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The a capella sequel scored more in its opening weekend than the first film did in its entire 2012 domestic run, while the debut of
Mad Max: Fury Road came in second with $44.4 million. Forty-six percent of the action film’s grosses came from 3D sales. Meanwhile,
Avengers: Age of Ultron did another $38.8 million for third place, and is now the year’s highest grosser, with a 17-day take of $372 million.
Hot Pursuit finished a distant fourth, with $5.8 million.
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A few weeks ago, reports had circulated that Lynch was backing out of the project over budgetary concerns, but now the legendary director is back in the fold, something he confirmed on Twitter. He will direct every episode of the series, which he co-wrote with co-creator Mark Frost, and now word comes down that there might be more episodes than the originally announced nine.
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Indie studio won a Cannes bidding war for the project, called
Nocturnal Animals and adapted from the 1993 novel
Tony And Susan by Austin Wright, described as a two-part “story inside a story.” Backed by its parent studio Universal Pictures, Focus is understood to have taken worldwide rights in a deal costing it more than $20 million. Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal will star.
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Law will play the American pope in Paolo Sorrentino's first-ever television series
The Young Pope for HBO
. All eight episodes will be directed by Italian filmmaker Sorrentino and written by him in collaboration with Tony Grisoni, Umberto Contarello and Stefano Rulli. The series revolves around a fictional American pope who becomes the most conservative one the Vatican has ever seen, and is set in the U.S. and the Vatican.
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Garcia, who is Latin America’s biggest indie film producer-financier, is getting into the prestige business by launching AG Capital, an equity-backed fund that will fully finance films in the $5 million-$25 million range and co-produce films above $25 million. AG Capital will operate in a similar high-end space to Megan Ellison’s Annapurna and Molly Smith’s Black Label Media.
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Following the well-publicized debacle that was
The Dying of the Light, the actor and writer-director will re-team for the crime thriller,
Dog Eat Dog, and this time, Schrader will have final cut of the project. Last year, controversy erupted after producers took
Dying out of director Schrader’s hands, leading both him and Cage to disown the film.
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The actress and director, who just worked together on
Clouds Of Sils Maria, for which Stewart became the first American actress to win a César award, will again join forces, this time for
Personal Shopper. English language movie will be set in Paris and is a ghost story that takes place in the fashion underworld.
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The online streaming giant is in talks with a Chinese media company backed by Jack Ma and other possible partners as it seeks entry into the country's $5.9 billion online video market. Netflix has held discussions with companies including Wasu Media Holding Co. about forming a partnership.
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Universal has released the first trailer for the biopic of the legendary co-founder of Apple. Starring Michael Fassbender, Seth Rogen, Kate Winslet and Jeff Daniels, written by Aaron Sorkin and directed by Danny Boyle, the film hits theaters October 9th.
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The 126-page, Oscar-nominated screenplay by Tony Kushner, Based in part on
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, by Doris Kearns Goodwin. Script is labeled Final Shooting Draft, December 20th, 2011.
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