11/27/12

Which Locals Won the Thanksgiving Box Office Bonanza?

If gorging yourself on your Thanksgiving meal made you feel heavy, chances are at least your wallet feels lighter. In addition to shelling out for Turkey Day groceries and falling prey to the Black Friday/Small Business Saturday/Cyber Monday corridor, many of you sprung for movie tickets for your families, too. This was actually the highest grossing Thanksgiving weekend for the movie business ever, with multiplexes raking in $288 million overall.

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11/20/12

Lincoln Close to Home

The movies that took the top two spots this weekend were about as different as they come; The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn (Part Two) and Lincoln. Reaching out to different audiences, they're both raking in the money. And, yet, if you combine them into something like Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, you get a flop. Go figure.

If you're a Twilight fan and want to see the movie's inspirations in real life, I've got no advice for you but to get yourself a plane ticket and head to Forks, Washington. If Lincoln has you all fired up about our sixteenth president, though, there are...

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11/13/12

Movies to See Over the Thanksgiving Break—and Who to See Them With

For some people, Thanksgiving means more than turkey and tryptophan. It means a full multiplex packed with movies that studios were holding on to in hopes of getting some end-of-year awards attention. (This is where the studios start trotting out the big guns.) But the Thanksgiving holiday also means you have to make time for friends and relatives. It is possible to kill two birds with one stone. Here, we present movies for every social call you have to make over the Thanksgiving holiday. If you're looking to head to the theater with…

…Your Video-Game-Obsessed Nieces and Nephews

Wreck-It Ralph

With nary a...

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11/06/12

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Weddings

With the recent nuptials of a certain Mr. Justin Timberlake, a lot of celebrity marriages have been in the news of late. Justin and Jessica are cresting a wedding wave that, along with the likes of Anne Hathaway, include most of the stars of The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (Amber Tamblyn, Blake Lively, America Ferrera, and Alexis Bleidel for the uninitiated).

Chances are, you didn't rush out to theaters to see The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, the film adaptation of the book series Ann Brashares. Even if you have, you might not have realized that, so far, these weddings all have a connection to the area.

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