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The 46th annual Telluride Film Festival got underway Friday afternoon in roaring fashion with the world premiere of director James Mangold’s supercharged, terrifically entertaining Ford v Ferrari. It’s the tale of two combative, distinctly different but eccentric car artists and car makers, played by Matt Damon and Chr…

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…

EXCLUSIVE: Joe Williamson, most recently seen in HBO drama Here And Now, is joining Fox and director James Mangold’s upcoming pic about the battle between Ford and Ferrari at the 1966 Le Mans World Championship. Christian Bale and Matt Damon will star in the currently untitled big-budget pic, which will follow the…

EXCLUSIVE: Fox has tapped Pulitzer and Tony award-winner Tracy Letts for the key role of former Ford Motor Company President Henry Ford II in James Mangold's upcoming movie about the battle between Ford and Ferrari at the 1966 Le Mans World Championship. Christian Bale and Matt Damon will star in the currently…

EXCLUSIVE: Brotherhood and The Souvenir actor Jack McMullen has nabbed a supporting role in Logan director James Mangold's upcoming movie about the battle between Ford and Ferrari at the 1966 Le Mans World Championship. Christian Bale and Matt Damon will star in the currently untitled pic, which Fox has dated for June…

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…

EXCLUSIVE: 20th Century Fox has set Scott Frank to rewrite The Force, the adaptation of the bestselling NYPD corrupt cop thriller novel by Don Winslow. James Mangold has been developing to direct, and this reunites him with Frank after they shared a Best Original Screenplay Oscar nomination with Michael Green for Logan…

Deadline has confirmed that James Mangold is attached to direct an untitled Ford vs. Ferrari project for 20th Century Fox. The news comes in the wake of the studio halting production on the Patty Hearst biopic that Mangold was attached to direct. The Logan director is also set to direct The Force for 20th Century Fox…

Patricia Hearst, the heiress whose kidnapping became one of the most storied crimes of the 1970s, has issued a lengthy statement harshly denouncing upcoming film and TV projects based on her ordeal, and says she was inspired to do so by the MeToo movement and the Time’s Up presence at the Golden Globe Awards…

EXCLUSIVE: Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, who currently can be seen in 20th Century Fox’s The Greatest Showman, has signed on to star alongside Elle Fanning in James Mangold’s untitled Patty Hearst project for Fox 2000. Based on author Jeffrey Toobin’s bestseller, American Heiress, the story follows Patty, the heiress who was…

In a year of game changers at the box office from Baby Driver‘s action ballet to DC breaking through finally with a superhero that women could stand behind in Wonder Woman, Logan took superhero movies to another sphere with its level of grit, and mature themes. Yes, true, we had Deadpool, but that movie played into…

Logan director James Mangold spoke for many when he described himself during an awards-season event as “very curious” about the future of 20th Century Fox, the 82-year-old studio where he has made more films (four) than any other. A game-changing sale of assets owned by studio parent 21st Century Fox is expected to be…