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EXCLUSIVE: After the compelling team-up in Nightcrawler, writer-director Dan Gilroy is plotting a new untitled film set in the art world that will reunite his stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Rene Russo. Sources said Gilroy’s CAA reps are shopping the untitled film and that multiple buyers are swirling. Gilroy went from vet…

In a whirlwind month, Jake Gyllenhaal has just completed a lauded run starring in a Broadway revival of the seminal Stephen Sondheim musical Sunday in the Park with George. Between performances, he found time to preside over the Tribeca Film Festival launch of Hondros, the documentary about slain war photographer…

Bold Films, the indie film financier behind the Keira Knightley biopic Colette and Nicholas Winding Refn’s Drive, has inked multi-year output deals in the UK and Ireland with Icon Film Distribution and in Canada via Elevation Pictures. Both of those deals were brokered by Sierra/Affinity and further solidify existing…

UPDATED with details: Birdman snagged Best Feature today at the 30th annual Film Independent Spirit Awards. The win in the final category gave it three trophies, breaking the four-way tie with Boyhood, Nightcrawler and Whiplash, the only other pics with multiple wins under the tent at Santa Monica beach. Birdman star…

This morning's Producers Guild Nominees Awards breakfast at the Saban Theatre was more about congratulations than controversy. But panelist Clint Eastwood said his film American Sniper and other war films —  including his other favorite, Letters from Iwo Jima —  make “the strongest anti-war statement”  in…

In something of a surprise this morning, Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel emerged with the most BAFTA nominations at a total of 11. The movie had its world premiere in Berlin last year, meaning that on BAFTA night February 8, it will be one year and two days since its debut. It was released in Britain in March…

What has become commonly known in the trade as “Phase 1” of awards season is about to phase out, with today’s 5 PM PT closing of 2014 Oscar nomination balloting being the most significant indicator that we are about to move on to the finals. Oscar nominations will be announced January 15 at the crack of…

After spending his career as a writer of such screenplays as The Bourne Legacy, Chasers, Real Steel and many others, Dan Gilroy—in his fifties—finally made his debut behind the camera with the critically acclaimed Nightcrawler, which he also wrote. With Golden Globe, Critics Choice Movie Award, SAG, WGA and PGA…

I wrap up my 10 Best Films of 2014 with the video above, picking my five most favorite films of the year (you can watch the video of the other half of my top 10 here). This half of the list definitely has a lot less war on its mind, but includes my biggest surprise of the year, plus the film that was longest in…

Nightcrawler has grossed nearly $31.8 million through the weekend and sits among the upper echelon of this year’s pack of crime dramas. That’s all the more impressive given its comparatively small budget estimated at about $8.5M. Distributor Open Road Films has championed the film since scooping it up after seeing a…

In Dan Gilroy's Nightcrawler, videographer Lou Bloom—whose ambulance-chasing and crime-scene crashing nocturnal activities become ever more sociopathic—likes to tell people that if you're seeing him, you're having the worst day of your life. That's probably true, given the lengths Bloom will go to get his shot. But…

Mike Leigh’s biopic Mr Turner earned seven London Critics’ Circle Film Awards nominations this afternoon to lead the pack of a mix of UK, U.S. and foreign language titles. Mr Turner picked up nods for Film of the Year and British Film of the Year, as well as gaining recognition in the acting, directing and technical…