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If you're a film franchise that had more than one film released in 2017, please step forward. Not so fast there....
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LEGO
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Despicable Me
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DC Extended Universe
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Marvel Cinematic Universe
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If you looked realllllly closely, you might have recognized this famous pair in a cameo as stormtroopers in Star Wars: The Last Jedi
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Ben Affleck and Matt Damon
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Game of Thrones' Kitt Harrington and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
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Seth Rogen and Jonah Hill
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Princes Harry and William
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The subtitle of December's update of Jumanji shares its name with a song made famous by this band:
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The Ramones
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AC/DC
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Guns n Roses
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Pearl Jam
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Everybody, revise your Asian Civ. textbooks. We learned this year that the Great Wall of China had as its primary purpose a defense against:
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A maniacal river
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Aliens
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Monsters
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The Dutch
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In this film, the Gunslinger doesn't kill with his gun, but kills with his heart.
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Blade Runner 2049
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Thor: Ragnarok
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The Dark Tower
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Underworld: Blood Wars
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What's in a name? This word is repeated to make up the entire title of a 2017 film:
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Everything
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Nowhere
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Sometime
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Always
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Sure to go down in cinema lore several times over, this man was on stage when the wrong film was read as the Best Picture winner at the 2017 Oscars:
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Jack Nicholson
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Warren Beatty
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Michael Douglas
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Michael Caine
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Deciding that snuggling up to his typewriter at night wasn't enough, this screenwriter picked up a camera also, making his directorial debut:
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Avika Goldsman
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Mark Boal
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Charlie Kaufman
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Aaron Sorkin
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Trying to shake a family curse, the Logan family decides to rob this type of sports venue in Logan Lucky:
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A football stadium
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A horse racetrack
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A car racetrack
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A cricket......wherever they play cricket
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Disney Nature treated viewers to footage of adorable and entertaining animals "Born in" this place:
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Hawaii
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China
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Japan
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Norway
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This studio did *not* have a film finish in the top 10 earners in worldwide box office:
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Disney
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20th Century Fox
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Universal
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Warner Bros.
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And it should not come as a surprise this studio continues to become a behemoth, accounting for 5 of the top 10 box office earners for 2017:
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Disney
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Warner Bros.
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Universal
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20th Century Fox
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It spent the entirety of the 2017 in which it appeared as a baby:
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Bob the Minion
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Groot
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Papa Smurf
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King Kong
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Aside from the fact, one supposes, that the cafeteria food sucks, what exactly is wrong with My Entire High School?
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It's been Taken Over by Ugly Aliens
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It's Being Invaded by Republicans
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It's Sinking into the Sea
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It is Feeding on the Souls of the Innocent
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This heroic profession is depicted in Only the Brave:
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Emergency room nurses
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Fire fighters
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Policemen
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Bomb squad technicians
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Speaking of unusual things at school, through the power of hypnosis, the school official is transformed into the comic book hero known as Captain Underpants:
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The gym teacher
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The janitor
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The bus driver
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The principal
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If you paid to see Justice League in the theaters, 1) DC thanks you very, very much for taking one for the team and 2) you hopefully remember which of these B-level heroes appeared on screen:
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Cyborg
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Atom
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Martian Manhunter
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Hawkman
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The happy-go-lucky days of the Iran/Contra scandal serve as the backdrop for the climax of this film:
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The Hitman's Bodyguard
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Thank You For Your Service
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The Mountain Between Us
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American Made
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A man only referred to as The Colonel is its main protagonist:
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Resident Evil: The Final Chapter
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John Wick: Chapter 2
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War for the Planet of the Apes
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Rock Dog
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And you think *your* traffic is bad. Luc Besson's Valerian movie seems to think there are this many planets in a single city:
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A Thousand
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Five Hundred
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Twenty Three
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A Million
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