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Major theater chains are refusing to show the film, bought by the online streaming service this week for $12 million, because the company is debuting the film simultaneously on its streaming service. Four of the country’s four largest exhibitors — AMC, Regal, Cinemark and Carmike — do not want to provide screens to films that do not honor what is typically a 90-day delay between a theatrical debut and a home entertainment release.
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There will be more films directed by women than ever before, with a total of 30. All told, this initial burst accounts for 51 of the 97 feature-length films set for this year's fest. Click the link to check out the lineup. The 2015 fest runs from April 15 to April 26. The
Saturday Night Live documentary
Live From New York! will open the fest.
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Change could take hold at next year’s Academy Awards ceremony. While the Oscars expanded its Best Picture category from five nominees to a 10 in 2009 — and then to anywhere from five to 10 in the following years — the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is now seriously considering a return to the former limit of five nominees.
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Producer Marc Platt has revealed the film will be called
Bridge of Spies. Scripted by Joel and Ethan Coen, the drama stars Tom Hanks and tells the true story of James Donovan, a lawyer who worked on behalf of the CIA to secretly negotiate the release of a U.S. pilot shot down over Soviet airspace in 1960.
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The director is now attached to helm an adaptation of Robert Heinlein’s sci-fi tome
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. Marc Guggenheim, best known at the moment for working on shows such as Arrow and The Flash, will write the script drawn from Heinlein’s 1966 novel. The plot finds a lunar colony deciding that it really doesn’t want to be ruled by Earth and the political/military fallout that comes with the choice to revolt.
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Jessie T. Usher, who starred in the LeBron James-produced Starz series,
Survivor’s Remorse, has been cast in the film, and will play the son of Smith’s character. Twentieth Century Fox is moving ahead with the first of two announced sequels to the blockbuster, which will be released during the summer of 2016, exactly 20 years after the first film's July 3, 1996 theatrical debut.
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Based on Matthew Goodman’s bestselling book, “Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland’s History-Making Race Around the World” is being developed for television by Zero Gravity Management’s Christine Holder and Mark Holder with producer Lloyd Levin and Beatriz Levin. The race started on November 14, 1889 and each reporter left from New York, but went the opposite way around the world and captivated readers.
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13 Hours already stars John Krasinski, as well as James Badge Dale, Max Martini and Pablo Schreiber, and now David Denman is joining the cast as an elite sniper. The political drama is an adaptation of Mitchell Zuckoff's book about the 2012 attack on an American compound in Libya that left U.S. ambassador J. Christopher Stevens dead. The story centers on the special forces team that attempted to rescue Stevens.
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The first full-length trailer for the upcoming sixth season of the cult hit sitcom. After five seasons on NBC, the show, created by Dan Harmon and starring Joel McHale, Alison Brie, Danny Pudi and Gillian Flynn, moves to Yahoo for the new season, which premieres online March 17th.
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The 109-page, Oscar-winning screenplay by Oliver Stone, based on the autobiography by Billy Hayes with William Hoffer, draft dated June, 1977.
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