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When hanging out with your nerdy pals, there's a chance that one question will enter the conversation: "Which is the superior Hollywood Chris?" Most of your friends will be "Saturday Night Live"-avoiding Chris Evans fans since he's the All-American hunk, while others might side with "Extraction" franchise star Chris Hemsworth, as he's the perfect blend of a Golden Retriever and a Ken doll. And though there are other stars named Chris to choose from (including the dinosaur-fighting Pratt), there's one Chris that deserves the most respect: Chris Pine.

With his classic-meets-avant-garde aesthetic, Pine represents those who color outside the lines, enjoy lavender lattes with an extra shot of espresso, and listen to live recordings of Fleetwood Mac on rainy days. He's a performer who is immensely talented as an actor but also possesses the kind of dreamy singing voice that is impossible not to swoon over. Plus, Pine isn't afraid to laugh at himself,...

Exclusive: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Emmy, SAG and Golden Globe award winner Rachel Brosnahan is joining Walter Hill’s upcoming western Dead for a Dollar which already stars Oscar winner Christoph Waltz and Oscar nominee Willem Dafoe.

In addition, Quiver Distribution, we understand, was instrumental in arranging the film’s financing and packaged the project alongside Canadian-based production company Chaos a Film Company. Quiver will release the movie in the U.S. and Myriad Pictures has acquired the international distribution rights which they began selling at the recent Cannes market. Deadline first told you about the project.

Dead for a Dollar follows a famed bounty hunter (Waltz) who runs into his sworn enemy, a professional gambler and outlaw that he had sent to prison years before (Dafoe), while on a mission to find and return the wife (Brosnahan) of a successful businessman who is being held hostage in Mexico. Hill also wrote the movie.

Vertical Entertainment will release the horror, psychological thriller film Ghosts Of War in Virtual Cinema Screenings, On Demand and Digital onJuly 17, 2020after it bows on DirecTV on June 18, 2020. Check out this trailer:

Ghosts Of War stars the ensemble cast of Brenton Thwaites (The Giver, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales), Alan Ritchson (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series), Skylar Astin (“Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist,” Pitch Perfect series), Theo Rossi (“Luke Cage,” “Sons of Anarchy”), Kyle Gallner (American Sniper, The Finest Hour), Billy Zane (Titanic, Dead Calm) and Shaun Toub (“Homeland,” Crash). The film is the directorial sophomore film for screenwriter Eric Bress (The Butterfly Effect, The Final Destination).

Five battle-hardened American soldiers are assigned to hold a French Chateau near the end of World War II. Formerly occupied by the Nazi high command, this unexpected respite quickly descends into madness when they encounter a...

With a filmmaking career extending to 35 years, the Romanian-born, Israeli-raised director Shimon Dotan (Repeat Dive, The Finest Hour, You Can Thank Me Later) will bow his latest film in U.S. theaters next month. The Settlers present audiences with the harsh reality that Jewish people who live along the West Bank face today. After earning acclaim following its Sundance Film Festival debut and appearance at New York Film Festival, the U.S. trailer has now arrived.

“Partisans on both sides of the conflict will find plenty to argue with, as would be the case with almost any movie on this topic,” Variety‘s Ben Kenigsberg writes. “The real achievement here is in going beyond the buzzwords of newscasts and talking points to convey a sense of what’s happening on the ground — and to give it a sense of urgency.”

Check out the trailer below and return for our review ahead of the theatrical release.

Directed by Craig Gillespie (Million Dollar Arm, Lars and the Real Girl), The Finest Hour is a true story of a dangerous rescue mission staged by the Boston Coast Guard in 1952. Chris Pine dons a thick accent for his role as a Coast Guard agent sent out into the storm to rescue a rapidly sinking tanker that’s been cut in half by the treacherous conditions, and Casey Affleck is the captain in charge of keeping the remaining members of his crew safe. Here’s the full synopsis:

On February 18, 1952, a massive nor’easter struck New England, pummeling towns along the Eastern seaboard and wreaking havoc on the ships caught in its deadly path, including the SS Pendleton, a T-2 oil tanker bound for Boston, which was literally ripped in half, trapping more than 30 sailors inside its rapidly-sinking stern. As the senior officer on board, first assistant engineer Ray Sybert...

Following in the footsteps of every major movie studio and setting release dates for two and three years into the future, Walt Disney Pictures has recently updated its release schedule to include Pete’s Dragon and Ghost in the Shell alongside some minor adjustments to the release dates for some of its other major films.

First up is Pete’s Dragon, which is about to head into production with a cast that includes Robert Redford and Bryce Dallas Howard. It will open August 12, 2016, putting it opposite Universal’s Dirty Grandpa and Legendary’s Spectral. Sounds like August 2016 will bring something for the entire family.

Ghost in the Shell will not see the light of day until April 14, 2017, which is hardly surprising given that Scarlett Johansson has only just signed on to lead the film. Right now it remains the only film in that spot in April, but it’s still...

• After taking a break from the franchise, Orlando Bloom has revealed that he has been in discussions to return as blacksmith-turned-pirate Will Turner in Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales. Johnny Depp has already signed on to reprise his Oscar-nominated performance as Captain Jack Sparrow in the fifth film of the Disney series, which seems to be what has sealed the deal for Bloom. Norwegian directors Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg are taking the commands of the ship from a screenplay by Jeff Nathanson (Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull). The film is scheduled for a July 2017 release date.

Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon are combining their acting and producing powers. The pair have teamed up and acquired the rights to Liane Moriarty's book "Big Little Lies," with plans to develop it as a starring comedic vehicle for both of them. The bestseller tells the tale of "of three mothers of kindergartners whose apparently perfect lives unravel to the point of murder." No word yet on who will tackle the screenplay or direct. [Deadline] Samuel J. Jackson has replaced Jamie Foxx in the laffer "The Black Phantom," with the latter actor forced to bail over scheduling issues. Jackson will join Kevin Hart with the pair leading the movie about "an odd partnership formed between a clever double-crossed mob hitman and the notorious hit man The Black Phantom, who has been hired to kill him." Tim Story will direct. [Deadline] Casey Affleck will get his sea legs going in "The Finest Hour" opposite Chris Pine.

Recently, I've been seeing rumors around the internet that Daniel Craig's fourth James Bond film will also be his final Bond film. I don't know if that's true or not (because it's only rumors). One night, while I was watching Goldfinger, I started coming up with an idea for what could be Craig's last Bond film. There's a very strong possibility (and by very strong, I mean 99.9999999%) that my Bond film will never get made. Still, I thought I'd write it out and share my ideas with you guys. Title: The Finest Hour-- This is only a working title I came up with. I conceived it before I came up with the plot or anything else. Now, in hindsight, I don't like the title so much. But until I can come up with a new one, The Finest Hour is the working title. Plot: Before...

Recently, I've been seeing rumors around the internet that Daniel Craig's fourth James Bond film will also be his final Bond film. I don't know if that's true or not (because it's only rumors). One night, while I was watching Goldfinger, I started coming up with an idea for what could be Craig's last Bond film. There's a very strong possibility (and by very strong, I mean 99.9999999%) that my Bond film will never get made. Still, I thought I'd write it out and share my ideas with you guys. Title: The Finest Hour-- This is only a working title I came up with. I conceived it before I came up with the plot or anything else. Now, in hindsight, I don't like the title so much. But until I can come up with a new one, The Finest Hour is the working title. Plot: Before...

Well, (almost) three months have gone by since the Boston Marathon bombing and that's apparently a respectable enough period of time for Hollywood to sit back before getting their fangs into this one. Right? Well, whether it is or isn't, this was bound to happen sooner or later. So yes, a movie about the terrifying event is on the way because cinema seems to be where America likes to heal its wounds. Deadline reports that the pens behind David O. Russell's "The Fighter" -- Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson - have snapped up the rights to a yet-to-be-published book by Casey Sherman and Boston Herald reporter Dave Wedge about the bombing, and the subsequent manhunt for the Tsarnaev brothers responsible for the crime. This will be a reunion of creatives of sorts as Tamasy and Johnson have previously penned an adaptation of Sherman's book "The Finest Hour," a rescue...

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First off, big congrats to at Esai Morales on winning an award for Best Actor in a Feature Film at FilmOut San Diego's Lgbt Film Festival, where Gun Hill Road also picked up the award for Best First Narrative Feature, and Judas Kiss won for Best Screenwriting.

Also congrats to Callum Keith Rennie on nabbing a Gemini for Best Performance by an Actor in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role for Shattered, and to the Blackstone team on winning two awards this year. Carmen Moore posted a few photos from the event on Facebook.

And congratulations to David Weddle, Bradley Thompson and everyone else working on Alphas on getting picked up for a second season! No word yet if John Pyper-Ferguson will be recurring in season two, but he will...

Walt Disney Pictures has acquired the movie rights to the bestselling book, The Finest Hours, an inspirational true rescue story by Casey Sherman and Michael J. Tougias. The novel will get a screenplay adaptation by Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson who recently worked on the Mark Whalberg boxing film, The Fighter.

The Finest Hour tells the story of a daring Coast Guard rescue off Cape Cod in 1952. “Two oil tankers were torn in half by treacherous waves during a deadly nor'easter blizzard. There were four rescue efforts, including two undertaken by a handful of men on two old, wooden, motorized 36-foot lifeboats. The men understood they had no business fighting frozen gale winds and seas but went anyway in an attempt to rescue the 84 men who were floating on halves of the cracked and sinking oil tankers.”

It amazes me sometimes, the things that people will do in extreme circumstances to help people.