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(Updated with a statement from director Farhad Safinia) EXCLUSIVE: The long legal tussle involving Mel Gibson and director Farhad Safinia against Voltage Pictures over The Professor and the Madman was settled confidentially this week, but the man who once played Mad Max is not happy with the results. "As the…

UPDATED, 4:55 PM: A California judge has thrown out a copyright-infringement lawsuit filed against Voltage Pictures by the writer-director Farhad Safinia over its upcoming Mel Gibson-Sean Penn film The Professor and the Madman. Safinia  had claimed ownership of the copyright after penning a 2007 revision of its…

EXCLUSIVE: The Mel Gibson-Sean Penn period film The Professor and the Madman will be getting a theatrical release with Vertical Entertainment after the distributor took U.S. rights to the Voltage Pictures production. A theatrical release is planned for the second quarter of this year. Gibson and his Icon Productions…

Ireland's renowned Ardmore Studios, which has housed projects including Braveheart, My Left Foot and more recently Showtime's The Tudors and Penny Dreadful, is up for sale. The hub, which is situated on 18 acres in Bray, County Wicklow, provides production, postproduction and support services for full-length features…

EXCLUSIVE: Welsh actor Ioan Gruffudd is set to join Mel Gibson and Sean Penn in The Professor and the Madman, a film about James Murray, the 19th century professor who started to compile the Oxford English Dictionary. Gruffudd will play the role of Henry Bradley, a particular and demanding philologist who helps Murray…