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DGA Reaches Deal for New Film and TV Pact

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Just in time for the holidays, the DGA and management's AMPTP have reached an agreement on terms for a new three-year film and TV contract. Details of the deal aren't being released until after it's been seen by the guild's national board. The two sides began talks on Dec. 5 and wrapped on the eve of Christmas Eve. The DGA's current three-year contract runs through June 30, 2017, but the guild is famous for starting — and finishing — negotiations well in advance of the… Read

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With ‘Rogue One’ & ‘Sing’, It’s A Two-Picture Christmas At The B.O. – Late Friday Update

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Update, Friday 11:25 PM: If you’re headed to the movies this weekend, you’re likely buying a ticket to one of two films: Disney/Lucasfilm’s Rogue One: A Star Wars Story or Illumination/Universal’s Sing.  In its second weekend, Rogue One is now on track to make $108.9M over four-days, while Sing could reach a six-day total of $76.3M. Initially, distributors thought there would be more room for other films to thrive this Christmas, especially with Rogue One playing to 42%… Read

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Notes On The Season: ‘La La’ Has Europe Ga Ga; Denzel’s Dueling Awards Problem; Jonah Hill’s Under’Dogs’ Campaign

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A column chronicling conversations and events on the awards circuit The town, even with the speed race pace of awards season, is unquestionably slowing down for the Christmas/New Years break, and you can feel it. But there is just a small window of down time before it starts again in earnest, beginning with the Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Gala which is forced to take place on Monday January 2nd, the official New Year’s holiday. That is… Read

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‘The Comedian’ Set For Wide Release February 3

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Sony Pictures Classics has announced that The Comedian will see release in theaters nationwide beginning February 3. Directed by Taylor Hackford and starring Robert De Niro, Leslie Mann, Edie Falco, Harvey Keitel, Danny DeVito, Patti LuPone and Veronica Ferres, the film follows an aging comic icon (De Niro) desperate to reinvent himself while facing an audience only interested in knowing him as the former television character he once played. Already a strain on his… Read

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‘Bad Moms Christmas’ Is A Go: Comedy Sequel Reuniting Original Cast Set For November 2017 Release

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Bad Moms is officially (and deservedly) a franchise as the hit comedy’s stars are reuniting for A Bad Moms Christmas, set to hit theaters November 3, 2017. STX is fast-tracking the holiday-themed sequel sees the titula under-appreciated and over-burdened friends coping with the stresses of the most wonderful time of year as their own mothers visit for the holidays. Mila Kunis, Kristen Bell, and Kathryn Hahn are reprising their roles with Jon Lucas and Scott Moore once… Read

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Carrie Fisher “Out Of Emergency” But ICU After Heart Attack On Plane, Brother Says

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4th UPDATE, 6:58 PM: Carrie Fisher’s brother, Todd Fisher, has since clarified his statements, telling the Associated Press that she is intensive care after being taken out of Emergency and is receiving “excellent care,” but is unable to state her condition. He previously said she was stable. 3rd UPDATE with statement on condition, 4:14 PM: Star Wars original Carrie Fisher suffered a heart attack on a plane en route to Los Angeles from London today. A source tells… Read

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‘Silence’ Review: Scorsese’s Passion Project Three Decades In The Making Was Well Worth The Wait

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When you work 28 years to bring a passion project to the screen, the end result can be a little dicey especially if a filmmaker is just too close to the material to do what is best for it. But if that filmmaker is Martin Scorsese you need not worry, and the film he has finally made  from Japanese novelist Shusaku Endo’s 1966 book Silence from his own screenplay written with Jay Cocks, is a fascinating movie that explores faith, and its meanings, in the deepest of… Read

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‘The Birth Of A Nation’ Composer Henry Jackman Talks About The Challenge Of Working On A Truly Independent Project – The Contenders Video

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As part of Fox Searchlight’s presentation at last month’s big awards season event, The Contenders Presented By Deadline,  The Birth Of A Nation composer Henry Jackman appeared to talk about the use of music in creating the right mood for the intensely dramatic film that chronicles the slave revolt  by Nat Turner.  He tells the packed  Invitational audience of Oscar and key Guild voters  at the DGA Theatre that when he was first approached for the job he was told there was… Read

TV

Donald Trump’s Transition Team Blasts Remarks About Obama By Former Surrogate

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Donald Trump’s transition team has blasted as “absolutely reprehensible” remarks made by a man who served as a co-chairman in Trump’s New York State election campaign. Carl Paladino said his wish for 2017 is for President Obama to die and for Michelle Obama to go back to Africa to live with a gorilla. “Carl’s comments are absolutely reprehensible, and they serve no place in our public discourse,” the transition team said in a statement about the Buffalo, NY developer and… Read

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A&E Changes KKK Docuseries Name, Adds PSA Interstitials, After Social Slamming

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A&E’s upcoming docuseries Generation KKK will henceforth be known as the carefully spelled out Escaping the KKK: A Documentary Series Exposing Hate in America. Network announced name change today after getting major blowback about the series on social media. Also announced, the network has partnered with civil rights org Color of Change on the project, in addition to its already announced partnership with  Anti-Defamation League on the eight-parter. The name change… Read

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TWC Takes ‘Leap!’ With Elle Fanning Animated Picture

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The Weinstein Company will release the animated period picture Leap! on March 3 of next year, they said today. Directed by Eric Summer and Eric Warin, Leap! stars Elle Fanning and is set in Paris in 1884 and follows an orphaned girl who arrives in Paris. Only 11 years old, the girl has no money but does have a passion to become a ballet dancer. So she borrows someone else’s identity and enters the Opera Ballet School. Mentored by the tough and mysterious woman, she learns… Read

Business

iHeartMedia’s Debt Refinancing Faces Static As Radio’s Prospects Weaken

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Will radio giant iHeartMedia keep beating in 2017? That’s unclear as the company run by longtime media exec Bob Pittman struggles to refinance $347 million in debt coming due in 2018 — part of the more than $20 billion in borrowings it shoulders. About half of the holders of the $347 million may reject a refinancing proposal iHeart offered this week, Bloomberg reports.  They want more than the 11.25% in interest the company proposes to pay on the Priority Guarantee Notes… Read

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