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Sandler, who stars along with Terry Crews,
Lost‘s Jorge Garcia, Taylor Lautner, Rob Schneider, Luke Wilson and Nick Nolte, will make this one of the four films in his deal with the online streaming service.
The Wedding Singer‘s Frank Coraci will direct a script by Tim Herlihy and Sandler. Film is about to being production in New Mexico.
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A California federal judge dismissed United Talent Agency from an ongoing lawsuit alleging that Universal's
The Purge derived from a script authored by Douglas Jordan-Benel. Benel filed suit last July, looking to hold legally responsible those including Universal, Blumhouse Productions and
Purge writer-director James DeMonaco for allegedly using his screenplay titled
Settler's Day to create a movie where the government sanctions crime for 12 hours each year.
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Comic book by Tim Daniel and Mehdi Cheggour has been optioned by producer Adrian Askarieh, who has teamed with New Regency Television and 20th Century Fox Television to develop. Producers are looking for a showrunner now, after which a pilot script, cast and director will start to fall into place. Look for a 2016 broadcast.
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The filmmaker, featured in last year’s feature documentary
Jodorowsky’s Dune, is turning to Kickstarter to fund his newest project, a sequel to his last film,
Dance Of Reality. Picking up where the previous movie left off, the film will follow the filmmaker’s life as a poet in 1950s Chile. The Kickstarter page features a video and a 10-minute video talk from the auteur about the project.
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Author George R.R. Martin has said that characters set to die in
Game of Thrones Season Five didn't necessarily die in his original tomes. "Even the book readers will be unhappy," Martin said. "So everybody better be on their toes. [Showrunners] David [Benioff] and D.B. [Weiss] are even bloodier than I am."
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The film directed by Sebastian Schipper won the Silver Bear for outstanding artistic contribution for cinematography at the festival, and will get a late summer/early fall 2015 U.S. release. Movie was shot by Norwegian-born cinematographer Sturla Brandth Grøvlen in one continuous 134-minute take, bridging 20 locations. It stars Spanish actor Laia Costa and German thespians Frederick Lau, Franz Rogowski, Burak Yigit, and Max Mauff.
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Each of the films was a big hit at the festival, including
Taxi, which won the Golden Bear as the festival’s best film, and while most of the films are foreign, each has something that will appeal to American audiences. While one of the films actually has landed distribution — see the story above — no word on actual deals for the rest. That should change.
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Everything is covered from the cold open with Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake to the Wayne’s World reunion and the In Memoriam montage, with everything in between. Over the course of three and a half hours of television, a lot of very funny things happened.
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A first look at Russell Crowe’s directorial debut. Written by Andrew Knight and Andrew Anastasios, the film follows an Australian man (Crowe) who travels to Turkey after the First World War in an attempt to discover what happened to his three sons, who disappeared at Gallipoli. It does not yet have an American distributor.
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The French New Wave director’s career has been devoted to both honoring and destroying cinema, to taking it apart and refitting it anew, and to making it speak against those who most often speak for it. Godard’s film’s have addressed a wide range of subjects – from Vietnam to prostitution to revolution to Jane Fonda – but they are, invariably, about cinema.
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