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The weekend’s box office totals laid bare the have and have-nots of Hollywood in brutal fashion.LOS ANGELES — “Avengers: Endgame” arrived to record-breaking ticket sales over the weekend.LOS ANGELES — “Avengers: Endgame” arrived to record-breaking ticket sales over the weekend.LOS ANGELES — Warner Bros. has finally earned back the benefit of the doubt when it comes to its all-important superhero movies: “Shazam!” became the studio’s third nonsequel comic-book hit in a row over the weekend, arriving to applause from critics and stout ticket sales of nearly $156 million worldwide.Sidney Sheinberg, an irascible Universal Studios executive who discovered and nurtured Steven Spielberg, putting “Jaws” into production and helping to turn Hollywood into a blockbuster-focused business, died Thursday at his home in Beverly Hills, California. He was 84.LOS ANGELES — For 14 years, Tyler Perry has been Lionsgate’s secret weapon. As the rest of Hollywood underestimated the appeal of his movies time and again (and again), Perry served up 19 films to Lionsgate, selling more than $1 billion in tickets and pouring profits into the studio’s home entertainment coffers.LOS ANGELES — It will be the disruptive foreign film.LOS ANGELES — It will be the disruptive foreign film.LOS ANGELES — The lead producer of the 91st Academy Awards, Donna Gigliotti, was in high spirits Friday morning. Serena Williams had been confirmed to appear on the telecast in a moment involving “A Star Is Born.” Thousands of red roses for the set were en route. With nine days until showtime, everything seemed to be coming together.LOS ANGELES — So much for a three-hour Oscar telecast.LOS ANGELES — The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said Friday that it would abandon its contentious plan to award four of its 24 trophies during commercial breaks, with the winning moments edited and aired later in the broadcast.LOS ANGELES — Voting for the 91st Academy Awards ends Tuesday, with roughly 8,200 movie industry insiders using a private website to mark their choices. Just what goes through their minds when they point and click?LOS ANGELES — It was the slowest Super Bowl weekend at the box office in nearly two decades, as poor reviews and winter storms combined to clobber Sony’s “Miss Bala” and other studios mostly sat out the three days.LOS ANGELES — Netflix finally cracked the Academy Awards.LOS ANGELES — Netflix finally cracked the Academy Awards.LOS ANGELES — Netflix finally cracked the Academy Awards.LOS ANGELES — Netflix finally cracked the Academy Awards.LOS ANGELES — Netflix finally cracked the Academy Awards.LOS ANGELES — For the first time in history, a film with no box-office gross could win the top prize at the Academy Awards.LOS ANGELES — How the Hollywood pendulum swings: The 76th Golden Globe Awards dispensed with the seriousness that marked last year’s ceremony, when actresses draped themselves in black to protest sexual harassment, and got underway on Sunday night at the Beverly Hilton Hotel with red gowns, an award for comedic TV acting and a co-host yelling, “We’re going to have some fun!”
