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11 hours ago | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »

The Internet will inevitably spoil "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" for those who don't see the movie immediately, but Disney is hoping they can at least contain the purity of experience as far as opening day. Even if it means coming at the cost of acclaim from the awards bodies. The Wrap reports that Disney won't be screening 'The Force Awakens' for contention for National Board Of Review's best films of the year on December 1st. And they are likely to do the same with other organizations handing out their trophies in December including New York Film Critics Circle, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and the Screen Actors Guild Awards. And this decision is being made to prevent any story spoilers from leaking out before opening day. Of course, Disney doesn't need to the approval of awards bodies to get audiences to pack 'em in, and they are likely »

- Kevin Jagernauth

11 November 2015 1:18 PM, PST | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »

Bryan Cranston is starring in the drama “Wakefield” with Robin Swicord directing from her own script.

Bonnie Curtis and Julie Lynn are producing through their Mockingbird Pictures banner with Elliot Webb co-producing.

The film is based on a short story of the same name by E.L. Doctorow — which is a retelling of a story by Nathaniel Hawthorne, also called “Wakefield” about a man who unexpectedly leaves his wife for an extended period of time.

Cranston revealed the casting on a recent interview on “The Howard Stern Radio Show,” explaining that he will play a married Manhattan lawyer who sees a racoon in the attic of his home and winds up staying in the attic for several months due to a nervous breakdown. He also said his character will become romantically involved with a younger woman at some point in the story.

Cranston also said in the interview that filming would »

- Dave McNary

2 hours ago | Box Office Mojo | See recent BoxOfficeMojo.com news »

Spectre's $70.4 million opening last weekend was the seventh largest of 2015 and this weekend it faces little to no incoming competition. The week's new wide releases include the Chilean miner drama The 33, the Christmas-themed family feature Love the Coopers and the period, football drama My All American. Not one of these three new wide releases will be threatening the top two spots at the box office, which means the second weekend of Spectre and The Peanuts Movie draw the majority of our attention. Starting with Spectre, the first instinct is to look to Skyfall's second weekend back in 2012. After a monster opening, Skyfall dropped 53.5% in the face of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2's $141 million opening weekend. Quantum of Solace dropped 60% when it faced off, and took second to, the first Twilight film back in 2008. Twilight, however, isn't exactly direct competition. Taking that into consideration, it would suggest those weekend »

- Brad Brevet <mail@boxofficemojo.com>

11 November 2015 12:10 PM, PST | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »

Alchemy has bought the U.S. distribution rights to the upcoming thriller “Free Fire,” starring Brie Larson and Armie Hammer.

The deal was closed on Wednesday, the final day of the American Film Market. Martin Scorsese is exec producing.

Ben Wheatley is directing “Free Fire” from a script he co-wrote with Amy Jump.  Cillian Murphy, Jack Reynor, Sam Riley, Noah Taylor,  Sharlto Copley, Michael Smiley, Enzo Cilenti and Babou Ceesay also star.

The story is set in Boston in the late 1970s. Larson will portray a woman who has brokered a meeting in a warehouse between two Irishmen (Murphy and Smiley) and two gang members (Hammer and Copley) who are selling guns.

Andy Starke and Wheatley are producing through their Rook Films banner. Film4 and BFI have co-financed the film, with Protagonist handing international sales and co-representing the domestic sale with Wme.

StudioCanal has acquired U.K. rights and Sony »

- Dave McNary

7 hours ago | Deadline | See recent Deadline news »

Exclusive: Andy Garcia has booked a pair of roles that will put him in two separate cross-hairs: He has joined Netflix’s film True Memoirs Of An International Assassin starring Kevin James and landed a season-long arc on HBO’s series Ballers. In Assassin, which Netflix acquired in May at Cannes, Garcia will play El Toro, a Venezuelan revolutionary leader fronting as a modern-day Che Guevara. Jeff Wadlow is directing Jeff Morris’ Black List script, which centers on… »

11 hours ago | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »

Van Helsing is a bad movie. It’s about as soulless as a popcorn movie gets. Director Stephen Sommers brought some fun to the original Mummy reboot, but he stripped Dracula, the Wolf Man, and Van Helsing of their appeal in his garish film. There’s been talk of a reboot for a few years now, and it was once speculated the film […]

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- Jack Giroux

47 minutes ago | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »

Which Marvel hero has a female version arriving in the new Spider-Gwen issue? What will happen on the midseason finale of Gotham? What can you expect from Rob Liefeld‘s new Deadpool comic? Where does director Ant-Man director Peyton Reed think the Fantastic Four reboot went wrong? All that and more in today’s Superhero Bits. Agent Carter joins the […]

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- Ethan Anderton

49 minutes ago | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »

Casting actors for biopics, where they will, by necessity, play people who actually exist, or at least existed, is a tricky proposition. Steve Jobs recently proved that you don.t necessarily need to cast someone who looks like the person in question, but they at least have to be able to capture the spirit of the individual. And all things considered, the Richard Pryor biopic that.s been in the work for some time, may have found the perfect person to play legendary comedian Redd Foxx. Foxx was a groundbreaking, not to mention foul mouthed as all hell, comedian most known for his explicit comedy albums and the sitcom Sanford and Sons. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Saturday Night Live and 30 Rock alum Tracy Morgan will play him in the as-yet untitled movie. In a statement, Morgan said: Mr. Foxx, I hope I do you justice! It will be an »

51 minutes ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »

Tracy Morgan is in talks to play Redd Foxx opposite Mike Epps in the Richard Pryor biopic for the Weinstein Co. with Lee Daniels directing.

“Mr. Foxx, I hope I do you justice!” said Morgan in a statement. “It will be an honor to portray an icon.”

Foxx was best known for raunchy comedy “party albums” in the 1950s and 1960s, and starred for six seasons in the sitcom “Sanford and Son” from 1972 to 1977. Pryor broke into the business in the early 1960s and had become the top stand-up comedian in the business by the early 1970s.

Foxx and Pryor both appeared in Eddie Murphy’s 1989 movie “Harlem Nights.”

Other cast in the untitled Pryor project include Kate Hudson as Pryor’s wife, Taraji P. Henson and Murphy as Pryor’s parents and Oprah Winfrey as Pryor’s grandmother who raised him.

Morgan returned to “Saturday Night Live” as host on Oct. »

- Dave McNary

1 hour ago | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »

Patricia Arquette got the Academy’s stamp of approval earlier this year, picking up an Oscar for her phenomenal, decade-spanning work in Richard Linklater’s Boyhood. Now she’s caught the attention of an (arguably) even more highly respected Hollywood institution: Pixar. Arquette is in talks to join the voice cast of Toy Story 4, alongside returning stars Tom Hanks and […]

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- Angie Han

1 hour ago | Deadline | See recent Deadline news »

As AFI Fest 2015 presented by Audi starts to draw to a close, the festival has announced the Jury and Audience awards. Jury Awards honored films in the new Auteurs section, which looked at 11 films from first and second-time feature directors, as well as the Shorts section, choosing from 53 submissions. Audience Awards were chosen from 53 films in the American Independents, Breakthrough, New Auteurs and World Cinema categories. The highlights? César Augusto Acevedo’s Land… »

1 hour ago | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »

Disney has been keeping a tight lid on promotional material for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, but now that the release is only a month away, marketing is being kicked to the next level. The past couple months have seen new previews and merchandise being released, and it’s only going to get more hectic over the next couple weeks with more TV spots and the press tour kicking off. Unfortunately for Air France, their contribution to the promotional festivities didn't receive the Disney/Lucasfilm seal of approval. The airline announced on November 2 that they were featuring a "Flight & Cinema” promotion under the Star Wars logo. Costing $1,500-$2,000, this package not only provides a flight from San Francisco, Los Angeles or New York to Paris, France on December 15, but also a ticket to see Star Wars: The Force Awakens at EuropaCorp Cinemas on December 16, »

1 hour ago | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »

Richard Linklater‘s plans to direct Jennifer Lawrence in The Rosie Project didn’t pan out, so he’s turning his attention to another literary adaptation that’s been on his to-do list for a while. Linklater is moving forward on Where’d You Go, Bernadette?, with Cate Blanchett now in talks to play the title character. More on the possible […]

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- Angie Han

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