Movies
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The Oscars are less white, but the industry hasn't changedFeb 26, 2017 6:18 am - LOS ANGELES - After two years of intense public scrutiny over the academy's all-white acting nominations, the 2017 Oscar nominees are as diverse a group as the organizat...
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Who knew 'Arrival' could be so topical?Feb 26, 2017 6:15 am - Amy Adams' character in "Arrival" ascends on a vertical lift through a hole in the alien spacecraft, and gravity suddenly shifts sideways. When she finally sees the crea...
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Jimmy Kimmel talks about Trump and other pre-Oscars concernsFeb 26, 2017 6:00 am - LOS ANGELES — Jimmy Kimmel says he never really wanted to host the Academy Awards. “If anything, what I wanted is for people to publicly say that I should be the host an...
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Jordan Peele's 'Get Out' scares up big $30.5 million debut
Feb 26, 2017 6:00 am - LOS ANGELES - Great reviews and buzz propelled comedian Jordan Peele's directorial debut, the micro-budget thriller "Get Out," to a chart-topping opening weekend with $3...
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Oops La La! Envelope mix-up nearly gives Best Picture Oscar to wrong movieFeb 26, 2017 12:00 am - Whoa! What happened at the Oscars Sunday night? Things got a little nutty at the 89th Academy Awards in the Dolby Theater when Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway presented t...
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'Titanic' actor Bill Paxton dies at age 61Feb 26, 2017 12:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) — A family representative says prolific and charismatic actor Bill Paxton, who played an astronaut in “Apollo 13” and a treasure hunter in “Titanic,” ha...
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'The Lego Batman Movie' can't escape the weight of Batman's historyFeb 25, 2017 6:23 am - Plenty of movie franchises run into trouble on the second go-round, when a sequel tries to recapture the precise magic of an original and fails to find its own niche. "T...
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Norridge native becomes next Walt Disney with Oscar-nominated 'Moana'Feb 25, 2017 12:00 am - John Musker grew up in Norridge, watching and loving Walt Disney movies at Park Ridge's Pickwick Theatre and Chicago's Mercury Theater. He knows exactly where he was the...
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'Bitter Harvest' reduces Ukrainian tragedy to melodramatic mushFeb 24, 2017 5:00 am - The Holodomor - an early 1930s famine in which millions of people in Ukraine are said to have died when their foodstuffs were confiscated by the Soviet government under ...
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Who gets an Oscar? Dann Gire has some ideasFeb 24, 2017 5:00 am - The ABCs of Oscar I'll be discussing the 89th Academy Awards live on ABC 7's morning news during the 8 a.m. hour Sunday, Feb. 26. Be sure to tune in. And, by the way, yo...