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Watch the Trailer for Jeff Bridges Flick, Crazy Heart

Fox Searchlight has released the trailer for Crazy Heart, the film that critics says will help Jeff Bridges win his overdue Oscar....  read more

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Danny Boyle Tackles Mountaineer Survival Story in 127 Hours

It’s official. Danny Boyle has signed on to direct the harrowing story of Aron Ralston, a mountaineer who was trapped under a boulder on a Utah mountain for five days in 2003. He survived by amputating his arm with a dull camping knife and climbing down to safety....  read more

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Alexander Payne Signs Up For His First Movie Since Sideways

Alexander Payne has signed up for his first post-Sideways feature, The Descendants, about a father who embarks on a search for his incapacitated wife’s lover with his 10- and 17-year-old daughters in tow....  read more

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Fox Searchlight Picks Up Jeff Bridges Flick About Fallen Country Singer

The Jeff Bridges drama Crazy Heart, which we've told you about previously, has picked up American distribution with Fox Searchlight....  read more

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She & Him, Black Lips, The Smiths Featured on (500) Days of Summer Soundtrack

It's OK if you've started counting down the days until...  read more

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Drew Barrymore's Whip It! Coming in October

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According to /Film, Drew Barrymore's directorial debut, Whip It!, finally has a release date through Fox Searchlight, the same studio that released Diablo Cody's Juno. The roller-derby themed film is set to release on Oct. 9....  read more

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Reese Witherspoon eyes dead-boyfriend flick for Fox

Reese Witherspoon has never quite fallen into the typical rom-com trappings. Her vehicles aren’t necessarily unconventional, but she usually plays a self-starter whose interest in men can be nominal, at least at first (Legally Blonde, Sweet Home Alabama, Just Like Heaven). If the deal comes through for her proposed new flick Nice, though, she’s poised to take that to another level....  read more

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Fox Searchlight drinks Gus Van Sant's Kool-Aid

Director Gus Van Sant and screenwriter Dustin Lance Black must have made a good team on the upcoming political biopic Milk, because the two have already made a deal with Fox Searchlight to reunite....  read more

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Slumdog Millionaire gets an (unnecessary?) R rating

The big success of this year's festival circuit proved to be Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire, which has since vaulted to a privileged place in the Fall’s packed release slate. The crowd-rousing movie got the usual comparisons to the Little Miss Sunshines and Junos of festivals past, but now the MPAA has put an unexpected strain on its ability to become the season’s crossover hit....  read more

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Darren Aronofsky's The Wrestler picks up a distributor

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It only had its premiere a few weeks ago...  read more

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