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OSCARS: Jack Nicholson, Dustin Hoffman Set As Presenters

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday February 22, 2013 @ 6:34am PSTTags: Academy Awards, Dustin Hoffman, Jack Nicholson, Oscars

Oscars producers Craig Zadan and Neil Meron have completed their roster of presenters for Sunday’s show with a pair of Hollywood heavyweights. Three-time Academy Award winner Jack Nicholson last presented a montage of previous Best Picture winners at the 80th Academy Awards in 2008. He’ll be back on stage this Sunday as will two-time winner Dustin Hoffman, who last handed out a prize in 2006. The official release follows: READ MORE »

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‘Like Crazy’s Felicity Jones Is Warren Beatty’s Choice For Howard Hughes Film

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday November 14, 2011 @ 4:18pm PSTTags: Alec Baldwin, Annette Bening, Drake Doremus, Felicity Jones, Howard Hughes, Jack Nicholson, Owen Wilson, Warren Beatty
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: After a long search, Warren Beatty has chosen Like Crazy star Felicity Jones to play the female lead in the untitled film about reclusive industrialist Howard Hughes. The film is still mobilizing its financing, with New Regency in place … Read More »

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‘Twilight Saga’s Peter Facinelli Producing Pic About Whitey Bulger’s Boston Gang

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday June 28, 2011 @ 10:52am PDTTags: Jack Nicholson, Jay Cohen, Peter Facinelli, Whitey Bulger
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Twilight Saga star Peter Facinelli is producing an adaptation of Street Soldier: My Life as an Enforcer For Whitey Bulger and the Boston Irish Mob, an adaptation of the Edward MacKenzie and Phyllis Karas book. Facinelli Films is teamed … Read More »

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Warren Beatty Playing Howard Hughes, Great Cast Circling

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday June 22, 2011 @ 4:19pm PDTTags: Alec Baldwin, Andrew Garfield, Annette Bening, David Fincher, Evan Rachel Wood, Howard Hughes, Jack Nicholson, Martin Scorsese, Paramount Pictures, Rooney Mara, Shia la Beouf, Warren Beatty
Mike Fleming

Deadline told you Monday that Warren Beatty was getting behind the camera for the first time since Bulworth. Paramount and Beatty are keeping details under wraps, but here’s what I’ve heard: He will play Howard Hughes, but it’s not … Read More »

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Matthew Vaughn Seeks Retired Superheroes

By TIM ADLER in London | Wednesday February 16, 2011 @ 11:33am PSTTags: Clint Eastwood, Jack Nicholson, Jonathan Ross, Matthew Vaughn, Matthew Vaughn - The Golden Age, Movie Deals, Movies, superheroes, Warren Beatty

EXCLUSIVE: Kick-Ass and X-Men: First Class writer/director/producer Matthew Vaughn tells me that a major Hollywood studio is very keen to fully fund his next big project: The Golden Age about a retirement home where superheroes end up. And the title is also a reference to early comic books of the 1930s when Superman and Batman first … Read More »

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Sundance: A&E IndieFilms Grabs TV Rights For Roger Corman Documentary

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday January 18, 2011 @ 8:53am PSTTags: Francis Ford Coppola, Jack Nicholson, James Cameron, Jonathan Demme, Martin Scorsese, Roger Corman, Ron Howard, Sundance Film Festival, WME Global
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: It’s almost like the Sundance Film Festival has started, with all the advance acquisition activity. A&E IndieFilm just acquired TV rights to Corman’s World: Exploits Of A Hollywood Rebel, the documentary about low-budget independent icon Roger Corman. A&E becomes … Read More »

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Pete Segal To Direct ‘Grudge Match’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday October 26, 2010 @ 12:49pm PDTTags: Jack Nicholson, Morgan Freeman, Movie Deals, Movies, Robert De Niro, Sylvester Stallone
Mike Fleming

Pete Segal has made a deal to direct Grudge Match, a Tim Kelleher-scripted comedy about two bitter rivals who are coaxed back into the ring for a grudge match — 50 years after they fought for the title. Billy Gerber … Read More »

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Hot Trailer: ‘How Do You Know’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday August 30, 2010 @ 4:46pm PDTTags: How Do You Know, Jack Nicholson, James L. Brooks, Owen Wilson, Reese Witherspoon, Sony Pictures, Trailers, Video
Mike Fleming

James L. Brooks is back with How Do You Know, a relationship comedy from Sony Pictures that reunites Brooks with Jack Nicholson. Reese Witherspoon, Paul Rudd and Owen Wilson also star. The film opens December 17.

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