Hollywood needed “A Minecraft Movie” to be a hit, and it delivered in its opening weekend, significantly narrowing this year’s box office deficit.
Category: Entertainment
Aurora Mayor-elect John Laesch says City of Lights Center project ‘pretty much dead’
On election night and in an interview with The Beacon-News on Thursday, Laesch laid out plans for his incoming administration, including the future of projects such as the City of Lights Center, changes at City Hall and more.
Review: Canellakis and a mixed CSO concert is a reminder of the orchestra’s staffing challenges
Let’s hear it for substitute musicians. Without them, many a Chicago Symphony concert this year so far would have been impossible — including Thursday’s performance of “Canellakis Conducts Rachmaninov.”
What to do around Chicago: Parade in Greektown, ‘La La Land in Concert’ and Tina Fey and Amy Poehler in Rosemont
Also around the area this weekend, Franz Ferdinand plays the Vic and a former director of the Human Rights Watch speaks as part of the Chicago Humanities Festival.
Chicago Latino Film Festival opens this weekend, with indelible ‘Memories’ and a multitude of stories
In “Memories of a Burning Body,” featured in the 41st Chicago Latino Film Festival, several women’s stories become one.
Column: Years ago, Brett Neveu’s ‘Eric LaRue’ unnerved Chicago audiences. Now it’s a Michael Shannon movie.
Hundreds of school shootings after Brett Neveu’s “Eric LaRue” made its Chicago stage entrance, Michael Shannon takes the story to the screen.
‘Pulse’ review: Netflix attempts its own version of ‘Grey’s Anatomy’
Woe to the medical drama premiering in the wake of “The Pitt.” Viewers who prefer “Grey’s” may not care
‘The Bondsman’ review: Kevin Bacon, the demon slayer
Kevin Bacon plays a bail bondsman brutally killed, only to be suddenly back among the living and working for the devil.
As ‘Titanique’ opens in Chicago, talking to the actress who plays Céline Dion
This show is a musical spoof of both the 1997 movie “Titanic” and the Canadian vocal diva Céline Dion. We spoke with Clare Kennedy McLaughlin, a Northwestern University graduate who plays Céline.
Restaurant news: Kanin, a Filipino Hawaiian bodega in Ravenswood, opens with lines two blocks long in Chicago
Plus more openings, closings and pizza news, including tavern and Detroit style, in the city and suburbs.