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Film culture, especially popular film culture, moves in fits and starts. There’s a lot of money on the line, and the…
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The three part threes all arrived in May of 2007, one after the other after the other. First weekend in May: Spider-M…
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By most estimates, 2011’s Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides is the most expensive motion picture ever…
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In the fall of 2012, the Walt Disney Company dropped a four-billion-dollar bag of money on George Lucas’ desk and…
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Shrek was a “fuck you.” That was the entire point. This massively successful children’s film franchise owes its…
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“Fantasy is the one genre that’s never been done especially well,” Peter Jackson told The Los Angeles Times. “After…
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There was always going to be a Harry Potter movie franchise. As soon as the first J.K. Rowling novel ascended the New…
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It finally happened. For nearly a decade, since The Avengers came out and crushed all expectations, people have been…
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For most of his life, Theodor Geisel, the children’s author who used the name Dr. Seuss, wouldn’t license his books…
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In November 1997, Tom Hanks and Ben Affleck were in The New York Times Magazine together. On the cover, the two of…
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It’s the string quartet that really gets me. The passengers are running around, screaming, doing everything they can…
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