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Chris It’s the end of the summer, and typically this is considered “dump week”, with studios burning off the movies they don’t expect to make much of an impact. In a sad example of where we stand at the box office nowadays, a $100 million Ridley Scott action flick, The
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Technology usually takes years to fade away, but every now and then something arrives with plenty of hype only to become outdated almost immediately. A new format appears, consumers buy into it, and then another invention shows up before anyone has had time to get comfortable with the first one.
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Most actors would be thrilled to have one major movie arrive in a year. Every once in a while, someone somehow manages to have two, three, or even more memorable releases within the same 12 months. Sometimes it’s the year that turns a working actor into a superstar. Other times,