Bob Mondello
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NPR News: 12-16-2024 8PM EST
The character recovers, but his movie won't. With an opening of barely $11 million for the weekend, Craven the Hunter, which cost more than $100 million to make, now has the record for the lowest opening ever for a Marvel movie.
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NPR News: 12-16-2024 8PM EST
The film had been sitting on the shelf through much of the pandemic and was probably not helped by the decision to open it in early December, traditionally a rough box office period. Not rough for Wicked or Moana, though, each of which more than doubled Craven's box office take for the weekend. Bob Mondello, NPR News.
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NPR News: 03-04-2025 4PM EST
When I was wounded in Vietnam with shrapnel, instead of just taking my arm off, The medics took the time to just pick out the pieces. That's the way that we need to be addressing these issues. It needs to be with a scalpel and not just a saw.
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NPR News: 03-04-2025 4PM EST
We saw this the last go-around with China. They went to South America, to Brazil and Argentina. And once you lose those export markets, it's awful hard to get them back.
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NPR News: 03-23-2025 6PM EDT
Snow White easily dwarfed the competition at cinemas. The rest of the box office top ten combined made barely half as much as Snow White did, but this live-action remake of Disney's first animated feature only took in $87 million worldwide. and that means making back its $270 million production cost is going to be difficult.
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NPR News: 03-23-2025 6PM EDT
Disney has had a lot of success with live remakes of its animated classics, and even when they don't cast a spell at the box office, they feed the company's other revenue streams, Disney+, sales of merchandise, theme park rides, even shows on Broadway. Still, for Hollywood, it's a disappointing start, in a year that has yet to have a smash hit. Bob Mondello, NPR News.
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NPR News: 02-16-2025 6PM EST
It redeveloped and was responsible for all the heavy rain that occurred across parts of Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky.
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NPR News: 03-22-2025 5PM EDT
She's buoyant, determined, and waiting for families to show up. And they are, if not quite in the numbers Disney hoped. Including previews, Snow White made $15 million its opening day, which suggests it's headed for about $45 million this weekend. roughly half what Princess Ariel took home in The Little Mermaid two years ago.
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NPR News: 03-22-2025 5PM EDT
Snow White has gotten pushback in some quarters for its casting of Latina actress Rachel Zegler and for statements Zegler made to the press.
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NPR News: 03-22-2025 5PM EDT
But Zegler's also earned raves for her performance, and Disney's good at spinning wishes into gold. Its most recent live-action musical, Mufasa, opened much lower but still topped $700 million worldwide. Bob Mandello, NPR News.
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NPR News: 03-22-2025 3PM EDT
She's buoyant, determined, and waiting for families to show up. And they are, if not quite in the numbers Disney hoped. Including previews, Snow White made $15 million its opening day, which suggests it's headed for about $45 million this weekend. roughly half what Princess Ariel took home in The Little Mermaid two years ago.
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NPR News: 03-22-2025 3PM EDT
Snow White has gotten pushback in some quarters for its casting of Latina actress Rachel Zegler and for statements Zegler made to the press.
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NPR News: 03-22-2025 3PM EDT
But Zegler's also earned raves for her performance, and Disney's good at spinning wishes into gold. Its most recent live-action musical, Mufasa, opened much lower but still topped $700 million worldwide. Bob Mandello, NPR News.
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NPR News: 01-17-2025 8PM EST
Supremely dignified in her later years, she was squeaky when she first made an impression on movie audiences as Laurence Olivier's adoring granddaughter in The Entertainer.
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NPR News: 01-17-2025 8PM EST
They married shortly after the movie came out, and Plowright became closely associated with Olivier's stage work. After his death, she came into her own in such films as Tea with Mussolini and her Oscar-nominated performance in Enchanted April as a stern widow in literary circles.
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NPR News: 01-17-2025 8PM EST
Declining eyesight forced Plowright to retire from acting in 2014, but she was amusing as herself in the 2018 documentary Nothing Like a Dame, alongside fellow acting legends Maggie Smith and Judi Dench. Bob Mondello, NPR News.
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NPR News: 01-23-2025 7PM EST
Amelia Perez is a French and Spanish-language gangster musical about trans identity. It led a field of unorthodox films with 13 nominations, including Best Picture, another musical, Wicked Part One, and the three-and-a-half-hour epic The Brutalist about immigrant trauma followed with 10 nominations each.
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NPR News: 01-23-2025 7PM EST
Joining them in the Best Picture race are the Vatican thriller Conclave and the Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown with eight nominations each. and the sex worker rom-com Enora with Six. Also in the running, the sci-fi epic Dune Part II, the body horror film The Substance, the Spanish-language drama I'm Still Here, and The Nickel Boys, set in a racist reform school.
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NPR News: 01-23-2025 7PM EST
The Oscars telecast will be hosted by Conan O'Brien on March 2. Bob Mandello, NPR News.