Jake Coyle

NEW YORK -- “Elvis” has won its box-office dance-off with “Top Gun: Maverick.” After the two films reported the same ticket sales Sunday, Monday's final numbers has “Elvis,”…
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NEW YORK -- After more than six decades of making bicycles soar, sending panicked swimmers to the shore and other spellbinding close encounters, John Williams is putting the final notes…
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On the day of Austin Butler's final screen test for “Elvis," director Baz Luhrmann threw everything at him. Butler had spent five months building up to that moment, workshopping the…
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It's boom times for googly eyes. Within months of “Everything Everywhere All at Once," the metaphysical sci-fi comedy whose panoply of metaverses memorably included one that…
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NEW YORK -- The summer movie season has not, traditionally speaking, been known for its nuanced attention to female sexuality.But smack in the middle of Hollywood’s high season of…
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NEW YORK -- “Top Gun: Maverick” director Joseph Kosinski again had a plane in the air, only this time Chris Hemsworth was at the wheel. They were shooting “Spiderhead,” a…
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“In 1995, Andy got a toy from his favorite movie. This is that movie.”So begins “Lightyear,” a new Pixar release that takes a meta approach to the animation studio's flagship…
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NEW YORK -- Philip Baker Hall, the prolific character actor of film and theater who starred in Paul Thomas Anderson's first movies and who memorably hunted down a long-overdue library…
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NEW YORK -- Questions about the dangers of human tampering with nature have been in the DNA of the “Jurassic Park” films from the start, but they've been given a workout in the…
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NEW YORK -- There is only one person who, in the middle of a massive dystopic dinosaur movie, can utter a line like “That’s bananas” with just the right timing and inflection.For almost…
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