Film release scheduling tends to get tricky around the end of the year. Not only do studios have to weigh all the usual concerns, they also need to keep an eye on the December 31 cutoff date for Academy Award qualification, and so they devise strategies to work around it or use it to their…
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Under most circumstances, a movie about Christopher Walken, Al Pacino, and Alan Arkin indulging in an all-night bender complete with hard drugs, pretty girls, and grand theft auto would sound like a hoot. But along comes Hector Salamanca Mark Margolis to make it sad. Fisher Stevens' Stand Up Guys starts with Val's (Pacino) release from prison…
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The latest actor to join Christian Bale in Scott Cooper's Out of the Furnace is likely to be Zoe Saldana. She's in early talks for the film that Cooper is rewriting (based on Brad Ingelsby's The Low Dweller script) and will direct as his follow-up to Crazy Heart. Bale will be an ex-con who is…
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