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Oliver Stone’s biopic Snowden from Open Road is moving again on the calendar, from May 13 to September 13, a better launch pad for the film, given the fall festivals. There’s been buzz that the film could have its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. That’s still to be decided. Also, May 13 was pretty crowded…

Here’s the first trailer for Money Monster, a monster in its own right when TriStar Pictures won rights to the real-time thriller in 2014. It’s Jodie Foster directing and George Clooney starring as a Jim Cramer-like TV stock wiz Lee Gates, who with his ace producer (Julia Roberts) is held hostage on air by a man (Jack…

Winter Ave Zoli (Sons Of Anarchy) and Swiss actor Carlos Leal (Devious Minds) have signed up for The Wrong Stuff, adapted from the memoir by ex-big league pitcher Bill “Spaceman” Lee. The 1980s-set the film chronicles the downward spiral of Lee (Josh Duhamel), a hot-tempered, self-serving madman unable to see himself…

Giancarlo Esposito, who will next be seen in Fox’s second film in its YA franchise The Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials, has joined the cast of Jodie Foster’s Money Monster with George Clooney and Julia Roberts. He will portray Captain Marcus Powell, the NYPD lead officer in charge of the situation with a gunman holding…

EXCLUSIVE: Dominic West, between seasons of Showtime’s first-year hit drama The Affair, has signed on to star opposite George Clooney, Julia Roberts and Jack O’Connell in the Jodie Foster-directed Money Monster at TriStar Pictures. Clooney plays a Jim Cramer-type host of a stock investment show who makes a bad call on…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winner Christine Lahti is joining James Brolin and Jason Ritter in The Steps, an indie drama from director-producer Andrew Currie (Fido). The pic follows down-on-his-luck Jeff (Ritter), who accepts his father’s invitation to spend the weekend at his lake house to meet his new wife (Lahti) and family…

EXCLUSIVE: In a whopping deal, Tom Rothman's TriStar Pictures has won the right to finance and release the $30 million budget Money Monster, a Jodie Foster-directed thriller that will star George Clooney as a Jim Cramer-like TV stock tout who is held hostage on air by a man who followed the huckster's advice, lost his…