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Joe Wright In Talks To Direct Bad-Ass Teenage Girl, Assassin Thriller, ‘Hanna’

November 17, 2009 2:15 pm

After quashing rumors that he was set to direct the remake of the 1964 musical, "My Fair Lady" written and produced by Duncan Kenworthy, Emma Thompson and Cameron Mackintosh (which Danny Boyle also passed on), ...

Box Office Options April 24th-26th: ‘Earth,’ ‘Soloist,’ ‘Tyson,’ Il Divo,’ ‘Treeless Mountain’ & More…

Seth Valentine

April 25, 2009 3:15 am

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Box office time yet again. We're making tracks through 2009 and we've come once more to another weekend filled with mediocre-to-decent movies opening wide across the country and some better than average ones i...

‘The Soloist’: Not Quite The Celebratory Symphony It Hopes To Be

Rodrigo Perez

April 23, 2009 5:03 pm

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It will sound dismissive, but there's basically a good, rational reason "The Soloist," was moved out of Oscar season and into its oddly-timed April 24 release and that's simply because it's just not Oscar calib...

Jamie Foxx Nearly Had A Near Meltdown During ‘The Soloist’; Srsly?

Rodrigo Perez

April 20, 2009 11:36 pm

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"It was something that I enjoyed, but it shredded me. I went to places that I never thought I would ever go," Jamie Foxx said, according to Bossip, about his role playing a paranoid schizophrenic cello prodigy ...

‘The Soloist’ Is Not The Newspaper/Print Valentine Some Would Have You Believe

Rodrigo Perez

April 20, 2009 7:23 pm

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Jeffrey Wells, writes, "In a 4.20 column, Marshall Fine notes how two semi-major studio movies released within a week of each other -- "State of Play" and "The Soloist" -- are (a) about print journalists and (b...

Demon Out Of The Bottle- Downey Suggests Popular Alcoholic Storyline Not In ‘Iron Man 2’

Gabe Toro

April 4, 2009 10:49 pm

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While doing press for "The Soloist," late last week, Robert Downey Jr. was grilled by reporters -- who couldn't give a shit about a movie about a journalist and his homeless best friend -- regarding "Iron Man 2...

Joe Wright Has “Indian Summer”

astrudsands

March 13, 2009 9:50 pm

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Looks like British film director Joe Wright ("Atonement," "Pride & Prejudice," "The Soloist") will attack another British drama with Variety's news that he's attached to helm "Indian Summer." The film is ba...

‘The Soloist’ Script Review

Rodrigo Perez

December 28, 2008 10:40 pm

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Ok, so when "The Soloist" received the bad news that it was being pushed into 2009, we got curious. What was so bad about this seemingly-Oscar bait-ready film that made it not worthy of a Academy Awards qualify...

‘The Soloist’ Pushed Back To Summer 09′

Spencer Martin

November 20, 2008 3:49 pm

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The Jamie Fox, Robert Downey Jr. vehicle "The Soloist" was originally scheduled to be released in the midst of Oscar season this November, but was pushed back to March and now has been bumped to the first offic...

AFI Gets Its Happy Opening With ‘Doubt’

Rodrigo Perez

October 24, 2008 2:20 pm

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So it turns out David Poland was correct when he said John Patrick Shanley’s “Doubt” would probably replace Joe Wright’s “The Soloist” as the opening night selection for the AFI Film Festival, only I was not aw...

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