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It’s showtime! After these 617 credits

Meghan McCarty Carino Jan 4, 2019
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Movies today have increasingly complex visual effects, like "Star Wars: The Last Jedi," which credits over 20 different visual effects companies. Anne-Christine Poujoulat/AFP/Getty Images

It’s showtime! After these 617 credits

Meghan McCarty Carino Jan 4, 2019
Movies today have increasingly complex visual effects, like "Star Wars: The Last Jedi," which credits over 20 different visual effects companies. Anne-Christine Poujoulat/AFP/Getty Images
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If you took some time over the holidays to catch a movie or two, chances are you sat through a lot of stuff that was not the movie, but a list of names on a screen. You get the pre-movie credits, you get the post-movie credits, which might have an Easter egg hidden in them, so you’ve got to stick around. What is driving this creep of the credits?

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