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    'Kong' Star Jason Mitchell Talks About His 'Straight Outta Compton' Reunion with Corey Hawkins

    One cool thing about Kong: Skull Island is that it reunites Jason Mitchell and Corey Hawkins. Mitchell and Hawkins recently starred together in Straight Outta Compton as Eazy-E and Dr. Dre, respectively. Mitchell told Yahoo Movies what it was like to reconnect with Hawkins.

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    'Straight Outta Compton' Facebook Trailers Were Whitewashed: SXSW Panel

    Universal’s EVP of digital marketing told Austin audience that non-black and non-Hispanic Facebook users saw trailers that featured not a word about N.W.A., but were instead re-cut to look like a biopic about how Ice Cube and Dr. Dre became present-day moguls

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    #OscarsSoWhite: How to Fix the Academy’s Broken Voting System

    Since nominations for the 88th Academy Awards were announced last Thursday and — for the second consecutive year —consisted of an entirely white pool of acting contenders, demands to better diversify the Oscars have come from the likes of Spike Lee, George Clooney, Michael Moore, recent Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o, and the Academy’s African-American president herself, Cheryl Boone Isaacs. Jada Pinkett Smith called for a boycott, which was seconded by her husband, Will Smith. With high-profile

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    'Straight Outta Compton' Producer Rips Oscar's Lack of Diversity: 'It's Embarrassing'

    Straight Outta Compton producer Will Packer has weighed in on the 2016 Oscar nominations’ lack of diversity. In a lengthy Facebook post, Packer applauded performances by performers of color and called his fellow Academy members to action, pleading with them to focus on hiring minorities in the future. “But who I really want to applaud are some other actors, directors and producers who were at the top of their game this year,” Packer wrote.

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    13 Long Shots We'd Like to See Get Oscar Nominations This Week

    The nominees for the 2016 Academy Awards will be announced on Thursday, and Golden Globe winners like Leonardo DiCaprio (The Revenant) and Brie Larson (Room) are as close as you can get to sure things. But Oscar always has a few surprises up his sleeve and occasionally a long-shot contender makes the cut. Below are 13 unlikely actors and movies we’d love to see named on Thursday morning.

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    2015's Biggest Winners at the Box Office

    To the delight of studios and fans alike, 2015 was the year that audiences decided to go back to the movies. Films like Jurassic World and Star Wars: The Force Awakens became full-blown cinematic events, attracting massive crowds and shattering box-office records. This week, industry analysts confidently declared that domestic box office would surpass $11 billion by the end of the year, an all-time high. While tentpole films made waves, it was also a good year for low-budget cult movies and limi

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    Here's a Supercut of 2015's 20 Best Movies, From 'Inside Out' to 'Spotlight'

    With any luck, you’ve got a whole bunch of days off for the holidays on the horizon, which would make it the perfect time to catch up with all the movies you’ve been dying to see this year. Derived from our ranking of the top 40 films of 2015, here is a visual guide to the top half of that list. Starting with our 20th ranked film — the revealing, heartbreaking documentary about the late musical prodigy Amy Winehouse, Amy — the list has something for everyone: more documentaries (The Look of Si