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    Robert Downey, Jr. Lands American Cinematheque Award: Should Be Fun Fete

    by Anne Thompson and Sophia Savage on May 5, 2011

    Congratulations to Robert Downey, Jr. The 25th American Cinematheque Award will be his. Downey Jr. will be honored at the annual benefit gala on October 14 at the Beverly Hilton. This event could be one of the more entertaining of these award shows, as Downey will lure some of the funniest talent in...

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    Summer Preview: Must-Sees on Big Screen, Skippable, Must-to-Avoid

    by Anne Thompson on April 28, 2011

    The summer is upon us, with a plethora of viewing choices, many of them utterly avoidable. I lay out the summer movie landscape.

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    Super Bowl Ads: Favreau is Cutting Spot for Cowboys and Aliens

    by Anne Thompson on January 12, 2011

    Cowboys and Aliens will be one of the upcoming 2011 movies with a Super Bowl TV spot, confirms director Jon Favreau on Twitter (this is his Twitter avatar):

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    Disney and Marvel Pay Paramount $115 Million to Buy Back Iron Man 3 and The Avengers

    by Anne Thompson on October 18, 2010

    As expected, Disney Studios, under new chairman Rich Ross, and its subsidiary Marvel Entertainment (bought last year for $4 billion) had no intention of leaving so many of their prized titles behind at Paramount. But they had to pay dearly to get some of them back.

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    Summer Box Office Wrap: Winners and Losers, from Karate Kid to Cats and Dogs

    by Anthony D'Alessandro on September 8, 2010

    In the final analysis the summer box office doesn't look so bad, writes TOH numbers cruncher Anthony D'Alessandro, who insists that weighing cost vs. return is more important than tallying the grosses or admissions.

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    Super Hero Glut: Will Marvel and DC Projects Get Repetitive?

    by Anne Thompson on August 10, 2010

    There are many many comics movies in our future. How many of them will moviegoers be able to ingest? How many will turn out to be any good? Will fatigue set in, as Matthew Vaughn, the director of X-Men: First Class, predicts?

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    Mid-Summer Box Office Wrap: Top Ten Chart, Studio Report Card

    by Anthony D'Allessandro on August 5, 2010

    At mid-summer, the box office is lagging just behind last year's pace and ticket sales are flat, reports Anthony D'Alessandro, who charts the season's winners, losers and studio market shares so far (as of last weekend). Will red-hot Inception take the number one box office crown from Toy Story 3? S...

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    Craig Nails Down Girl with Dragon Tattoo and Sequels

    by Anne Thompson on July 26, 2010

    As I watched Daniel Craig at Comic-Con and the footage from Jon Favreau's Cowboys and Aliens, I crossed my fingers that he would play Mikael Blomqvist in The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. And sure enough, Deadline reports that the deal is done.

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    The Avengers Line-Up Wows Comic-Con: Downey, Jackson, Johansson, Ruffalo, Renner

    by Anne Thompson on July 25, 2010

    Iron Man star Robert Downey, Jr. took the podium at Hall H-- after the crowd of 6000 fans were duly wowed by Marvel Studios footage from Joe Johnston's Captain America, a 40s period origin myth starring Chris Evans as the mighty hero and Hugo Weaving as Red Skull, and Kenneth Branagh's Thor, starrin...

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    Comic-Con: Stabbing Over Seat Delays Universal Hall H Panel, Cowboys & Aliens

    by Anne Thompson on July 25, 2010

    There were many delays in Hall H Saturday. One of them came around 4:45 PM when one over-wrought attendee stabbed another in the face, causing what the cops called a minor injury. Here's Variety's report. Six thousand movie fans stood in long lines to get into the packed Hall for the Warner Bros. pa...

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