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COMICS-FILM - From DenofGeek: First look at the Zachary Levi's costume in Warner Bros./DC Entertainment's "Shazam: film.
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STREAMING - From Variety: Netflix plans 700 original series and movies for 2018.
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COMICS-FILM - From BleedingCool: Significant reshoots for Fox's X-Men spinoff, "The New Mutants."
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CELEBRITY - From Variety: In a wide-ranging interview, legendary Barbra Streisand talks sexism in Hollywood, the Oscars, and wanting to direct films again. She also reveals that she has had her dogs cloned.
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OSCARS - From Yahoo: Oscars so scandalous: leading movies hit with backlash
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CELEBRITY - From Variety: Kevin Smith tweets that he suffered a heart attack.
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BOX OFFICE - From BoxOfficeMojo: The winner of the 2/23 to 2/25/2018 weekend box office is Marvel Studio's "Black Panther" with an estimated take of $108 million.
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MOVIES - From BleedingCool: Ryan Coogler explains why he isn't directing "Creed 2," the sequel to his hit film, "Creed."
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MOVIE - From ShadowandAct: See photographic image of three generations of Shaft from the upcoming film, "Son of Shaft."
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STREAMING - From TVSeriesFinale: Amazon is developing a TV series based on Stephen King's "The Dark Tower" book series.
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MOVIES - From Vulture: "The First Great Movie of the Trump Era" By Jada Yuan and Hunter Harris (about Jordan Peele's "Get Out")
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MOVIES - From Collider: Alex Garland is a hot filmmaker and is currently promoting his second film, "Annihilation." He began as a noted novelist and revealed that there may be another film adaptation of his debut novel, "The Beach." There was a 2000 film adaptation from director Danny Boyle and starring Leonardo DiCaprio.
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TELEVISION - From TVSeriesFinale: Walter Goggins will star in CBS's reboot of the Oscar-winning film, "L.A. Confidential."
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CELEBRITY - From GQ: Whatever happened to actor Brendan Fraser (The Mummy franchise)
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MOVIES - From THR: "Jurassic World 3" has been scheduled for a 2021 release.
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ANIMATION - From Deadline: Larry Fishburne is producing an animated TV series based on Marvel Comics' "Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur" comic book, which is apparently popular with young readers.
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MOVIES - From BleedingCool: Jessica Chastain is in talks to star as "Beverly" in the sequel to the smash hit, "It."
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#PARKLANDSHOOTING - From StandardUK: George and Amal Clooney donate $500,000 to gun control march after Florida shooting.
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BOX OFFICE - From BoxOfficeMojo: The winner of the 2/16 to 2/18/2018 (President's Day) weekend box office is Disney/Marvel's "Black Panther" with an estimated take of $192 million, the fifth largest box office opening to date.
From BleedingCool: Black Panther's three-day weekend total is actually $201.8 million instead of $192 million.
From Variety: "Black Panther's four-day President's Day weekend may hit $235 million.
From THR: All this fuss over a superhero movie? by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
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MOVIES - From CBR: The "Transformers" film franchise may end as an unresolved film series. Paramount has reportedly cancelled what was to be the sequel to "Transformers: The Last Knight," which apparently had an open ending. [I didn't see that film.]
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AWARDS - From Variety: A complete list of winners at the 2018 BAFTAs. "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" wins two best film awards.
From TheGuardian: Bafta film awards 2018: Three Billboards triumphs as Time's Up dominates
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MOVIES - From EW: Anne Hathaway joins Dee Rees ("Mudbound") for an adaptation of Joan Didion's 1996 novel, "The Last Thing He Wanted," a political thriller.
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CRIME-POLITICS - From Justice.gov: Read Robert S. Mueller III's indictment against 13 individuals (Russians and one American).
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MOVIES - From BleedingCool: Sylvester Stallone reveals the first poster for "Creed II."
OBITS:
From THR: Oscar-nominated animator, Bud Luckey, has died at the age of 83, Saturday, February 24, 2018. An early Pixar employee, Luckey, designed the cowboy "Woody" for the original "Toy Story." He also created "counting cartoons" for "Seasame Street." He received an Oscar nominations for his animated short film, "Boundin'."
From Variety: The India actress, Sridevi Kapoor, has died at the age of 54, Saturday, February 24, 2018. Best known by her mononym, Sridevi, was the first Bollywood superstar actress.
From TheGuardian: British actress, Emma Chambers, has died at the age of 53, Wednesday, February 21, 2018. Chambers was best known for her roles in the British comedy TV series, "The Vicar of Dibley," and in the 1999 film, "Notting Hill," playing "Honey," the sister of Hugh Grant's character.
From YahooNews: Famed evangelist and ordained Southern Baptist minister and preacher, Billy Graham, has died at the age of 99, Wednesday, February 21, 2018. Known as "America's Pastor," Graham provided spiritual counsel to every U.S. President from Harry Truman to Barack Obama. Graham was also a supporter of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and began "racial integration" for his revival and crusades beginning in 1953. [Of course, he's resting in peace.]
From Deadline: African filmmaker Idrissa Ouedraogo, has died at the age of 64, Sunday, February 18, 2018. A native of the West African nation of Burkina Faso, Ouedraogo won the Cannes Jury Prize for his 1990 film, "Tilai."
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