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It's his time. Luis, the God of Stories.
Kevin Feige Officially Confirms One Character Will Anchor the Entire 'Avengers: Doomsday' Story
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“The world is changed. None of us can go back. All we can do is our best. And sometimes the best we can do is to start over.”
AVENGERS: ENDGAME earned another $86 million globally, in a release intended to tap into nostalgia for when MCU movies were expected to be *this* good.
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AVENGERS: ENDGAME still holds up as a solid blockbuster and a shockingly successful "sticks-the-landing" ending, and the fact that it's being retroactively fiddled with is yet another example of Disney listening to the Internet.
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Hey, I liked Pattinson a lot in Primetime--the voicework is insane. But Skyler Gisondo and Merritt Wever knocked my socks off.
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Wow! #GodzillaMinusZero builds on what made the 1st film special for fans and general audiences, delivering a blockbuster sequel in the realm of films like T2 or Dark Knight. Emotionally satisfying & packed with wild kaiju action. Review via @WeLiveEntmt: weliveentertainment.com/weli…
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Mahershala Ali in that recent GQ interview said he didn’t want to come out on stage at SDCC for Blade because it's all preliminary and there isn't any work to show. But Marvel insisted.
Look at how many things have been announced at SWC and are seemingly now dead. All for what?
I still think it was rotten how lucasfilm brought out Daisy Ridley and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy at celebration 2023 to prematurely announce their movie, then never got the script together while Daisy was asked abt it every few months and Sharmeen got needless right wing scrutiny
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Litterally 90% of Kamala's career was exactly this. But yall called her a cop 🙄
I can't put into words how much I want someone who prosecuted sex crimes and child abuse at the helm of this very rape-y country.
I am willing to lose a battle or two to win the war.
It's that important.
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With Avengers Endgame Encore "opening" with around $25 million for the weekend and around $85 million globally, and thus ending Sunday just $40 million away from Avatar's $2.924 billion global total...
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Box Office: Avengers: Endgame Encore tops Primetime and Resident Evil with an $11 million Friday, as Heart of the Beast and Forgotten Island open soft amid an encouraging “Something for Everyone” weekend at the movies...
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The good news is that four movies might earn over $20 million this weekend. The bad news is that the best new film (Forgotten Island) opened the lowest, and a reissue of a 2019 tentpole will be the weekend's top-grossing movie.
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I'm happy to argue that original gems like Forgotten Island (opening with around $11.5 million for the weekend) are what the Super Mario movies and Shrek sequels pay for, but it'd be nice if the likes of Forgotten Island paid for more themselves.
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Primetime and Heart of the Beast are both going to open with around $20M this weekend. But the Robert Pattinson-led journalism drama cost around $15M, while Brad Pitt's survivalist thriller reportedly cost $82M. So, again... no matter which film places #3, the rank is trivia.
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The idiotic new ending(s) to Avengers: Endgame -- a movie that otherwise still plays very well as a sticks-the-landing finale -- is a solution to a non-existent problem. General audiences don't need retroactive "set-up." It's a classic "listening to the Internet" self-own.
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RT @DWLundberg: I feel like not enough people talk about SILVERADO. A gateway Western if there ever was one, made by people with a clear lo…
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Kids -- "Gee whiz, we loved going to the movies to see 5 Nights at Freddy's, Backrooms, Minecraft, Demon Slayer and/or K-Pop Demon Hunters!"
Studio executives -- "Fuck you, children! Enjoy this 'Gremlins' sequel helmed by a 70-year-old arriving 44 years after the first one!"
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Listen — Apocalypse, Extinction, The Final Chapter… but enough about Skydance (presumably) about to own both Warner Bros. and Paramount! @ODSTSpartan joins in guest mode to discuss Sony's latest (and greatest) attempt to reboot the 'Resident Evil' franchise...
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@DaBoxOfficePod Episode 139 "When You Ace The 'Yes, And...!" Test" via @ScottMendelson, @jeremyfuster @ODSTSpartan and Lisa Laman
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