Baz Luhrman’s Australia was occupying all of Fox’s stages in Australia, where Wolverine is to shoot, and as a result the film might not get done before the SAG strike this summer, delaying it for the foreseeable future...

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Fox Atomic wants everyone to know that just because their big brother (20th Century Fox) has pulled out, doesn’t mean that Fox’s genre division won’t have a presence at this week’s San Diego Comic Con. Check out the press release below.....

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Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland) wil star oppposite Keanu Reeves in The Night Watchman, the James Ellroy-scripted drama that David Ayer will direct.

The film, co-financed by Fox Searchlight and New Regency, begins production May 21. Alexandra Milchan, Lucas Foster and Erwin Stoff are producing.

Reeves was set last month to play a member of an elite group of LAPD cops who questions the ruthless tactics he has used to become such an effective force in solving murders and battling gang violence and drugs.

Whitaker will play a captain of the elite unit called Ad/Vice.

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Synopsis: Richard Cooper has it all. His wife, Brenda, is beautiful, intelligent and a fantastic mother to his children--but there's just one little problem: he's bored out of his suburban businessman's mind. Richard can't help but fantasize about having nearly every woman he sees. Still, it's only fantasy. Then, one fateful day, an alluring, free-spirited, not to mention stunning, old friend, Nikki, suddenly appears at his office door, putting him to the ultimate test. Just how much is Richard Cooper willing to risk when temptation comes after him? After all, he really does love his wife--at least he thinks he does.

Genres: Comedy and Remake 
Running Time: 1 hr. 34 min. 
Release Date: March 16th, 2007 (wide) 
MPAA Rating: R for pervasive language and some sexual content. 
Distributors: Fox Searchlight Pictures

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Premise: When the the Ganguli family moves from Calcutta to New York, they embark upon a lifelong balancing act to meld into a new world without forgetting the old. Though parents Ashoke and Ashima long for the family and culture that enveloped them in India, they take great pride in the opportunities their sacrifices have afforded their children. Paradoxically, their son Gogol is torn between finding his own unique identity without losing his heritage. Even Gogol's name represents the family's journey into the unknown.

Genres: Drama and Adaptation 
Running Time: 2 hrs. 2 min. 
Release Date: March 9th, 2007 (limited) 
MPAA Rating: PG-13 
Distributors: 20th Century Fox International, Fox Searchlight Pictures

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Jason Bateman ("Arrested Development") and Allison Janney ("The West Wing") have signed to co-star in director Jason Reitman's second film Juno, joining Jennifer Garner, Michael Cera with Ellen Page playing the title character, a high school girl confronted with a teenage pregnancy. Fox Searchlight Pictures will release the Mandate Pictures produced comedy written by Diablo Cody, which is currently shooting in Vancouver...more click on heading

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Fox Searchlight and New Regency will co-finance The Night Watchman, a James Ellroy-scripted drama that will star Keanu Reeves.

Reeves plays a cop who's always done what was needed to solve homicides and crack down on gang violence until he gets a wakeup call and decides he can no longer play the game that made him so effective...more click on heading

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Similar to last year's awards show darling Crash, Thank You for Smoking was released in theaters early on in the year. The first few months are normally used by studios as the designated dumping ground for films they don't have much confidence in. And unless the studio launches a killer ad campaign, decent films released in January through March each year miss the boat when it comes to gathering awards which, in the case of Smoking, is a real shame.

Buyers for Paramount Classics apparently believed they had snatched up "Thank You for Smoking," a film that was warmly received by Toronto audiences, for a cool $6.5 million. However they soon learned Fox Searchlight was claiming they had closed a deal and would be distributing the dark comedy......more click on heading

 

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Release Date: December 22nd, 2006

When Sheba Hart (Cate Blanchett) joins St. George's as the new art teacher, Barbara Covett (Judi Dench) senses a kindred spirit. But Barbara is not the only one drawn to her. Sheba begins an illicit affair and Barbara becomes the keeper of her secret.

 

Starring: Judi Dench, Cate Blanchett, Bill Nighy
Directed by: Richard Eyre
Produced by: Redmond Morris, Scott Rudin, Robert Fox

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Release Date: November 21st, 2006

An unruly class of history students pursue an undergraduate place at Oxford or Cambridge. Bounced between their maverick English master (Richard Griffiths), a young and shrewd teacher hired to up their test scores (Stephen Campbell Moore), a grossly out-numbered history teacher (Frances de la Tour) and a headmaster obsessed with results (Clive Merrison), the boys attempt to sift through it all to pass the daunting university admissions process. Their journey becomes as much about how education works, as it is about where education leads.

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Release Date:November 17th, 2006

Don Henderson (Greg Kinnear) is a marketing executive at Mickey's Fast Food Restaurant chain, home of "The Big One." He must uncover how contaminated meat is getting into the frozen patties of the company's best-selling burger.Leaving the confines of the company's Southern California boardroom for the immigrant-staffed slaughterhouses, feedlots and strip malls of Middle America, Don realizes that his company has been serving up some pretty disgusting stuff.

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Even with "Oscar season" yet to come, it's safe to say that Little Miss Sunshine is one of the year's very best. This inspirational, hilariously sad dysfunctional-family-road-trip dramedy offers absolutely everything--except pretension.

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