depp flop at the domestic box office. ‘Maze Runner 2’ to beat Johnny Depp ‘Black Mass’ The 20th Century Fox release Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials, the sequel to the 2014 hit The…
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Jurassic World: The game is on vs. the blockbuster The Avangers. Pictured: Velociraptor kicks Iron Man ass at worldwide box office. ‘Jurassic World’: The game is on vs. ‘The Avengers’ at worldwide box office Directed by Colin Trevorrow; starring Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, and…
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Adam Sandler in Grown Ups 2. Adam Sandler Grown Ups 2: One of Sandler’s biggest domestic openings ever? Directed by Dennis Dugan, and starring Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, David Spade, and Kevin James, Grown Ups 2 opened with $41.5 million from 3,491 North American locations…
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Looper 2012: Joseph Gordon-Levitt sci-fier tops North American box office two weekdays in a row Oct. 4, ’12, update: Looper, the October 2012 sleeper hit starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis, surpassed last weekend’s top movie, Hotel Transylvania, two days in a row this week:…
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‘That’s My Boy’ with Adam Sandler and Andy Samberg. ‘That’s My Boy’: Worst Adam Sandler box office flop? June 17, ’12, update: The R-rated father-and-son comedy That’s My Boy will quite possibly become the biggest box office bomb in Adam Sandler’s career since the lowbrow…
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Adam Sandler, Adam Sandler in Jack and Jill WORST PICTURE Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star Jack and Jill New Year’s Eve Transformers: Dark of the Moon The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1 WORST ACTOR Russell Brand, Arthur Nicolas Cage, Drive Angry 3-D /…
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The Muppets with Amy Adams. One would think that James Bobin’s The Muppets is the sort of ideal flick to come out during the Thanksgiving and Christmas seasons. Yet the “family movie” that has become one of the year’s biggest blockbusters – not only in…
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The Kellan Lutz workout in ‘Immortals’: Poseidon’s pecs. ‘Immortals’ tops North American box office: Henry Cavill & Kellan Lutz star Nov. 13 update: These days, it doesn’t take much to “easily” top the North American box office. But then again, if money is scarce –…
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Jennifer Aniston bikini pic: Adam Sandler leading lady in Just Go with It. Jennifer Aniston bikini & Adam Sandler: ‘Just Go with It’ tops Feb. 18 update: The Adam Sandler-Jennifer Aniston comedy Just Go with It, which also features Brooklyn Decker and Best Actress Academy…
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People’s Choice Awards’ winners ‘Grown Ups’ and actor Adam Sandler: Computer virus infection? The People’s Choice Awards are supposed to be about the will of the people. And as so often happens, the people have chosen fare the “cultural elites” despise. Case in point is…
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Wikileaks cables focusing on Michael Moore documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 have raised eyebrows, much like Britney Spears’ appearance in that 2004 nonfiction blockbuster. In Moore’s own words, these latest Wikileaks cables “provide a stunning and bizarre peek into the paranoid minds of the Bush White House…
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Charlie St. Cloud with Zac Efron and Amanda Crew is major box office disappointment: Where were the teens this past weekend? Box Office: Zac Efron ‘Charlie St. Cloud’ a major disappointment, Paul Rudd and Steve Carell ‘Dinner for Schmucks’ a minor one Starring Leonardo DiCaprio,…
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Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz in James Mangold’s Knight and Day June 28 update: “Blame me, don’t blame Tom Cruise. We did lots of focus groups for this film, and no one ever said there was a star problem. Never. Tom Cruise was not the issue.…
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Women rule the world: Box office Sept. 23 update: Women rule the world – or at least the domestic box office – as Resident Evil: Extinction soared to the top of the U.S. and Canada box office this weekend with an estimated US$24 million. Helmed…
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‘Spanglish’ movie: Adam Sandler and Paz Vega plus director James L. Brooks. ‘Spanglish’ movie: Adam Sandler surprisingly effective in Hollywood exemplar of ‘dishonestidad’ Spanglish is writer-director James L. Brooks’ take on ethnocultural relations in the affluent sections of the American Southwest. An interesting idea that…