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Jon M. Chu and Focus team for 90s high school dance movie
2 hours ago
Get your Hammer pants out. Focus Features and Jon M. Chu, the director of Step Up 2: The Streets and Step Up 3D, are teaming for a dance movie titled Can't Touch This. Chu and producing partner Hieu Ho have sold the 90s-set "high school dance comedy" to Focus Features, EW has confirmed. While Chu will not be directing Can't Touch This, he is on board to helm the sequel to Now You See Me. According to Deadline, who first reported the news, The Goldbergs producer Annie Mebane and Steve Basilone will write the script. Focus Features did not immediately return a request for comment. »
- Esther Zuckerman
Aaron Sorkin calls Steve Jobs' daughter 'heroine' of upcoming biopic
6 hours ago
Though Aaron Sorkin's Steve Jobs biopic still hasn't found its Jobs, the screenwriter has offered up a few more details about the film, as well as why finding someone to fill the role has been such a challenge. In an interview with The Independent, Sorkin opened up about how Jobs' daughter Lisa became a major facet of his writing process. Lisa, whom Jobs initially denied paternity of but later reconnected with when she was in her teens, spoke to Sorkin. These conversations were a coup for the writer, as Lisa did not speak to Walter Isaacson for the »
- Jonathon Dornbush
Fact-Checking the Film: 'Foxcatcher'
7 hours ago
Oscar season is here, which means a flurry of fact-based movies are on their way to theaters. EW is fact-checking these films—everything from The Theory of Everything to Wild—to see just how true-to-life they turned out. As portrayed in Bennett Miller's stark film Foxcatcher, Mark Schultz (Channing Tatum) is a desperate man, looking for glory and for someone to guide him toward it. Miller is interested in the story of the wrestler and his strange entanglement with John du Pont (Steve Carell)—the rich heir who becomes Mark's benefactor and ultimately murders his brother Dave (Mark Ruffalo »
- Esther Zuckerman
Robert De Niro says he's re-teaming with David O. Russell, Jennifer Lawrence for 'Joy'
8 hours ago
Confirming earlier rumors, Robert De Niro has now said he will be taking part in David O. Russell's upcoming film Joy. While speaking at a press conference in Rome following a screening of Remembering the Artist: Robert De Niro, Sr., a film about the actor's late father, De Niro answered a question about taking part in Russell's latest project. "Yes I am going to do something with them. I am going to play a father," De Niro said. The "them" in his statement refers to Russell and Jennifer Lawrence, who will play the title role of the biopic, Joy Mangano, »
- Jonathon Dornbush
AMC presents Unlimited ticket for infinite screenings of 'Interstellar'
8 hours ago
Still wrestling with the twisty plot and brow-furrowing science of Interstellar? Maybe you need to see it again—or three times—to wrap your head around Christopher Nolan's trip into the final frontier (and the human heart!). Paramount and AMC Theatres have teamed up to make that easier: Cinephiles, sci-fi aficionados, and Nolan obsessives who are also AMC Stubs members can purchase an Interstellar Unlimited Ticket that is good for infinite screenings of the blockbuster. “Christopher Nolan has created a masterpiece that movie fans are saying gets better every time they see it,” said AMC's Elizabeth Frank. “The Interstellar »
- Jeff Labrecque
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