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WorldPingFRIDAY AM UPDATE: Practical Magic 2 came well ahead of where we were seeing it with $4.7 million in previews Thursday at 3,200 locations. Many millennial and Gen Z women adore this property, so the hope is that it, of course, it overperforms.
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WorldPingEXCLUSIVE: The Toronto Film Festival hosts the world premiere of Black Sunflowers Friday evening, one of the most dynamic and explosive documentaries of the year.
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WorldPingAlthough its story unspools on the precipice of the U.S.-Iran war, Ali Asgari’s gentle family drama “A Bit of Light” was filmed in the conflict’s wake, under shellfire in Tehran.
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WorldPingTheatre Royal Stratford East, London In Ava Pickett’s tense play, Michelle Dockery’s heroine returns to a Towie-styled world where the violence and misogyny are all too recognisable ‘And Zeus created … Essex.
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WorldPingAfter a record-breaking run at the box office, it turns out “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” is no match for the witchy powers of “Practical Magic 2” stars Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock. The Warner Bros. fantasy sequel has made $4.
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Directed by newcomer Ben Shirinian, the TIFF-bowing thriller about a Nazi officer living in Queens also stars Tye Sheridan, Michael Imperioli, Luke Evans and Lena Olin.
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