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The Lion King 30Th Anniversary Live Concert At Hollywood Bowl

Celebrate the 30th anniversary of 'The Lion King' at the Hollywood Bowl with a live-to-film concert featuring original cast members and a full orchestra.

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Billy Eichner Explains Why Sex And The City Showing A Gay Bar On TV 'Felt So Radical,' And How The Series Impacted His Career

Billy Eichner revealed how seeing gay bars in Sex and the City was such a game changer for him.

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Bros to Casablanca: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

Why not try a delicious and hilarious queer rom-com, or let Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman sweep you away in one of the greatest romances of all time

The Guardian - UK

Tom Hanks & Meg Ryan And 25 Other Rom-Com Partners We Think Should Make Another Movie Together

Here are the awesome rom-com pairings that we think should join forces on the big screen again, including Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan!

Cinemablend

Dancing, dating and death: the five best films added to US streaming this week

Highlights include Billy Eichner’s rom-com Bros, serial killer drama Holy Spider and troubling documentary Jesus Camp

The Guardian - US

The 7 best new movies and shows to stream this weekend

From road rage to romance, here's what to watch this weekend

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Gwyneth gets a dollar, wishes you well

The most fabulously no-stakes celebrity civil trial ends with the Goop CEO victorious and richer by four quarters

Salon

Guru's Weekly Buzz for Nov 4 to 10

Our pick of the most exciting products, activities, art exhibitions, shows, food and hotel deals.

Bangkok Post

Trouble in paradise: how we fell for, broke up with, and got back together with the rom-com

From our Nineties infatuation to our later more mature relationship, we’ve always loved them - just not always been able to show it

Evening Standard

Bros review – ribald and riotous gay romcom

Sparks fly between two New Yorkers who weren’t looking for love. Until things start to get a bit sappy…

The Guardian - UK

From Bros to Bansky: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

A much-needed good times romcom or an exhibition that elevates rebellion into art? Our critics have you covered for the next seven days

The Guardian - UK

Billy Eichner, Luke Macfarlane and Nicholas Stoller talk box office flak and on-screen representation in Bros

Billy Eichner, Luke Macfarlane and director Nicholas Stoller sit down to talk Bros: the queer movie that is ‘reinventing’ the rom-com for a new generation.

ABC News

Bros movie review: great fun, with good intentions, but it could get off its high horse

The film is a showcase for star Billy Eichner’s many gifts

Evening Standard

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The Independent UK

Bros review: A big gay romcom that’s a big old mess

Blighted by discourse – from detractors, supporters and its star himself – this tries too hard to be all things to all people

Los Angeles Times

What the 'Ticket to Paradise' box office opening says about the state of the rom-com

If you want to breathe new life into the romantic comedy genre, it helps to breathe some old life into it.

The Conversation

Queer romcom Bros struggled at the box-office. Are mainstream audiences still not ready?

When Bros creator, Billy Eichner made an impassioned plea for people to see his queer-centred romantic comedy, he shared concerns on Twitter that straight people “just didn’t show up.”

Salon

"Bros": A tragic box office love story

The failure to launch of Billy Eichner's new comedy could have something to do with the genre rules it breaks

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Chicago Tribune

Nina Metz: Moviegoing is not activism, and it’s a mistake to promote a film that way

Reflecting on the disappointing turnout for the gay rom-com “Bros,” despite getting good reviews, the movie’s writer and star Billy Eichner noted that “straight people, especially in certain parts of the country, just didn’t show up for Bros. And that’s disappointing but it is what it is. Everyone who ISN’T…

Los Angeles Times

Commentary: The real lesson of ‘Bros’: It’s OK to let gay art bomb

I didn’t want to write this piece. I didn’t want to diminish “the first major studio movie written by and starring a gay man” or spoil its Rotten Tomatoes score or dance on the grave of its box-office prospects.

Los Angeles Times

LZ Granderson: The movie 'Bros' succeeded just by being a gay rom-com

As you may have heard, "Bros," the first gay rom-com from a major studio to feature an out queer cast, bombed on its opening weekend. At just $4.8 million in sales, it came in fourth. This despite the robust marketing campaign and the Judd Apatow seal of approval. Given the…

Los Angeles Times

Billy Eichner plans to continue tweeting about ‘Bros’ ‘every day for the next year’ after flop

LOS ANGELES — Comedian Billy Eichner is continuing to advocate for his new rom-com, “Bros,” after its meager box office showing this weekend and has vowed to keep tweeting about the film to spite haters.

AFP

'Bros' creator blames missing straight audiences for gay rom-com flop

Los Angeles (AFP) - "Bros," billed as the first gay rom-com from a major Hollywood studio, flopped at the box office because straight people "just didn't show up," its creator Billy Eichner said.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Horror Pic ‘Smile’ Happy at No. 1

Moviegoing audiences chose the horror movie over the romantic comedy to kick off the month of October. Paramount’s “Smile” topped the North American charts with $22 million in ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday, leaving Billy Eichner’s rom-com “Bros” in the dust. Universal’s “Bros” launched with an estimated $4.8…

The Independent UK

Bros star Billy Eichner says ‘straight people in certain parts of’ US didn’t show up for gay romcom

Actor encouraged ‘everyone who ISN’T a homophobic weirdo’ to go to see ‘Bros’

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