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‘Seven Psychopaths’ Red Band Trailer

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday August 31, 2012 @ 12:35am PDTTags: Martin McDonagh, Seven Psychopaths, Woody Harrelson

Colin Farrell, Christopher Walken, Sam Rockwell, Woody Harrelson, Abbie Cornish, Tom Waits, Olga Kurylenko, Zeljko Ivanek and Gabourey Sidibe figure in this CBS Films tale that revolves around an LA gangster’s dognapped Shih Tzu. Written and directed by Martin McDonagh, Seven Psychopaths opens October 12th:

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HBO Picks Up Matthew-Woody Series ‘True Detective’ With Eight-Episode Order

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday April 30, 2012 @ 6:24pm PDTTags: Big Deals TV, HBO, Matthew McConaughey, True Detective, Woody Harrelson
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation, True Detective, an eight-part event drama series project starring Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson, has landed at HBO with a straight-to-series order. I hear the pay cable network is finalizing a deal … 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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Matthew & Woody Pair For Cable Cop Series

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday April 10, 2012 @ 5:21pm PDTTags: Big Deals TV, Cary Fukunaga, Matthew McConaughey, True Detective, Woody Harrelson
Nellie Andreeva

True Detectives MovieEXCLUSIVE: A hot event cop drama project is hitting the cable marketplace. Written by Nic Pizzolatto, the 8-part series has Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson attached to star and Cary Fukunaga (Jane Eyre) to direct all … Read More »

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Hot Trailer: ‘Rampart’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday November 18, 2011 @ 6:44pm PSTTags: Anne Heche, Ben Foster, Cynthia Nixon, Ice Cube, Millennium Entertainment, Ned Beatty, Oren Moverman, Rampart, Robin Wright, Sigourney Weaver, Woody Harrelson

Oren Moverman’s corrupt LA cop drama Rampart stars Woody Harrelson, Sigourney Weaver, Robin Wright, Ned Beatty, Ben Foster, Ice Cube, Anne Heche and Cynthia Nixon. Millennium Entertainment plans to launch Best Actor, Director and Screenplay campaigns for Harrelson and Moverman.

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Woody Harrelson Joins Martin McDonagh’s ‘Seven Psychopaths’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday November 9, 2011 @ 1:12pm PSTTags: Christopher Walken, Colin Farrell, Graham Broadbent, Martin McDonagh, Mickey Rourke, Olga Kurylenko, Peter Czernin, Sam Rockwell, Tessa Ross, Woody Harrelson
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Woody Harrelson, Tom Waits and Olga Kurylenko have joined Colin Farrell, Sam Rockwell and Christopher Walken in Seven Psychopaths. Directed and scripted by In Bruges’ Martin McDonagh, the film began production this week in Los Angeles. CBS Films is … Read More »

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Dave Franco Joins ‘Now You See Me’ At Summit

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Thursday October 13, 2011 @ 5:50pm PDTTags: Channing Tatum, Isla Fisher, Jesse Eisenberg, John Malkovich, Jonah Hill, Louis Leterrier, Mark Ruffalo, Morgan Freeman, Nicholas Hoult, Teresa Palmer, Woody Harrelson
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Dave Franco has joined the cast of Now You See Me, which is his second straight movie for Summit Entertainment. Franco joins Mark Ruffalo, Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson, Morgan Freeman and Isla Fisher in the Louis Leterrier-directed drama about … Read More »

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Toronto: Woody Harrelson Enters Oscar Race With Millennium’s $2 Million Deal For Cop Corruption Drama ‘Rampart’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday September 23, 2011 @ 6:29pm PDTTags: Anne Heche, Ben Foster, Cynthia Nixon, Ice Cube, Mark Gill, Millennium Films, Ned Beatty, Oren Moverman, Robin Wright, Sigourney Weaver, Woody Harrelson
Mike Fleming

EXCLUSIVE: Millennium Entertainment is putting Woody Harrelson into the Best Actor Oscar race this year, closing a $2 million U.S. rights acquisition of Rampart. That is the Oren Moverman-directed police corruption drama that Moverman wrote with L.A. Confidential author James Ellroy. The plan is to open in 20 cities and launch campaigns for Harrelson and for Moverman for Best Director and Screenplay. A deal for Canadian rights is expected to close shortly. Millennium Entertainment CEO Bill Lee made the deal, and Millennium Films’ Mark Gill will be a consultant on this and get to roll up his sleeves and wage an awards-season campaign for Harrelson, who drew raves at the 2011 Toronto Film Festival for his portrayal of a corrupt cop in a drama that also stars Sigourney Weaver, Robin Wright, Ned Beatty, Ben Foster, Ice Cube, Anne Heche and Cynthia Nixon. The 1990s Los Angeles police family drama explores the dark soul and misadventures of an LAPD cop whose past finally catches up with him in a department-wide corruption scandal. Read More »

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Toronto Recap: No Drunken Spending A Good Sign For Indie Film Resurgence

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Monday September 19, 2011 @ 11:28am PDTTags: 2011 Toronto Film Festival, Adam Scott, Anthony Hopkins, Bradley Cooper, David Thewlis, Derek Cianfrance, Eamonn Bowles, Eduardo Sanchez, Fernando Meirelles, Geoffrey Fletcher, George Clooney, Jason Janego, Jennifer Westfeldt, Jon Hamm, Kristen Wiig, Lasse Hallström, Luc Besson, Michael Fassbender, Michelle Williams, Michelle Yeoh, Mickey Liddell, Oren Moverman, Ryan Gosling, Sarah Polley, Todd Wagner, Tom Quinn, William Friedkin, Woody Harrelson
Mike Fleming

Was the 2011 Toronto Film Festival a good one for dealmaking? Even after organizers announced a 20% uptick in film deals last Friday (the festival includes foreign territories in its count), the sales kept coming. A long-expected deal with Lionsgate on the Jennifer Westfeldt-directed comedy Friends With Kids finally got done (in partnership with Roadside Attractions, which will actually release the film), and Music Box announced overnight it had acquired the Rachel Weisz-starrer The Deep  Blue Sea. Lionsgate was hotly pursuing another film, the Midnight Madness sensation You’re Next, which of all the festival films seems to have the best chance of approaching the box office turned in by Toronto 2010’s breakout Insidious. There have been about 20 acquisitions so far and that many more could come in the next few weeks.

Still, can you call the Toronto acquisitions marketplace “solid” when no films have been bought so far by The Weinstein Company, Sony Pictures Classics, Focus Features, or Fox Searchlight (yeah, I revealed that they bought Shame during Toronto, but it was a deal all but sealed in Venice), or for that matter FilmDistrict, Open Road or Relativity Media, each of which jumped into the distribution business to release films that can play on upwards of 2000 screens? Buyers and sellers said it was a pretty good festival at least. One filled with mostly small deals and a show of distributor discipline that is a positive sign for an indie film sector that just started pulling out of a nosedive this time last year. Read More »

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2011 Toronto: ‘Shame’ Will Start Dealmaking Flurry, But Buyers Wait To Be Blown Away

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Wednesday September 7, 2011 @ 5:03pm PDTTags: 2011 Toronto Film Festival, Adam Scott, Alexis Bledel, Allen Hughes, Allison Janney, Anthony Hopkins, Anthony Mackie, Aung San Suu Kyi, Ben Foster, Bruce Beresford, Bruce Willis, Carey Mulligan, Catherine Keener, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Channing Tatum, Christian Bale, Danny Trejo, Eduardo Sanchez, Elizabeth Olsen, Ewan McGregor, Geoffrey Fletcher, Harvey Weinstein, Hugh Laurie, Ice Cube, James Gandolfini, Jamie Linden, Jane Fonda, Jon Hamm, Jonathan Teplitzky, Jude Law, Justin Long, Kate Mara, Kristen Wiig, Kristin Scott Thomas, Lasse Hallström, Luc Besson, Mark Wahlberg, Matthew Goode, Maya Rudolph, Megan Fox, Mia Farrow, Michael Fassbender, Michelle Williams, Michelle Yeoh, Mickey Rourke, Oliver Platt, Peter Morgan, Peter Schlessel, Rachel Weisz, Rebecca Hall, Robert Redford, Robin Wright, Rosario Dawson, Russell Crowe, Saoirse Ronan, Sarah Polley, Sarah Silverman, Selma Blair, Seth Rogen, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Frears, Steve McQueen, Terence Davies, Vince Vaughn, Will Ferrell, Woody Harrelson, Zhang Yimou
Mike Fleming

Last year’s Toronto Film Festival started slow for acquisitions, but finished with a flurry of modest distribution deals that served notice the specialty film business had finally pulled out of its nosedive. This year’s festival hasn’t started and … Read More »

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ARC Entertainment Acquires Josh Hartnett 2010 Toronto Action Film ‘Bunraku’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday April 26, 2011 @ 10:31am PDTTags: Barry Gordon, Bunraku, Demi Moore, Josh Hartnett, Kevin McKidd, Ron Perlman, Woody Harrelson
Mike Fleming

UPDATE: I originally posted a trailer for this movie that I found on Youtube, and the Deadline commenters have spent the day beating it like it owed them money. The producers have appealed to my sense of fair … Read More »

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Woody Harrelson Joins HBO’s Sarah Palin/John McCain Movie ‘Game Change’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday March 25, 2011 @ 11:09am PDTTags: Ed Harris, Game Change, HBO, John McCain, Julianne Moore, Sarah Palin, Woody Harrelson
Nellie Andreeva

Woody Harrelson has joined Julianne Moore and Ed Harris in HBO Films’ Game Change, produced by Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman’s Playtone. The movie, directed by Jay Roach, follows John McCain’s (Harris) 2008 presidential campaign, from his selection of Alaska … Read More »

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