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Sound of Music museum opens where the von Trapp story met Hollywood

SALZBURG, Austria (AP) — An Austrian museum is alive with "The Sound of Music," a first-ever venue devoted to the classic 1965 singalong movie starring Julie Andrews. The Sound of Music Salzburg museum, situated in an Austrian city famed for music and perhaps best known as the home of ...

‘Resident Evil’ tops box office with $60M debut

Zach Cregger's "Resident Evil" is giving the North American box office a boost in its first weekend. Sony Pictures says Sunday that the film has earned an estimated $60 million in ticket sales from 3,684 locations in the U.S. and Canada. This marks a franchise best, surpassing most previous ...

‘Practical Magic 2’ conjures a No. 1 box office debut with $30M

LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Practical Magic 2" conjured a box-office victory this weekend, opening atop the North American charts nearly three decades after its predecessor grew from a modest theatrical performer into a cult favorite. The Warner Bros. sequel starring Sandra Bullock and Nicole ...

Stage version of ‘Paranormal Activity’ hopes to make it on Broadway

NEW YORK (AP) — Movie producer Jason Blum, who has revolutionized the modern horror genre, gets invited, as you might expect, to tons of plays billed as scary. "Everyone is always saying if you could make a play and give the audience the feeling they have in a horror movie, it would be an amazing thing," he says. Blum, whose Blumhouse has produced everything from "Get Out" to "Five Nights at Freddy's," estimates he's gone to see 25 such plays, and 24 times "they come off goofy or you're not scared at all." That changed with his 25th — an adaptation of his "Paranormal Activity" ...

George Lucas presents galaxy of art in Los Angeles museum

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The new Lucas Museum of Narrative Art will serve "Star Wars" fans what they crave, but the saga George Lucas spawned represents just one small corner of the galaxy of creative work within the walls of the Los Angeles institution he calls a "temple to the people's ...