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'The Grand Budapest Hotel' Opens the Berlin Film Festival
Ralph Fiennes Headlines 'The Grand Budapest Hotel' Writer/director/production design fetishist Wes Anderson unveiled his latest film The Grand Budapest Hotel, an all-star period comedy set inside an extravagant European hotel, as the opening...
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Sony Classics Acquires 'Aloft' Starring Jennifer Connelly
Jennifer Connelly in 'Aloft' As the Berlin Film Festival is ready to start, one of the films premiering in competition has been sold for U.S. distribution. Sony Pictures Classics has purchased all American rights for Aloft, a drama headlined...
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Seth Gordon Latest Director Attached to Sony's 'Uncharted'
Sony Pictures, still hoping to produce a film adaptation of their hit video game series Uncharted, is in final negotiations with Seth Gordon to direct. Gordon's previous credits include the comedies Horrible Bosses and Identity Thief, with nerd...
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Could Evangeline Lilly Be Playing Wasp in 'Ant-Man'?
From Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow) to the Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson), it seems Marvel's been careful to include a few female characters in each of its films, typically just active enough to avoid too strong a feminist outcry. After...
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Foreign Horror Flicks, 'Killers' and 'Dead Snow 2' have a U.S. Distributor
Yes, you read that title right, the hotly anticipated - hotly anticipated by us at mxdwn Movies, at least - horror film about two competitive serial murderers from Indonesia (with a little help from Japan) Killers has been picked up for US...
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Matthew McConaughey, Ken Watanabe to Star In Gus Van Sant's 'Sea of Trees'
Twice Oscar nominated director Gus Van Sant (Milk, Good Will Hunting) is headed from the American pastures of Promised Land, his most recent directorial project, to the forests of Japan, and he'll be taking Matthew McConaughey and Ken Watanabe...
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'The Ballad of Richard Jewell' Reunites Leonardo DiCaprio and Jonah Hill
Having recently told the story of Jordan Belfort in The Wolf of Wall Street, Leonardo DiCaprio and Jonah Hill partner again to dramatize Richard Jewell's story in The Ballad of Richard Jewell. In contrast to Jordan Belfort, the corrupt...
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Shailene Woodley is Done Playing By the Rules in New 'Divergent' Trailer
Young adult adaptations are the thing right now. After the success of the Twilight and Hunger Games franchise, Summit Entertainment is releasing their YA property, Divergent, an adaptation of Veronica Roth's novel of the same name. Now, the...
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