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Reese Witherspoon generates Oscar buzz in latest roles

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Reese Witherspoon, who won an Oscar in 2006, is generating critical buzz again, appearing at the Toronto film festival Monday in two based-on-true-life films. “You never set out to make a film that’s going to get awards,” Witherspoon commented about the talk surrounding her performances in The Good Lie,”about an American woman who takes in Sudanese […]

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Minority Report Sequel Is Heading to TV

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It’s official: Fox is plotting a TV sequel to Tom Cruise‘s 2002 feature Minority Report. The drama has landed at the network with a hefty put-pilot commitment that has a significant penalty attached, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. The Minority Report follow-up takes place 10 years after the end of Precrime in D.C., when one of the three Precogs struggles to lead a […]

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Stephen Hawking Film ‘Theory of Everything’ Causes a Big Bang in Toronto

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The Stephen Hawking drama “The Theory of Everything” debuted to a triumphant reception at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sunday night, bringing a moment of déjà to at least a few people at the Princess of Wales Theater. It was almost exactly four years ago, after all, when another film about a famous Englishman with trouble […]

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There Are No Current Plans For ‘Iron Man 4′

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Of the most requested Marvel Studios films by fans and media, Iron Man 4 sits near the top. It’s no surprise given that Iron Man 3 is the 5th top grossing film of all-time, sitting just two spots beyond fellow Marvel Cinematic Universe installment, The Avengers, in the billion dollar club. The bankability of the Iron Man series is as impressive as how much money star […]

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‘Terminator: Genisys’ Sequels Get Release Dates in 2017 & 2018

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Summer 2015′s Terminator: Genisys – the fifth movie installment in the Terminator franchise overall – is shaping up to be a “soft” reboot of the sci-fi property; last year,Paramount Pictures also confirmed that the film will be “the first in a stand-alone trilogy” of movies. Paramount has now officially dated the two sequels to Genisys for theatrical release in 2017 and 2018, respectively, which lends […]

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‘Walking Dead’ Spinoff Pilot Greenlit

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Fall is almost here, which means the premiere of The Walking Dead isn’t far behind. The AMC series will return for its fifth season in what will undoubtedly be anotherrecord-breaking year, picking up events only moments after where we left off in the season 4 finale. The plan for the series at the moment is to wrap after 12 seasons. However, before The […]

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Helen Mirren Wanted to Do ‘Hundred-Foot Journey’ in French

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As DreamWorks’ culinary comedy-drama The Hundred-Foot Journey opens in the U.K. following a successful run in the U.S., star Helen Mirren has revealed that she was intially hoping to play the role of restaurateur Madam Mallory in French. Speaking to The Guardian, Mirren said that the opportunity to speak French in front of the camera was one of the main […]

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Joan Rivers Dies at Age 81

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Joan Rivers, the blunt, tart-tongued celebrity and talk show host who reconstructed her career time and time again en route to becoming one of the most memorable female comics of all time, has died. She was 81. The breakthrough standup comic, writer, actress, fashion critic, red-carpet doyenne, gossip and businesswoman died Thursday at 1:17 p.m. […]

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