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Byline: Patrick Ryan USA TODAY Ruben Östlund doesn't want to 'eat the rich.' But he does like to laugh at them. In 'Triangle of Sadness' (in theaters now), the Swedish [...]

A year ago, Hollywood celebrated with a record-setting box office take of $10.9 billion. This year ends with a very different tone: Box office might not hit $10.5 billion, and [...]

Byline: Bryan Alexander, @BryAlexand, USA TODAY Behold the power of the pharaohs: They own Hollywood's Christmas season this year. Ancient Egyptian themes run through three major releases this month, starting [...]

Byline: Compiled by Cindy Clark George Clooney and his fiance, Amal Alamuddin, are now licensed to wed. A spokesman at the register office at London's Chelsea Old Town Hall confirmed [...]

Byline: Brian Truitt, @briantruitt, USA TODAY The summer of 1984 was a rough one for Tim League; at 14, he was the spitting image of actor Anthony Michael Hall, the [...]

Byline: Bryan Alexander, @BryAlexand, USA TODAY Comedy's smutty/silly/sleazy season has erupted. Hollywood is presenting 15 R-rated yukfests on its crucial summer slate, which started last week with Elizabeth Banks playing [...]

Byline: Bryan Alexander, @BryAlexand, USA TODAY Scientists and film historians can agree: Time-travel movies continue to expand at unprecedented rates. This is clear from the current crop of movies flying [...]

Byline: Scott Bowles, @gsbowles, USA TODAY The movie business has never been known for turning its back on profits. But observers are questioning whether the industry is shortchanging itself -- [...]

Byline: Bryan Alexander, @bryalexand, USA TODAY Hollywood is getting groovy again. The 1970s are hustling onto the big screen as if it's a feverish Saturday night: Among the theater-bound indie [...]

Byline: Scott Bowles, @gsbowles, USA TODAY There are 2 months left on the calendar and more than four months until the Academy Awards, but it's never too early for the [...]

Byline: Susan Wloszczyna The next time someone says you fight like a girl, consider it a compliment. What once was a popular schoolyard taunt is now high praise thanks to [...]

Byline: Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY Raunchy female comedies continue their down-and-dirty honeymoon with Hollywood. Not only has Melissa McCarthy nabbed an Oscar nomination for a Bridesmaids role that saw her [...]

Byline: Scott Bowles, USA TODAY The past is a Hollywood staple, but the current time warp is marked even for this industry. Studios aren't just churning out throwback films. They're [...]

Byline: Scott Bowles, USA TODAY The skies may be darkening in the third dimension. Once hailed as a technology that would revolutionize filmmaking the way sound and color did, 3-D [...]

Byline: Maria Puente, USA TODAY Real life happens when Hollywood is making other plans. When President Obama announced May 1 that a team of Navy SEAL commandos had found Osama [...]

Byline: Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY Chicago, long known as the Second City, is becoming the nation's first city of mayhem. This weekend, America watched as Decepticons unleashed fury on the [...]

Byline: Susan Wloszczyna The millennium dawned with the Gone With the Wind of coming-of-age films: Cameron Crowe's Almost Famous. But after 9/11, a Boomer's saga of innocence lost filtered through [...]

Byline: Marco R. della Cava True Grit. Two words that describe the stubborn determination of both the movie's teenage heroine and the soused U.S. marshal she hires to avenge her [...]

Byline: Scott Bowles LOS ANGELES -- After a relatively original -- and poorly attended -- year at the movies, Hollywood will unleash a torrent of Roman numerals on theaters. No [...]

Byline: Susan Wloszczyna Want to see a bedtime story, not just hear one? The kind of yarn with a big, bad wolf, a jealous queen or a wicked witch? Hollywood [...]

Byline: Scott Bowles LOS ANGELES -- The Social Network has earned uniform raves and a slot as an early Oscar contender. Whether that will bring it a blockbuster audience this [...]

Byline: Scott Bowles LOS ANGELES -- OK, so summer isn't off to a blistering start in Hollywood. Attendance is down 4% from last year, according to Hollywood.com, despite a strong [...]

Byline: Scott Bowles What is it with Hollywood and camp? Studios can't seem to adapt tongue-in-cheek TV shows and earnest films of the '70s and '80s fast enough. This weekend, [...]

Byline: Scott Bowles LAS VEGAS -- Of all the issues facing the movie industry -- the cost of going digital, the push behind 3-D, piracy -- the topic that got [...]

Byline: Scott Bowles LOS ANGELES -- In the nascent marketing of The Book of Eli last year, Warner Bros. executives urged the press not to reveal the title of the [...]

Byline: Scott Bowles Hollywood enters the holiday season with fewer tidings this year, but still bearing some intriguing gifts. A flagging economy and the writers strike of 2007 has left [...]

Byline: Scott Bowles Hollywood is finding more profit in moving backward in time than forward. Origins stories are all the rage with studios. X-Men and Star Trek had huge debuts [...]

Byline: Rick Jervis Economic gain follows as producers find appeal in city's architecture and landscape NEW ORLEANS -- For years, New Orleans has been a mixed bag for Hollywood producers: [...]

Byline: Anthony Breznican At the multiplex, the last two months of the year are traditionally of two minds: prestige and pure fun. It's the awards season, when serious cinema vies [...]

Byline: Maria Puente Last year, the crowd-pleaser movies were about pregnant women -- Knocked Up with Katherine Heigl -- and pregnant teens, as in Juno. This year, Hollywood, that town [...]

Byline: Jonah Goldberg We've all heard the stories, many true, some apocryphal, of soldiers returning home from Vietnam only to be disrespected and shunned by an ungrateful nation. How many [...]

Byline: Bruce Kluger Phil Donahue is getting in the last word. One of the first television personalities to speak out against America's hapless adventure in Iraq, Donahue was also among [...]

Byline: Scott Bowles Howdy, Hollywood. Despite the tombstones erected over the years by pundits and analysts, the Western never really died. It has just been suffering a gut shot. This [...]

Byline: Anthony Breznican Growing up is hard enough without wizards always trying to kill you, but there is still no shortage of magical kids -- at least in Hollywood. As [...]

Byline: Scott Bowles SAN DIEGO -- The future, at least for movies, has become clear at Comic-Con. And the outlook is pretty dark. That's because teen horror is on the [...]

Byline: Susan Wloszczyna Not only will a super-sized Man of Steel swoop into IMAX theaters this week as the summer blockbuster Superman Returns opens on 86 of the 266 enormous [...]

Byline: Susan Wloszczyna The 2005 Academy Awards race, dubbed by many in the media as the year of the little movie, ended with a Crash two weeks ago. The outlook [...]

Byline: Anthony Breznican Hollywood's hottest trend is 20 years old. The 1980s, the decade of big hair, big shoulder pads and big robots, is making a comeback as producers resurrect [...]