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EXCLUSIVE: Throw the name Jeremy Irons into the Best Supporting Actor Oscar race, that is if producer Ed Pressman has his way. Pressman, who produced 1990’s Reversal Of Fortune (among many others), the movie that won Irons the Best Actor Oscar, is trying for a reversal of fortune for his earlier April release, The Man…

Box office numbers for the Specialties were slow in coming Sunday, with only some holdovers reporting their Friday to Sunday grosses over the holiday weekend. Last weekend's top opener, Weiner from Sundance Selects, continued to show zest in its second frame as it expanded into just over two dozen locations, while…

Starz Digital gave an exclusive one-theater run to The Family Fang, Jason Bateman's second feature directorial, starring Christopher Walken, Nicole Kidman, Kathryn Hahn and Bateman himself over the weekend. The title had a decent start ahead of its expansion into 40 markets and VOD this coming week. Fang bit off the…

Those who loved Eddie Redmayne’s Oscar-winning turn as genius Stephen Hawking in 2014’s The Theory Of Everything are likely to spark to a similar-feeling new movie, The Man Who Knew Infinity. This English period piece set in pre-war 1914 stars Dev Patel (Slumdog Millionaire) as a poor young Indian man with a unique…

IFC Films has calculated a deal for the biopic about an Indian math whiz and his British professor. Writer-director Matthew Brown’s The Man Who Knew Infinity stars Dev Patel in the title role and Oscar winner Jeremy Irons as his mentor in the story of their friendship that altered the course of mathematics in the 20th…

EXCLUSIVE: Based on the nonfiction book The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan by Robert Kanigel, the film charts the career of Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar, a self-taught mathematical genius who, despite having no formal training, would make amazing contributions mathematical analysis, number…