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In a heated domestic race this weekend newcomer Despicable Me 3 proved to be totally magnetic, while Transformers managed to turn itself into a major disappointment. In Universal’s fourth Despicable film, after the summer 2015 spinoff Minions, Steve Carell returns as the loveable anti-hero Felonius Gru and also voices his twin brother, Dru.

Wardrobe, hair and makeup are seldom given their due. To understand how important those departments are click through the gallery to witness the many manifestations of Tatiana Maslany in Orphan Black, as she portrays multiple characters covering everything from a scientist, an assassin, to an executive and more.

Tom Holland is the young 15-year-old Spider-Man in the new reboot of the beloved Marvel super-hero. A former ballet dancer, he grew up with music in his veins, so we asked him how music helps him in his new acting career.

Three members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association were recognized for their achievements at the 59th Southern California Journalism Awards at the Biltmore Hotel in Downtown Los Angeles Sunday night. Adam Tanswell won second place in the Entertainment News or Feature category for his story The X-Files Reborn.

Men have been showing their style at the HFPA press conferences around the world. Blue still dominates but patterns, both large and small, continue to emerge.

Continuing this year’s trend of sequel fatigue in the US market, Transformers: The Last Knight opened to a series domestic low $69 million. Its $45 million three-day take is less than half of Age of Extinction’s $100 million opening in 2014 and still $25 million off of the 2007 original Transformers.

In the upcoming third installment of the Planets of the Apes trilogy, War for the Planet of the Apes, four time Golden Globe nominee Woody Harrelson plays The Colonel, the ferocious commander bent into exterminating the Apes  We met at the Soho Hotel in London where the cool actor surprised us by sharing his enthusiasm for the new unreleased U2 album. “Bono played me half a dozen tracks and I can tell you, the album is amazing.

“I felt more experienced and more correct for the job than many people before me. ” Notes Patty Jenkins, the director of Wonder Woman, which has already garnered $573 million world wide and established itself as benchmark for female driven blockbusters.

Season Two of Queen Sugar, the series created and produced by Golden Globe-nominee Ava DuVernay – part I of the premiere aired yesterday, with part II coming up today – was shot in New Orleans where the story of the Bordelon family takes place. In May they were filming the midseason finale - and what a day to be on the set! One rarely gets to see such highly emotional scenes being filmed, much less reading the sides (pages being shot on a particular day), but in the interest of the unwritten ‘no spoilers, please!’-rule, we will not divulge details.

One of the themes of War for the Planet of the Apes is the humanization of animals and the animalization of humans. Costume designer Melissa Bruning has a multilayered task – she’s a key element in the process of clothing motion-captured creatures and determining the color and design of their motion-capture suits (which the wizards of Weta Workshop will render as apes); and she also has the creative oversight on the costuming of flesh and bone characters, adding to the whole visual atmosphere of the movie, reinterpreting military paraphernalia, conveying power and, at the same time, evoking emotions.