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Just days after her husband Will Smith was snubbed in the Oscar nominations, Jada Pinkett Smith went online today to suggest snubbing the Academy Awards themselves for failing to recognize the “artistic accomplishments” of people of color. Her tweets Saturday morning also come two days before America officially…

UPDATED, MONDAY: 2:00 PM: This Christmas holiday 2015 may not have gotten to the $300M mark, but it still is the biggest Christmas ever and with $295.5M it’s the second-best weekend of all time at the box office, thanks to a Force that just won’t quit. Disney’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens is on its way now to the…

4th Update, 6:50 PM: We are seeing how the new pictures are lining up right now this Christmas Day and the NBA game did have a bit of an impact, but it appears that tonight’s business is robust. Star Wars: The Force Awakens could make $47.5M to $50M today and is heading towards a $150M to $160M three-day. Of the new…

UPDATE 11:30 with more information throughout. Sure, everyone knows that the astonishing reach of Star Wars: The Force Awakens on social media is, well, a phenomenon — look below for Albert Brooks’ tweet of the year on Star Wars. But how are other titles at the starting line faring in the online universe? To give some…

This Christmas is headed to the record books thanks to Star Wars: The Force Awakens and a plethora of new films coming into play. For the first time in its history, Christmas weekend could haul in a three-day gross of more than $300M. Last weekend, it was around $315 million, but that included a whopping Thursday…

The Will Smith drama Concussion opens Christmas Day, and Sony really wants pro football players to see it. The studio is offering free admission to NFL players and a guest at Cinemark theaters nationwide. “By reaching out to the people who are most impacted by the film's themes,” Sony Pictures said in announcing the…

“The tracking is so fragmented,” exclaimed one distribution source today about the presence of Disney’s titan Star Wars: The Force Awakens in the marketplace and how it’s impacting projections. As a result, a number of the wide releases will be clustered together in regards to their openings on the chart. While studio…

A new weekly column talking up the season with bits and pieces from the awards circuit. If it seems the town should be starting to slow down with the Christmas/New Year’s break just about upon us, think again. Because this is such a wide open Oscar race, everyone seems to be going down to the wire trying to win Oscar…

EXCLUSIVE: The makers of Concussion, the film that stars Will Smith as the forensic neuro-pathologist who discovered the CTE disease that debilitated the brains of football greats like Pittsburgh Steelers center Mike Webster, are again bracing for a potentially concussive hit by the New York Times. In a move that has…

In advance of the Christmas Day release of Concussion, Sony Pictures and millennial-focused media company Woven Digital have partnered for #Gamechangers, a three-video series inspired by the film that will showcase ordinary people who made a difference despite significant adversity. The series launches today on…

The new film Concussion is not only a timely drama about the discovery and effect of brain trauma that has led to the death of numerous football players, but it’s also a touching and important movie that puts a human face on immigration — in this case one very special man named Dr. Bennet Omalu. He is the Nigerian who…

Without question one of the more controversial films being released this holiday season will be Sony’s Christmas Day release Concussion, which stars Will Smith in the true story of Dr. Bennet Omalu, the Nigerian immigrant who uncovered CTE, the brain trauma that can be caused by direct contact in football games. The…