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With the horror-action-comedy “Renfield,” the iconic Nicolas Cage finally grants the world his take on Count Dracula, and instantly lands in the top tier of Best Dracula Performances of All Time, creating a holy trifecta with Bela Lugosi and Christopher Lee. His version of the famous vampire is seductive and self-important, naturally, and he delivers it with the heavy dose of sarcasm required for this comedic modern analysis of Dracula’s dynamic with his “familiar”: Robert Montague Renfield (Nicholas Hoult).

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That this lumpy, unfunny and at times shockingly violent film was directed by Catherine Hardwicke, creator of the acclaimed coming-of-age drama "Thirteen" and the box-office smash "Twilight," and that it stars Toni Collette, an Oscar nominee for "The Sixth Sense," merely adds to the sense of "What were these people thinking?"

The audience was not large enough in the area for the theater, said K. Duane Brelsford, president and managing partner of Corporate Pointe Developers and one of the original developers on the project. The 10-screen theater shuttered for good several months ago, and an online auction seeking at least $1.7 million for the building is scheduled for next week.

As a composer who knows his way around a good reprise, Alan Menken is appropriately inclined to revisit his work. Take "Aladdin" and "Beauty and the Beast": After writing the scores for the Disney animated classics in the 1990s, the 73-year-old returned to work on both movies' Broadway adaptations and their recent live-action film versions.

Disney on Tuesday released a trailer for "The Marvels," the highly anticipated follow-up to 2019's "Captain Marvel," which starred Brie Larson as the first woman to lead a Marvel feature.

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Gabe Tesch, 19, was diagnosed with a brain tumor in September 2014. The following month doctors discovered that the growth was cancerous.

It was game over for live-action titles at the domestic box office this weekend as Nintendo and Universal Pictures' "The Super Mario Bros. Movie" opened in first place with $146.4 million collected over a three-day period and $204.6 million amassed over its entire five-day launch, according to studio estimates. 

One of the most iconic scenes in movie history is the conclusion of "King Kong."

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"Air," Ben Affleck's funny, moving and surprisingly meaningful tale of how Nike came to create Air Jordan basketball shoes, might have been a real snore. We all know how the story ends, and do we really need a movie that perpetuates yet another David-and-Goliath myth about a world-dominating corporation?

Over the years Mario has been the savior of the surreal Mushroom Kingdom, a kart racer, a tennis player, a golfer, a brawler and more. He's transformed into a cat and a raccoonlike critter, and can become possessed with the power to shoot fireballs, all thanks to various plants or edibles.

You'd except a movie based on a colorful video game to echo the childlike world of the Teletubbies. But to fill that rainbow world with a level of anxiety straight out of Franz Kafka? However improbably, that's exactly what the creators of "The Super Mario Bros. Movie" have pulled off, delivering a consistently inventive animated feature that builds its dreams (and nightmares) around that most mundane but essential of grown-up concerns: plumbing.