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Also reviewed: ‘The Invisible Woman,’ ‘Ride Along,’ ‘The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.’ Philomena

Turner Classic Movies puts on a bus tour of film locations for movie fans as part of cable network’s 20th anniversary celebration. There’s a Chick-fil-A on the Sunset Boulevard corner where Lana Turner was said to have been discovered, a public school at the former Ambassador Hotel site where Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft filmed their trysts in “The Graduate” and a CVS in the Art Deco …

Turner Classic Movies will pay tribute to Mickey Rooney, who passed away April 6 at age 93, with a 24-hour marathon of his movies.

New Releases: ‘The Hobbit,’ ‘Grudge Match’ and ‘A Field In England’ also for sale August: Osage County        

Conventional Hollywood wisdom (for lack of a better word) holds that films featuring women in prominent roles don’t perform as well as male-centric movies at the box office. But a new report from the number-crunching website FiveThirtyEight indicates that movies that have significant female characters actually offer a better return on investment overall than films that don’t.        

A few nights ago, I finally caught up with watching the most recent Tweedledee and Tweedledum of action movies – “White House Down” and “Olympus Has Fallen.”        

(On Monday mornings, Movies Now will be looking at some aspect of the No. 1 movie over the weekend. This week: “Noah” and the return of Russell Crowe as a box office force).

Propelled by a string of hit family movies, global movie ticket sales set a new record last year, climbing to $35.9 billion in box office revenue, according to a new report.        

New releases: Plus, ‘The Great Beauty,’ ‘The Past’ and ‘Key & Peele: Seasons One & Two.’ The Wolf of Wall Street        

After the coffee.