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Weekend Receipts: Underworld: Awakening Comes Out Guns Blazing-ish

Weekend Receipts: Underworld: Awakening Comes Out Guns Blazing-ish

Everything old was new again this weekend at the box office, with a third sequel and a WWII film cruising to the lead opposite pockets of crummy weather and a pair of NFL playoff games that were about as good as they could possibly be. What hit? What kind of didn't? Your Weekend Receipts are here.
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REVIEW: Vampires Aren't the Only Things That Suck in Underworld: Awakening

REVIEW: Vampires Aren't the Only Things That Suck in Underworld: Awakening

It can be difficult to remember who we're meant to be rooting for in the Underworld universe, with its unending werewolf/vampire feud, betrayals, hybrids, bloodlines, forbidden romances and immortal daddy issues. But that's OK: Underworld: Awakening sloughs off much of the convoluted gothic backstory of the first three films in the series in favor of skipping forward a dozen years and landing vinyl-clad bloodsucking heroine Selene (Kate Beckinsale) in a near future in which the world has gone into martial law lockdown after the discovery of non-humans in their midst.
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