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    Box Office: 'Pan' Bombs With $15.5M Debut; 'Martian' Stays No. 1 With Stellar $37M

    By Pamela McClintock Joe Wright’s big-budget Pan is looking like a major loss for Warner Bros. after opening to $15.5 million from 3,515 theaters in North America, a disastrous start for a film that cost $150 million to make. The space epic, starring Matt Damon, also continued to dazzle overseas, earning another $56.8 million for a foreign total of $117.8 million and worldwide cume of $226.5 million. In the U.S., Pan even got beat by Sony’s rival family offering Hotel Transylvania 2, which too

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    'The Walk' Trailer

    Release date: Oct. 9, 2015 Written by: Robert Zemeckis, Christopher Browne Director: Robert Zemeckis Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Philippe Petit Ben Kingsley as Papa Rudy Charlotte Le Bon as Annie Allix

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    5 Eye-Popping Reasons to Rewatch Robert Zemeckis's Motion-Capture Animated Movies

    Just as Pablo Picasso had his Blue Period and Lars Von Trier went through his Dogme 95 Days, the first decade of the 21st century could be described as Robert Zemeckis’s Performance Capture Phase. Between 2004 and 2009, the Oscar-winning director of such blockbusters as Back to the Future, Forrest Gump and Cast Away abandoned live action filmmaking for a trilogy of features made using relatively new technology that married live performance with digital animation. Little could he have suspected

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    Ben Schwartz Geeked Out Over Working With 'Back to the Future' Director Robert Zemeckis on 'The Walk'

    Ben Schwartz went full-on Chris Farley for director Robert Zemeckis. The actor, best known for his television roles on Parks and Recreation (as club-king Jean Ralphio) and House of Lies (as arrogant consultant Clyde Obertholdt), scored not only his biggest dramatic film role yet when he was cast as Albert in The Walk, but it was being helmed by one of his all-time favorite filmmakers. “Robert Zemeckis is kind of my hero,” Schwartz told Yahoo Movies in the video interview above. “My favorite movi

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    Sickening Cinema: 12 Movies That Made Audiences Lose Their Lunch

    The high-flying drama ‘The Walk’ — currently playing in IMAX theaters — may be thrilling audiences with its depiction of wire walker Philippe Petit’s death-defying stroll between the Twin Towers in 1974. But it’s also making some of them sick. Reports from early screenings indicate that director Robert Zemeckis’ extremely realistic-looking dramatization of the high-wire walk was making some audience members retch with vertigo. ‘The Walk’ isn’t the first movie to leave viewers quaking and queasy.

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    Why Does the Poster for 'The Walk' Put the World Trade Center in the Wrong Place?

    By Nate Jones, Vulture On Monday night, I arrived at what turned out to be incredibly early for a screening of The Walk.