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‘Pan’ Failed to Hook Audiences at the Box Office This Weekend
Pan, which — unlike most people this weekend, Flavorwire’s Alison Herman sat through — turned out to be an epic flop at the box office. According to Box Office Mojo, the franchise-building Peter Pan...
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From True Crime Docs to Pitch-Black Comedy: The Most Fascinating Movies of...
Fifteen days after its pontiff-prompted late kickoff, the 53rd annual New York Film Festival drew to a close yesterday. It was a festival of splashy debuts, quiet discoveries, and unexpected mourning,...
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Staff Picks: Kelela, ‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’ and Chantal Akerman’s ‘News From...
Need a great book to read, album to listen to, or TV show to get hooked on? The Flavorwire team is here to help: in this weekly feature, our editorial staffers recommend the cultural object or...
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Why Did ‘Steve Jobs’ Bomb? Blame Its Slow Roll-Out
What if you made a great movie and nobody came? This is the question presumably being asked today at Universal Pictures, after Steve Jobs, Danny Boyle and Aaron Sorkin’s exhilarating...
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The Worrisome Takeaway From October’s “Box Office Bloodbath”
“The last two weeks have been a box office bloodbath,” Exhibitor Relations box-office analyst Jeff Bock tells The Hollywood Reporter, and he’s not wrong. With every weekend of the month giving us a...
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2015: The Year the Biopic Bubble Burst
A few weeks back, at a friend’s birthday party, I was talking to some casual moviegoers, which is something those of us who write about movies should do more often. They were a married couple, and the...
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The 25 Best Films of 2015
So what kind of a year was it for moving pictures? It was the kind of year where my roundup of the best offerings is 25 movies long, in addition to two supplementary lists of ten. Oh, and then I came...
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The ‘Hollywood Reporter’ Director Roundtable Is Everything That’s Wrong With...
The full, hour-plus video of The Hollywood Reporter’s annual director roundtable went up yesterday, a bit later than usual, but you’ve basically seen it before. It’s not just that the panel of “the...
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Ridiculously Outdated Mobile Phones in Movies
Danny Boyle’s Steve Jobs is up for four nominations at tonight’s Golden Globes (which we’ll be live tweeting). This weekend also marks the anniversary of the real-life Jobs’ 2007 debut of the beloved...
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‘Nerds’ Will Be a Broadway Musical About Bill Gates and Steve Jobs
Computer scientists are always singing when they code, right? They’re practically always portrayed on film as coding away, singing staccato rhythms to match the beat of their fingers as they pluck away...
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The 5 Best Movies to Buy or Stream This Week: ‘Steve Jobs,’ ‘Dope’
Temperatures have been dropping, and going outside is for suckers anyway, so it’s not a bad idea to just stay the hell in and watch a movie. We’ve got a wide variety of home viewing options (and...
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The 6 Best Movies to Buy or Stream This Week: ‘Carol,’ ‘Brooklyn,’ ‘The Big...
Holy cow, what a week. We’ve had a couple of rather lean Tuesdays recently, and from the look of today’s slate, the studios were saving them up: two great flicks nominated for Best Picture, one that...
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