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Jake Gyllenhaal’s ‘End Of Watch’ Clear #1; Clint Eastwood’s Baseball Drama Tied With Jennifer Lawrence’s Horror ‘House’ For #2; ‘Dredd 3D’ Dreadful On Very Soft Weekend

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Monday September 24, 2012 @ 1:43am PDTTags: Clint Eastwood, End Of Watch, Jake Gyllenhaal, Jennifer Lawrence, The House At The End Of The Street, Trouble With The Curve

SUNDAY PM UPDATE: That’s the pecking order before Monday actuals, according to my sources. This was one of those weekends which can only be described as box office hell for me. Because the three top pics were neck-and-neck for #1 this weekend. Final film order came down to Sunday late shows on the West Coast with Open Road’s End Of Watch easily placing #1 with $13+M. There’s still a battle for 2nd place after Relativity’s The House At The End of The Street came in way under their estimate, while Warner Bros’ Trouble With The Curve came in a little below their estimate as well. Lionsgate’s Dredd still did dreadful. All four newcomers are low- to medium-budget movies, but none opened to more than $13+M this very soft weekend. And total filmgoing likely won’t add up to a lot more than $88M, which is down a big -25% from last year. “It’s a close race to mediocrity with no winners,” one movie exec snarked to me. READ MORE »

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Global Showbiz Briefs: Tokyo, Zurich Festivals; News Corp’s Binding Bid

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday September 6, 2012 @ 11:52pm PDTTags: Consolidated Media Holdings, Global Showbiz Briefs, Trouble With The Curve, Zurich Film Festival

Tokyo Hosts ‘Trouble With The Curve’
Clint Eastwood-starrer Trouble With The Curve will close the Tokyo International Film Festival on October 28. Directed by frequent Eastwood collaborator Robert Lorenz, the film stars Eastwood as an aging baseball scout and Amy Adams as his estranged daughter. Justin Timberlake, John Goodman, Matthew Lillard and Robert Patrick also star. Warner Bros has set the U.S. release for September 21. The festival opens October 20 with Paramount’s 3D Cirque Du Soleil: Worlds Away, exec produced by James Cameron and directed by Andrew Adamson.

News Corp Presses Binding Offer
News Corp has moved to solidify its hold on Australian pay-TV platform Foxtel and the Fox Sports channels with a binding takeover bid for Consolidated Media Holdings. CMH owns 25% of Foxtel and 50% of Fox Sports. News is offering $A3.45 ($3.55) per share, valuing the company controlled by James Packer at $1.94 billion. That’s a bit less than News Corp’s non-binding cash offer made in June, but shareholders will receive a 6 cents per share dividend. Said Packer, exec chairman of 50% shareholder Consolidated Press Holdings: “This is a great outcome for CMH shareholders and for News and it reflects a fair price.” There was no immediate response from Seven Group Holdings, which has a 25.3% stake in CMH and has asked regulators whether it could buy the balance. A decision is due September 13. News owns 25% of Foxtel and the other 50% of Fox Sports. If the News deal proceeds it’s expected to close in November. Citi media analyst Justin Diddams told Deadline it’s unlikely the Kerry Stokes-controlled Seven Group will make a counter-offer. -Don Groves
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Hot Trailer: ‘Trouble With The Curve’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday August 7, 2012 @ 8:00pm PDTTags: Amy Adams, Clint Eastwood, Trouble With The Curve, Warner Bros

Warner Bros put up a trailer today for Trouble With The Curve with Clint Eastwood as a veteran baseball scout whose daughter, played by Amy Adams, accompanies him on a trip to check out a hot prospect. John Goodman, Justin Timberlake and Matthew Lillard co-star. Directed by Robert … Read More »

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Justin Timberlake Lands ‘Trouble With The Curve’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday January 31, 2012 @ 4:16pm PSTTags: Clint Eastwood, Jusrin Timberlake, Trouble With The Curve
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Justin Timberlake has landed a starring role in Trouble With The Curve, the Robert Lorenz-directed Warner Bros film that will star Clint Eastwood and Amy Adams. Eastwood plays a veteran scout who goes on a scouting trip with his … Read More »

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WB Sets Clint Eastwood ‘Trouble With The Curve’ For Sept. 28

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday January 30, 2012 @ 10:58pm PSTTags: Amy Adams, Clint Eastwood, Trouble With The Curve, Warner Bros

Warner Bros has assigned Trouble With The Curve (tentative title) a release date of September 28, 2012. The movie stars Clint Eastwood and Amy Adams as an aging baseball scout … Read More »

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CAA Signs ‘Trouble With The Curve’ Director Robert Lorenz

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday November 18, 2011 @ 6:26pm PSTTags: CAA, Clint Eastwood, Rob Lorenz, Trouble With The Curve
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: CAA has signed Robert Lorenz, the longtime producing partner of Clint Eastwood at Malpaso Productions, who is making his feature directorial debut with Trouble With The Curve, the Warner Bros road trip movie that will star Eastwood and possibly … Read More »

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