Movies
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'Finding Dory' blows animation record out of the water
Jun 19, 2016 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES - The forgetful blue fish of "Finding Dory" is box office gold. The Pixar sequel far surpassed its already ocean-sized expectations to take in $136.2 million...
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'Finding Dory' takes in a record $9.2M in Thursday previews
Jun 17, 2016 7:00 am - NEW YORK - The Pixar sequel "Finding Dory" took in $9.2 million in Thursday previews, a record for an animated film. The strong start surpasses the best previous Thursda...
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Johnson, Hart create comic fireworks in 'Central Intelligence'Jun 16, 2016 5:45 am - The emotional scars and false hopes of high school turn out to be the real stars of the buddy action comedy "Central Intelligence." Even though Rawson Marshall Thurber's...
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'De Palma' an insightful doc into a master filmmakerJun 16, 2016 5:15 am - The documentary "De Palma" runs a respectable 107 minutes, but I suspect if co-directors Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow had doubled the time, they could easily have fill...
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'Genius' a tale of literary bromanceJun 16, 2016 5:00 am - Making movies about writers is treacherous business: There's next to nothing cinematic about someone tapping away on a keyboard, then staring into the distance to think....
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'Finding Dory' a fun if watered-down 'Nemo' sequelJun 14, 2016 11:45 am - Thirteen years ago in the critically lauded, box office smash "Finding Nemo," Ellen DeGeneres' forgetful blue tang fish Dory became an instantly beloved supporting chara...
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Will game-changing films like 'Warcraft' render American audiences irrelevant?Jun 14, 2016 5:35 am - Sorry, America, but "Warcraft" is just not that into you. Oh, it might seem that it was the North American market that largely spurned the domestic debut of the film bas...
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Aurora 12-year-old gives voice to Nemo in 'Finding Dory'Jun 14, 2016 1:00 am - Hayden Rolence stands triumphantly in a giant window at Chicago's The James Hotel, his arms outstretched as if to give the entire world a big hug. “I'm not going to stan...
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Box office top 20: 'The Conjuring 2' tops 'Warcraft'
Jun 13, 2016 7:00 am - NEW YORK - In a trio of debuts, the horror sequel "The Conjuring 2" bested the video-game adaptation "Warcraft" and the magic caper "Now You See Me 2" at the weekend box...
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'Conjuring 2' scares up $40.4M, breaking sequel slump
Jun 12, 2016 7:00 am - NEW YORK - The recent slump of sequels at the box office finally caught a break with "The Conjuring 2," a horror sequel that topped weekend theaters with an estimated $4...