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Joaquin Phoenix stars in his second Specialty release in the last few months with Gus Van Sant's Don't Worry He Won't Get Far On Foot, with Jonah Hill and Rooney Mara. Amazon Studios is opening the title in several locations in New York and Los Angeles ahead of a wider roll out. The title will likely headline a fairly…

There could not be a better time than now for Rob Reiner’s powerful story of journalism on the front line in Shock and Awe. With a free press a constant right-wing target these days, and a president who labeled journalists the “enemy of the people" again just last weekend, this is a true and inspiring story of four…

“Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction.” It was 2002, and Dick Cheney had just delivered that chilling line to the world. As politicians, civilians and journalists digested its broad implications, a team of reporters at Knight Ridder were told to “see if we can nail…

EXCLUSIVE: Vertical Entertainment and DirecTV have team to acquire U.S. rights to Shock and Awe, the Rob Reiner film about the team of journalists who were the only ones who "got it right" when they questioned the true nature of the George W. Bush White House's justification to enter into the Iraq War. The plan is for…

EXCLUSIVE: Alec Baldwin, who was to play a weeklong role in Rob Reiner’s Iraq movie Shock And Awe, has exited the film over financial timing issues, Deadline has learned. Reiner, who is directing the film, is expected to step into the role which has been characterized as a Ben Bradlee-type editor. The film, which was…

EXCLUSIVE: Jessica Biel has joined, Richard Schiff is finalizing a deal, and newcomer Luke Tennie is on board to team with Woody Harrelson, Tommy Lee Jones, Alec Baldwin, James Marsden and Milla Jovovich in Rob Reiner's Shock And Awe, which is in pre-production for a September start. The film is being financed by…

EXCLUSIVE: In what is shaping up to be a killer lineup, Tommy Lee Jones, Alec Baldwin and Milla Jovovich are in talks to board Rob Reiner’s Iraq War pic Shock and Awe. If deals make with all three, they will join Woody Harrelson and James Marsden; Deadline broke the news of the latter’s involvement earlier this…

EXCLUSIVE: James Marsden is joining the cast of Rob Reiner’s Iraq war drama Shock and Awe opposite Woody Harrelson. Written by Reiner's LBJ screenwriter Joey Hartstone, which also starred Harrelson, the politically-charged project centers around a group of journalists who asked the tough questions about Saddam…

EXCLUSIVE: Woody Harrelson is in negotiations to re-team with director Rob Reiner and writer Joey Hartstone on the Iraq war pic Shock And Awe. The trio recently finished working together on LBJ, which follows the story of former U.S. President Lyndon Baines Johnson from his young days in West Texas to the White…

Jorva Entertainment Productions, the Beverly Hills-based company that helped to finance and produce Lionsgate’s A Perfect Match (which debuts in theaters tomorrow) has just launched a new film/television finance and production fund that will be involved in various levels of financing. The second film from this fund…