Ed Helms News
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Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln,” about the 16th U.S. President’s political battle to end slavery, was nominated for seven Golden Globe awards, including best motion-picture drama and best director.
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At this point in the puzzlingly durable film careers of Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston , the title of their latest unfunny romantic comedy -- “ Just Go With It ” -- seems a fittingly desperate plea.
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Unnecessary cancer screenings, risky procedures and an estimated $800 billion in annual “overtreatment” costs take a thrashing in filmmaker Roger Weisberg’s provoking new PBS documentary “Money & Medicine.”
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“The Hangover: Part II,” Warner Bros. ’ raunchy comedy, led the box office to a Memorial Day weekend record, taking in $103.4 million in U.S. and Canadian ticket sales.
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The highlight of Terrence Malick ’s “ The Tree of Life ” is an 18-minute montage of galloping dinosaurs, exploding volcanoes, floating amoebas, majestic rainbows, wriggling jellyfish and a giant meteor hurtling through space. Not a single person or human voice interrupts the kaleidoscopic flow.
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“X-Men: First Class,” News Corp .’s fifth film about the mutants with super powers, was the top film this past weekend with $56 million in sales, the lowest since the original “X-Men” in 2000.
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“The Hangover Part II” was the top film in the U.S. and Canada this weekend, generating $86.5 million in receipts for Warner Bros. , and making it the best debut ever for a comedy.
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Jack Sparrow and Harry Potter in 3-D may lead to record movie-ticket sales for Hollywood studios and reverse last year’s 5.2 percent drop in attendance at the domestic box office.
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Alcoholics and drug addicts seek redemption in “Being Flynn,” but none so strenuously as Robert De Niro working to reclaim his acting mojo.
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“Super 8,” the science-fiction thriller from Steven Spielberg and J.J. Abrams, was the top film at U.S. and Canadian theaters over the weekend, debuting with $35.5 million in ticket sales for Paramount Pictures.
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