LES — Boosted by strong reviews and a genre-bending story, Jordan Peele’s socially conscious horror movie, “Get Out,” got a big, neighborly welcome at the box office over the weekend.
The movie...
As far as hit Hollywood movies go, this one couldn’t be more unlikely: A linguist and a physicist are charged with deciphering alien communication while ruminating on the relativity of language and...
By Ryan Faughnder
Los Angeles Times
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LOS ANGELES — A movie about man’s best friend discovering the meaning of life would seem like a no-brainer for a studio looking to appeal to pet-lovers....
By Ryan Faughnder
Los Angeles Times
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Paramount Pictures originally conceived its new movie “Monster Trucks” as fuel for its upstart animation business. But instead, the long-delayed big-budget...
By Deborah Vankin
Los Angeles Times
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If you missed George Takei’s Broadway musical, “Allegiance” — or the subsequent one-night-only screening of the live production in movie theaters nationwide...
By Kevin Crust
Los Angeles Times
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Since we were formally introduced to Pixar via a hopping desk lamp and a rubber ball in the animated short “Luxo Jr.” three decades ago, the studio has brought...
By Los Angeles Times Film Staff
Los Angeles Times
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From the first flurries of franchises in January through the last gasp at Oscar-qualifying runs in December, there will be, conservatively, around...
By Libby Hill
Los Angeles Times
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A film 26 years in the making, Martin Scorsese’s “Silence” may be settling in to play spoiler at the Oscars.
Scorsese’s passion project had been in development...
By Mark Olsen
Los Angeles Times
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Casey Affleck has questions. Kenneth Lonergan also has questions. Together, they found more questions that, in the asking, came to feel something like answers.
Affleck...
By John Anderson
Newsday
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“That car alarm is bananas!” says Emma Stone, giving voice to the general exasperation over a relentless honking outside Manhattan’s Metrograph theater. The actress...
Carmike Cinemas shareholders on Tuesday approved a plan to sell the company to AMC Entertainment for $1.2 billion, including debt, making the Chinese-owned theater chain the largest in the country.
Leawood,...
By Josh Rottenberg
Los Angeles Times
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Nicolas Cage has three movies hitting theaters in the next two weeks — and if that seems surprising or odd to you, it’s probably just because you haven’t...
