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NEWS:
From YahooMovies: The site offers their Golden Globe predictions. Ceremony is on Sunday night, Jan. 10th.
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From YahooMovies: Thanks to the boffo box office of "Star Wars: The Force Awakens," Harrison Ford is now the top grossing actor in domestic box office history with his films grossing $4.699 billion. He pasted Samuel L. Jackson who films have grossed $4.626 million in domestic box office.
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From TheWrap: 2016 BAFTA nominations (for films released in 2015) have been announced, with Todd Haynes' "Carol" and Steven Spielberg's "Bridge of Spies" leading with nine nominations each.
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From TheWrap: "Game of Throne" Season Six premiere date has been set, April 24, 2016.
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From BleedingCool: Guillermo del Toro is planning to remake the 1966 sci-fi film, Fantastic Voyage. Sounds like the del Toro golden age is over.
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From EW: M. Night Shyamalan to reboot "Tales from the Crypt" for TNT.
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From Variety: Universal Pictures wants to shoot at least some of "Fast and Furious 8" in Cuba.
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From YahooSports: Ken Griffey, Jr. and Mike Piazza are elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
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From LatinoReview: Photos from "The Conjuring 2" and word that a teaser trailer drops Jan. 7th.
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From SlashFilm: First "Star War: Rogue One" rumors roll out, including character names and bit-part actors.
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From YahooMusic: Steely Dan frontman, Donald Fagen, in trouble for assaulting his wife.
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From People: The Olsen twins just to busy for "Fuller House," man!
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From WeGotThisCovered: Guillermo del Toro preps "Trollhunters" and a "Voltron" reboot for DreamWorks and Netflix.
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From DarkHorizons: Sylvester Stallone has retired Rambo, but will bring Rocky back for "Creed 2."
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From DarkHorizons: Sylvain Chomet announced that he has begun production on his next animated feature, "A Thousand Miles." He is an Oscar nominee for his previous animated films, "The Triplets of Bellville" and "The Illusionist."
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From TheWrap: Michael Bay confirms that he will direct "Transformers 5," which will be his last one.
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From BoxOfficeMojo: Disney is estimating that "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" has made $88.3 million for the 1/1 to 1/3/2016 weekend box office. This would make the Star Wars sequel the winner of the first weekend box office of 2016.
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From YahooBeauty: Dakota Johnson blasts Hollywood ageism, which affects her mother, Melanie Griffith, and grandmother, Tippi Hedren.
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From TheWrap: Raiders of the lost Gene Roddenberry floppy drive data.
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From EW: A crew member died from injuries sustained while making "Resident Evil: The Final Chapter."
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From YahooSports: Lakers may retire both of Kobe Bryant's numbers, #8 and #24.
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From TheVillageVoice: Quentin Tarantino on Quentin Tarantino.
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From BleedingCool: As Neil Gaiman said, "George R.R. Martin is not your bitch."
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From Vulture: Beyonce is apparently working on the kind of movie that might attract Oscar notice.
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From YahooMovies: 40 movies in 2016 that excite the "Yahoo Movies" staff.
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From Esquire: 6 degress from Iran-Contra to Peyton Manning.
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From YahooNews: Bill Cosby commits a Twitter fail.
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From TheWrap: Five theories about Steven Avery's innocence in "Making a Murderer."
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From TheWrap: First photo of former NBA star Lamar Odom since his October 2015 overdose.
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From ThePlaylist: "Alien: Covenant" set 10 years after "Prometheus."
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From Variety: The U.S. Postal Service will release "Star Trek" postage stamps to celebrate the series 50th anniversary.
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From YahooNews: Disney plots a return of Indiana Jones.
NON-POP NEWS:
From TIME: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar offers some New Year's resolutions for America.
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From YahooNews: A NYPD officer is stripped of her badge and gun in relation to the choking death of Eric Garner. But it is a Black female officer...
From Jacobin: Why we shouldn't demand police violence against the Oregon militia/racists/gunmen.
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From RSN: Michael Moore tells Donald Trump "We are all Muslims."
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From BuzzFlash: Return of the Chicken Hawks.
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From YahooNews: Cartoon by Carlos Latuff sums up double standard used to excuse white violence - Re: Tamir Rice.
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From YahooNews: Cliven Bundy's son occupy federal building. Will their fate be better than Tamir Rice's?
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From RSN: California's tech-hungry cities go after the homeless and poor.
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From TheDailyBeast: Bill Cosby, Tamir Rice, and the power of the prosecutor.
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From the WashPost: 2015 will go down as one of the safest years for police officers. On-the job deaths down 14 percent from 2014. One-third of those were due to traffic accidents.
COMICS - Books and Movies:
From THR: Apparently, "Titans," the proposed TNT series based on the Teen Titans comic books, is not going to happen.
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From THR: 5 comic book creators to watch out for in 2016.
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From THR: Top 10 best selling comics of 2015 - by estimates - which Marvel Comics dominates.
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From THR: 6 comics to look out for in 2016.
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From ShonenJumpBlog: Naruto's son, Boruto, will be back in new manga starting Spring 2016 and it will run simultaneously in Shonen Jump in Japan and the U.S.
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From ComicBookBin: The CBB newsletter is back!
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From ComicBookBin: There is a reader survey for the hot comic strip, Johnny Bullet.
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From YahooNews: The runtime for Deadpool may be 1 hour and 46 minutes.
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From YahooNews: Olivia Munn shares set photo from "X-Men: Apocalypse."
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From Moviefone: Kevin Feige announces Ryan Coogler officially as the director of their "Black Panther" movie.
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From YahooNews: A peek inside the new Batcave.
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From MangaBlog: Best and worst in manga of 2015.
OBITS:
From Variety: The cinematographer, Vilmos Zsigmos, has died at the age of 85 (Fri., Jan. 1st, 2016). He won an Oscar for shooting "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." He was nominated three other times, most recently for "The Black Dahlia" (2006), which was a terrible movie. He also shot "Deliverance" and "Blow Out."
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From THR: The singer-songwriter Natalie Cole has died at the age of 65 (Thurs., Dec. 31st., 2015). The Grammy Award-winning singer and recording artist was the daughter of the late singing legend, Nat "King" Cole.
From People: Producer David Foster remembers Natalie Cole.
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From Variety: The actor Wayne Rogers has died at the age of 83 (Thursday, Dec. 31st, 2015). He is best known for playing "Trapper" John McIntyre during the first three seasons of "M.A.S.H."
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