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Last night, as I was talking with director Juan Antonio Bayona and producer Ghislain Barrois at a Soho House afterparty, they asked me how the Toronto Film Festival crowd reacted at the end of their tsunami survival tale The Impossible. I had to be honest: Once a picture of the actual family that survived the 2004…

Harvey Weinstein just finished previewing three of his big fall/winter hopefuls for press gathered at the Majestic Hotel here at the Cannes Film Festival. As noted first on Deadline yesterday, The Weinstein Company decided to call the press corps together tonight to whet the appetite for previews of three films: Paul…

Boardwalk Empire‘s Shea Whigham has joined the cast of David O Russell’s The Silver Linings Playbook alongside Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence and Robert De Niro. Whigham just wrapped the second season of HBO’s Boardwalk Empire and will next be seen in the upcoming Take Shelter and the Sean Penn-starrer This Must Be…

Julia Stiles is joining The Weinstein Co’s The Silver Linings Playbook, which stars Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence and is being directed by David O. Russell. Just as significantly, Chris Tucker, who has flirted with a number of films but hasn’t made a movie since 2007’s Rush Hour 3, has closed his deal to also…

EXCLUSIVE: Bradley Cooper is back in talks to star in The Silver Linings Playbook, as it looks like Mark Wahlberg will be leaving the film over what some were saying is a scheduling conflict. And Cooper’s Limitless costar Robert De Niro is also now in the conversation to join the cast. This is The Weinstein Company…

EXCLUSIVE: I’m told that Jennifer Lawrence is in pole position for the role in The Silver Linings Playbook, the drama that David O Russell will direct with Mark Wahlberg starring. This was a coveted role that many young actresses wanted. Among those actresses mentioned as being in the mix have been Rachel McAdams, Blak…