Movies
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‘Spider-Man’ on Broadway Actor Reeve Carney Lands Jeff Buckley Role
“Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” star joins Penn Badgley in the growing club of actors who’ll play the ill-fated “Hallelujah” troubadour
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Bradley Cooper Flies Out of Relativity’s ‘The Crow’
Scheduling conflicts with “Silver Linings Playbook” and “Paradise Lost” keep the actor out of the remake
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Mike Myers’ Rep: Still No ‘Austin Powers’ Deal
Despite widespread reports, the actor-writer-producer and New Line are still just “in talks”
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Brad Pitt Is Ready to Go ‘Gray’ for New Regency
He’d play a CIA agent-turned assassin in the movie, based on Mark Greaney’s novel
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Why ‘Glee’ Was a Dud at the Weekend Box Office
The concert movie spun off the hit Fox TV series grossed just $6M this weekend; what happened?
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Patti Smith Adapting ‘Just Kids’ With John Logan
Smith’s memoir, which chronicles her relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, is now in its 37th week on the New York Times bestseller list
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Poet and Motion Picture Home Activist Sharmagne Remembers Her Husband, Richard Sylbert
“It all goes so quickly, do you realize there are streams we’ve never investigated, rivers we’ve never rippled and salmon we’ve never thought of catching?”
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Relativity Sets Chinese Production/Distribution Partnership
Studio enters partnership with several top Chinese investment arms and entertainment companies to co-produce films and distribute in China; it remains unclear as to how much cash Relativity will net
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Box Office: ‘The Help’ Has Strong $25.5M 1st Weekend, But Can’t Hold Off ‘Apes’
Fox’s “Planet of the Apes” sequel wins another weekend with $27.5M; “Final Destination 5” ($18.4M), “30 Minutes or Less” ($13M) and the “Glee: 3D Concert Movie” ($5.7M) all miss the mark
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Mike Myers, New Line Close to ‘Austin Powers 4’ Deal
Deal is expected to close soon on first shagalicious film since 2002’s “Goldmember”
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‘Final Destination 5’ DOA at Weekend Box Office, as ‘Apes’ Rises Again
Latest “Planet of the Apes” sequel is No. 1 Friday with $8.1M, while New Line’s fate-themed horror film falls well below tracking at $7.3M; DreamWorks’ “The Help” has nearly $18M after three days
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Disney Stops Production on Johnny Depp’s ‘Lone Ranger’
The film has some of Disney’s most important players attached: Johnny Depp, Gore Verbinski and Jerry Bruckheimer
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Carl Icahn Snaps Up Lionsgate Shares 1 Month Before Annual Meeting
The dissident shareholder, who’s been battling the studio in court, now owns 33.1% of the company
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Directors Guild to Honor Nora Ephron, Sen. Patrick Leahy
The DGA also will honor IATSE President Matthew Loeb and HBO Documentary Films President Sheila Nevins at an October gala in New York
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Rachid Bouchareb Kicks Off Arab-American Trilogy With Sienna Miller Road Movie
Exclusive: French-Algerian director with three Oscar-nominated films under her belt, lines up Forest Whitaker, Sienna Miller for a slate of English-language films with Arab sensibilities