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The film’s second straight win comes with a take of over $63 million, giving it more than $200 million in just 10 days at the box office.
The Boy Next Door comes in second in its opening weekend, with $!5 million, while other new releases
Strange Magic and
Mortdecai both bomb, making another negative mark on Johnny Depp’s recent film resumé.
(BO)
Alejandro González Iñárittu’s film pulls a minor upset of
Boyhood to take the organization’s top prize, while
The LEGO Movie wins the award for Animated Feature and the Roger Ebert biopic
Life Itself gives director Steve James a big victory. Neither of the latter two films were nominated for Oscars.
(COL)
The Alejandro González Iñárittu film took home the evening’s top prize, while Julianne Moore, J.K. Simmons and Patricia Arquette won their respective categories, as expected, Eddie Redmayne took Best Actor honors over Michael Keaton.
Downton Abbey won TV Drama Cast while
Orange Is the New Black won Comedy honors. THR has the complete list.
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Kaya Scodelario, star of the British series about teenagers as well as last year’s
The Maze Runner, will play the female lead in the multi-billion dollar franchise’s latest installment. Johnny Depp will return as Captain Jack Sparrow, with Javier Bardem playing the villain and Brenton Thwaites also set to co-star.
(VAR)
The Oscar-winning actress has picked up the remake rights to the documentary
Batkid Begins: The Wish Heard Around the World, which will premiere this week at the Slamdance Film Festival. Roberts will produce with Red Om partners Lisa Gillan and Marisa Yeres Gill and will also star.
(TOH)
Bidding for the tearjerker
Me And Earl And The Dying Girl cleared the $12 million mark, an all-time record for the festival, surpassing the previous record of $10 million, which was spent on several different movies over the years, including
Spitfire Grill,
The Way Way Back,
Little Miss Sunshine and
Hamlet 2. The deal, and the winning studio, should be announced today.
(DH)
Written and directed by Jarrad Paul and Andrew Mogel, film is described as a “grown man’s coming of age story.” Distributor plans to release a nationwide release of the film similar to how it handled this year’s Best Picture nominee
Boyhood. (IW)
The fledgling distributor picks up the Australia-set thriller starring Kidman and Joseph Fiennes for low six figures. Feature debut of Kim Farrant centers on a man-crazy teenage girl and her younger brother, who go missing in the Australian outback.
(THR)
The man a great actor, a fine musician, a magnetically charismatic screen presence, and a supernaturally handsome man. What he is not is a movie star, though that will change very soon: Later this year he’s set to appear as Poe Dameron in
Stars Wars: The Force Awakens, and in 2016 he’ll be Apocalypse in the next
X-Men movie
. (GL)
The film's screenwriters, Robert Bolt and Michael Wilson loosely based their screenplay on T.E. Lawrence's own memoir published in 1927. Suppose for a moment the writers had to submit a logline to one of today's narrow-minded, Armani-clad studio development executives? What would it look like?
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