Why Angelina Jolie's Unbroken Is Doing Better Than Expected

Considering the impressive amount of Christmas competition it faced at the box office last week, Angelina Jolie's Unbroken has actually had a startlingly good opening in its first few days at the box office. The film's $15.59 million gross was the third highest Christmas Day debut ever, and it has already amassed $53.9 million worldwide - which means that it is well on its way to grossing its $65 million budget back and then some. But why have moviegoers been so charmed by Angelina Jolie's film? It's been alleged that audiences have been flocking to see Unbroken because of both its inspirational tone ...

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Watch The Worst Movies Of The Year Review Themselves In This Hilarious Video

Here on Cinema Blend, we've spent a good chunk of the past month celebrating the best in cinema that 2014 had to offer, but now we're going to switch gears and talk about the opposite side of the quality scale. But rather than slamming these titles ourselves, the following video allows those less-than-great features to slam themselves. This funny new cut comes to us thanks to the folks over at Yahoo!, and simply lets some of the worst titles of the year internally slam themselves with some out-of-context dialogue. What's rather interesting, though, is that some of the quotes selected are ...

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15 Brilliant Hollywood Stars We Lost In 2014

We lost legends in 2014. Looking back over the notable celebrity deaths, names like Robin Williams and Joan Rivers mix with Hollywood icons such as Mickey Rooney, Lauren Bacall and Sid Caesar. The industry is a darker place because the shining talents of these amazing performers have been extinguished. Lucky for us, we'll always have the creative work they left behind to remind us of their incredible abilities to entertain, to make us laugh, to make us think, and to make us smile. Take a moment today to remember these outstanding artists who died in 2014: Joan Rivers Age: 81 Died: September 4, of ...

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Marvel's Agent Carter Reports for Duty

World War II is over, but superspy Peggy Carter is still fighting the good fight — and she's looking pretty damn good while doing it. ABC's lushly produced, seven-episode action-adventure series Marvel's Agent Carter , set in 1946, will be bringing some old-style Hollywood glamour to primetime. Leading lady Hayley Atwell wholeheartedly approves.



"This series is such a film-noir feast for the eyes that I come to work an hour early just to watch," says the British actress, who first played Carter in the 2011 movie blockbuster Marvel's Captain America: The First Avenger . "Despite all the chaos of the war years, people had great style — the guys so elegant and gentlemanlike, the women so beautiful and well turned out with their cinched waists, pencil skirts, pin curls, and red lips. To act in this time period is absolute heaven."



Peggy, however, is in her own kind of hell...

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Judd Apatow's Long Lost Script for The Simpsons Finally Set to Air

If at first you don't succeed, wait 25 years and try again. Comedy auteur Judd Apatow (The 40-Year-old Virgin, Knocked Up) wrote the Sunday, Jan. 11 episode of Fox's The Simpsons — "Bart's New Friend" — way back in 1990, mere weeks after the series debuted. Why did his work take so long to hit the air? Apatow gave us the d'oh-down.



TV Guide Magazine: What made you write this thing?
Apatow: I was 22, a huge fan of The Simpsons, and hoping for a TV writing career. At the time I was a fledgling standup comic and people said, "If you want to write for sitcoms, you need to do spec scripts." Only six episodes of The Simpsons had aired at that point but I tried to copy the style and did a spec script where Homer gets hypnotized and thinks he's a 10-year-old. He has such a great time being Bart's friend that he doesn't want to become an adult again. I sent it in — in fact, I sent it to all my favorite shows — and got no job offers. I also wrote a spec script for the great Chris Elliott show Get a Life. They at least brought me in for a meeting, but that didn't lead to any work, either. Then, all these years later, [Simpsons executive producer] Al Jean calls and says, "Hey, we'll make it now!" ...

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Lee Daniels Builds a Soapy New Hip-Hop Empire for Fox

William Shakespeare is the clear inspiration for the new Fox drama Empire — a sudsy retooling of King Lear set in the world of hip-hop — but there's no way in hell that the Bard could have ever imagined Cookie Lyon! Played with fire and fabulosity by Oscar nominee Taraji P. Henson, Cookie emerges in the series' first episode from a 17-year stint in the slammer for running illegal drugs — the profits of which went to the creation of Empire Entertainment. This hugely successful record company conglomerate is run by Cookie's ex-hubby, Lucious (Terrence Howard), a street thug—turned—rap superstar, and it's about to go public on the New York Stock Exchange. Cookie, who knows she can bring down Lucious with one juicy leak to the press, wants what she feels is her fair share of the company. That would be half.



"Cookie is my hero — a tell-it-like-it-is everywoman who has made the ultimate sacrifice for her family," says Henson....

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First Look: Home Improvement's Tim Allen and Patricia Richardson Reunite on Last Man Standing

It took the power of Tim Allen to convince Patricia Richardson to return to the sitcom world.



Richardson hadn't appeared on a half-hour comedy since she and Allen wrapped Home Improvement in 1999. But now she's back, guest starring on the Jan. 9 episode of Allen's latest ABC comedy, Last Man Standing.


Richardson plays Helen Potts, a neighbor who is good with tools (yes, a nod to Allen's Home Improvement character) but who annoys nearby homes with her loud power tools. Mike (Allen) feels the need to step in when his wife Vanessa (Nancy Travis) and Helen become pals.



Allen said he wanted to wait until the Last Man Standing writers came up with the right role before inviting Richardson to set....

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