Jessica Chastain stars in Miss Sloane. From director John Madden, the thriller co-stars Mark Strong, Alison Pill, and more. Watch the Miss Sloane trailer.
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Trailers are an under-appreciated art form insofar that many times they’re seen as vehicles for showing footage, explaining films away, or showing their hand about what moviegoers can expect. Foreign, domestic, independent, big budget: What better way to hone your skills as a thoughtful moviegoer than by deconstructing these little pieces of advertising? This week…
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See the first The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel trailer, starring Dev Patel, Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Bill Nighy, and Richard Gere.
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Fox Searchlight has made some of the most well-liked films in recent memory. The company has won Oscars and grossed hundreds of millions of dollars, but the one thing it has never done is make a sequel. That is, until now. John Madden is returning to make The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel 2, the sequel to…
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Briefly: Shakespeare in Love and The Debt director John Madden had a pretty good spring thanks to the $100m global take of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, but now he's going into a new mode with a new mystery. A Murder Mystery, to be exact, as Madden will make shoot a film with that title…
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In 2009 director John Madden (Shakespeare in Love) led a remake of the 2007 Israeli film Ha Hov, aka The Debt. The story is a sort of inverted revenge drama in which a trio of young Mossad agents hunt a Nazi war criminal in 1965, then find their youthful actions coming back to haunt them…
Read MoreOne of the more promising films that was delayed when Miramax closed its doors last year is John Madden's The Debt. Based on a script by Matthew Vaughn & Jane Goldman (Kick-Ass, X-Men: First Class) and Peter Straughan, the film features Sam Worthington, Jessica Chastain and Helen Mirren in a remake of the 2007 Israeli…
Read MoreMiramax Films has released the movie trailer for John Madden's The Debt, a remake of the 2007 Israeli film. In 1965, three young Israeli Mossad agents on a secret mission capture and kill a notorious Nazi war criminal. Now, thirty years later, a man claiming to be the Nazi has surfaced in the Ukraine and…
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Fox Searchlight wants to go back to India. But this won't quite be a return to a story like Slumdog Millionaire -- i.e. the film that made Fox Searchlight a ton of money and generated a few Oscars to decorate the mantle. This time the company is looking at a film that skews a bit…
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The ESPN documentary series, 30 for 30, continues a phenomenal and original run at uniting fans of sports history and cinema with Straight Outta L.A. Directed and narrated by Ice Cube, in O.G. gruff mode, the doc examines the stylistic endorsement of the Los Angeles Raiders in the mid-to-late ’80s by West Coast gangsta rap pioneers…
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Have to admit, I'm a bit surprised that a remake of My Fair Lady has generated as much talk as it has in 2009, but that's what happens when a couple of very high profile names get attached. (And not to really knock it, especially if it sticks close to the original Pygmalion, as reportedly…
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