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Oscar winners Diane Keaton and Jeremy Irons have been tapped to star in Love, Weddings & Other Disasters, a female-driven romantic comedy helmed by Dennis Dugan, the director behind films like Grown Ups, Big Daddy, and Happy Gilmore. DNCE guitarist JinJoo Lee, Jesse McCartney and Veronica Ferres also co-star in the…

Chairman of Motion Picture Group Adam Fogelson began STX’s CinemaCon session this morning heralding the mini-major’s progress with female-driven fare. “18% of our films are directed by women,  and 64% have had women in the lead role. 14% have had entire female led teams” and how the mini-major is an “artist friendly…

STXfilms has released the official trailer for POMS, its retirement-community comedy starring Diane Keaton, Jacki Weaver, Pam Grier and Rhea Perlman. The pic, directed by Zara Hayes and written by Shane Atkinson, opens nationwide May 10, just ahead of Mother’s Day weekend. The plot centers on Martha (Keaton), who…

STXfilms will open their AFM acquisition Poms on May 10, Mother’s Day weekend. The Diane Keaton movie opens close to a year after her previous hit spring comedy Book Club which earned $90M WW. When it comes to launching female-skewing fare, studios try to capitalize on Mother’s Day weekend as a launch pad. It’s…

EXCLUSIVE: STX has won U.S. rights to comedy Poms, starring Diane Keaton, Jacki Weaver and Pam Grier, following a competitive multi-day auction. The deal is understood to be in the $8-9M range, making it the biggest deal so far at this year’s AFM. Keaton plays a woman who moves into a retirement home and recruits the…

EXCLUSIVE: For the second year in a row, a Diane Keaton comedy targeted at a mature audience is the one that has distributors hot and bothered at the start of the American Film Market. At least three studios are bidding for the Zara Hayes-directed Poms, in which Keaton plays a woman who moves into a retirement home…

EXCLUSIVE: Kate Winslet, Diane Keaton and Mia Wasikowska have been to set to star in Blackbird, an English-language remake of Bille August’s 2014 Danish-language pic Silent Heart. The Millennium Films pic will be directed by Notting Hill and My Cousin Rachel helmer Roger Michell and penned by the original movie’s…

Rhea Perlman, Pam Grier, and Alisha Boe (13 Reasons Why) have joined Poms, the comedy starring Diane Keaton and Jacki Weaver, which is in production in Atlanta. Celia Weston, Phyllis Somerville, Charlie Tahan and Bruce McGill are part of the cast for the film, which Sierra/Affinity is producing and financing.also The…

For that part of the moviegoing audience that might be over age 25 — or even, say, 50 — it just doesn’t get much better than having a quartet like Jane Fonda, Diane Keaton, Mary Steenburgen and Candice Bergen together in one smart, funny, warm and wonderful movie. Book Club, as I say in my video review (click the link…

After cashing in with left-field horror hit A Quiet Place earlier this spring, Paramount is hoping to keep the mojo working with the May 18 release of Book Club. Today’s release of the new, “final” trailer for the women-of-a-certain-age comedy gets straight to the point (see video above). “Every so often,” the…

Wait till they see the movie. In this new trailer for Book Club, four lifelong friends are shocked – no, really shocked – when they read Fifty Shades of Grey. Sound a little, well, dated, given that the movie trilogy has already come to an end? No matter, when the four pals are played by Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candi…

Judd Apatow has lashed out at Diane Keaton for her support of Woody Allen as Dylan Farrow's sexual assault allegations against the Annie Hall director continue to reverberate around Hollywood. The Knocked Up and 40-Year Old Virgin director took to Twitter to lambaste Keaton after she called Allen her "friend" and that…