Looking Back At The Royal Family's Tragic Year Since King Charles' Coronation
The royal family faced many hardships in the year after King Charles III's reign began. What difficulties did they experience during this period of adjustment?
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Studios Could Lose Rights To 'Terminator', 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit', 'Predator', 'Beetlejuice' & More
Thanks to a law amended in the late 1970s, authors can reclaim the rights to work 35 years after publication, and the clock is ticking on some big movies.
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'Logan' Filmmakers Reunite For 'The Force' Movie
The Logan team of James Mangold and Scott Frank will reunite for The Force movie, adapted from the novel by Don Winslow.
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David O. Russell Could Direct Leonardo DiCaprio In JFK Pic 'Legacy Of Secrecy'
David O. Russell's got a knack for attracting great actors, but his next project could come with prominent A-listers already attached. Russell will reportedly write and direct the JFK assassination pic Legacy of Secrecy, featuring Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell's Silver Linings Playbook star Robert De Niro. The conspiracy drama posits that mafioso Carlos Marcello was behind…
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Jason Reitman's All-Female Live Read Of 'Glengarry Glen Ross' Transcends Gender With Brilliant Performances
Maybe it was David Mamet's script. Maybe it was Jason Reitman's casting. Most likely it was a combination of both, but the latest live read at Los Angeles County Museum of Art was the stuff of legend. Six women - Mae Whitman, Carla Gugino, Robin Wright, Catherine O'Hara, Melanie Lynskey and Maria Bello - reading the…
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'Phil Spector' Trailer: All The Wigs In The World Can't Smother Al Pacino's Temper
If you guessed the moment David Mamet cast Al Pacino as the lead of HBO Films' Phil Spector that the movie would essentially be Pacino at his nuttiest under an increasingly bizarre series of wigs, well, you were right on the mark. The first trailer shows just that, along with his Helen Mirren as his competent…
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Directing Bits: Sean Penn Goes 'Crazy For The Storm', Steve Pink Talking 'About Last Night'
Five years after Into the Wild, Sean Penn is finally getting ready to get back into the director's chair. As of last fall, he was set to direct The Comedian with stars Robert De Niro and Kristen Wiig, but it looks now like his next project could instead be another inspired-by-true-events survival drama. Penn has entered talks…
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Al Pacino To Play Phil Spector In HBO Film Written & Directed By David Mamet
David Mamet's efforts were dashed last year when his follow-up to Redbelt, a reframed look at the life of Anne Frank, was put into turnaround at Disney for being "too dark". Fans of Mamet were surely less than thrilled by this development, but now he has a new project in the works that could be…
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A Letter From David Mamet To The Writers Of The Unit
It's a note that Mamet addressed to the writing staff of the now-canceled CBS show The Unit, in which he lays out some guiding principles.
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Disney Puts Mamet's Anne Frank Movie Into Turnaround
It was just this August when we heard that David Mamet would be writing and directing a new film about Anne Frank for Disney. Whoa -- Mamet, Frank and Disney? Quite a combo; such a weird combo, in fact, that it seemed really unlikely to work. If current reports are correct, it didn't. The Wrap…
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David Mamet To Write And Direct New Anne Frank Picture
One of the most famous stories of the Holocaust is that of Anne Frank, a young girl who kept a diary of her family's attempts to evade the Nazis during their occupation of the Netherlands. Her father survived and after the war had her diary published wherefore it quickly became one of the most well…
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Mike Nichols, David Mamet And Martin Scorsese To Remake Akira Kurosawa's High And Low
Mike Nichols (Closer, Charlie Wilson's War) will direct a remake of Akira Kurosawa's High and Low. Based loosely on Evan Hunter's King's Ransom, the original 1963 detective thriller that tells the story of an executive named Kingo Gondo, who learns that his son has been kidnapped. He is prepared to pay the ransom amount until…
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The /Filmcast: After Dark - Episode 3
The /Filmcast: After Dark is a recording of what happens right after The /Filmcast is over, when the kids have gone to bed and the guys feel free to speak whatever is on their minds. In other words, it's the leftover and disorganized ramblings, mindfarts, and brain diarrhea from The /Filmcast, all in one convenient…
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