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Showing posts with label Entertainment. Show all posts
Dec
20

Ben Affleck drops out of Warner Bros. "Focus" feature

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LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Ben Affleck has dropped off the Warner Bros. film "Focus," due to his overcrowded schedule, a person with knowledge of the situation has told TheWrap.Kristen Stewart stars in the film for directors Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, who co-wrote the script.The story revolves around a grifter who partners with a young woman who's new to the grifting life. The studio is now looking...
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Director Michael Haneke on "Amour," Death and the puzzle of an open window

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LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Out of the 71 films submitted in the Oscar foreign-language category this year, Michael Haneke's "Amour" is without much doubt the surest nominee.An austere, unflinching, deeply moving chronicle of an elderly couple, Georges and Anne (French acting icons Jean-Louis Trintingnant and Emmanuelle Riva), coping with the aftermath of a stroke that disables Anne, "Amour" won the...
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Zac Efron, Marcia Gay Harden join "Parkland"

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LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Zac Efron and Marcia Gay Harden are joining Paul Giamatti, Billy Bob Thornton and Jacki Weaver in the cast of "Parkland," the producers announced on Wednesday.Based on the epic book "Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy," by the author and former prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi, the adapted screenplay is written by journalist and novelist Peter...
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Gordon Crawford Retires - Hollywood Loses a Great One

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LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Hollywood should take a moment to regret the retirement this week of Gordon Crawford of Capital Research and Management, one of the wisest, most influential and most successful investors in media and entertainment of the past several decades. Crawford out a note to friends on Wednesday - on which were copied a Who's Who of leaders in entertainment and technology...
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Why "Les Misérables" Looks Like a Holiday Box-Office Smash

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LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Moviegoers are storming online ticketing sites in advance of the Christmas release of "Les Misérables," and the big-screen adaptation of the Broadway musical has all the makings of a holiday smash.With a cast that includes Anne Hathaway and Hugh Jackman, expectations are enormous, but based on advance tracking, so is the box-office potential.The film, made for a reported...
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