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Apr 15, 2012

Box Office Report

There Will Be Stooge

Welcome back to Box Office Report, where we hold a butter-substitute-coated finger to the wind and take a reading on America's moviegoing habits.

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Apr 12, 2012

Y.A. for Grownups

The Banned Books We Have Loved

The ironic and rather wonderful thing about banning books is that the act doesn't, actually, do much to keep the books from being read. If anything, it inspires further interest in them, and sometimes sales, too.

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Apr 11, 2012

The Call Sheet

Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson Together Again

Today: The two cool guys are putting something together, AMC gets back in the comic business, and LMFAO is trying to make it official.

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Apr 11, 2012

Who Should Direct the Next 'Hunger Games' Movie?

Now that The Hunger Games director Gary Ross is officially not directing the second movie in the series, Catching Fire, it's time to start speculating about who Lionsgate might hire. Or rather, who they should hire.

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By Ray Gustini

Apr 10, 2012

The Smart Set

Kristen Wiig's Farewell Tour; Republicans Need a Pitcher

Kristen Wiig sure sounds like somebody who is ready to leave Saturday Night Live, Republicans need a new pitcher for this year's Congressional Baseball Game, and John Kerry is a grandfather.

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By Connor Simpson

Apr 8, 2012

Box Office Report

Katniss Cannot Be Stopped

The Hunger Games rolls for another week, fending off the 90s nostalgia of a young Leo in Titanic 3D and the familiar jokes of American Reunion.

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Apr 6, 2012

The Call Sheet

The Big 'Hunger Games' Shakeup

Today: Katniss has no leader, Nicole Kidman is to become a princess, and an injured actor gets litigious.

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Apr 1, 2012

Box Office Report

Still Hungry

The Hunger Games is still the only game at the megaplexes. Elsewhere, Sam Worthington continues to work, and a non-prostitution-related Julia Roberts fairy tale fails to ignite interest. It's the Box Office Report.

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Mar 29, 2012

Does The Hunger Games Soundtrack Measure Up to the Movie?

Benefiting from the Midas touch of the label "The Hunger Games"—the movie raked in $155 million in its opening weekend for Lionsgate—is the soundtrack, titled The Hunger Games: Songs from District 12 and Beyond, which reached number 1 on the album chart this week.

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Mar 27, 2012

Academy Members Upset at Having to Pay for 'Hunger Games' Tickets

Perhaps the most brutal, most shocking thing about The Hunger Games is not the squalid conditions of District 12, not the callous monsters of the Capitol, not the pile of dead children lying in a field.

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By Ray Gustini

Mar 27, 2012

The Smart Set

Marco Rubio Vets Himself; Sarah Jessica Parker Escapes From Manhattan

Also: Miley Cyrus is not engaged, and her ring is just topaz.

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Mar 26, 2012

The Call Sheet

Justin Bieber Is a Man

Today: Justin Bieber's new song sounds awfully grown-up, ABC Family makes a big buy, and Will Ferrell is trying to get his kid into college.

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Mar 25, 2012

Box Office Report

'The Hunger Games' Conquers with $155 Million

It's bigger than Spider-Man. Bigger than Twilight. It's The Hunger Games, and it's making Lionsgate very, very happy.

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Mar 24, 2012

'The Hunger Games' Made $70 Million in One Day

The movie is on track to have the fifth-biggest opening weekend ever.

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Mar 23, 2012

The Trouble with Making Books We Love into Movies

Let us not forget, in the whiplash-inspiring build-up to the Hunger Games movie cumulating in exhausting midnight showings (and screenings for normal people at normal times), that this all was sprung from a far more humble entity.

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Mar 23, 2012

Movie Date

'The Hunger Games': There Won't Be Blood

Oh the agony of being a fan! Specifically a fan of those gotta-read serial books that recapture a youthful ardor for deep, long reading that we’d mostly thought gone in these quick-burst internet times.

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Mar 19, 2012

Can 'The Hunger Games' Survive the Hype?

Once upon a time, we innocently went about our lives, casually looking forward to a movie coming to the multiplex near us. Things are different now.

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By Ray Gustini

Mar 16, 2012

A New Publisher for James Bond ; The Age of 'Perpetual Publishing'

Today in books: Vintage has acquired rights to the James Bond books, The Hunger Games sends Scholastic stock soaring, and Dante is under siege in Italy.

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