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The Christmas box office race: winner was “The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug,” which has a tidy $190 million in the bank domestically. It’s nothing to sneeze at. But “Smaug” is running around $30 mil behind the first Hobbit movie, “An Unexpected Journey.” The Smaug may be too thick, or there are just a lot choices out there. Meantime, “American Hustle” ... Read More »

According to Entertainment Weekly, Nolte will play Jack Reinhold, a stubborn single man living in Gracepoint for the last two decades. Nolte’s character “runs the kayak rental on the beach as well as the local wildlife observation program, where the murdered boy was one of his volunteers.” Read More »

On a busy pre-Christmas weekend at the box office, “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug” held off a very different sequel, “Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues.” Peter Jackson’s “Hobbit” sequel took in $31.5 million in its second weekend of release for Warner Bros., according to studio estimates Sunday. Though the film isn’t matching the pace of the first “Hobbit” movie, ... Read More »

Truth, or Hollywood’s retelling of it, really is stranger than fiction could ever hope to be. In “The Wolf of Wall Street,” Leo DiCaprio plays Jordan Belfort, a dental school dropout who was indicted in 1998 and spent 22 months in prison for stock market fraud. His life, as depicted in Martin Scorsese’s flashy, loud, hilarious and eye-popping dramedy, is ... Read More »

What are the odds of a black-and-white 1950s sitcom being funny in 2013? Extremely low — unless the sitcom is I Love Lucy. In the I Love Lucy Christmas Special (Friday, 7 p.m.), CBS offers us a holiday gift by airing two 1956 episodes, “The Christmas Episode” and “Lucy’s Italian Movie.” The only concession to modern-day audiences is colorization. Otherwise, ... Read More »

There’s a big possibility that you’ll want to skip watching the first trailer for The Dawn of The Planet of the Apes movie if you’ve not seen the first Planet of The Apes film with “Rise” in the title. This first full paragraph will be your warning: spoilers are not included for this new movie, but if you’ve not seen ... Read More »

Game of Thrones Season 4 is coming. HBO is yet to release a premiere date for our trip back to Westeros, but the network did come out with a trailer last night that previews the action ahead overall at the network in 2014. It features a look at True Detective… at Damon Lindelof’s The Leftovers… at Mike Judge’s Silicon Valley… ... Read More »

Undaunted hobbits trumped princess power at the multiplex. Per studio estimates Sunday, Warner Bros. ”Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug” was No. 1 at the weekend box office with $73.7 million, besting last weekend’s No. 1 film, Disney’s animated fable ”Frozen.” ” ‘Hobbit’ rules this date and Warner Bros. has linked this brand to this time of year very effectively,” said ... Read More »

As another year in movies draws to a close it’s once again time for the usual annual debates, ranking movies released in 2013 according to various criteria of consideration. While every critic and awards show will be arguing over which movie ranks as overall best, or which actor or actress did best, we here at Screen Rant would rather take ... Read More »

The ballad of Bilbo Baggins continues in The Desolation of Smaug, director Peter Jackson’s second of three films in his adaptation of The Hobbit. After five films spanning 12 years, Jackson’s take on J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth is as elaborate as ever, more so given those 12 years in filmmaking technologies and their development. Jackson’s world is pretty, vibrant, covered in ... Read More »

Warner Bros.’ upcoming science-fiction action flick “Edge of Tomorrow” has made its Internet debut with the release of its first trailer. Previously known by the name “All You Need is Kill”, Edge of Tomorrow stars Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt, and brings to the stage some mech-suited futuristic battle goodness, and just a taste of Groundhog Day deja vu. Read More »