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3rd Writethru Sunday AM final: The March box office was divided between ‘haves’ and ‘have nots’, and if a film didn’t have the goods to survive, it was gone. April will arguably have only one ‘have’, and that’s Universal’s Fate of the Furious next weekend which is looking at a three-day of $100M-plus per industry…

In 1979, George Burns, Art Carney and Lee Strasberg starred as retirees who instead of just waiting to die decide to put some excitement into their lives by robbing a bank. That basic idea has been reimagined for a new era in Warner Bros/New Line’s Going In Style with a trio of Oscar winners in Michael Caine, Morgan Fr…

“Let’s go get our money back.” From Warner Bros’ newly released trailer to the upcoming New Line/Village Roadshow heist comedy Going In Style, which stars Oscar winners Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, and Alan Arkin as retirees on a mission for justice. “These banks practically destroyed this country and nothing ever…

Warner Bros. has announced three release date changes. Gavin O’Connor’s The Accountant starring Ben Affleck and Anna Kendrick will play a week later moving from Oct. 7 to Oct. 14. The previous weekend was a cutthroat one for serious adult fare with Universal/DreamWorks’ feature bestseller adaptation The Girl on the Tra…

UPDATED, 3:10 PM: Warner Bros said today that is has moved the release date for Keanu, the catnapping pic starring Key & Peele‘s Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele, back a week to April 29. It now will scratch and claw against, coincidentally, EuropaCorp comedy Nine Lives and three other wide openers: Open Road’s…

EXCLUSIVE: As he awaits word on a possible second season of Fox’s Wayward Pines, Matt Dillon has signed with UTA. The veteran actor, whose résumé dates back to My Bodyguard and Little Darlings, had been with CAA. Dillon is hot off toplining the 10-episode event series Wayward Pines, the first TV project from feature…

John Ortiz has locked down back to back film roles, starting with New Line Cinema’s upcoming comedy Going In Style, directed by Zach Braff from a script by Theodore Melfi. Ortiz will play “Jesus,” a Mensa smart criminal who is socially responsible and deplores society's treatment of the elderly. He joins Morgan…

EXCLUSIVE: It will be Matt Dillon who chases the trio of Social Security-aged stick-up men in the Zach Braff-directed Going in Style remake. Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine and Alan Arkin are playing lifelong pals who become bank robbers. The New Line comedy, based on the 1979 Martin Brest-directed film, was scripted by…

Joey King has joined Zach Braff’s next directorial effort Going In Style, alongside Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine and Alan Arkin. A remake of the 1979 caper film starring Art Carney, Lee Strasberg, and George Burns, the film will follow a trio of elderly retirees who decide to enliven their relatively dull existence…

EXCLUSIVE: Zach Braff is in talks with New Line to direct Going In Style, the remake of the 1979 caper pic. The original starred George Burns, Art Carney and Lee Strasberg as geriatrics who are bored with their lives and decide to knock off a bank. The remake has a script by St Vincent writer/director Ted Melfi…