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The Bradley Cooper film earned an additional $31.85 million this weekend, setting a record for a Super Bowl weekend, and putting its domestic gross over $248 million thus far.
Project Almanac,
Black or White both opened softly, while
Paddington earned $8.5 million and finished second in its third weekend of release.
(BO)
Though the first issue isn't due out until the first week of March, the studio picked up the Image Comics series after a competitive bid. Written by Jeff Lemire and drawn by Dustin Nguyen, series an incredibly lifelike artificial boy whose machine DNA may very well hold the key to the origin of the robots that have decimated entire planets. Because of this, he is the most wanted robot in a universe that has outlawed androids.
(CBR)
Sandra Adair won her first such award for cutting Richard Linklater’s 12-years-in-the-making opus, while Barney Pilling took the award for Best Comedy/Musical for his work on
The Grand Budapest Hotel. Seven of the last 12 Eddie winners went on to win the Best Picture Oscar.
The LEGO Movie, meanwhile, won the award for animated film.
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The DreamWorks Animation film won big at the 42nd annual gathering, collecting six awards including best animated feature and best director for its writer/director Dean DeBlois
. The LEGO Movie won for writing. In addition to best animated feature and director,
How To Train Your Dragon 2 was honored for character animation, editing, music and storyboarding.
(THR)
Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s comedy-drama about the friendship between a misfit teenager and a classmate diagnosed with leukemia, received both the grand jury prize and the audience award. Film was acquired by Fox Searchlight earlier this week in one of the festival’s biggest deals. This marks the third year in a row that one movie has taken both top prizes at Sundance, following the lead of
Fruitvale Station in 2013 and
Whiplash last year.
(VAR)
Producing team of Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner will reunite with the
Selma star, coming involved in the new feature in an unspecified capacity, joining with BN Films and producers Josh Weinstock, Katrina Wolfe (of BN) and director Elliott Lester. Details of the deal are still being worked out.
(DH)
The actress, who played the character of Moira MacTaggert to life in director Matthew Vaughn’s 1960s-set film
X-Men: First Class, but was not in
X-Men: Days of Future Past, will reprise the role in next year’s
X-Men: Apocalypse. Bryan Singer returns as director and James McAvoy, Jennifer Lawrence, Michael Fassbender, and Nicholas Hoult all return as cast.
(COL)
The latest look at the upcoming fifth season of the popular, Emmy-winning HBO series. The new season premieres on the cable network on April 12th.
(FSR)
When Warner Bros. announced their major plan for the DC Universe, Miller’s casting was one of the biggest surprises. The actor known specifically for odd roles in independent films like
We Need to Talk About Kevin and
The Perks of Being A Wallflower is about to spend the next several years playing the Fastest Man Alive on the big screen.
(SF)
The words flowing from your characters’ mouths should be true to who they are. Whether your characters are telling the truth or lying, or believe they are being accurate or not, when you, the screenwriter, have a deep understanding of your characters’ motivations and behaviors, the more believable your dialogue will be.
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