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Relativity Moves Scott Cooper’s ‘Out Of The Furnace’ Into Heat Of Oscar Season With November 27 Limited Release

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday June 18, 2013 @ 4:23pm PDTTags: Casey Affleck, Christian Bale, Out Of The Furnace, Relativity, Woody Harrelson
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Sensing it has a movie that can create heat during Oscar season, Relativity is moving the Scott Cooper-directed revenge thriller Out Of The Furnace from October 4 to a limited release on November 27, expanding that run beginning December 6th. The film stars Christian Bale, Casey Affleck, Woody Harrelson, Zoe Saldana, Sam Shepard and Willem Dafoe. Crazy Heart helmer Cooper wrote the script with Brad Ingelsby. Bale plays a simple man in a blue collar job at the local steel mill, who cares for his terminally ill father at night. His brother (Affleck) returns from Iraq and falls in with a ruthless crime ring. When he disappears, that simple man takes matters into his own hands, and sets out to seek justice for his sibling. Appian Way’s Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Killoran produced with Scott Free’s Ridley Scott, with Michael Costigan also producing with Relativity CEO Ryan Kavanaugh. This has been a hot project since Ingelsby first sold the spec in a big money deal that came with DiCaprio attached to star and Scott to direct. The elements have shifted, but the Cormac McCarthy-style stark and simple revenge tale element has remained intact.

Relativity production president Robbie Brenner said that Cooper “has made a powerful, moving and brilliant film that we think will generate a tremendous amount of conversation and attention during this awards season. We are confident that this new date will give Scott’s film the platform and support it deserves,” she said.

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Christian Bale Eyeing Moses?

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday March 15, 2013 @ 10:40am PDTTags: Big Deals Film, Christian Bale, Exodus, Fox, Ridley Scott
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Don’t consider this etched in stone yet, but it looks like Fox is putting a rush on the Moses movie it has been developing with Ridley Scott. I’m hearing that the director and studio are courting Christian Bale to star. The project is called Exodus, which was originally scripted by Adam Cooper and Bill Collage. Peter Chernin and his Chernin Entertainment bought the film as a pitch and they are producing with Scott and his Scott Free, which joined later. Now it has become a big priority after Steve Zaillian signed on to do a rewrite. Zaillian teamed with Scott on American Gangster. Scott is looking to mobilize this as soon as he completes The Counselor. The talks with Bale are early stage.

This comes as Warner Bros deals with Steven Spielberg dropping out of its mega-Moses project, Gods And Kings, the epic-sized film about life of Moses based on the script by Michael Green and Stuart Hazeldine. The studio’s Hail Mary pass is trying to secure the services of Ang Lee, fresh from his Oscar win for Life Of Pi.

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Christian Bale To Scale ‘Everest’ For Universal, Working Title And Helmer Baltasar Kormakur

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday February 19, 2013 @ 8:07am PSTTags: Baltasar Kormakur, Big Deals Film, Christian Bale, Everest, Universal Pictures
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures and Working Title are teaming with Emmett/Furla Films on Everest, a mountain climbing disaster film that The Deep helmer Baltasar Kormakur will direct, with Christian Bale in talks to star. Working Title partners Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner will produce with WT’s Liza Chasin, along with Evan Hayes. Emmett/Furla’s Randall Emmett and George Furla are in discussions to co-finance the film and join in a producing capacity as well. Justin Isbell wrote the most recent script draft.

Bale is in early talks to star in a tale based on the 1996 disastrous expedition to scale Mount Everest. Three different expeditions were hit by a sudden blinding storm and by the time it was all over, eight climbers died. The tale was first made famous by Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air, his first-person account of being among the lucky ones to make it back down the mountain. This film will be sourced from various books and interviews with survivors.

There is another studio film entitled Everest, the one at Sony Pictures that has Doug Liman attached to direct a Sheldon Turner adaptation of the Jeffrey Archer book. That film is same mountain, different tale, as Tom Hardy is attached to play Sir George Mallory in his quest to be the first to the top of Everest in the 1920s.

Kormakur seems a strong match for what will be a rugged shoot. He’s coming off The Deep, an Icelandic fact-based drama that was shortlisted for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar and which told the story of one man’s unbelievable ordeal of being the lone survivor after a fishing vessel went down in icy waters. Everyone else perished from hypothermia and drowning, but one man swam for hours until he reached the shore, in temperatures no human should have been able to survive. Shooting the film was a cold and harrowing experience as well.

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TOLDJA! Christian Bale Joins Bradley Cooper, Jeremy Renner, Amy Adams In David O Russell Pic

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday October 5, 2012 @ 9:24am PDTTags: American Bullshit, Bradley Cooper, Christian Bale, David O. Russell

Related: Megan Ellison In Talks To Fund ‘American Bullshit’ With Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper

Back in March, Deadline revealed that David O Russell had Christian Bale poised to star in the drama he was putting together, under the title American Bullshit. Shortly after, we told you that Megan Ellison’s Annapurna Pictures was stepping up to finance the film. All of it got confirmed today. Here is the release:

(LOS ANGELES, CA) OCTOBER 5, 2012 – Bradley Cooper, Jeremy Renner, and Amy Adams will be joined by Christian Bale in David O. Russell’s ensemble drama. Russell’s penning the film’s screenplay with Eric Warren Singer, based on Singer’s original script.

The upcoming film marks the director’s first time working with Renner (two-time Academy Award nominee), and his second collaborations with Bale (Academy Award winner for Best Supporting Actor for “The Fighter”), Adams (three-time Academy Award nominee including “The Fighter”) and Cooper (“Silver Linings Playbook”). David O. Russell¹s acclaimed “Silver Linings Playbook” garnered the Audience Award at the Toronto International Film Festival.

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Christian Bale Visits Aurora Theater Shooting Victims: Not Representing Warner Bros

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Tuesday July 24, 2012 @ 4:06pm PDTTags: Aurora movie theater shooting, Christian Bale, The Dark Knight Rises

UPDATE: Christian Bale and his wife traveled to the town of the Aurora movie theater shooting and spent 2 1/2-hours meeting with seven gunshot victims who … Read More »

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Christian Bale’s Statement On The Tragedy

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Saturday July 21, 2012 @ 2:17pm PDTTags: Christian Bale, Colorado movie theater shooting, The Dark Knight Rises

Christian Bale, star of The Dark Knight Rises and the previous two movies in the trilogy, issued this statement today about the tragic shooting at a theater in Aurora, Colorado:

Words cannot express the horror

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TV Spot: ‘The Dark Knight Rises’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday July 10, 2012 @ 10:41pm PDTTags: Christian Bale, The Dark Knight Rises, Thomas Lennon

Here’s a new TV spot for The Dark Knight Rises featuring Thomas Lennon (Reno 911) as Christian Bale’s doctor. We also get a glimpse of Bane (Tom Hardy) and Catwoman (Anne Hathaway). The Warner Bros film is scheduled to hit theaters July 20.

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Willem Dafoe Joins ‘Out Of The Furnace’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday April 26, 2012 @ 5:13pm PDTTags: Casey Affleck, Christian Bale, Out Of The Furnace, Relativity, Scott Cooper

Willem Dafoe has joined the cast of Relativity Media and Red Granite’s thriller currently entitled Out Of The Furnace. Dafoe joins previously announced cast members Christian Bale, Casey Affleck, Zoe Saldana, Sam Shepard, Woody Harrelson and Forest Whitaker. … Read More »

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Megan Ellison In Talks To Fund ‘American Bullshit’ With Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday April 18, 2012 @ 6:34pm PDTTags: American Bullshit, Big Deals Film, Bradley Cooper, Christian Bale, David O. Russell, Megan Ellison
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: While the acquisitions landscape is showing signs of that pre-Cannes dullness, a big deal is in the works for Megan Ellison and her Annapurna Pictures to fully … Read More »

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Forest Whitaker and Woody Harrelson Join ‘Out Of The Furnace’ Cast

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday April 13, 2012 @ 3:25pm PDTTags: Christian Bale, Forest Whitaker, Relativity Media, Scott Cooper, Woody Harrelson

The Last King of Scotland Oscar winner and Hunger Games star will round out Scott Cooper’s Out of The Furnace, Relativity announced today. Forest Whitaker, as previously reported by Deadline, and Woody Harrelson join Christian Bale, … Read More »

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Relativity Sets Cast For ‘Out Of The Furnace’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday April 5, 2012 @ 3:08pm PDTTags: Casey Affleck, Christian Bale, Out Of The Furnace, Sam Shepard

Relativity Media has firmed up casting for Out Of The Furnace with Sam Shepard joining Christian Bale, Casey Affleck and Zoe Saldana as the production directed by Scott Cooper gets under way later this month. Cooper also wrote the script based on an initial version by Brad Inglesby titled The … Read More »

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American Bullshit Hits The Fan: David O Russell Clarifies His Role, And The Prospect Of Reuniting With Christian Bale

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday March 21, 2012 @ 5:00pm PDTTags: American Bullshit, Big Deals Film, Christian Bale, David O. Russell, Sony
Mike Fleming

David O Russell Christian Bale The FighterUPDATE, 5 PM: David O Russell has clarified his relationship with American Bullshit. Sounds like it’s not totally bullshit, but it’s not real, either. But it also sounds like if it does … Read More »

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Casey Affleck Frontrunner to Join Revenge Thriller ‘Out Of The Furnace’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday March 5, 2012 @ 5:06pm PSTTags: Casey Affleck, Christian Bale, Out Of The Furnace, Scott Cooper
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Casey Affleck is poised to join the cast of Out of the Furnace, the Scott Cooper-directed revenge thriller that Relativity Media will put into production later this year with Christian Bale starring. The script, which originated as a Brad … Read More »

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OSCARS: Colin Firth, Natalie Portman, Christian Bale, Melissa Leo To Present

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday February 23, 2012 @ 10:39am PSTTags: Christian Bale, Colin Firth, Melissa Leo, Natalie Portman, Oscars

Beverly Hills, CA – The four Oscar®-winning actors from the 83rd Academy Awards – Christian Bale, Colin Firth, Melissa Leo and Natalie Portman – will present at the 84th Academy Awards, telecast producers Brian Grazer and Don Mischer announced

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Will Christian Bale’s Drama With Chinese Thugs Help ‘Flowers Of War’ Win Oscar?

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday December 16, 2011 @ 10:55am PSTTags: China, Christian Bale, The Flowers Of War

Here’s a test of whether any publicity is good publicity: Christian Bale was in China for the world premiere of his historical drama The Flowers Of War but found time afterward for an eight-hour drive outside Beijing in an attempt to meet with a blind Chinese dissident. Instead his group … Read More »

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Hammond: From ‘Tinker Tailor’ To Angelina Jolie & Brad Pitt, Oscar Talk Is Everywhere

By PETE HAMMOND | Friday December 9, 2011 @ 5:09pm PSTTags: Albert Brooks, Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Christian Bale, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Gary Oldman, Michael Moore, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Pete Hammond

‘Tis the season. Studios and distributors are pulling out all the stops to bring attention to their big awards contenders. The drumbeat has been so loud since Thanksgiving that it’s not uncommon to be invited to 4 or 5 sceenings, parties, events, and Q&As … Read More »

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Hot Trailer: ‘The Flowers Of War’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday December 9, 2011 @ 4:53pm PSTTags: Christian Bale, The Flowers Of War, Wrekin Hill

Zhang Yamou’s fact-based drama The Flowers Of War is China’s entry into Oscar’s foreign-language race and the nation’s most expensive movie ever at a budget of almost $100 million. Here’s an exclusive trailer for the pic, which centers on a man (Christian Bale) who finds refuge with a group of … Read More »

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Back To Back Terrence Malick Movies Means No ‘Noah’ For Christian Bale

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday November 30, 2011 @ 12:44pm PSTTags: Christian Bale, Darren Aronofsky, Lawless, Noah, Terrence Malick
Mike Fleming

Christian Bale isn’t going to play the title character in the Darren Aronofsky-directed Biblical epic Noah. Bale had never been set, but it was understood he was the actor Aronofsky wanted. I’m told that it won’t happen because the dates … Read More »

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AFM: Wrekin Hill Acquires Zhang Yimou’s ‘Flowers Of War’ Starring Christian Bale

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday November 7, 2011 @ 4:49pm PSTTags: Christian Bale, Zhang Yimou
Mike Fleming

Los Angeles, CA (November 7, 2011) — Chris Ball, President and CEO of LA-based film production and distribution company Wrekin Hill Entertainment, announced today that his company, in association with Row 1 Productions, have acquired theNorth American distribution rights to award-winning Chinese director Zhang Yimou’s (Raise the Red Lantern, Hero) and producer Zhang Weiping’s THE FLOWERS OF WAR starring Academy Award® winning actor Christian Bale (The Fighter, The Dark Knight). The film has been selected as this year’s official foreign language entry for China at the Academy Awards. Wrekin Hill, in association with Row 1, will open the film in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco in late December 2011 and the film will then expand through early 2012.

THE FLOWERS OF WAR will have a wide release in China on December 16th following three premiere events in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. Based on a screenplay by Heng Liu (The Story of Qiu Ju), THE FLOWERS OF WAR is adapted from Geling Yan’s historical novel 13 Flowers of Nanjing. The film is a work of historical fiction set against the backdrop of the Rape of Nanking, a brutal chapter in the Sino-Japanese War, which was a significant event in Chinese history. Produced and fully financed by Zhang Weiping under his New Pictures Film banner, THE FLOWERS OF WAR is inspired by true life events, and tells a genuine story of hope, love and sacrifice.

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