'Risk' Trailer: Showtime Debuts Julian Assange And WikiLeaks Documentary
Showtime has picked up 'Risk,' a documentary about Julian Assange and WikiLeaks by Laura Poitras, for a theatrical run and TV premiere.
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'We Steal Secrets: The Story Of WikiLeaks' Trailer: Truth And Secrets
Information may be the most valuable commodity on Earth, especially when it pertains to the inner workings and policies of major governments. Julian Assange drew the ire of countless officials in governments across the globe when he published state and military secrets through his online portal WikiLeaks. Documentarian Alex Gibney (Freakonomics, Taxi to the Dark…
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Julian Assange Calls 'The Fifth Estate' A "Massive Propaganda Attack," Steve Wozniak "Embarrassed" By 'jOBS'
Finding the right balance between fact and fiction is a tough trick for any "based on a true story" movie to pull off, but at least the subjects of, say, Lincoln (or Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, if you prefer) aren't actually around to comment on their portrayal. For movies about public figures who are still…
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First Look: Benedict Cumberbatch As Julian Assange In 'The Fifth Estate'; Release Date And Additional Casting Revealed
Julian Assange has been hailed as a hero by some and decried as a villain by others, so it seems just about perfect that Bill Condon's WikiLeaks movie stars an actor who can play both. As principal photography on the film, now titled The Fifth Estate, gets underway, the first photo of Benedict Cumberbatch as…
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Bill Condon's WikiLeaks Movie Gets New Title, 'Downton Abbey' Actor
It seems like every studio in Hollywood is rushing to get a Julian Assange / WikiLeaks movie out there, but one of the first out of the gate will be from Bill Condon. As the film hurtles toward a January start date, it's picked up a new title and a new star. Downton Abbey actor Dan…
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Daniel Brühl Replaces James McAvoy In Bill Condon's WikiLeaks Film
It looks like James McAvoy won't be reuniting with his Atonement and Starter for 10 co-star Benedict Cumberbatch after all. Earlier this month, we learned that McAvoy had signed on for Bill Condon's WikiLeaks movie in the role of Daniel Domscheit-Berg, right-hand man to Julian Assange (Cumberbatch). Unfortunately, negotiations have now broken down over McAvoy's commitment to…
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Benedict Cumberbatch And Joel Kinnaman Might Star In WikiLeaks Movie
Two of the biggest rising stars in Hollywood might team up to tell a still-unfolding story filled with secrets, leaks and infamy. DreamWorks has been developing a biopic of Julian Assange, the controversial face behind WikiLeaks, with Bill Condon (Dreamgirls) likely to direct. Over the summer rumors circulated that Jeremy Renner was in talks for the lead but Deadline…
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Jeremy Renner And Bill Condon Circling DreamWorks' WikiLeaks Movie
As of last year, there were some half-dozen Julian Assange / WikiLeaks movies brewing, but probably because the real-life drama is still unfolding, progress has been rather slow-moving on most of them. At least one studio's not planning on waiting around forever, though. A new report indicates that Jeremy Renner is currently circling the lead…
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Rowan Joffe Writing HBO's WikiLeaks Movie
Remember a few months ago, when WikiLeaks seemed like it would be the topic of a dozen different movies? Some of those may actually happen, and one, the HBO and BBC co-production that seeks to chronicle the story of Julian Assange's organization, just got some new contributors. Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall are now exec…
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Dreamworks Moves Forward With WikiLeaks Movie Plans
Sometimes it looks as if producing films is little more than a big-budget game of keeping up with the Jonses. When everyone else on the block has a Snow White film, you can't be stuck without at least a shadowy piece of faerie fantasy skewed towards the 18-24 demographic, right? How embarrassing to admit you…
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'The Hurt Locker' Writer/Producer Mark Boal Attached To Julian Assange Film; Paul Greengrass Mentioned For Another
If you think there are too many Snow White films in development, just refresh your memory on the list of films planned around the life of Julian Assange and his organization WikiLeaks. There's a documentary to be directed by Alex Gibney, an HBO/BBC co-production based on Raffi Khatchadourian's June 7, 2010 New Yorker article called…
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Alex Gibney Making WikiLeaks Documentary; Separate Julian Assange Biopic Also Planned
One of the first big pieces of news out of Sundance is that Universal will fund a documentary about WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, directed by Alex Gibney (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, Casino Jack and the United States of Money). Together with the biopic of Mr. Assange that is about to go into…
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