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Film Review: ‘Pacific Rim Uprising’
LOS ANGELES — Even if it hadn’t earned him dual Oscars, it’s easy to imagine why “The Shape of Water” struck Guillermo del Toro as a more enticing project than a sequel to “Pacific Rim.” […]
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Film Review: ‘Tomb Raider’
LOS ANGELES — When it was announced that the Swedish actress Alicia Vikander would star in a reboot of “Tomb Raider,” playing the bungee-plunging, chasm-leaping adventurer Lara Croft in a movie that told the story […]
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Amazon’s internal numbers on Prime Video, revealed
NEW YORK — Amazon’s top television shows drew more than 5 million people worldwide to its Prime shopping club by early 2017, according to company documents, revealing for the first time how the retailer’s bet […]
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All the right notes
RALEIGH — Season 14 of The Voice, the popular reality singing competition on NBC, kicked off this month, and an 18-year-old from Sanford made the cut. Britton Buchanan won over judges Adam Levine, Alicia Keys, […]
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Film Review: ‘Ready Player One’
LOS ANGELES — In “Ready Player One,” Steven Spielberg’s dizzyingly propulsive virtual-reality fanboy geek-out, Wade Watts (Tye Sheridan), a teenager living in a dystopian trailer park in the year 2045, spends most of his time […]
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Oscar winner McDormand wants an ‘inclusion rider’
LOS ANGELES — Frances McDormand left the Oscar stage after winning the best actress prize on Sunday with a call for an “inclusion rider” — an obscure method to increase film production diversity that she […]
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‘Shape of Water’ wins big at Academy Awards
LOS ANGELES — Romantic fantasy “The Shape of Water” won best picture at the Oscars on Sunday, the film industry’s most prestigious honor, on a night where themes of female empowerment and activism almost overshadowed […]
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Google raises price of YouTube TV, adds sports, Turner
NEW YORK — Google is raising the price of its YouTube TV online service for new customers as it adds channels from Time Warner’s Turner, National Basketball League and Major League Baseball, the company said […]
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Carolina concerts: Twelve months of headliners
RALEIGH — The concert card for the Old North State is starting to fill out with an impressive list of world-class artists set to perform over the next 12 months. Winston-Salem landed a coveted stadium […]
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Box Office: ‘Jumanji’ dominates MLK weekend, ‘The Post’ leads newcomers
Sony’s “Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle” is dominating the North American box office to easily win the four-day Martin Luther King Jr. weekend with about $33.4 million at 3,849 sites, estimates showed Sunday. Fox’s “The […]