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‘Snow White’ opens with a sleepy $43 million at box office

By JAKE COYLE
Mar 23, 2025 2:29 pm - The Walt Disney Co.’s live-action, controversy-bedeviled “Snow White” opened in theaters with a sleepy $43 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday.
Remember Me? ‘Coco 2’ in the works at Disney and Pixar

By LINDSEY BAHR
Mar 21, 2025 8:08 am - “Coco” is getting a sequel. Walt Disney Company CEO Bob Iger said Thursday that “Coco 2” is currently in development at Pixar Animation Studios.
Even 2 De Niros aren’t quite enough to make ‘Alto Knights’ a successor to ‘Goodfellas’

By JOCELYN NOVECK
Mar 20, 2025 2:22 pm - Barry Levinson’s “The Alto Knights,” which aims but fails to channel the magic of decades-old mob movies like “Goodfellas,” is all about Robert De Niro. He plays both lead roles, feuding mobsters Vito Genovese and Frank Costello, in a story based on real events.
Jonathan Majors plays a man on the edge in the dark drama ‘Magazine Dreams’

By LINDSEY BAHR
Mar 20, 2025 5:30 am - There’s rage simmering inside Killian Maddox, the amateur bodybuilder portrayed by Jonathan Majors at the heart of the dark and stylized film “Magazine Dreams.” It’s a kind of “Taxi Driver” for the incel age, a harrowing portrait of untreated mental illness, violence, false idols, steroids and male loneliness.
‘Eephus’ is the best baseball movie since ‘Moneyball’

By JAKE COYLE
Mar 20, 2025 5:30 am - In this slow-pitch gem of a baseball movie — a middle-aged “Sandlot” — time is slipping away, but the adult rec league players in “Eephus” are going down swinging.
‘Snow White’ is no poisoned apple, but it doesn’t whistle

By JAKE COYLE
Mar 20, 2025 5:30 am - Mirror mirror on the wall, what’s the fairest Disney live-action remake of them all? Not this inert live-action retread of “Snow White.” Good intentions flutter through this version, but the updating adds up to a mishmash of a fable.
Conan O’Brien will return as Oscars host in 2026

By LINDSEY BAHR
Mar 17, 2025 7:46 am - Conan O’Brien is returning to the Oscars stage in 2026. The late-night host and comedian will preside over the 98th Academy Awards, set for March 15, the film academy’s leadership said Monday.
What to stream: ‘Wicked’ at home, Selena Gomez in love and Ellen Pompeo out of scrubs

Mar 17, 2025 5:30 am - “Wicked” landing on Peacock for home sing-alongs and Ellen Pompeo starring in her first big role since stepping back from ABC’s “Grey’s Anatomy” are some of this week’s new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you.
‘Novocaine’ leads numbingly slow weekend at domestic box office

By LINDSEY BAHR
Mar 16, 2025 1:34 pm - Five new movies opened wide in theaters this weekend including a starry spy picture from Steven Soderbergh, an A24 thriller, a Looney Tunes movie and a high concept action-comedy with “The Boys” star Jack Quaid. But it’s likely going be the lowest-grossing weekend of the year to date.
McHenry Outdoor Theater to open for season March 21

By Shaw Local News Network
Mar 13, 2025 9:11 pm - A Disney live action adaptation of the classic 1937 film “Snow White” will kick off the McHenry Outdoor Theater’s 2025 season, which opens March 21.

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