Posts by Zach Dionne
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Box Office by the Numbers: ‘Godzilla’ Scores the Year’s Second-Biggest Opener
‘Captain America: The Winter Soldier’ passed $700 million worldwide, ‘The Other Woman’ stuck around in the top five for a fourth week, and ‘The Amazing Spider-Man 2’ became the year’s most successful film overseas.
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Take a Five-Minute Look at The CW’s ‘The Flash’
Also in the Afternoon Links: A teaser for Kenneth Branagh’s ‘Cinderella,’ a horror movie for Nicolas Winding Refn, and a few stills from ‘The Hunger Games: Mockingjay.’
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New ‘Transformers: Age of Extinction’ Trailer: Ghost-Riding the Dinobot
Prime mounts a massive Dinobot and wields a sword so sweet it could hang with a lightsaber.
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Kathryn Bigelow’s Next Movie Is ‘True American,’ a 9/11 Story Starring Tom Hardy
Tom Hardy will star as Mark Stroman, the self-styled “American terrorist” and “Arab slayer” who shot three gas station employees in Texas after 9/11.
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Lily Allen Was Offered a ‘Game of Thrones’ Role, But It Was Too Incest-y
Also in the Afternoon Links: NPH could’ve had Letterman’s job, TNT’s making a ‘Firestarter’ sequel, and the Lego ‘Simpsons’ episode is streaming.
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‘Star Trek 3’ Boldly Goes to Director Who’s Never Directed Before
It’s Roberto Orci, the J.J. Abrams protégé and super-producer/writer with nary a directorial credit to his name.
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Who’s That Gal? Sarah Baker, Louis C.K.’s Latest TV Paramour!
Baker emerged from the ether of semi-recognizability on Monday to steal FX’s hour-long ‘Louie’ block and become an actress we should definitely know about.
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Elena Is Basically the Official Sidekick on ‘Billy on the Street’ Now
Elena, the aged New Yorker who perfectly, entirely embodies her city on Fuse’s Billy on the Street, has become a real presence in this third season. Also in the Afternoon Links: ‘Jurassic World’ gets a composer, ‘Penny Dreadful’ has a strong debut, and the younger daughter on ‘Louie’ gives a great interview.
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Always-Belligerent Alec Baldwin Arrested for Bicycling Badly
“How old are these officers? They don’t even know who I am,” a witness says Baldwin “growled.” Meanwhile, on Twitter, the erstwhile Jack Donaghy calls New York “a mismanaged carnival of stupidity.”
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Watch the Excellent Trailer for Fox’s ‘The Last Man on Earth,’ Starring Will Forte
It’s exactly what it sounds like.
