Brooks Barnes
Hollywood Reporter at The New York Times
Hollywood reporter for the NYT since 2007. Montanan in exile.
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4 days ago |
nytimes.com | Brooks Barnes
The film was originally aimed for Disney+. But it was rerouted to a theatrical release and is on pace for at least $950 million in ticket sales. Call it Stitch's vindication. For 23 years, the rowdy blue agent of chaos lived as a second-class citizen at Disney. The animated "Lilo & Stitch," released in 2002, was made in near secret, partly because the character and art style didn't fit the Disney mold.
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1 week ago |
nytimes.com | Brooks Barnes
Moviegoing in the United States and Canada has rebounded over the last two months. Theater owners credit a wider variety of releases. The box office finally seems to be getting its groove back. Over the weekend, six very different movies - a new feel-good family comedy, a new espionage epic, a bloody horror flick, a superhero spectacle, a Southern horror fantasia and a new rodeo drama - collected a combined $252 million in the United States and Canada.
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2 weeks ago |
videonuze.com | Brooks Barnes
“Fear not! For I shall lead ye to riches beyond your wildest dreams!”Inside a tiny recording booth in downtown Los Angeles, John Peck waited for a verdict from the voice-over engineer: Did the line sound pirate-y enough? Try again, the engineer suggested, perhaps with more throaty emphasis on “wildest.” It might make the animated character Mr. Peck was voicing — a buccaneer with a peg leg — a tiny bit funnier.
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2 weeks ago |
infomoney.com.br | Brooks Barnes
Acredite no hype: o Epic Universe, o primeiro grande parque temático a ser inaugurado na Flórida Central em 26 anos, faz jus ao seu nome e muito mais. Sinceramente, estou tão chocado quanto você. Mas a sensação de épico foi de fato a minha conclusão depois de passar dois dias dentro do Epic Universe como parte dos “ensaios técnicos”, uma espécie de pré-inauguração.
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2 weeks ago |
flipboard.com | Brooks Barnes
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Disney to Build a Magic Kingdom Theme Park in the Middle East https://t.co/G3DcTUnko2
After spending two days at Epic Universe in Orlando, I can say: Believe the hype! The new megapark lives up to its name and then some. https://t.co/SYUzQYyHVc
The British family that has steered the James Bond franchise for more than 60 years, zealously protecting the superspy from the indignities of Hollywood strip mining, has agreed to relinquish control to Amazon. https://t.co/glrpayrKnV