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The Kenneth Branagh film had the sixth-highest March opening in history, ahead of
Run All Night, which finished a distant second with just over $11 million. Those two were followed, in order, by
Kingsman: The Secret Service, with $6.2 million,
Focus, with $5.81 million, and
Chappie, with $5.80 million.
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel was a close sixth, with $5.7 million.
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Josh Gad joins Emma Watson, Luke Evans and Dan Stevens in the film, based on the Oscar-nominated 1994 animated film, and will play LeFou, the aide de camp of Evans’ evil Gaston. The film will go before cameras this spring and will be in theaters at some point in 2016.
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Comedy legend is in talks to board the film in the role of Pryor’s father, LeRoy "Buck Carter" Pryor, a boxer and WWII veteran. The Lee Daniels project is also said to co-star Oprah Winfrey, and potentially Kate Hudson, and will be produced by the Weinstein Company. Leroy is known to have been an abusive alcoholic who, along with Richard's strict grandmother, frequently beat the young boy.
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The online streaming service nabbed Hannah Fidell’s
6 Years, which stars Taissa Farmiga and Ben Rosenfield as young lovers at a crossroads. The move continues the company’s aggressive move, as it recently beat out others for rights to Cary Fukunaga’s feature “Beasts of No Nation” and announced plans to partner with Leonardo DiCaprio on a feature-length documentary about the environment. It will premiere
6 Years later this year.
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Studio’s feature film adaptation of the hard-hitting ’80s NYPD corrupt-cop documentary that the studio grabbed in a big auction in December amidst the hacking scandal. Yann Demange, the director of the acclaimed British film
’71, is already on board to direct the film, but first a script is needed. Sony is trying to close a deal with the Oscar-nominated writer for that purpose.
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Justin Hires will play Carter, an “irreverent and wildly confident” LAPD detective whose “unorthodox methods” often land him in trouble with his higher-ups. He joins Jon Foo, recently cast as Carter’s Hong Kong-born partner Lee. Bill Lawrence and Blake McCormick penned the script, and will executive-produce alongside Arthur Sarkissian, Brett Ratner, Jeff Ingold and director Jon Turteltaub.
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Michael Chiklis is also in the cast for the upcoming season of the horror anthology. Lange, who has been in each of the first four seasons of the show, will not be returning for season five, which will take place in what one assumes will be a haunted hotel. The upcoming season will star Lady Gaga.
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Co-creator Lee Daniels confirmed that both Oprah Winfrey and Common will appear next season on the smash hit Fox drama. No word yet on who the two stars will be playing, but with the success of the first season — which ends on Wednesday with a two-hour finale — expect more big names to join the cast in the coming months.
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The legendary director of
The Godfather sits down with the director of
Machete to talk about his life in film and the future of cinema. This is the latest in a series by Rodriguez, who has also talked with Quentin Tarantino, John Carpenter, and Guillermo del Toro.
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The Australian independent feature captures a year in the life of 16-year-old Billie, whose reluctant path to independence is accelerated when her mother reveals plans for gender transition. Sophie Hyde, winner of the Best Director, World Cinema Dramatic for
52 Tuesdays at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, and her co-writer Matthew Cormack, set out with specific ground rules to develop this film. They created the structured rules first and then decided on the story and characters.
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