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Transformers 4 tops worst Fourth of July weekend box office since 1987

Michael Bay's robot movie drops 64% week on week to contribute – along with Tammy – to the poorest inflation-adjusted result since the mid 1980s. Plus: more bad news for Tom Cruise, and a glimmer of...

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Sneaky previews for Transformers 4 and How To Train Your Dragon 2 lead to a...

Uncounted showings mean Mrs Brown's Boys D'Movie retains the top spot, though the true picture is somewhat different. Plus: jury is still out on whether Melissa McCarthy can open a movie, but might...

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Dawn of Planet of the Apes swings to top of US box office as Transformers 4...

Apes prequel draws $73m while Transformers slumps, but the buzz around Boyhood, Linklater's 12-year study of a growing boy, grows louder• More US box office analysisBuoyed by excitable reviews that in...

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US goes bananas for Apes, while Universal will be satisfied by Purge

Fox executives can rub their hands with glee over the marketing and motion capture for Dawn of the Planet of the Apes; and The Purge: Anarchy continues to enthral Hollywood• Previous weeks' US box...

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Elle Fanning to play Mary Shelley for Wadjda director Haifaa al-Mansour

Pioneering Saudi film-maker has cast the young Maleficent actor as the Frankenstein author in A Storm in the Stars• Xan Brooks' review of Wadjda• Video interview with Elle Fanning and Alice Englert for...

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Hollywood's summer of monster movies makes audience yawn

But female leads give a film box office longevity as Angelina Jolie's Maleficent and Scarlett Johansson's Lucy showedHollywood unleashed a noisy barrage of monsters, mutants and superheroes this...

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Apes swing past Inbetweeners to grab top spot at the UK's summer box office

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes rakes in 50% more than its predecessor, but The Inbetweeners' £31m take is phenomenal for a low-budget, TV sitcom spinoff• More UK box-office analysisIt was a close-run...

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Why are there no happy families in Hollywood?

Every new film seems to be about kids looking for a new family – even if the kid is a space-travelling raccoon. I love Hollywood’s obsession with divorce and dysfunction, but wouldn’t it be nice to see...

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Global box office: The Maze Runner races ahead, trailed by Tombstones

In the first of our new weekly series tracking cinema’s worldwide winners …The Maze Runner finds its way to No 1 in 50 countriesThe latest $1bn Transformers epic is top summer blockbusterLiam Neeson’s...

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Beyond the UK and US: what films are top of the box office for the rest of...

The Lego Movie is the top grossing film so far this year in the UK. Guardians of the Galaxy tops the charts in the US, but what is most popular among movie-goers in other countries around the world?•...

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The Hobbit instalment marches towards year’s top of UK box office

The third Hobbit instalment keeps Paddington at bay, as family films shine brightest in the Christmas holiday charts – and The Lego Movie revealed as year’s biggest UK earnerDropping an OK 45% in its...

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Transformers: Age of Extinction named highest-grossing film of 2014

Chinese audiences help Michael Bay’s sci-fi saga blow away the competition, while Guardians of the Galaxy and Angelina Jolie fantasy vehicle Maleficent round out the top three Transformers: Age of...

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2014 global box office in review

Unsubtle and culture-coarsening it may be, but Bay-hem’s ‘skull-splinteringly insensitive’ blockbuster topped the box office lists this year. The final global box office review of 2014 traces the...

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You don't know Oscar: can you beat the ultimate 2015 nominee quiz?

Nine exclusive games. Sixty movies. One mega-quiz. How well do you know this year’s films? Test your eyes, ears and cinematic knowledge – before it’s too lateContinue reading...

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Winnie the Pooh: bear of little brain walks again

AA Milne’s much-loved children’s classic to be revived by Disney as a live action film, following success of Alice in Wonderland and CinderellaDisney is to make yet another raid into its archive with a...

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Reese Witherspoon to play Tinker Bell in Disney live action fairytale

New version of the story of the mischievous fairy announced six months after Twentieth Century Fox leaked details of rival project starring Melissa McCarthyReese Witherspoon will star as Tinker Bell in...

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Monster-maker Rick Baker to retire, citing 'cheap and fast' Hollywood effects

Seven-time Oscar winner famous for An American Werewolf in London says animatronics and monster makeup have largely been replaced by CGI in 2015He is one of Hollywood’s most decorated figures, a makeup...

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Angelina Jolie to return in Maleficent 2

Disney also announces plans to produce live-action sequels to Tinker Bell, with Reese Witherspoon, and The Jungle BookAngelina Jolie will return as the fairy Maleficent in a sequel to Disney’s 2014...

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Maleficent 2: the worst example of Angelina's Jolieland syndrome

She may have virtually retired from on-camera duties, but the tour-de-force star is surely too spectacular to end her career with a lazy fantasy prequelKevin Smith has a wonderful story to tell about...

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Maleficent: Mistress of Evil review – panto fun is missing in action

Angelina Jolie, Michelle Pfeiffer and Elle Fanning do their best in second revisionist fairytale, but CGI battles kill the storyThis sequel has got a great cast. It’s not just Angelina Jolie reprising...

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