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Marvel superhero movie is first film ever to break $200 million in three-day box-office debut

A best-selling young-adult book becomes a movie and is bound to be a hit. It's a survival-of-the-fittest reality show that leaves you craving for more.

Robb Stark (Richard Madden) learns Winterfell has been taken by Theon Greyjoy, a man he once called brother.

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GCB wasn't off the the most auspicious of starts on Sunday, debuting with a 2.2 rating among adults 18-49 and 7.6 million viewers. The premiere easily tops the last showing of timeslot predecessor Pan Am (a 1.2 in the demo) but doesn't quite crack the series' fall premiere score of a 3.1.

AMC's The Killing returns with its second season on Sunday and in preparing this short primer before the episode, there’s one thing that even newbies to the series don’t have to be told: Rosie Larsen’s killer wasn’t revealed on Season 1.

Rosie Larsen’s killer is still out there, but a new mystery is starting to build on Sunday's Season 2 premiere of AMC’s The Killing. TV REVIEW: 'The Killing' Season 2 When the two-hour premiere opens, Detective Linden (Mireille Enos) is hit with a one-two punch.

The former Monkees frontman died at age 66 on Feb. 29 after suffering a heart attack.

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Criticism of a recent Anonymous DDoS offensive that hit Virgin Media after the ISP blocked The Pirate Bay is coming from an unusual source: The Pirate Bay. The renowned torrent tracking service,...

Not even timeless Gershwin songs can help lift the lackluster new musical comedy 'Nice Work if You Can Get It,' starring an oddly uninspiring Matthew Broderick.

THR’s Michael Rechtshaffen complains the adaptation of Steve Harvey's relationship advice book feels “more like a lecture than an intended romp.”

Authors no longer have to impress stodgy English majors to get their book a quality review: new research from the Harvard Business Review shows that the aggregate rating of Amazon reviewers are every bit as good as professional book critics.

Score one for the filmmakers of "Chimpanzee" over their counterparts in "The Hunger Games." When it comes time for the chimps to stalk and kill some weaker primates, the humans in post-production don't resort to a...

The girls of Girls live in the biggest of big cities. They like to project the image of urbane creative types who write and work in galleries and think they’re above mundane day jobs. But they’re also only a few years removed from high school, and young enough where a five-year relationship spans the entirety of their adult...

In “The Muppets,” the same adorable fuzzy folks are back in theaters, as sweetly innocent and likable as ever.

Kerry Washington's Olivia Pope is the ultimate D.C. fixer. Yet she's too perfect. Still, the show's entertaining, preachy and occasionally clever, but never real.

James Corden’s comic incarnation as hero of the stage comedy One Man, Two Guvnors may have him playing a portly, food-obsessed lackey – but on the evidence of his Tony Award nomination for Best Actor, he is king of all he surveys.

Kathy Griffin delivered a New Year's surprise to co-host Anderson Cooper, the crowd in New York's Times Square and most likely many viewers at home, on Saturday night during the duo's live NYE coverage for CNN.  PHOTOS: Kathy Griffin's 10 Naughty Emmy Speeches for Charlie Sheen, Kim Kardashian, Oprah and More The comedian,...