LOS ANGELES — Estimated weekend ticket sales at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Rentrak:
1. “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,” $65 million
2. “Guardians of the Ga...
LOS ANGELES — Rebooting the popular franchise after Paramount acquired the “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle” rights, producer Michael Bay and director Jonathan Liebesman hav...
Director Lasse Hallstrom has put together his latest cinematic dish — “The Hundred-Foot Journey”— as a tasty three-course meal that only slows between the main course an...
LOS ANGELES — “Guardians of the Galaxy” blasted past expectations at the weekend box office.
Marvel Studios’ cosmic romp starring Chris Pratt and Zoe Saldana as members...
Actor, director set for challenge
LOS ANGELES — Before James Brown became the Godfather of Soul, before he donned the cape, before he even cut a record, he was an impover...
LOS ANGELES — Luc Besson’s “Lucy” proved mind can overpower muscle, topping a remake of “Hercules” by director Brett Ratner at the box office on the weekend.
The Univers...
So let's start with the enticing premise of Luc Besson's “Lucy,” starring Scarlett Johansson: Human beings only use 10 percent of their brain capacity. Imagine what it w...
It was a bra-less age, when men wore skirts of leather, planted their feet and commenced to speechifying. About heroic deeds, which they made up, or at least exaggerated...
The high-concept comedies spawned by “The 40-Year-Old Virgin” need to start using birth control.
Judd Apatow’s landmark film rightfully ushered in a new era in comedy, ...
The clever conceit behind James DeMonaco’s 2013 sleeper hit “The Purge” was not that American society had resolved its crime/ inequality/ population problems with an ann...
