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Tuesday, March 24, 2020 at 6:52PM Cartoon Brew The National Association of Theater Owners is pissed at Universal about skipping theatrical for Trolls World Tour.
/Film Wonder Woman 1984 has been moved from June to August 14th but the other big Warner Bros summer release (In the Heights) doesn't yet have a new release date
More after the jump including a Star Wars book, a failed lawsuit, Terence McNally RIP...
Tuesday, March 24, 2020 at 2:15PM by Jason Adams
Oh, Repulsion! Prescient, precious Repulsion! How could you have known that one day we'd all every last one of us be boarding up our doors and dreaming about probing walls of man hands every night? ... Just me? Watching Repulsion for the umpteenth time what immediately struck me this week, after having lost track of the time indoors myself, was its soundtrack -- the diegetic bird song, distant people playing and chit-chatting through the windows, the incessant clanging of trolley bells that slip in and out of some sort of wailing, panting kazoo cry whenever Carol (Catherine Deneuve) turns her inner heat up...
Monday, March 23, 2020 at 8:10PM 
Today marks the 30th anniversary of Pretty Woman. It was released on March 23rd 1990. Of course now it’s remembered for making Julia Roberts one of the biggest stars in Hollywood history. It launched her career to the stratosphere and she still ranks as a major star even if the star system itself has evolved drastically in the last thirty years...
Sunday, March 22, 2020 at 7:00PM by Eric Blume
A few days ago, my fellow TFE writer Claudio flagged a website www.screentimecentral.com, which tracks the screen time and percentage of all Oscar nominees and winners. Because Oscar category fraud has long been a heated debate here at the site, I thought it might be fun to play with the numbers on the site from the last 20 Oscars, to see what we might discover if, say, AMPAS instituted a time/percentage rule on who could be eligible for lead and supporting performances.
Now for those about to go crazy in the comments, settle down. This is just a fun game. We’re not suggesting there should be an implemented rule, but for the sake of stirring up a healthy, positive conversation, I’ve broken down some of the numbers, and it reveals a lot of interesting things...
Sunday, March 22, 2020 at 12:16PM A little bit of psychomatic musical comedy humor to get you through this anxiety-riddled weekend.
Guys & Dolls, comedy, musicals 
