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Sony Pictures Classics has picked up Clint Bentley’s Jockey on the second night of this year’s Sundance Film Festival, acquiring all worldwide rights to the film. Set to premiere on Sunday, Jan. 31 in the U.S. Dramatic Competition section, Bentley’s film follows an aging jockey (Clifton Collins, Jr.) who hopes to win one last title

Will Smith (Floyd Lawton/Deadshot) In the role of Floyd Lawton, better known as Deadshot, an expert marksman and assassin, Will Smith plays the lead character in this ensemble piece. Having risen to fame for his starring role in NBC’s The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Smith became one of the biggest movie stars on the planet

George Clooney, fresh from The Midnight Sky, is set to exec produce the television reboot of Buck Rogers. Clooney and his Smokehouse co-founder Grant Heslov have joined the project, which is being written by comic book artist and Lost writer Brian K. Vaughan. Legendary is the studio. Although no acting deals are in place, reports

Chucky abducted his son and is on the run while wielding a huge kitchen knife … is what some Texans were led to believe after a faulty Amber Alert was released. The Texas Department of Safety accidentally sent out the alert Friday morning … featuring the “Child’s Play” horror series character and his “Seed of

Debuting at the Sundance Film Festival, Son of Monarchs is the latest feature from writer/director Alexis Gambis to bridge his two professional worlds, embracing metaphors birthed in the world of science to explore both human identity and universal social issues. A filmmaker and biologist, Gambis centers the loosely biographical drama on Mendel (Tenoch Huerta Mejía),

The movie adaptation of Tony-winning Broadway musical Dear Evan Hansen will hit theaters on September 24, Universal Pictures said Friday. Ben Platt is reprising his Tony-winning title role alongside Amy Adams, Julianne Moore, Kaitlyn Dever, Amandla Stenberg, Colton Ryan, Nik Dodani, DeMarius Copes and Danny Pino. The story follows Evan Hansen (Platt), a high schooler

The rigorously restrained, contemplative nature that struck viewers of Christopher Makoto Yogi’s first feature, August at Akiko’s, in 2018, remains the distinctive trait of his new film I Was a Simple Man. At its core an account of an aging man as he willingly takes the dive from being into nothingness, the film is defined

Should this theory, and all of the evidence provided above be correct, there’s a chance that either Godzilla is attacking those who would replace him with MechaGodzilla, or the King of the Monsters himself is being impersonated, and he just hasn’t shown himself to clear his name yet. With everything on the line, and the

It seems like forever, but the wait is about to an end. The highly-anticipated Netflix adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s popular comic book series The Sandman is coming together. Tom Sturridge, Gwendoline Christie, Vivienne Acheampong, Boyd Holbrook, Charles Dance, Asim Chaudhry and Sanjeev Bhaskar have been set to star in the dark fantasy series based on the

Play video content MSNBC Brian Williams put his dry-wit on full display to troll House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy‘s meeting with Donald Trump — and viewers never saw it coming. The longtime anchor teed up the gag by earnestly telling his guests — Baratunde Thurston and Bill Kristol — that he’d obtained exclusive video of

Director Álex de la Iglesia is re-teaming with producers Telecinco Cinema and Pokeepsie Films after their smash hit 2017 pic Perfect Strangers (remade from the Italian film of the same name) on El Cuarto Pasajero (The Fourth Passenger), a road movie in the rom-com vein. Cast will be led by Blanca Suárez (The Skin I

Baz Luhrmann’s untitled Elvis Presley movie, currently in production in Australia, is moving from its Nov. 5, 2021 date to June 3, 2022. The movie will explore the life and music of Elvis Presley (portrayed by Austin Butler), seen through the prism of his complicated relationship with his enigmatic manager, Colonel Tom Parker, played by

Honorary Oscar winner Cicely Tyson passed today at the age of 96. During a career that spanned seven decades, Tyson appeared in dozens of films, TV series, telefilms and on Broadway, winning a Tony Award for The Trip to Bountiful in 2013. She might be best known to younger audiences for her role in the hit ABC drama

Introduced to the comics in 2007’s Free Comic Book Day: The Amazing Spider-Man #1, Martin Li and Mr. Negative are actually two separate personalities that share the same body as a result of Li being experimented on by the Maggia. While it initially appears that Li is doesn’t know about his evil self, it’s later

Southern California actress Theresa Russell was in her early 40s when she took on the role of the head-turning widow Sandra Van Ryan — who has a secret relationship with her daughter’s high school counselor and her super dreamy “deckhand” — in the skin-filled ’90s film “Wild Things.” Theresa Russell shared the silver screen with

Synchronicity Films, the company behind BBC One’s Jenna Coleman series The Cry, has signed a first-look deal with All3Media International for all upcoming scripted television projects. The agreement gives distributor All3Media International first-refusal on deficit financing and distributing Synchronicity’s slate. It also gives Synchronicity access to development financing options. Claire Mundell, who founded Glasgow-based Synchronicity

Paramount is moving its animated feature Rumble from May 14 this year to Feb. 18, 2022. The movie directed by Hamish Grieve is set in the world of monster wrestling where monsters are superstar athletes. Teenage Winnie seeks to follow in her father’s footsteps by coaching a loveable underdog monster into a champion. Matt Lieberman and Etan

“There is no greater scourge facing America from within,” we’re told. “The president takes the opioid crisis very seriously.” Such begins the first trailer for Crisis, a thriller about the horrid epidemic that’s told in three interwoven stories. Check it out above. Here is the logline for writer-director Nicholas Jarecki’s first feature since Arbitrage nearly a decade ago: A drug

The title refers to the oddball name the Bloom children gave their magpie. While Naomi Watts’ Sam is feeling stuck and isolated without the ability to walk, she seeks solace in taking care of the magpie. When CinemaBlend spoke to Watts, she told us about her initial thoughts about heavily co-starring with magpies on the

Tian Richards (Dumplin’) has been tapped for the role of Tom Swift in an upcoming episode of the CW drama Nancy Drew, which will serve as a backdoor pilot for a potential spinoff series, now in development at the network. If Tom Swift goes to series, Richards will continue in the title role. In the

Exclusive Elliot Page, the star of “Juno,” has filed for divorce after just 3 years of marriage. Elliot just filed the legal docs in Manhattan seeking the dissolution of his marriage to Emma Portner, whom he married around January 2018. The couple had announced their surprise wedding on Instagram, with Page writing at the time

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has handed reality dating show Too Hot To Handle a two-season renewal after its blockbuster first outing last year, but there are changes planned: The show has shifted location and is being made by a different Fremantle production company. Too Hot To Handle was hailed by Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos as the streamer’s

This just in: James Wan’s upcoming horror movie Malignant is opening on Sept. 10 this year per Warner Bros. Again, this is part of their theatrical and HBO Max release plan. The movie, scheduled in the hot post Labor Day corridor that Warners created at the box office, fills the place for an untitled horror movie they

EXCLUSIVE: UTA has gone all in with Lisa Cortés, and vice versa. The All In: The Fight For Democracy co-director has signed with the uberagency in all areas, I’ve learned. Cortés’ new representation comes as the Oscar nominee and Emmy winner finds herself at the center of a vast political shift in the nation. A

Elliot Page and Emma Portner have reportedly already been separated for at least six months, but filing for divorce is certainly the next step here to finalize their breakup. As the couple stated in their remarks, they look to be taking a mature approach to their falling out and are remaining “close friends” despite their

Warner Bros. has appointed the studio’s Kids, Young Adult and Classics President Tom Ascheim to manage its lucrative Wizarding World and Harry Potter franchise. WarnerMedia Studios and Networks Group Chair, Ann Sarnoff, made it official today and Ascheim will report directly to her. He’ll add his oversight of the Wizarding World franchise, which includes theme

The rich and powerful are skipping to the front of the line to get the COVID-19 vaccine … and Hollywood’s elite are going to great lengths to get the shots. Tinseltown’s titans are using every trick in the book to get vaccinated … private and boutique physicians, concierge health services, private flights to Florida for

EXCLUSIVE: New UK production company Kindred is finalizing post-production on writer-director Russell Owen’s (Inmate Zero) elevated horror Shepherd, starring Tom Hughes (Victoria), Kate Dickie (The Witch), Gaia Weiss (Vikings) and Emmy-winner Greta Scacchi (Rasputin). The film follows widower Eric Black (Hughes) who attempts suicide after the suspicious death of his adulterous wife. Black becomes distracted

Sony/Screen Gems Escape Room 2 will now open on Jan. 7, 2022. The sequel to the $155M-plus horror film was recently taken off the theatrical release calendar. Previously Sony had the movie set to open on Dec. 30, 2020, then prior to that, Aug. 14, and then even before that date, April 17. The microbudget feature is

Justin Timberlake’s success as an entertainer and music superstar sometimes makes us forget he has shown considerable promise as an increasingly natural screen actor. In films from Alpha Dog to The Social Network and work with directors including Woody Allen and the Coen brothers, and even charming voice-over work in animated hits like the Trolls movies, he has