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Box office update: ‘The Avengers’ wins again with $15.3 mil on Friday; ‘Battleship’ flounders with $9 mil

May 19, 2012
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Box office update: ‘The Avengers’ wins again with $15.3 mil on Friday; ‘Battleship’ flounders with $9 mil

Three new movies confronted The Avengers this weekend, and the Hulk smashed them around as if they all starred Loki.
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Box office preview: Will ‘Battleship’ sink ‘The Avengers’?

May 18, 2012
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Box office preview: Will ‘Battleship’ sink ‘The Avengers’?

Three new wide releases will attempt to dethrone the almighty Avengers this weekend: the board-game-meets-alien-invasion action flick Battleship, the ensemble
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Aaron Sorkin adapting ‘Steve Jobs’ into feature film

May 16, 2012
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Aaron Sorkin adapting ‘Steve Jobs’ into feature film

Aaron Sorkin has officially signed on to adapt Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson’s biography of the late Apple co-founder, Sony Pictures
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Casting Net: Channing Tatum eyeing thriller ‘White House Down.’ Plus: Taylor Lautner, Alan Rickman, Jessica Biel

May 15, 2012
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Casting Net: Channing Tatum eyeing thriller ‘White House Down.’ Plus: Taylor Lautner, Alan Rickman, Jessica Biel

• Channing Tatum is in talks to play a Secret Service agent in White House Down, from director Roland Emmerich. Tatum’s
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Box office report: ‘Avengers’ smashes 2nd weekend record with $103.2M, passes $1 billion worldwide

May 13, 2012
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Box office report: ‘Avengers’ smashes 2nd weekend record with $103.2M, passes $1 billion worldwide

Of course Tony Stark wasn’t satisfied with just one weekend of headlines! After its record-demolishing $207.4 million debut last weekend, The
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Box office update: ‘Avengers’ easily holds off ‘Dark Shadows’, scores gigantic $29.1 million Friday

May 12, 2012
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Box office update: ‘Avengers’ easily holds off ‘Dark Shadows’, scores gigantic $29.1 million Friday

Sorry, Captain Jack, but Captain America isn’t ready to give up the top spot at the box office yet! In
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Box office preview: Johnny Depp won’t be able to escape the ‘Dark Shadows’ of ‘The Avengers’

May 11, 2012
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Box office preview: Johnny Depp won’t be able to escape the ‘Dark Shadows’ of ‘The Avengers’

Only one new wide release hits theaters this weekend — Tim Burton’s adaptation of the gothic soap opera Dark Shadows
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‘Battleship’ director Peter Berg on the surprise seafaring advice he got from Kevin Costner

May 11, 2012
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‘Battleship’ director Peter Berg on the surprise seafaring advice he got from Kevin Costner

When mounting a production as gargantuan as Battleship — Universal’s $200 million-plus maritime alien invasion spectacular — it helps to seek
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Casting Net: Cameron Diaz nears ‘The Counselor.’ Plus: Matthew McConaughey, Paul Rudd, Amy Poehler, Chris Hemsworth

May 10, 2012
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Casting Net: Cameron Diaz nears ‘The Counselor.’ Plus: Matthew McConaughey, Paul Rudd, Amy Poehler, Chris Hemsworth

• Cameron Diaz is close to boarding director Ridley Scott‘s dramatic thriller The Counselor, as a supporting character named Malkina. Michael Fassbender stars as
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Roman Polanski to investigate Dreyfus Affair with next film

May 9, 2012
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Roman Polanski to investigate Dreyfus Affair with next film

Roman Polanski announced his next film would be a period espionage thriller based on the Dreyfus Affair, a turn-of-the-20th-century miscarriage
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