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Jennifer Hudson Lets Loose in Wake of Murder Trial Verdict With Trip to Six Flags

May 14, 2012
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Jennifer Hudson Lets Loose in Wake of Murder Trial Verdict With Trip to Six Flags

If ever anyone was in need of a little levity, it was Jennifer Hudson this weekend. Which is no doubt why, the day after a Chicago jury found William Balfour guilty of the triple murders...
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‘You should read the rest of that poem’: ‘Mad Men’ Covets Its Neighbor’s Everything

May 14, 2012
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"Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" --"Ozymandias," Percy Bysshe Shelley "You should read the rest of that poem, you boob," Stan Rizzo (Jay R. Ferguson) tells Michael Ginsberg (Ben Feldman) after the latter quotes Shelley in triumph when it's his work that gets chosen to be pitched to the Sno Ball execs....
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‘Avengers’ Shatters More Records, ‘Shadows’ Mostly Sucks

May 13, 2012
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With Dark Shadows providing little in the way of competition, The Avengers had no trouble at all extending its stranglehold on the box office this weekend. Marvel's superhero team-up fell 50 percent to an estimated $103.2 million, which is by-far the best second weekend ever ahead of Avatar's $75.6 million. It also topped The...
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Depp, Burton Open in ‘Shadow’ of ‘Avengers’

May 11, 2012
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Midnight Update: Dark Shadows scored an estimated $550,000 from midnight showings, which is about on par with John Carter and Think Like a Man from earlier this year. Those movies wound up opening to $30.2 million and $33.6 million, which now looks like a good target for Dark Shadows. Dark Shadows, the eighth collaboration...
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Happy Mother’s Day! The Films We Would and Would Never Watch With Our Mothers

May 10, 2012
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This weekend brings us the mother of all holidays, and what better way to spend some quality time with your mom than sitting down together for a movie? With that in mind, the Indiewire team decided to offer up both our ideal scenarios for mother-child cinematic sitdowns, and the opposite. Presenting the movies we'd...
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Congrats to ‘Remember O Goddess,’ Indiewire’s Project of the Week!

May 8, 2012
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Thanks to your votes, the memory loss film noir "Remember O Goddess" won this weekend’s Project of the Week contest! Congratulations to “Remember O Goddess" director Yoon Jung Lee. The filmmaker will receive a digital distribution consultation from SnagFilms and the film is now officially a candidate for Project of the Month. That winner...
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‘The Avengers’ Smashes Records

May 6, 2012
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It's been clear for a while that The Avengers would be a box office success, though few people could have foreseen this opening. The superhero team-up got off to an unprecedented $207.4 million start this weekend, which obliterates the previous all-time weekend record set by Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 last...
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Send In Your "What to Expect" Questions!

May 5, 2012
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Marc saw “What to Expect When You’re Expecting” last night and is looking forward to interviewing the cast this weekend. Submit your questions on Twitter! See the original post: Send In Your "What to Expect" Questions!
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‘The Avengers’ Takes Aim at Opening Weekend Record

May 4, 2012
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The 2012 Summer movie season officially gets underway this weekend with what is easily one of the biggest releases of the year. After five movies that in many ways functioned as prequel material, some of Marvel's most-popular superheroes finally team up in The Avengers, which has the seventh-widest opening ever at 4,349 locations. Thanks...
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