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Seattle teen builds on his filmmaking passion with short ‘Killer Legos’ movie showing at festival
A very short movie called “Attack of the Killer Legos” shows that the building blocks of a future film career are already in place for 14-year-old Carlos Key of Seattle.
Key’s film won the youth category in the Seattle International Film Festival’s “3 Minute Masterpiece” digital film contest and employs a combination of cinematic techniques including stop-motion animation and forced perspective to create what Key refers to as...
Review: Hardcore Henry is the crazy cyborg beatdown movie you always wanted
If you need an antidote for the overblown blah of Batman v Superman, your medicine has arrived in the form of Hardcore Henry, a surprisingly great sci-fi shoot-em-up that moves at the pace of a first-person shooter on speed—and crack, and some LSD for...
Amazon brings personalized sports updates, movie theater details to Echo
Updates to Amazon’s Alexa virtual assistant are coming in thick and fast, with Jeopardy! showing up on the Echo smart speaker last week and the ability to start your car coming in the future. This week, Amazon announced a couple entertainment-related abilities coming to...
Amazon’s next original movie will feature ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ star Adam Driver
Actor Adam Driver, fresh off his role as Kylo Ren in “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” will put down his lightsaber to star in “Paterson,” a comedy from director Jim Jarmusch that will be the next original movie from Amazon Studios. Jarmusch...
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Going to the movies is expensive. With tickets rising above $ 10 per piece, many people are waiting for movies to come to Netflix or Amazon Prime instead of heading to the theaters. But that leaves many theaters half-empty, losing money for the cinema owner....
‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ fastest movie to make $1 billion in record 12 days
The new Star Wars film continues to break records and on Sunday it became the fastest movie to reach $ 1 billion in box office sales after just 12 days in...
Amazon opens pop-up movie theater at JFK to celebrate JetBlue partnership
Another giant Amazon box is out in the wild, though this one is fairly unique given that it’s located inside an airport. The Seattle e-commerce giant has opened a new pop-up space at Terminal 5 inside New York City’s JFK airport to let travelers watch Amazon original programming. Called the “JetBlue Amazon Video event activation,” the temporary movie theater is...