Posts by Zach Dionne
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Box Office Top Five: Kevin Hart + Ice Cube = Fat Stacks
There are two records for Ride Along, right off the bat: Its $41.2 million is the biggest January weekend, edging out Cloverfield’s $40.1 million, and the highest-grossing original comedy debut since Ted hit in June 2012
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Don’t Make Patton Oswalt Your Enemy
Stand-up comedy’s duke of nerd- and food-based comedy was supposed to see a new hourlong special, ‘Tragedy Plus Comedy Equals Time,’ launch on EPIX on Thursday night. There was a countdown clock and everything, but nothing ended up happening.
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Steven Soderbergh Is Directing an Off Broadway School-Shooting Play With Chloë Moretz
Behind the Candelabra worked out pretty well for Steven Soderbergh, Emmys- and Golden Globes–wise, so why not keep sidestepping the standard Hollywood path whenever possible? In keeping with his “making big-budget movies is the hugest bummer nowadays” mind-set, the Oscar-winning Traffic director will helm his first Off Broadway production this spring.
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Shia LaBeouf Walks Into a Bar. Then He Head-Butts a Guy.
You’ve seen someone throw a head-butt in a movie and thought, C’mon, whose first choice is that? Shia LaBeouf watches that same movie and thinks, Ha, did that move last week, bro.
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R.I.P., Russell Johnson, the Professor From ‘Gilligan’s Island’
The 89-year-old actor, who appeared in all but one of Gilligan’s Island’s 99 episodes, died of kidney failure on Thursday.
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NBC Orders ‘Anchorman’-ish Astronaut Comedy From Will Ferrell and Adam McKay
Pilots from outrageously funny, starry people get picked up all the time, and often enough, they become nothing. But NBC seems to have a way of making things work with lovable SNL grads.
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2014 Oscar Nominations: ‘American Hustle’ and ‘Gravity’ Lead
The nominees for the 86th annual Academy Awards were announced Thursday, with American Hustle and Gravity leading the race with 10 nominations apiece and 12 Years a Slave right behind with nine.
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Drake’s ‘SNL’ Promos Boost Drake-Related ‘SNL’ Excitement by 400 Percent
It’s what promos are supposed to do, really, and SNL tends to succeed at them on a weekly basis, no matter how lackluster the episode ends up being. But Aubrey goofing around for five minutes with Bobby Moynihan and Jay Pharoah — who each may or may not be known to mess with some BEATS — is just really good.
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Adam Sandler Still Keeping the Golden Raspberry Awards Afloat
Hollywood’s most cynical and redundant awards, the Razzies, have chosen this fine Wednesday in January 2014 to remind us that last summer’s Grown Ups 2 and The Lone Ranger were no-good, bad, silly-ass movies. After Earth, A Madea Christmas, and Movie 43, too — just, ugh!
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Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana Returning for All Three ‘Avatar’ Sequels
“Other plot details are being kept locked on Pandora,” The Hollywood Reporter writes, but it does have one confirmed detail: “Jake Sully and Neytiri, the characters played by [Sam] Worthington and [Zoe] Saldana, respectively, have kids.” Blue Na’vi babies! Running amok, playing kickball, riding dragons!
