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The AFI Fest said Monday that a pair of streaming-service movies have been added to the Gala mix for the Los Angeles film festival’s 2019 edition next month: Amazon’s The Aeronauts and Netflix’s The Two Popes. They join Clint Eastwood’s world premiere of Richard Jewell in the Gala lineup for the fest, which runs…

Amazon Studios blasted off Deadline’s Contenders London this year with four of its fourth quarter titles including the Kristen Stewart feature Seberg, Scott Z. Burns’ The Report, the Felicity Jones-Eddie Redmayne period reteam The Aeronauts and Alma Har’el’s Shia LaBeouf autobiographically inspired Honey Boy.  Seberg…

Taika Waititi’s Jojo Rabbit had its world premiere last night at the Toronto Film Festival, and though it will certainly have its naysayers due to a controversial approach to its subject matter — it features a comical Adolf Hitler character, among other things — the movie was rapturously received with a raucous…

"So it begins…" Amazon has unveiled the first trailer for its Eddie Redmayne-Felicity Jones pic The Aeronauts. The trailer shows the lengths and heights that the pair have gone to in the Tom Harper-directed feature. Set in 1862, The Aeronauts follows wealthy young widow Amelia Wren (Jones) and headstrong scientist…

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios is shifting its anticipated Eddie Redmayne-Felicity Jones pic The Aeronauts deeper into awards season, from October 25 to December 6, we can reveal. In a potentially telling move about Amazon’s future direction, the company is also collapsing the intended theatrical window for the ballooning…

In the first venture between Amazon Studios and Imax, The Aeronauts, directed by Tom Harper and starring Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones, will be released exclusively in Imax theaters nationwide for a one-week run beginning October 25. The pic will then expand nationally for a full theatrical run in additional…

Amazon Studios is under way in the UK on ballooning survival pic The Aeronauts, starring Felicity Jones and Eddie Redmayne. The online giant has released a striking first look of the two actors (who starred opposite each other in The Theory Of Everything) 2,000 feet in the air. Tom Courtenay (45 Years), Anne Reid (The…

EXCLUSIVE: The Theory of Everything won Eddie Redmayne a Best Actor Oscar two years ago and Felicity Jones earned a well-deserved nomination. Now, the two actors are talking about reteaming on The Aeronauts for Amazon Studios. Deadline hears that they are in talks now on a period action adventure based on true events…

EXCLUSIVE: After feverish bidding, Amazon Studios is nearing a deal for Jack Thorne's spec script The Aeronauts, developed and set to be directed by Tom Harper. This has been one of the hottest UK projects floating around, and we’re hearing there were at least six companies vying for the project. But Amazon came out…

EXCLUSIVE: British screenwriter Jack Thorne is teaming with War & Peace director Tom Harper for The Aeronauts, a period action adventure based on true events about two 19th century hot air balloonists. The project is only at a spec script stage, and the duo are out to top producers for what is sure to be one of the…