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From left, Boss Baby, voiced by Alec Baldwin, tries to convince Tim, voiced by Miles Bakshi, that they must cooperate in DreamWorks Animations The Boss Baby. (DreamWorks Animation)

‘Smurfs’ and ‘Going in Style’ are no match for ‘Boss Baby’ and ‘Beauty’ at box office

April 18, 2017

LOS ANGELES — Luckily, the box-office beating “The Boss Baby” and “Beauty and the Beast” put on Sony’s new release “Smurfs: The Lost Village” couldn’t make the animated gnomes any more...

Rillie Duce, 6, poses with the rose in the lobby during the Beauty and the Beast Los Angeles premiere at the El Capitan Theatre March 16, 2017 in Hollywood, Calif.  (Francine Orr/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

Disney movie is a box-office ‘Beast’: Repeat customers are keeping ‘Beauty’ aloft

April 18, 2017

When Disney’s new live-action musical fairy tale “Beauty and the Beast” opened on March 17, Shelby Pickel was there with her family at one of the first showings. The 17-year-old high school student...

From left, Boss Baby, voiced by Alec Baldwin, tries to convince Tim, voiced by Miles Bakshi, that they must cooperate in DreamWorks Animations The Boss Baby. (DreamWorks Animation)

‘Smurfs’ and ‘Going in Style’ are no match for ‘Boss Baby’ and ‘Beauty’ at box office

April 18, 2017

LOS ANGELES — Luckily, the box-office beating “The Boss Baby” and “Beauty and the Beast” put on Sony’s new release “Smurfs: The Lost Village” couldn’t make the animated gnomes any more...

From left, Boss Baby, voiced by Alec Baldwin, tries to convince Tim, voiced by Miles Bakshi, that they must cooperate in DreamWorks Animations The Boss Baby. (DreamWorks Animation)

‘Boss’ beats ‘Beauty’ and ‘Ghost in the Shell’ in battle for box-office supremacy

April 18, 2017

LOS ANGELES — After two weeks of domination by Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast,” there’s a new boss in town. In a squeaker, Fox and DreamWorks Animation’s CG-animated family comedy “The Boss...

Emma Watson as Belle in a scene from the movie Beauty and the Beast directed by Bill Condon. (Walt Disney Pictures/TNS)

‘Beauty’s’ in beast mode as it bests ‘Power Rangers’ at box office

March 28, 2017

LOS ANGELES — In the battle of 1990s nostalgia, “Saban’s Power Rangers” was no match for Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast,” while Dax Shepard’s “CHIPS” was out of the money in seventh...

Keanu Reeves as John Wick in a scene from the movie John Wick Chapter 2 directed by Chad Stahelski. (Niko Tavernise/Lionsgate/TNS)

The 10 films we’ve gotta see

January 17, 2017

By Los Angeles Times Film Staff Los Angeles Times (TNS) From the first flurries of franchises in January through the last gasp at Oscar-qualifying runs in December, there will be, conservatively, around...

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