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Ordinarily when PETA gets upset about something in a movie or TV show, there’s a specific scene or individual animal-related appearance that’s bothersome. That’s not the case with Jackass Forever. The outspoken animal rights organization recently wrote a letter to prosecutors in Los Angeles and San Obispo Counties complaining about at least seven entirely separate
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Landmark Theatres has decided to close their Embarcadero Center Cinema in San Francisco with the lease ending, and the chain citing “landlord-created conditions” which “challenged profitability” at the location. Landmark counts another cinema in the Bay area, the Opera Plaza, which was remodeled last year, as well as locations in San Francisco East Bay and
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Jo Koy’s movie Easter Sunday, which was scheduled to open roughly two weeks before Easter weekend on April 1, is heading to August 5. We’re told that it’s a stronger weekend for the DreamWorks Pictures and Universal release. Koy recently moved his comedy tour, which was set to kick off on January 14, to this summer starting
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Need ideas for your next movie night? Netflix has you covered: whether you’re looking for a laugh, cry, scream or cheer, we’ve got an A-list cast for any mood with new movies every week all year. Get ready for pulse-pounding action with Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans in The Gray Man, or an epic sci-fi adventure with Halle Berry in The Mothership. Mystery and sleuthing
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Paramount Pictures have unveiled the trailer for their brand new film ‘Asking for It’, an action-thriller starring Kiersey Clemons, Vanessa Hudgens and Alexandra Shipp that will be released in theaters March 4. From writer-director Eamon O’Rourke, the story centers around a small town waitress Joey (Clemons) who is sexually assaulted on a date. She subsequently
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After two weekends without any major-studio wide releases amid Omicron fears, Paramount and Lionsgate will try to lure moviegoers back with Jackass Forever and AGC Studios’ Moonfall, respectively Exhibition hopefully will see more traffic after the Northeast experienced cabin fever from winter storm Kenan last weekend. Rolling winter-into-spring breaks don’t go into effect until February 18,
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If you’re looking for a blast from the past – and have $500,000 lying around – this sweet ride would’ve been perfect. Burt Reynolds‘ 1977 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am went up at Barrett-Jackson’s Scottsdale 2022 auction, and the lucky buyer paid one pretty penny for it. With the final bid at $495,000, this 8-cylinder beast
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Lionsgate’s feature take of Judy Blume’s classic Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret has been scheduled for Sept. 16 this year. As Deadline first reported in early March 2020, the studio won the film rights to Blume’s 1970 novel in an auction, green lighting the feature with a $30M production cost and Kelly Fremon Craig directing
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Cinemas from Philly to New York State and Boston (Coolidge Corner Theatre, you were missed) shuttered all or part of Sat., rattling but not routing the specialty box office. And a shout-out to theaters in NYC proper where all stayed open – sparse by day but picking up in the evening thanks to “younger people
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Howard Hesseman, best known as Dr. Johnny Fever on “WKRP in Cincinnati,” died Saturday in Los Angeles. Hesseman’s wife, Caroline Ducrocq, tells TMZ he was at Cedars-Sinai in L.A. for colon surgery last summer … but when it resulted in complications … that’s when things started to go south. Caroline says he was hospitalized January
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GameStop: Rise of the Players, Adrien Brody passion project Clean, Cannes winner Compartment No. 9, Danish upscale restaurant drama A Taste of Hunger, Michel Franco’s Sundown and Woody Allen’s latest Rifkin’s Festival hit theatres crowded by Oscar contenders in a specialty market consumed by awards season (and as a major storm looks set to pummel the
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