How good is “Dallas Buyers Club”? Matthew McConaughey shed nearly 50 pounds for his role, blows the walls off of whatever boxes Hollywood has put him in and doesn’t utter a single “awright, awright, awright.”
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Disney subsidiary Pixar is laying off up to 5 percent of its 1,200 employees after it pushed back the release of “The Good Dinosaur” to November 2015 from next May.
Every so often, it’s as though all of Hollywood gets together in a secret bunker and decides that an actor is overdue for an Oscar. This year seems to be Matthew McConaughey’s time for his performance in “Dallas Buyers Club.”
“The Hunger Games: Catching Fire” should more than satisfy the cravings of fans who’ve spent the 20-month gap between movies quivering with anticipation.
After having seen the first two “Hunger Games” movies and four of the five “Twilights,” there’s no doubt which makes for the better young-adult film franchise.
Paramount won’t be giving any wings to a planned “It’s a Wonderful Life” sequel. A studio spokeswoman said Wednesday that Paramount would fight the proposed follow-up to the 1946 holiday classic starring Jimmy Stewart.
Unless you’ve spent the past few weeks under a rock — assuming that rock lacked access to Wi-Fi, cellular data and over-the-air TV and radio transmissions, as well as run-of-the-mill chatterboxes — you’re now painfully aware that Friday marks the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination.
In an unlikely battle of sequels, “Thor: The Dark World” bested “The Best Man Holiday” at the box office.
Parents aren’t the only ones scrambling to get things ready for the holidays.
Disney released the first official trailer of its new movie “Maleficent,” featuring Angelina Jolie as the evil, shadowy villainess.
Under increasing pressure over its threshold for violence in PG-13 films, the Motion Picture Association of America defended its often-criticized rating system on Wednesday.
Gun violence in PG-13 rated movies has increased considerably in recent decades, to the point that it sometimes exceeds gun violence in even R-rated films, according to a study released Monday.
Disney’s “Thor: The Dark World,” earning $86.1 million, dominated the weekend box office as it opened domestically at No. 1, noted studio estimates Sunday.