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Awards Radar Podcast #39: Joey, Myles, and Steve Break Down Why ‘In the Heights’ Didn’t Break the Box Office
Welcome back to the Awards Radar Podcast. In each episode, Editor Joey Magidson (that’s me!) will be joined by some of the staff of Awards Radar to talk about the latest in film, television, and entertainment in general. The show will obviously have an awards season slant to it, but we won’t forget about other […] More
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Box Office Report for the Week of June 11th
A huge surprise at the box-office this weekend, as the third weekend of A Quiet Place Part II pulls off a victory over Jon M. Chu’s In the Heights. The crowd-pleasing Lin-Manuel Miranda musical (our review here) was projected to net in the $20M+ range for the weekend, yet despite a marketing blitz and flashy […] More
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Presidente & Warner Bros. Announce ‘In the Heights’ $96,000 Contest
Film and musical fans will not have to wait long at all until they can feast their eyes on Jon M. Chu‘s In the Heights, which stars Anthony Ramos, Corey Hawkins, Leslie Grace, Melissa Barrera, and Olga Merediz just to name a few, as the film is scheduled to be released in theatres on June […] More
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Awards Radar’s Summer Movie Preview!
On the Radar… (Summer Edition) Summer! When the weather goes from bitter cold to scorching hot all of the sudden, the big spectacles open up in the hopefully not-yet-extinct theaters, and thousands of cicadas are everywhere (that happens every summer, right?). As is usually the case, most of the major awards players wait until the […] More
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Awards Radar Podcast #36: A New/Upcoming Film Grab-Bag with Joey, Myles, and Steve
Welcome back to the Awards Radar Podcast. In each episode, Editor Joey Magidson (that’s me!) will be joined by some of the staff of Awards Radar to talk about the latest in film, television, and entertainment in general. The show will obviously have an awards season slant to it, but we won’t forget about other […] More
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Film Review: ‘In the Heights’ is a Culture-Defining Musical Event
Over the last couple of years, Hollywood has to come to terms with its lack of diversity in just about every form of media. We’ve seen different projects highlighting various cultures absent from the yearly film slate. Movies that speak to the audiences seeing them and the creators making it for them. When Warner Brothers […] More
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‘In the Heights’ to Screen at the Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival
While In the Heights is scheduled to get its “official” world premiere as the opening night showing for the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival on June 9th, the Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival has announced they’ll be having a special preview screening of the film on June 4th at Hollywood’s TCL Chinese Theatre. Critics who have already […] More
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‘In the Heights’ will Open the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival
First reactions for In the Heights came online yesterday, and it’s sounding like Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jon M. Chu, and company have a massive hit on their hands. Rotten Tomatoes shared an assortment of the responses from critics on Twitter, while you can also check out this Twitter thread from critic Diego Andaluz which has collected responses specifically from the Latinx community. One […] More
