Miramax has acquired the worldwide rights to the remake of the 2007 Israeli psychological thriller The Debt being written by Matthew Vaughn (Layer Cake) and Jane Goldman.
The story begins 20 years after WWII when three Mossad agents track down and kill the Nazi war criminal known as “The Surgeon of Birkenau.” 30 years later, an elderly [...]

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“There’s a whole ocean of oil underneath our feet.
No one can get at it except for me.”
I feel like I haven’t strung the words There, Will, Be and Blood together since the Oscars so here’s a thinly disguised excuse to do just that.
For the 17% of you who care about such things, Paramount is starting to announce [...]

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Roar! 

The only really great thing about the inexplicably popular monster movie Cloverfield was Michael Giacchino’s Roar! theme which played over the closing credits.
It captured the essence of the old Godzilla movies in a way I wish the movie had as well.  I know, Cloverfield simply wasn’t that movie and it was never supposed to be. It [...]

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There was some head scratching when the Cannes lineup was announced recently and Fernando Meirelles’ drama Blindness was nowhere to be found. Nevertheless, Hollywood Reporter’s Steven Zeitchik speculated it would ultimately be chosen to fill the vacant opening or closing spots.
Variety reports this morning that the drama about an epidemic of blindness starring Julianne Moore [...]

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