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In a run-up to tonight’s Gotham Awards sponsored by the Independent Film Project, nominees Kenneth Lonergan and Casey Affleck — writer-director and star, respectively, of the multiple nominee Manchester by The Sea — answered questions about the seriously adult drama, which has benefitted from a major kick into awards season from both critics and ticket buyers. NBC Today show contributor Dave Karger asked, and fielded, questions after a screening of the film for press and… »

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Certainly, 2016 has turned out to be a banner year for feature film animation, and one of the most critically acclaimed has been Laika’s latest, Kubo And The Two Strings, which this morning was nominated for 10 Annie Awards. It marks the directorial feature film debut for Laika founder and studio head Travis Knight, who came to Deadline’s big all-day awards-season event The Contenders Presented By Deadline on November 5 at the DGA theater. In front of a packed audience of… »

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Famed production illustrator Joe Musso is boycotting the upcoming Art Directors Guild Awards, where he was slated to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award. In an email to the guild's members, Musso, who's running for president of the union, said he won't show up to receive the honor to protest a Service Award that's also being presented to Scott Roth, the guild's former longtime executive director. "It was because of Mr. Roth's long, troubling history with the guild, too… »

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Exclusive: 10 Cloverfield Lane helmer Daniel Trachtenberg is in talks to direct Lionsgate’s film about master illusionist Harry Houdini. This is the film that seemed to pull a vanishing act after reports that Johnny Depp was going to star and Dean Parisot direct. That went by the wayside in a puff of smoke, but I’ve confirmed that Trachtenberg is negotiating to take on a project based on the William Kalush and Larry Sloman's book The Secret Life of Houdini: The Making of A… »

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Weeks after he left Sony Pictures and his longtime post as head of business affairs, Andrew Gumpert has joined Paramount Pictures as chief operating officer. The appointment was made by Paramount chairman and CEO Brad Grey. At the same time, longtime COO Frederick Huntsberry is leaving Paramount after a decade there. Gumpert will start in January. According to the studio, Gumpert will lead business affairs as well as home entertainment and television transactional… »

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It’s not a great interdimensional breakthrough, but MGM is taking legal steps to ensure it has rights to make a TV version of The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension. The 1984 cult pic about a rock star/surgeon and his Hong Kong Cavaliers battling an alien invasion was written by Earl Mac Rauch and directed by Walter D. Richter, and both of them claim to have rights to a television remake. MGM begs to differ. “There is now a substantial controversy… »

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Walt Disney Animation’s Zootopia scored the most Annie Awards nominations with 11 as noms for the animation industry’s top honors were unveiled today. Focus Features/Lakia’s Kubo And The Two Strings was second with 10 noms. Both are in the marquee Best Animated Feature race with Disney/Pixar’s Finding Dory, DreamWorks Animation’s Kung Fu Panda 3 and Disney Animation’s just-released Moana. Last year, Disney/Pixar’s Inside Out won the main award, and went on to take the… »

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Momentum Pictures has acquired North American rights to Wheeler, a country music movie starring Stephen Dorff, who also co-wrote and produced the film and did the original music and score. Ryan Ross directed it. Momentum, an eOne label, is now set to open in theaters February 3. Wheeler is the story of an aspiring musician from Kaufman, Texas, who travels to Nashville with the lifelong dream of trying his hand at country music. Dorff used prosthetic makeup and, with only… »

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Film and television distributor FilmRise today announced that it has acquired worldwide distribution rights to Peter Pardini's Now More Than Ever: The History of Chicago. CNN Films has acquired U.S. broadcast distribution rights and will premiere the film on television on New Year's Day 2017, with limited commercial interruption. The docu, directed and edited by Peter Pardini and produced by the band, looks at Chicago’s history from its formation in the late '60s, to its… »

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The Palm Springs International Film Festival has named Nicole Kidman as the recipient of its 2017 International Star Award, recognizing her performance in The Weinstein Co’s Lion. Kidman previously received Palm Springs’ Chairman's Award in 2005. In the Garth Davis-helmed Lion, the Oscar and Golden Globe winner plays Sue Brierley, an Australian woman who adopts two young boys from India. The 28th edition of Palm Springs, another important step on the awards season… »

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Southwestern China city Chongqing is set to invest Rmb 15B ($2.17B) to build a film and television industry development including studio space, tourist town, theme park, training center and offices. State news agency, Xinhua, reports the park will be based in the mountainous Wulong County (whose Wulong Karst National Park is famous for having been a location in Transformers: Age Of Extinction and then suing producers because the park's logo was not shown on screen)… »

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Busy Alibaba Pictures Group has made an undisclosed strategic investment in Hehe Pictures Corporation. When the deal closes, Alibaba will hold a 30% stake in the Chinese film investment company, becoming Hehe’s second largest shareholder. Established in 2013, Hehe began focusing on film investment, distribution, management and other fields this year. As of October, it has invested in and managed movie projects that have grossed nearly Rmb 4.8Bb ($695M) in box office. They… »

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Fritz Weaver, an actor who transmitted an air of patrician assurance in roles that took him from a regular presence in Golden Age television dramas to Broadway stardom, prominent characters in films including Fail-Safe in 1964, and an Emmy nomination for NBC’s acclaimed 1978 drama series Holocaust, died Saturday at home in Manhattan. He was 90. In that mini-series, Weaver played Dr. Josef Weiss, a Jewish doctor sent first to the Warsaw ghetto and then to the… »

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