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When will the Sleeping Giant wake up? In the second half of every year for the past 10, the grown-up audience has opened its eyes, stretched its legs and gone to the movies in numbers big enough to make a certified hit of at least one non-animated, not-too-scary, non-sequel drama. If ascent to the year-end box office…

20th Century Fox Vice Chairman Emma Watts ended Fox’s part of the Disney session with the first trailer of James Mangold’s Ford v. Ferrari. The trailer open’s on Christian Bale’s cocky race car driver Ken Miles who is with his son at sunset at a racetrack: “Look there, there’s a perfect light.” Matt Damon’s Carroll…

Actor JJ Feild has secured the role of Roy Lunn in the James Mangold-directed biopic about the battle between Ford and Ferrari at the 1966 Le Mans World Championship, which is set up at 20th Century Fox. Christian Bale and Matt Damon topline the pic which follows the true story of automotive visionary Carroll Shelby…

Jon Bernthal is negotiating to join Matt Damon and Christian Bale in Ford V. Ferrari, the James Mangold-directed Fox drama about the battle between the two premiere car makers to win Le Mans in 1966. Bernthal is in talks to play Lee Iacocca, a key marketing exec at Ford during the 60s and later a symbol of the…