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Movie theaters are back! Sort of. This weekend AMC and Regal Cinemas will reopen many of their screens nationwide, which have been shuttered since March. And although some independent theaters have remained in operation around the country during the COVID-19 pandemic, the major chains revving up again means we can finally enjoy brand-new blockbusters on …
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Jimmy Butler is grinding away to pad his $34 million salary this season. The Heat star has taken over the monopoly on coffee shops inside the NBA’s bubble, using his French press and other accessories to charge his fellow players $20 a cup. “I’m working on my coffee skills,” Butler said on ESPN’s “The Jump” …
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R. Kelly‘s manager was hit with federal charges Friday for allegedly making a threatening phone call to a Manhattan theater that was screening a documentary about the sex-abuse allegations against the R&B star, authorities said. Donnell Russell, 45, allegedly called the NeueHouse theater on Dec. 4, 2018, and said there was someone in the crowd …
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Andrew Lloyd Webber is doing his part to get the theater community back up and running. “Just completed the Oxford Covid-19 vaccine trial,” the 72-year-old “Cats” composer captioned a photo of himself receiving the vaccine on Thursday. “I’ll do anything to get theatres large and small open again and actors and musicians back to work.” …
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Shrugging off gloomy predictions about the city’s future, big-league developers on Monday unveiled plans for transformative new projects on Harlem’s famed 125th Street, including a new Target. The deals — remarkable strokes of confidence in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic — aren’t long-range pipe dreams either, but fully financed ventures that will break ground …
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Ever since the ’50s, when the motion-picture industry felt existentially threatened by the rise of television (much as forces within it today feel existentially threatened by the rise of streaming), the movies have found ways to entice people into theaters with added benefits. 3D was the original P.T. Barnum attraction (the golden age of 3D …
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Heather Morris posted a tearful video on Instagram on Sunday in remembrance of her late “Glee” co-star Naya Rivera. Morris, 33, portrayed the “Glee” cheerleader Brittany Pierce who eventually got married to Rivera’s character, Santana Lopez. The actress captioned her heartfelt video, “You are not alone.” “I have done a couple of these already, because …
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Shares of struggling cinema chains jumped on Friday after the Department of Justice scrapped 72-year-old rules severely limiting Hollywood’s ability to buy movie theaters. Friday’s ruling paves the way for film studio giants like Disney and Netflix to look beyond one-off purchases of small theaters and set their sights on buying larger swaths of cinemas. …
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Terry and Heather Dubrow are proud that their 16-year-old daughter, Max, has shown the world her “real self” by coming out as bisexual. Terry told Page Six that Max’s siblings also have their own ways of showing their support for the teen, who came out at the conclusion of Pride Month. “And I was really …
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AMC Entertainment, the nation’s largest movie theater chain, said it lost half a billion dollars in the second quarter, making it the company’s worst quarter since it was founded in 1920. The chain, which was forced to close cinemas across the nation as the coronavirus swept the nation in March, said it swung to a …
Movie theaters are back! Sort of. This weekend AMC and Regal Cinemas will reopen many of their screens nationwide, which have been shuttered since March. And although some independent theaters have remained in operation around the country during the COVID-19 pandemic, the major chains revving up again means we can finally enjoy brand-new blockbusters on …
