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The legendary Lewis sent the Library of Congress a collection of his work, including this film, but there’s a catch: the Library won’t screen the movie for ten years. For those who don’t know, the 1972 stars Lewis as a failed clown who’s is thrown into a concentration camp for ridiculing Hitler and forced to entertain children. There is reportedly a scene where Lewis’ character, Helmut Doork, leads a group of laughing children into the gas chambers.
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The director suggested yesterday that he wasn’t responsible for the final cut of the film, which has been widely panned by critics prior to its release today. “A year ago I had a fantastic version of this. And it would’ve received great reviews,” he wrote of the 20th Century Fox and Marvel pic. “You’ll probably never see it. That’s reality though.” The tweet was quickly deleted from his account. Fox, of course, had no comment.
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Legendary Pictures’ upcoming
King Kong prequel lost the acting pair over scheduling issues, but now Samuel L. Jackson is in talks to replace Simmons and John C. Reilly is up for Keaton’s role. Additionally, Tom Wilkinson is circling another role in the project. Tom Hiddleston, Brie Larson and Corey Hawkins are already on board the film, which has Jordan Vogt-Roberts on board to direct. It is scheduled for a March 10th, 2017 release.
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Drama will be set in the New York porn industry in the 1970s and '80s and follow Franco as twin brother mobsters. From
The Wire creator David Simon and director Michelle MacLaren, the sow pilot will go into production in October.
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Original series stars Wentworth Miller and Dominic Purcell are confirmed to return, and
Prison Break creator Paul Scheuring has pitched the new, 10-episode season. No word on how the new series will address the straight to video movie
Prison Break: The Final Break, in which Michael Scofield (Miller) died breaking out Sara Tancredi (Sarah Wayne Callies), but he reveals he would’ve died anyway of a brain tumor.
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Bill Hader has joined the cast to replace Andre Braugher — who has now earned Emmy nominations for each of the show’s first two seasons — whose character was transferred out of the precinct in the season finale. Braugher remains in the cast, and there is no word of how long Hader will actually be around on the show.
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Salim and Mara Brock Akil are effectively saying goodbye to the network, after their series
The Game ends its run tonight. The duo have inked a multiple-year overall deal with the WB via their Akil Productions, which will begin in May 2016, which also happens to be when their agreement with with BET ends. Mara Brock Akil will transition from showrunner of BET’s number one program,
Being Mary Jane, to "executive consultant" on the series instead.
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It's a weird phenomenon of temporal perception that July 4th feels like the mid-point of the year, but then less than a month later August 1st portends Christmas kicking in the door already. In between thoughts of our collective, rapidly encroaching mortality, however, August also brings with it a solid roster of movies, music, TV, and more to help stimulate our brains out of early on-set senility.
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Universal Pictures has released the first trailer for Angelina Jolie’s next directorial effort, in which she stars with her husband, Brad Pitt. The relationship drama hits theaters in November.
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The 104-page second draft, dated January 11th, 1971, by James Dickey and John Boorman, based on the novel by James Dickey.
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