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The Toronto-based private equity firm that was supposed to help rescue Ryan Kavanaugh’s company from its long-running debt crisis is investing substantially less than the $320 million previously reported. Original reports had Catalyst Capital Group of Canada taking on all $150 million of Relativity’s debt and inject another $170 million in new equity. But now comes word that Catalyst is not investing $170 million, or any new equity dollars.
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The Oscar-nominated actor — in San Diego to help push next spring’s
Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice, in which he plays Lex Luthor — compared the convention to “some kind of genocide,” immediately earning the ire of people from all walks of life. In the same interview, he went on to explain that, in researching his role as a journalist for his upcoming
The End Of the Tour, he now “understands the pariahs” that journalists are.
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Surreal.tv is teaming with the film’s screenwriter Jonathan Betuel for a new show that will be titled
The Starfighter Chronicles. Film was released in 1984 and stars Lance Guest as a teenage boy who, because of his exceptional skill at video games, is recruited by an intergalactic fleet to help defend the galaxy against evil forces. Show will drop the film’s video game recruitment angle and will instead focus on intergalactic law enforcement.
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The co-writer and star of the 1984 original was on set yesterday filming a scene with Kristen Wiig, who stars in the new film alongside Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones, as well as Andy Garcia and Chris Hemsworth. Paul Feig is directing the movie, which will hit theaters next summer.
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The new film from Spike Lee will feature Nick Cannon, Wesley Snipes, Jennifer Hudson, D.B. Sweeney, Harry Lennix, Steve Harris, Angela Basset with John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson., with Teyonah Parris in the lead role.
Chi-Raq was shot entirely in Chicago and wrapped last week. Written by Lee and Kevin Willmott,
Chi-Raq looks at inner city violence in Chicago.
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This weekend, San Diego Comic-Con, the biggest event in the geek culture calendar, reinforced what we already knew: the next few years is going to be heavy on capes and tights, as the superhero movie gears up in a big way to dominate the tentpole calendar. This is not new information, though, so the question is, where are we going with these films and how will we get there?
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Fox has released the final trailer for its upcoming comic book adaptation, which hits theaters August 7th. The film stars Miles Teller, Michael B. Jordan, Kate Mara, Jamie Bell, Toby Kebbell, Reg E. Cathey and Tim Blake Nelson, and was directed by Josh Trank.
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New from 20th Century Fox and Annapurna Pictures is the first trailer for the upcoming David O. Russell film, which stars Jennifer Lawrence as Joy Mangano, the inventor of the Miracle Mop. Also starring Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro, Edgar Ramirez, Virginia Madsen and Isabella Rossellini, the film opens Christmas Day.
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HBO has released the first images from its adaptation of the 1973 Michael Crichton movie into a sci-fi TV series. Starring Anthony Hopkins, Ed Harris, Thandie Newton, Jeffrey Wright, James Marsden and Evan Rachel Wood, and executive produced by Jonathan Nolan, Lisa Joy and J.J. Abrams, the show will premiere in 2016.
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The undated, unlabeled 102-page screenplay by Chris Provenzano and C. Gaby Mitchell, with story by Chris Provenzano & Scott Seeke.
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