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- 'Captain America: Civil War' wins box office 鈥 did positive reviews help?The newest Marvel film, 'Captain America: Civil War,' had a big opening weekend, grossing more than $181 million domestically. Some of the other Marvel movies with great opening weekends such as 2012's 'The Avengers' were also liked by critics.
- 'Captain America: Civil War' kicks off a summer movie season in which few non-sequels, non-reboots dare to compete'Civil War,' which is now in theaters, is the start of a movie season that more than ever is聽held up by a forest of tentpoles stretching from May to August. The swelling size of the summer movie has turned the season into a game of survival.
- Superhero fatigue? 'Captain America: Civil War' actor Chris Evans isn't concernedEvans stars in the newest Marvel movie, which is now in theaters. 'As long as Marvel is making good movies, I'll still have the excitement and enthusiasm and commitment to work for them,' he says.
- Has Disney cast an actor as Han Solo for a 'Star Wars' spin-off movie?Reports say Disney has found its lead for the upcoming film, which will be released in 2018. Han Solo was originally portrayed by actor Harrison Ford in the original 'Star Wars' trilogy and in 2015's 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens.'
- 'Dark Horse' is a slight but winning tale of unlikely success'Dark' tells the story of Welsh inhabitants of a former mining village who decide to pool their resources and breed a racehorse.
- 'Dheepan' is hard-hitting but has a contrived ending'Dheepan' stars聽Antonythasan Jesuthasan as a Tamil freedom fighter who escapes Sri Lanka for France and the others he joins there.聽The correspondence between past and present horrors for these people emerges naturally from the material, without any underlining.
- 'Captain America: Civil War' is too much of a pretty good thing'Civil' finds Marvel characters battling against one another. Spider-Man (Tom Holland) is a funny highlight and Robert Downey Jr.'s acting is especially impressive.
- How the Marvel superheroes took over HollywoodMarvel Studios' newest film, 'Captain America: Civil War,' opens Friday, kicking off the summer blockbuster season. How the studio achieved massive success with a unique strategy.
- May the Fourth: How 'Force Awakens' revived the 'Star Wars' franchiseMay the Fourth: 'Force Awakens' became the latest franchise in Hollywood to recover after some mid-series flops.
- 'The Jungle Book' triumphs again at weekend box officeThe Disney live-action film 'Jungle Book' topped the domestic box office for the third weekend in a row, grossing more than $42 million. The movie stars Neel Sethi, Scarlett Johansson, and Bill Murray.
- Box Office: 'Jungle Book' Triumphs, 'Keanu' Stumbles, 'Mother's Day' BombsThe live-action adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's Mowgli stories lead ticket sales for the third straight weekend, but the three films are all expected to be blown out the water when "Captain America: Civil War" debuts next weekend.
- 'Ratchet & Clank': Video game movie adaptation done right?'Ratchet & Clank,' which is now in theaters, is based on a video game about an alien tinkerer and his robot sidekick. Other video game adaptations coming to movie theaters this year are 'The Angry Birds Movie,' 'Warcraft,' and more.
- Working with animals went better than expected for those in the film 'Keanu''Keanu' stars 'Key & Peele' stars Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele as mild-mannered men who are attempting to retrieve their kidnapped cat. 'They blew away my expectations,' 'Keanu' director Peter Atencio said of working with multiple kittens on the film.
- 'The Family Fang,' the story of an eccentric family, features impressive performances'Fang' stars Jason Bateman and Nicole Kidman as siblings whose parents (Christopher Walken and Maryann Plunkett) corralled them as children into taking part in performance art pieces.
- Alicia Vikander as Lara Croft: What's the future of video game adaptations?Vikander will reportedly take on the role for an upcoming 'Lara Croft' film. Angelina Jolie starred as the video game character in two films, the first of which is still the highest-grossing video game film adaptation in the US.
- 'Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt' presents naysayers and supporters of the philosopherThe documentary centers on the alternately celebrated and reviled German-born philosopher who gave us the phrase 'banality of evil.'聽
- 'The Man Who Knew Infinity' is tepid and disappointing'Infinity' stars Dev Patel as Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan and Jeremy Irons as his mentor, G.H. Hardy. Ramanujan's life is a gold mine of intellectual and cultural complexity, but the film is a conventional movie about an unconventional subject.
- Is Emma Stone playing memorable villainess Cruella de Vil?Emma Stone may portray the 'Dalmations' character in an upcoming Disney film. The movie would be the newest in a collection of various live-action adaptations of Disney animated films, with recent hits including 'The Jungle Book' and 'Cinderella.'
- 'A Hologram for the King' meanders but succeedsWhat happens when a middle-aged American businessman travels to Saudi Arabia to try to sell a holographic telecommunications system to the king? Not much.
- 'Elvis & Nixon' plays with an odd moment in historyMichael Shannon and Kevin Spacey succeed in making us care about the little-known 1970 encounter between Elvis Presley and Richard Nixon.