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Comedies, docs and a Bollywood title are among the Easter and Passover weekend's packed roster of new specialty releases. The heavy number of limited openers comes just ahead of next weekend's rollout of Avengers: Endgame, which will mark mostly a pause for new specialties. Terry Gilliam’s long-awaited The Man Who Kill…

David Robert Mitchell’s Under the Silver Lake has a great title, but that’s about it. This indulgent and bloated noirish sage set in the L.A. underground was a bit of an also-ran, with scattered defenders but not much impact, when it premiered at Cannes last year as one of only two American Competition entries in…

Chuck Parker has been re-elected national executive director of the Art Directors Guild, IATSE Local 800. He and the guild's associate national executive director, who goes by the name dooner, were reelected at the guild's bi-annual general membership meeting last Saturday. They both ran unopposed.

"I am so pleased ADG…

Stars like to boast that they never read their reviews, but does Bob Iger? The Disney czar received a litany of raves for his three-hour performance last week aimed at demonstrating his company's intention to conquer Netflix. The upshot: Disney shares hit record highs and famously skeptical analysts bubbled that…

Nearly a month ago, I hear, two prominent showrunners with concerns about the course of the WGA's negotiations with the Association of Talent Agents and the divisive rhetoric on part of the guild shared their misgivings with several colleagues who had similar concerns. The duo then reached out to the WGA leadership…

After decades of being joined at the big-screen hip, Harvey Weinstein and his brother and longtime business partner Bob Weinstein split in late 2017 as accusations of sexual assault and harassment piled up against Harvey Weinstein.

However, the brothers were still linked in the courts. But that state of affairs for the…

EXCLUSIVE: Clint Eastwood is circling to next direct The Ballad Of Richard Jewell, and has been in discussions with Disney/Fox drama based on the life of a security guard whose life was turned upside down in a moment after it was leaked by law enforcement to a reporter that Jewell was a possible suspect in the Olympic…

The George Lucas Family Foundation has provided what the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences calls a “transformative grant” in support of the Academy Museum's educational mission.

Kerry Brougher, Director of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, did not reveal the amount of the Star Wars creator’s donation…

EXCLUSIVE: Director John Curran is taking to the ice to direct Turk, a biopic based on the rise, fall and redemption story of 1970s Boston Bruins hockey star Derek Sanderson. The Chappaquiddick helmer is attached to direct a script written by Boston-based author Casey Sherman, who also wrote the book on which it was…

Here comes another Stephen King adaptation! Legendary has attached Her Smell helmer Alex Ross Perry to write and direct a film adaptation of Rest Stop, based on King's short story, which was first published in the December 2003 issue of Esquire Magazine. Craig Flores (300, 300: Rise of an Empire) is producing through…

Multi-platinum songwriter Ross Golan, who has penned hits for a lengthy, cross-genre roster of artists including Ariana Grande, Maroon 5, Justin Bieber, Nicki Minaj, Lady Antebellum, and Keith Urban, will tackle new turf in September with the Off Broadway world premiere of his stage musical The Wrong Man.

The musical, …

EXCLUSIVE: Shea Whigham, two-time Oscar nominee Bruce Dern and Zach Avery have joined The Gateway alongside previously announced Olivia Munn.  Emmy Award nominee Michele Civetta (The Executrix, Premonitions) is attached to direct.  Andrew Levitas will produce under his Metalwork Pictures banner alongside Stephen…