LOS ANGELES -- The Pixar superhero movie "Incredibles 2" made 14 years of anticipation worth the wait for Disney, as the follow-up to 2004's "The Incredibles" smashed the record for highest animation debut of all time with an estimated $180 million in ticket sales for the U.S. and Canada, according to the measurement firm ComScore.

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LOS ANGELES -- Brie Larson roused the entertainment industry Wednesday when she used her platform at Women in Film's Crystal + Lucy Awards to drop sobering statistics from a recent USC study about the lack of diversity in film criticism. It's a field so disproportionately skewed that white men wrote 63.9 percent of reviews aggregated by Rotten ...Read more

Editor's note: The review copy of the film provided by the studio did not contain the final music cues.

In "Gotti," we hear the title character praise his son for standing his ground in a bar brawl.

"Never take a backward step," declares John Sr., played ferociously by John Travolta, whose jutting chin and bristling tone suggest the alpha ...Read more

Happy birthday, Mr. President.

For his 72nd birthday on Thursday, social media star Chrissy Teigen and her husband John Legend spent a whole lot of cash on a gift Donald Trump won't like -- nor one that he can return.

The pithy model, who was famously blocked on Twitter by the president for constantly trolling him and his policies, marked the ...Read more

The Incredibles are back, and all is right with the world.

Well, maybe not all. Superheros are still illegal, just as they've been for a decade and a half, and evildoers like the Underminer ("I am always beneath you but nothing is beneath me!") are still eager to empty the bank vaults of Municiberg and manufacture havoc wherever they go.

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Silicon Valley's cutting-edge work increasingly has made it an attractive place for the Pentagon to look for a defensive edge. That's why military officials recently opened an outpost in Mountain View, Calif., to build relationships with technology start-ups and major players.

The Pentagon's enthusiasm to build those tech partnerships is ...Read more

One antidote for blockbuster fatigue during the summer is a loose, lighthearted and playful comedy. Based on a 2013 Wall Street Journal article by Russell Adams about a group of friends who have played the same game of tag for 23 years, the featherweight romp "Tag" follows the stranger-than-fiction antics of a group of men who subscribe to the ...Read more

It's a vexation to many parents that a family movie often is little more than a surrogate babysitter. While that can be of value -- who doesn't need 90 minutes of assistance in keeping the offspring entertained from time to time? -- it does prop up movies that provide the lightest, least forms of entertainment.

How wonderful it is, then, to ...Read more

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. -- "Hereditary" director Ari Aster got the "kamikaze" performance he asked for out of star Toni Collette, who's earning early Oscar buzz for her turn in the A24 psychological horror hit. But the Australian-born actress wasn't the only one who went through the ringer for the devastating descent into the terrors of familial ...Read more

Tinkling synths. An echo-drenched beat. And a singer breathily describing her quest for emotional clarity.

To describe the moving parts at work in Christina Aguilera's "Deserve" and in Sophie's "It's Okay to Cry" -- both are tracks from new pop albums released Friday -- is to make these two songs sound like comparable aesthetic experiences.

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The entertainer who often goes by one name -- Roseanne -- was ready for a fight. She was furious at ABC. Feeling deceived and disrespected by the network behind her immensely popular sitcom, a linchpin of its prime time slate, she was determined to rally her outspoken fan base to save the series she'd worked so hard on and make ABC pay.

That ...Read more