#‘Dumb Money’ Review: Paul Dano and Pete Davidson in Craig Gillespie’s Entertaining GameStop Stock Comedy

#‘Dumb Money’ Review: Paul Dano and Pete Davidson in Craig Gillespie’s Entertaining GameStop Stock Comedy

Movies about the financial markets inevitably have the same problem. It simply isn’t that visually compelling watching people stare at their computers or phones and muttering expletives. Adam McKay’s The Big Short managed to avoid the pitfall thanks to its truly memorable characters and such stylistic flourishes as having Margot Robbie explain complicated financial concepts…

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#Box Office: ‘Barbie’ and ‘Oppenheimer’ Lead (Again), ‘Last Voyage of the Demeter’ Capsizes With .5M

#Box Office: ‘Barbie’ and ‘Oppenheimer’ Lead (Again), ‘Last Voyage of the Demeter’ Capsizes With $6.5M

Barbie continues to bedazzle everything in its path. The Warner Bros. blockbuster grossed an estimated $33.7 million at the Aug. 11-13 box office in North America, the ninth-biggest fourth weekend of all time, ahead of Spider-Man: No Way Home ($32.6 million) and not far behind The Avengers ($36.7 million), not adjusted for inflation. Barbie easily…

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#Box Office: ‘Barbie’ Crosses B Globally, ‘Meg 2’ and ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ Add to Summer Burst

#Box Office: ‘Barbie’ Crosses $1B Globally, ‘Meg 2’ and ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ Add to Summer Burst

Turtles and a humongous shark helped fuel another great weekend at the box office as they joined the Barbenheimer parade and opened ahead of expectations. Greta Gerwig’s Barbie grossed another $53 million domestically as it it hits $459.4 million in North America and crosses $1 billion globally on Sunday in a huge win for Warner…

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#‘Platonic’ Star Luke Macfarlane on Turning Down ‘Barbie,’ ‘Bros’ Disappointment and Bias Against TV Comedy

#‘Platonic’ Star Luke Macfarlane on Turning Down ‘Barbie,’ ‘Bros’ Disappointment and Bias Against TV Comedy

It’s been an eventful year for Luke Macfarlane, who reunites with Bros director Nick Stoller for Apple TV+’s comedy series Platonic alongside Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne. In the show that hails from co-creators Stoller and Francesca Delbanco and is currently streaming, Macfarlane plays attorney Charlie, who is raising three children with wife Sylvia (Byrne)…

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#The Turtle Brothers, April O’Neil Are Back in the ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem’ Trailer

#The Turtle Brothers, April O’Neil Are Back in the ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem’ Trailer

The Turtle Brothers, April O’Neil Are Back in the ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem’ Trailer The “little Shreks” are back in the first trailer for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, from permanent teenager Seth Rogen. “A new generation of heroes will rise,” the nearly two-minute trailer teases, “straight from the sewer.” The first…

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#SAG Award Nominees Colin Farrell, Stephanie Hsu, Seth Rogen and More Explain What Makes a Good Co-Star

#SAG Award Nominees Colin Farrell, Stephanie Hsu, Seth Rogen and More Explain What Makes a Good Co-Star

SAG Award Nominees Colin Farrell, Stephanie Hsu, Seth Rogen and More Explain What Makes a Good Co-Star Sheila McCarthy on Jessie Buckley Jessie Buckley; Sheila McCarthy Courtesy of Michael Gibson/Orion Pictures Corp/Courtesy Everett Collection; Jerod Harris/Getty Images I first met Jessie Buckley over an email while I was watching her in her extraordinary film Wild…

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