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6th Writethru, Monday AM: Similar to MLK Weekend, why is there so much lackluster product being dumped again over a four-day holiday? Did the majors make some sort of insider pact to release their weakest titles at the same time? A couple of reasons. First, the studios knew that that they were going to be playing into…

EXCLUSIVE: Richie Keen, who made his feature film directorial debut with New Line Cinema’s Fist Fight which opens wide tomorrow, is sticking with the Warner Bros label for their next project. New Line has set him to direct Partners, its big action comedy. Evan Turner wrote the original screenplay, with Sam Pitman…

Since 2013, Presidents Day weekend at the box office has had the added benefit of Valentine’s Day falling on or adjacent to the four-day holiday weekend. But not this year, which spells a dull weekend. Try blaming the holidays for not coinciding, but the real culprit is a lack of great, new product popping off the…

Straight out of the the fever dreams of frustrated high school kids comes the first trailer for Fist Fight, a movie that exists so you can see what happens when Ice Cube and Charlie Day fight one another. With their fists. Set on the last school day of the year, a mild mannered English teacher (Day) already dealing…

Warner Bros. announced this morning four additions to its 2017 slate. Ben Affleck’s fourth feature as director Live By Night is getting a prime fall spot of October 20. Affleck directs, adapted and stars in Dennis Lehane’s Prohibition-era set novel about a Boston petty thief who rises to become the Gulf Coast's most…

Kym Whitley has answered the call for Fist Fight, New Line’s comedy about a mild-mannered English teacher (Charlie Day) who is challenged by a colleague (Ice Cube) to an epic fist fight after school. Whitley will play a 911 operator who gets a call so funny she calls her co-workers over to listen in. She’s got a great…

The Ice Cube-Charlie Day brawl has three new combatants. Tracy Morgan — who lit up the Emmy Awards last night — Dennis Haysbert are in negotiations and JoAnna Garcia Swisher is set to join the cast of Fist Fight, New Line‘s comedy about a mild-mannered English teacher (Day) who is put to the test when a colleague…

EXCLUSIVE: Richie Keen is in talks to direct Ice Cube and Charlie Day in New Line’s Fist Fight, a comedy from scribes Van Robichaux and Evan Susser. The producers are 21 Laps' Shawn Levy and Dan Cohen producing, with Billy Rosenberg and Max Greenfield also involved in producing capacities. They’re planning to get in…

EXCLUSIVE: Ice Cube and Charlie Day are in talks with New Line Cinema to climb into the ring for Fist Fight, a comedy from scribes Van Robichaux and Evan Susser. The producers are 21 Laps’ Shawn Levy, Billy Rosenberg and Max Greenfield, with Dan Cohen overseeing for the company. I’m hearing the negotiations with the…