When a holiday movie schedule is as crowded as this year's promises to be, it's actually kind of a relief to see a trailer for a year-end release that looks like lighthearted, feel-good entertainment with no apparent aspirations of picking up a little gold man come February. The romantic dramedy Playing for Keeps (formerly Playing the…
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As we've said in several pieces in the past, Rian Johnson's third film Looper (which follows Brick and The Brothers Bloom) is one of our most anticipated pictures in the next year or so. FilmDistrict and Tri-Star are releasing the film, and we'd hoped to see it sometime early next year. Sadly, we're going to…
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FilmDistrict, the company spun off from Graham King's GK FIlms, has been very busy at Cannes. The company has picked up distribution rights to the 3D version of Arabian Nights that we reported on a while back, starring Liam Hemsworth, as well as the Gerard Butler and Jessica Biel romcom Playing the Field. And now…
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For all you Gerard Butler fans hoping the star of 300 and RocknRolla had grown out of his Ugly Truth/Bounty Hunter romantic rut, we're very sorry. He's just signed on to star in Playing the Field, a "soccer comedy," along with Uma Thurman and Jessica Biel. Butler will play a former soccer pro who agrees…
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