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During Deadline’s Contenders Film panel for Warner Bros’ The Way Back, Ben Affleck addressed just how close to his own life the role of alcoholic basketball coach Jack Cunningham actually comes. "I knew as a recovering alcoholic myself that people would make a conclusion about similarities to my life and the movie, so…

Warner Bros.’ current theatrical release The Way Back joins the pack of recent pics making their way into homes much sooner as the coronavirus crisis has shuttered cinemas nationwide. The pic will be available for electronic sell-through stateside on Tuesday, March 24, which is the same day that Birds of Prey will be…

4th Update, Sunday AM writethru final w/chart: Disney/Pixar’s Onward saw an estimated $16.56M on Saturday, a growth of 37% over Friday’s result, putting this morning’s industry estimate for the pic’s U.S./Canada opening at $40.4M. Disney is calling the weekend at $40M. While that result is at the lower end of Pixar…

Often art mirrors life, and in the case of the new film The Way Back you get the feeling its star Ben Affleck very much wanted it to. Playing a husband and father whose family is hit by tragedy and who descends into alcohol and denial as a way out of that pain, Affleck gives his best and most authentic performance in…

Despite the growing concern about the coronavirus, the global business for Disney/Pixar’s elf fantasy feature Onward should turn out to be solid. To date, there aren’t any theaters closed in the U.S. nor do sources expect any in the near future — and certainly not in a grave way like in China, which has seen its…

The first Disney release of 2020, Pixar’s Onward, arrived on tracking today with a $44 million projection. Some believe that the forecast for the March 6 release is low and could go higher. The movie directed by Dan Scanlon and featuring the voices of Tom Holland, Chris Pratt, Octavia Spencer and Julia Louis-Dreyfus…

Warner Bros has issued its first trailer for The Way Back. A reteam of The Accountant tandem of director Gavin O’Connor and Ben Affleck, the latter stars as a former high school basketball phenom who is struggling with alcoholism and is offered a coaching job at his down-and-out alma mater. As the team rallies, he is…

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has learned that the Gavin O’Connor-directed Ben Affleck movie The Way Back (ne Torrance) is jumping from its Oct. 18 release to March 6, 2020. In the movie, Affleck stars as a former basketball all-star, who after struggling with addiction, attempts to comeback by becoming the coach of a disparate…

Los Angeles, CA (February 2, 2011) – Guy East and Nigel Sinclair, Co-Chairmen of Exclusive Media Group ("Exclusive"), announced today that the company has brought Chris Miller on board to serve as President of Film Finance Operations for Exclusive, and as the new President of Spitfire Pictures. Miller makes the…

Beverly Hills, CA – The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced that seven films remain in competition in the Makeup category for the 83rd Academy Awards. The films are listed below in alphabetical order: "Alice in Wonderland" "Barney's Version" "The Fighter" "Jonah Hex" "True Grit" "The Way…

Here's the story of an Oscar campaign aiming not to be first, but dead last: Academy members have begun receiving what is believed – and intentionally planned – to be the final screener of the season, Peter Weir's independently produced and distributed adventure epic The Way Back. For those with short memories, the…

Ed Harris has joined the cast of Summit Entertainment’s Asger Leth-directed thriller Man On A Ledge. Titus Welliver, who’s pulling double duty as an Irish arms dealer on Sons of Anarchy and also on The Good Wife, has also joined the cast that now includes Sam Worthington, Elizabeth Banks, Jamie Bell and Anthony…