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- 'Moonlight' earns WGA best original screenplay: Could big Oscar win be next?'Moonlight,' which depicts the life of a young gay black man, received one of the highest awards from the Writers Guild of America. What are the movie's chances on Oscars night?
- Box Office: 'Lego Batman' Flies High Over 'Great Wall,' 'Fist Fight'Boosted by strong critical support, the spinoff of 2014's "The Lego Movie" has made $108 million in its first 11 days. "Great Wall," the most expensive movie ever shot in China, has struggled.
- Here's how the valued Oscar statuettes are createdNew Oscars will be handed out at the 2017 ceremony on Feb. 26. Here's how the statuettes themselves are made.
- 'Hidden Figures' screenwriter Allison Schroeder came to movie following NASA-centric family historySchroeder's grandfather and grandmother worked at NASA, while Schroeder herself, growing up near Cape Canaveral, remembers seeing launches at school.
- Critics advise against scaling 'The Great Wall' 鈥 could it kill East-West collaboration?'The Great Wall,' a Hollywood-China co-production, has received negative reviews and industry watchers are predicting it will open behind such box office holdovers as 'The LEGO Batman Movie.'聽
- Grand-scale extravaganza in 'The Great Wall' lacks transcendenceThe movie centers on battles between ravenous lizards known as the Taotie and those who defend the Great Wall. If you've seen one Taotie, you've seen them all.
- 'Kedi' is about how animals can bring out the kindness in peopleThe Turkish documentary centers on the stray cat population in Istanbul. Director聽Ceyda Torun has made a movie so far beyond the cute kitty stuff one sees on YouTube that it鈥檚 almost insulting to draw the comparison.
- Disney's live-action 'Mulan' hires female director, Niki Caro, in still-rare moveNiki Caro becomes one of the few women to be brought on to helm a movie budgeted at more than $100 million. Caro has previously directed 'Whale Rider' and聽the upcoming film 'The Zookeeper's Wife.'
- 'I Am Jane Doe' lucidly presents important subject'Doe' is about the聽mostly middle- and high-school girls who have been victims of sex trafficking predominantly on the adult classified site Backpage.com.
- 'The LEGO Batman Movie' is exhilarating and exhaustingAt its best, 'Batman' has the same whiplash wit and inspired freneticism as 'The LEGO Movie,' though it's not quite as good.
- 'A United Kingdom' simplifies a complex political dynamicThe film, which depicts the mixed-race marriage聽between Seretse Khama (David Oyelowo), the prince of Bechuanaland (and later the first democratically elected president of Botswana), and Ruth Williams (Rosamund Pike), makes its subjects glorified waxworks.
- 'The Daughter,' Ibsen adaptation, won't win over viewers who are new to playwright's work'Daughter' stars Geoffey Rush as the owner of a now-shuttered local mill who is about to marry his housekeeper (Anna Torv). When his son returns home for the first time in 15 years, family secrets are unloosed.
- Uneven 'The Comedian' doesn't measure up to Robert De Niro's performance'Comedian' stars De Niro as a washed-up comic who continues his career because he craves the audience's acceptance. Leslie Mann co-stars.
- In Black Lives Matter era, reviewers are won over by new documentary film 'I Am Not Your Negro'The documentary, which will be released in theaters on Feb. 3, is directed by Raoul Peck and is based on writings by James Baldwin about civil rights leaders including Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., and Medgar Evers.
- First LookPeter Capaldi to depart 'Doctor Who,' British TV show that thrives on reinventionPeter Capaldi, the 12th actor to portray 'Doctor Who' on the long-running British science fiction program, says he's leaving the series. What makes BBC show so enduringly successful?
- 'Ocean's Eight' sneak peek: Are gender-flipping reboots helping to balance Hollywood?Are remakes of popular movies with actresses in the lead a good thing, or is it just another way to possibly cash in on familiar titles?
- 'Roxanne Roxanne' breakout star Chante Adams reveals how she landed her lead roleAdams stars in the Roxanne Shante biopic 'Roxanne Roxanne,' which recently premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. The film co-stars Mahershala Ali and Nia Long.
- CalArts' female students aim to stop stereotypes in animationNearly three-quarters of CalArts' more than 250 animation students are women and there's a new goal: ensure that when they land jobs, they get to draw female characters reflective of the real world.
- First LookMarvel reveals villain to appear in 'Black Panther,' superhero movie with diverse castThe comic book movie company recently announced that a previously seen villain will come back in the upcoming movie, Marvel Studio's first film with a black protagonist.
- 'Gold' lacks urgency or adventurousness'Gold' stars Matthew McConaughey as Kenny Wells, who partners with a geologist in Indonesia. Matthew McConaughey's performance is a rousing feat without which this movie would have far less to recommend it.