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One film is selling adult stylized violence while the other is selling girl power with music numbers. Films aiming at different audience segments compete most every weekend, but what’s interesting is that the films’ performances of this particular weekend were almost mirror images. SSN analyzes why.
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It was a busier week in rep moves than it has been of late, with several different agencies getting involved in the various comings and goings. To get all the info, click on the link and read on.
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TODAY’S HEADLINES
Focus Features has revived the label, last seen in 2002, as the genre brand for its action, horror and sci-fi movies.
Insidious 3, which opens June 5, will be the first title to carry the Gramercy brand. Focus, which went through an extensive reorganization two years ago, is a division of NBC Universal. Focus is not adding any new staff for the move.
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The MGM/Sony remake of the 1960 film has found its bad guy. Sarsgaard is in final negotiations to play Bartholomew Bogue, a robber baron whose hired thugs kill the husband of a woman who hires a group of mercenaries to take back the small town that has become Bogue’s stomping grounds. Meanwhile, Momoa has dropped out due to, according to one report, the fact that his character had little to do.
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Tim Meadows has joined the project, while Imogen Poots is in talks, from the team of Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone and Akiva Schaffer. The film, which takes potshots at music documentary/concert films, sees Samberg as a rapper who has found big success since splitting with his boy band, but who must reunite with them when his latest solo album flops. Taccone and Schaffer are co-starring and directing, with Judd Apatow on hand to produce.
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Sian Heder having written the screenplay and directing the film, which tells the story of a free-spirited young urban adventurer who rescues a baby girl from her spoiled and reckless mom. Page stars as Tallulah or “Lu” who quickly learns that the rest of the world thinks she kidnapped the child. She passes the baby off as her own with the mother of her ex-boyfriend, Margo, a middle-aged divorcé played by Janney. Route One Entertainment is financing the film.
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Eric and Justin Stangel spent 17 years with the legendary talk show host and were coaxed into chatting about their time with him, including the time they almost killed him, the time they almost killed Paul Shaffer, the worst bit they ever came up with and some of the best organic comedy they ever stumbled upon.
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People like Conan O’Brien, Tina Fey, Nathan Lane, Dane Cook, Rudy Giuliani, Gabourey Sidibe and Will Arnett chime in, among a host of others, about their favorite moments with Dave and watching Dave. Others, like James Cameron, for instance, were not fans at all.
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When the legend walks off the stage of the Ed Sullivan Theater for the last time tonight, he'll take more than 4,000 hours of the
Late Show with him. And a couple thousand hours of
The Late Late Show. The retiring host is the founder of Worldwide Pants Inc., which produced both programs, as well as a handful of sitcoms.
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The first trailer from the acclaimed and highly anticipated documentary ab out the late Amy Winehouse, from BAFTA award-winning director Asif Kapadia. The movie hits theaters July 3rd.
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