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During the Texas shoot for 12 Mighty Orphans, Martin Sheen was reunited onscreen for the first time with his Apocalypse Now co-star Robert Duvall. Since working together on that 1979 classic, Sheen had stayed in touch with the Oscar winner to some extent. But they hadn't spoken, prior to their time together on the…

Hidden Empire Film Group's comedy/horror romp The House Next Door: Meet the Blacks 2 scared up a $1.064M opening weekend (per screen average of $2,533) with writer-director Deon Taylor and his team huddling right now over where and how much to expand the run — but expand it they will. Taylor's thrilled with the $$…

12 Mighty Orphans, a Spotlight Narrative entry at Tribeca Fest, is a film that looks and feels like it might have been made in the 1930s Depression era in which it is set. You half expect Spencer Tracy and Mickey Rooney to show up any minute, like in Boys Town. In the cynical exploitative social media-driven world we…

If you didn't Meet The Blacks in 2016, they’re back this weekend in Deon Taylor's second horror-comedy installment. The first film was a send-up of The Purge. This one – The House Next Door: Meet The Blacks 2 — goes gothic. Star Mike Epps returns as Carl Black, about to face off with a neighbor from hell, Dr…

UPDATED, 11:18 AM: Sony Pictures Classics has set for release dates for two more of its pics that will screen at the Tribeca: Art world documentary The Lost Leonardo will bow August 13 in Los Angeles and New York, and GLAAD Media Award nominee I Carry You with Me hits L.A. and NYC theaters on June 25. Both will expand…

Adam Goldberg is the latest to board the Miramax supernatural thriller The Georgetown Project written and directed by Joshua John Miller and M.A. Fortin (Final Girls, Queen of the South). The film is currently in production in Wilmington N.C. Goldberg joins Academy Award-winning actor Russell Crowe as well as…

EXCLUSIVE: Vinessa Shaw (3:10 to Yuma, Hocus Pocus, Ray Donovan) and Wayne Knight (Seinfeld, Space Jam, Narcos) have been cast alongside Luke Wilson in 12 Mighty Orphans, the based on a true story football drama, which is being directed by Ty Roberts. Based on the novel by Jim Dent, the film was adapted for the screen…

EXCLUSIVE: Star Trek Into Darkness actress Alice Eve is set to co-star opposite Luke Wilson in the Ty Roberts-helmed sports pic, 12 Mighty Orphans. The film, which hails from Michael De Luca Productions, Santa Rita Film Co., and Greenbelt Films, is based on Jim Dent’s nonfiction novel about a group of Fort Worth…