With Super Bowl XLVII weekend in full swing, “Ride Along” remained strong, steering Universal Pictures into the No. 1 slot in a surprising three-week takeover at the box office.
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Philip Seymour Hoffman, who won a best actor Oscar in 2006 for his portrayal of writer Truman Capote in “Capote” and created a gallery of other vivid characters, many of them slovenly and slightly dissipated comic figures, died Sunday. He was 46.
Austrian-born actor Maximilian Schell, a fugitive from Adolf Hitler who became a Hollywood favorite and won an Oscar for his role as a defense attorney in “Judgment at Nuremberg,” has died. He was 83.
Your girlfriend/wife/mistress will want to see this movie. You will not. But pay attention to the pie scene.
“Labor Day.” It sounds like one of those Garry Marshall, every-holiday-is-a-movie extravaganzas a la “New Year’s Eve” and “Valentine’s Day.” Or maybe a screwball romantic comedy with, say, Katherine Heigl as a harried obstetrician.
The motion picture academy has rescinded the Academy Awards original song nomination for “Alone Yet Not Alone” because of the appearance of an unfair advantage.
The Vanessa Hudgens movie about a runaway pregnant teen is so bad, it’s managed to taint a song about rape and murder.
Sony Pictures is the first to formally apply for a tax credit under Nevada’s new $20 million program intended to help bring the filming of more major motion pictures to the state. Sony is requesting $4.2 million in tax credits to film “Mall Cop: Blart 2” in Las Vegas.
Alfonso Cuaron was awarded the top film honor from the Directors Guild of America for “Gravity” on Saturday night, giving the lost-in-space saga an edge on the journey to the Academy Awards.
The Kevin Hart, Ice Cube police comedy “Ride Along” cruised to the top of the box office again, taking in $21.2 million in its second weekend.
Vanessa Hudgens and Ann Dowd star as Agnes “Apple” Bailey and Kathy DiFiore in “Gimme Shelter,” which is more a celebration of real-life DiFiore’s work than Agnes’ story.
A moviegoer wearing Google Glass was removed from an AMC Theater in Columbus, Ohio, and questioned for an hour by federal authorities before being released after they determined he wasn’t recording “Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger dons a disguise, complete with mustache and pony tail, to spoof gym-goers. But his accent is a dead giveaway.