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EXCLUSIVE: With six nominations and an Oscar win for 1983’s Tender Mercies already on his resume, legendary actor Robert Duvall has absolutely nothing to prove. But by taking risks in a raw and revealing turn as the title character in The Judge, Duvall landed his seventh Academy Award nomination — this time in the…

Robert Duvall, a six-time Oscar nominee and one-time winner—for 1983's Tender Mercies—has been in a remarkable number of classic films during the course of his long career. The magic started when he portrayed Boo Radley in To Kill A Mockingbird in 1962. With his numerous other titles—a short list of which includes The…

FINAL UPDATE MONDAY 2:06 PM: Gone Girl became just the second R-rated drama to defend its box office title in four years, and now Fox hopes to ride the box office momentum to awards season. With a solid drop of just 30%, the movie’s sophomore frame sets it up for a strong run as director David Fincher’s biggest film…

EXCLUSIVE: When I pull up to the home that Robert Downey Jr and his wife and producing partner Susan share in Malibu, there are the trappings you would expect from the house owned by Hollywood’s best paid actor. The small fleet of cars, all tarped; the expanse of Pacific Ocean viewable from most anywhere on the…

Here’s the new trailer for the legal drama that opened the Toronto Film Festival this month. Robert Downey Jr stars in The Judge as a big-city lawyer who returns home after his mother’s death to learn that his estranged father (Robert Duvall), the town’s judge, is suspected of murder. And he ends up defending Dad at…

Awardsline creative director Robb Rice and photographer Kelsey Fain captured some candid moments from this year’s biggest stars at our photo studio at the Templar Hotel.  Awardsline editor Anna Lisa Raya gathered this season’s crop of potential contenders.  Deadline’s Awardsline studio is courtesy of LIVEstyle…

Awardsline editor Anna Lisa Raya assembled a number of burgeoning awards season contenders at the Deadline/ Awardsline photo studio this year at the Toronto International Film Festival. Click on the photo below to launch the first of three galleries we’ll be posting as the festival winds down.  This is our first-ever…

Deadline Awards Columnist Pete Hammond was among the attendees of last night’s Toronto Film Festival opener The Judge from Warner Bros. Here’s his take on the studio drama starring Robert Downey Jr and Robert Duvall…

“I feel like I was sucker-punched, but it was a happy punch,” Robert Downey Jr. told me after the Toronto Film Festival’s opening-night movie The Judge. At the Montecito restaurant after-party, the  star and his wife Susan Downey, who was one of the producers of the project, admitted they had not seen the film before…

Robert Downey Jr dropped the latest trailer for his new pic The Judge today on Twitter. Downey stars and David Dobkin directs the drama, which centers on a big-city lawyer who returns home after the death of his mother to learn that his estranged father, a judge, is suspected of murder. He sets out to discover the…

Warner Bros said today it will release the dramedy The Judge on October 10, 2014. The pic stars Robert Downey Jr as a big-city lawyer who returns home after the death of his mother to learn that his estranged father (Robert Duvall), a judge, is suspected of murder. David Dobkin is directing a cast that also includes…

Gossip Girl alum Leighton Meester is in negotiations to join Robert Downey Jr., Vincent D’Onofrio, Robert Duvall, and Vera Farmiga in the WB drama. The Judge follows a lawyer who returns home after his mother's death only to learn that his estranged father, the town's judge, is suspected of murder. It’s a major get…