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Legendary DJ Dick Biondi subject of loving fan’s documentary

By Steve Zalusky
Mar 22, 2026 3:12 pm - Anyone who grew up in Chicago area in the 1960s and tucked a transistor radio under their pillow at bedtime will remember the voice of Dick Biondi. Now he is the subject of a documentary.
Box Office: ‘Project Hail Mary’ blasts off with $80.5 million, a best for Amazon MGM, and the year

By LINDSEY BAHR
Mar 22, 2026 3:01 pm - “Project Hail Mary” is bringing audiences to movie theaters in numbers the industry hasn’t seen for a nonfranchise film since “Oppenheimer.” The science fiction epic starring Ryan Gosling earned around $80.5 million in ticket sales in its first weekend playing in North America, according to studio estimates Sunday.
‘It’s very bittersweet for me’: Hollywood Blvd. Cinema to auction decades of movie memorabilia to fund makeover

By Dave Oberhelman
Mar 20, 2026 1:23 pm - A live and online auction March 28 will liquidate movie memorabilia, decor, fixtures and more at the Hollywood Blvd. Cinema in Woodridge, as owner Dana Pobanz seeks to update the 10-theater complex.
In ‘Project Hail Mary,’ Phil Lord and Chris Miller finally get their space odyssey

By JAKE COYLE
Mar 19, 2026 2:09 pm - Ryan Gosling wanted a friend. So it came down to directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller making that happen on the $200 million science-fiction adventure “Project Hail Mary.”
A really, really bad wedding night gets worse in ‘Ready or Not 2’

By JOCELYN NOVECK
Mar 19, 2026 10:14 am - When we last left our new bride, Grace, at the end of 2019’s “Ready or Not,” she was smoking a well-earned cigarette, having survived a night of slaughter. Now, seven years later, we have “Ready or Not 2: Here I Come,” which takes off from that same moment.
Sincerely spectacular: Gosling, Lord and Miller make science fun in ‘Project Hail Mary’

By LINDSEY BAHR
Mar 19, 2026 5:15 am - “Project Hail Mary,” starring Ryan Gosling, is the kind of spectacular cinematic adventure that we’ve been missing: A clever, sincere, most-ages crowd-pleaser that’s full of life, energy, and a love of science, quirky T-shirts and “Interstellar.”
Cedric the Entertainer, David Arquette to headline Aurora’s Paramount Theatre

By Barbara Vitello
Mar 18, 2026 3:20 pm - Cedric the Entertainer, the Second City and actor David Arquette are scheduled to perform at Aurora’s Paramount Theatre in the coming months. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, March 20.
An AI-rendered Val Kilmer will posthumously appear in a new film

By JAKE COYLE
Mar 18, 2026 12:19 pm - A year after the actor’s death, a generative AI version of Val Kilmer will co-star in an independent film, in one of the boldest uses yet of artificial intelligence in moviemaking.
Oscar ratings fall 9% in Conan O’Brien’s second year hosting

By LINDSEY BAHR
Mar 17, 2026 8:54 pm - The 98th Oscars hosted by Conan O’Brien saw a dip in ratings after several years of gains. The Walt Disney Co. on Tuesday said that just under 17.9 million viewers tuned into Sunday’s show, which aired live on ABC and was streamed on Hulu.
Best Bets: Volo Museum hosts Princess Super Hero Day

By Barbara Vitello
Mar 17, 2026 3:47 pm - The Volo Museum hosts Princess Super Hero Day, Lyric presents a new Spanish-language opera about Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, Chicago Magic Lounge co-founder Luis Carreon debuts his new one-man show and comedian Jimmy Pardo headlines Zanies in Rosemont.

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