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EXCLUSIVE: Amazon took the acquisitions market at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival by storm, making eight-figure deals for Late Night, Brittany Runs a Marathon and The Report, with another $5 million for Honey Boy. All of them were fine films, but the collective box office gross of around $26 million on films acquired…

The filmmakers behind The Aeronauts went to great lengths — and heights — to make their movie about pioneering balloonists in 19th century England. So did stars Eddie Redmayne, who plays meteorologist James Glaisher, and Felicity Jones, cast as daredevil pilot Amelia Wren. "Right from the very beginning Felicity was…

In the first of a long list of titles stepping into the Specialty box office space is the French period drama Portrait of a Lady on Fire from director Céline Sciamma. The film, which stars Noémie Merlant and Adèle Haenel, was selected to compete for the Palme d’Or earlier this year at the Cannes Film Festival where…

Call it "The Theory of Getting High." But the real title is The Aeronauts, a rousing good time at the movies for the entire family. The Theory of Everything stars Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones retewam to take on the world of hot-air ballooning in 1862, when the sky was the limit and thrilling adventure was the…

Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones spent the majority of The Aeronauts by themselves in the basket of a hot air balloon. While this might sound confining, director Tom Harper reveled in the challenge of getting the best out of his two boxers, who had previously worked together on The Theory of Everything. "There's a…

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…