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UPDATE, 4:37 PM: “These claims have no merit and will be addressed in due course by the Court,” said The Good Lie producer Molly Smith’s Black Label Media  today about the lawsuit they were slapped with along with Imagine Entertainment, Alcorn Entertainment and screenwriter Margaret Nagle among others. Imagine and…

The Good Lie screenwriter Margaret Nagle will be the recipient of this year’s Paul Selvin Award, the Writers Guild of America, West announced today. Named after the late Paul Selvin, general counsel to the Guild for 25 years, the award is given each year to the WGA member whose script best embodies the spirit of the…

After wowing audiences and winning top kudos at the Sundance Film Festival in January, Damien Chazelle’s feature film about a masochistic music convervatory jazz drummer and his acerbic bandleader, Whiplash, took the grand prize at the 40th Deauville American Film Festival today as well as the audience award for…

In terms of Oscar watching, the most anticipated World Premiere at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival debuted Sunday night and it did not disappoint. Focus Features, as expected, has a major contender in The Theory Of Everything, its Stephen Hawking biopic that turns out to be a touching and unusual love…

Reese Witherspoon anchors the cast of true-story drama The Good Lie, about three Sudanese orphans who attempt to start new lives in the U.S. with the help of a brash American woman. Real-life Sudanese “Lost Boys” Ger Duany and Emmanuel Jal and Brit Arnold Oceng star opposite Witherspoon and Corey Stoll in director…

The Warner Bros limited release now will open on October 3, more than three weeks after its original September 10 date. That pits the Reese Witherspoon-fronted The Good Lie against WB’s untitled New Line horror flick and David Fincher’s dark lit adaptation Gone Girl, starring Ben Affleck as a man suspected of offing…

EXCLUSIVE: Corey Stoll (House Of Cards, Midnight In Paris) and Sarah Baker (The Campaign) have joined the cast of The Good Lie, about a young Sudanese refugee who wins a lottery for relocation to the U.S. with three others. Ugandan-born Brit Arnold Oceng (My Brother The Devil) nabbed the lead role of Mamere opposite Re…

Toronto/London/Berlin – February 7, 2013 –Entertainment One ("eOne") is pleased to announce that it has secured multi-territory rights in all media to the upcoming drama The Good Lie, starring Reese Witherspoon. eOne will handle distribution of the film in the UK, Spain, Benelux and Australia/NZ. Lionsgate…

Reese Witherspoon is in talks to star in the THE GOOD LIE directed by Philippe Falardeau (MONSIEUR LAZHAR) with screenplay by Margaret Nagle (WARM SPRINGS). THE GOOD LIE will be produced by Molly Smith's (THE BLIND SIDE) newly formed production and financing company Black Label Media. Along with the Black Label Media…