After it looked likely that shows like
Doctor Who,
Luther,
Top Gear, the original
House of Cards and plenty of others would no longer be available as of February 1st, the network and the streaming service have come to an agreement to allow Netflix subscribers continued access.
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Studio’s new co-presidents of the feature division, Bonnie Arnold and Mireille Soria, will oversee the layoffs. Between 150 and 400 employees are expected to be affected at the company’s Glendale and Redwood City, Calif., outposts, with Bill Damaschke, DWA’s chief creative officer, having already stepped down.
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The festival will feature new films from Terrence Malick, Jafar Panahi, Alex Ross Perry, Anton Corbijn, Werner Herzog, Andrew Haigh, Wim Wenders, Pablo Larraín and Oliver Hirschbiegel. The entire list of films for the Berlin Film Festival is now online.
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Joel and Ethan Coen will be co-presidents of the judging panel for this year’s festival, marking the first time two people will run the jury. The brothers were last at Cannes for the premiere of
Inside Llewyn Davis. They won the Palme d’Or in 1991 for
Barton Fink, and won Best Director for
Fargo and
The Man Who Wasn’t There.
Inside Llewyn Davis won the Grand Prix, awarded by Steven Spielberg.
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With three different projects premiering this week at the Sundance Film Festival, the 18-year-old star’s next project,
Detour, is a psychological thriller written and to be directed by Christopher Smith. Story follows a young law student who, while grieving for his dying mother, struggles to decide whether he should kill his unfaithful step-father.
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The furry blue sugar addict’s very first solo outing,
The Cookie Thief, will premiere next month and will take place not long after the Sesame Street population experiences the opening of its first cookie art museum. When exquisite paintings like
Muncha Lisa and
Girl with the Cookie Earring go missing, it doesn’t take much for Cookie Monster targeted as the prime suspect.
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After being discussed for years, the Ryan Reynolds vehicle will begin principal photography in late March, with Tim Miller directing and T.J. Miller and Ed Skrein co-starring. The character was first introduced onscreen in
X-Men Origins: Wolverine.
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The first look at Season Two of the hit FX show, adapted from the trilogy of novels by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan. The show will return to FX this summer.
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Almost five years after the show premiered, the sixth and final season of the Emmy-winning FX series begins its final 13-episode run tonight. Here, creator Graham Yost and several others look back at how the show came together and turned into one of the best dramas of the 21st century.
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His latest film might have tanked at the box office, but the
Blackhat director is unquestionably a Hollywood legend, with such films as
Thief,
Manhunter,
Last of the Mohicans,
Heat,
The Insider Ali, and
Collateral under his belt, as well as the seminal TV show
Miami Vice.
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