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Brad Pitt is back!

The 53-year-old actor made a surprise appearance at the 2017 Golden Globes on Sunday, presenting a clip from Moonlight.

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"Moonlight is born of Barry Jenkins' and Tarell Alvin McCraney's courage to look back, to embrace their past and insist that their 'now' is not separate from their 'then,'" said Pitt, whose production company, Plan B, produced the film. "It was born of the courage of a group of actors willing to strip their souls, and express the humanism inside mistake and misstep and misdeed. It is Barry Jenkins' profound belief that we all stand at the threshold of change and forgiveness, and all be granted acceptance and love to ourselves."

"Nominated for six Golden Globes," he concluded, "this is Moonlight."

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Though Moonlight only snagged one Golden Globe win, for...

Monday’s nominees for the upcoming 74th Golden Globe Awards express surprise, gratitude – and a love for tickle fights.Motion Picture, Drama

“It was a privilege and honour to work with one of the finest directors in the world, Mel Gibson. Meeting Andrew Garfield before principal photography and working with him throughout, he morphed into the character with astonishing accuracy. The legacy of Desmond Doss is immortalized on screen forever; he will no longer be the forgotten hero.”

– Producer David Permut, Hacksaw Ridge

“This has been a passion project, more than 15 years in the making, and I greatly appreciate the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s nomination of Hacksaw Ridge as best picture, drama. This honour is a testament to the work of our brilliant director Mel Gibson, Andrew Garfield’s indelible performance, our screenwriters Robert Schenkkan and Andrew Knight, our entire cast and crew, my fellow producers, the brave soldiers who fought in World War II and...

Monday’s nominees for the upcoming 74th Golden Globe Awards express surprise, gratitude – and a love for tickle fights.Motion Picture, Drama

“It was a privilege and honour to work with one of the finest directors in the world, Mel Gibson. Meeting Andrew Garfield before principal photography and working with him throughout, he morphed into the character with astonishing accuracy. The legacy of Desmond Doss is immortalized on screen forever; he will no longer be the forgotten hero.”

– Producer David Permut, Hacksaw Ridge

“This has been a passion project, more than 15 years in the making, and I greatly appreciate the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s nomination of Hacksaw Ridge as best picture, drama. This honour is a testament to the work of our brilliant director Mel Gibson, Andrew Garfield’s indelible performance, our screenwriters Robert Schenkkan and Andrew Knight, our entire cast and crew, my fellow producers, the brave soldiers who fought in World War II and...

According to Deadline, Amazon, Warner Bros. TV and Plan B have teamed with writer Jason Richman to develop a TV series adaptation of the Martin Scorsese's 2006 Oscar-winning film The Departed.

The project will put a new, updated spin on the two-way-undercover concept in the Scorsese movie, which was set in Boston and dealt with the Irish mob, and the 2002 Hong Kong original Internal Affairs.

The new Departed TV series will revolve around a young cop who infiltrates a Latino gang in Chicago and battles the gang’s own plant in the police department.

2006's Departed starred Jack Nicholson, Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon and Mark Wahlberg. The film won Oscars for best picture and director, adapted screenplay.

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Martin Scorsese’s modern gangster classic The Departed is heading to TV via Amazon Studios and Warner Bros...

The Departed, Martin Scorsese’s 2006 modern mob classic starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson and Mark Wahlberg, is coming to TV as a series. The Oscar-winning movie will get a reboot as a crime drama series from Amazon Studios as well as the original film’s producers Vertigo Entertainment, Initial Entertainment Group and Plan B Entertainment. This is the first time Amazon has bought anything from Warner Bros. TV.

The script for The Departed series was written Jason Richman, who created Detroit 1-8-7.

The original film was set in Boston where Irish Mob boss Francis "Frank" Costello, played by Nicholson, paid for Colin Sullivan (Matt Damon) to complete police training and get set up in the Massachusetts State Police. DiCaprio plays William "Billy" Costigan, who pretends to get...

Amazon is shipping up to Boston Chicago.

The streaming video service is developing a series based on Martin Scorcese’s 2006 Oscar-winning movie The Departed, our sister site Deadline reports.

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The film, with a cast including Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, was set in Boston and involved Irish-run organized crime. The series, written by Jason Richman (Detroit 1-8-7), will take place in the Windy City and will be a rebooted blend of The Departed and the movie that inspired it, Infernal Affairs.

The TV series will unfold in modern-day Chicago,...

The Departed is the latest film getting rebooted for the small screen. Amazon is developing an adaptation of the Oscar-winning 2006 film starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Matt Damon, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. The hourlong drama hails from Amazon Studios, Vertigo Entertainment, Initial Entertainment Group and Plan B Entertainment in association with Warner Bros. TV. Similar in premise to both The Departed and the 2002 Hong Kong film Internal Affairs on which it is based, the project centers on a young cop who goes undercover to infiltrate a ruthless Latino gang, which simultaneously plants its own man in the police

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Filmmaker Christopher Nolan's Interstellar still has fans talking two weeks after first hitting theaters, with many continuing to overthink the ending. During an interview with The Daily Beast, the filmmaker shed some light on a pivotal scene.

There will be Spoilers below, so read on at your own risk.

One of the biggest surprises for audiences was the reveal that Matt Damon portrays Dr. Mann, one of the original astronauts sent out during the Lazarus missions to find a new home for humanity. Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) and the rest of the Endurance crew head to Mann's planet because the data from beacon readings were promising, but they come to realize that Mann faked the data so he could be rescued. Mann ultimately attacks Cooper and leaves him to die, leaving to set up "Plan B" on Edmunds' planet.

When asked about Mann's motivations for this actions, Christopher Nolan had this to say.

Obviously the following article is going to contain Spoilers as it includes parts of an interview in which Christopher Nolan talks about the end of his sci-fi film Interstellar.

The most powerful aspect of the film is the message that it delivers about love. Love is a central theme of the story, and it plays a role in the pivotal moment at the end that brings everything together. Of course, the story also highlights the dark side of humanity. Especially when Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) and his team arrive on Dr. Mann’s planet, lured there by the promising data the they received. When they arrive and wake Mann (Matt Damon) up, we learn that the bastard faked the data so that he could get rescued. Mann eventually attacks Cooper and leaves him to die, so that he can initiate “Plan B”.

In an interview with The Daily Beast, Nolan offered...

Christopher Nolan made Memento, but he also made The Dark Knight Rises. Great filmmakers can make bad movies: This is not a particularly complicated equation. And Nolan's new space melodrama Interstellar is not a particularly complicated movie. The science is elaborate and insane, but the emotional stakes are simple: Father loves daughter, father saves humanity. But Nolan is one of our plottiest filmmakers. (Most films have three acts; Nolan's movies usually have at least six, usually out of order and/or overlapping.) I attempted to explain the plot of Interstellar, but even I ran up against some impenetrable cosmo-logic. Some...

The 71st Annual Golden Globe Awards took place tonight at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles today, with Tina Fey (30 Rock) and Golden Globe nominee Amy Poehler (Parks and Recreation) serving as hosts for the second year in a row. Take a look at the full list of Golden Globes winners below.

Best Motion Picture - Drama

- 12 Years a Slave - Plan B Entertainment, New Regency Productions and River Road Entertainment; Fox Searchlight PicturesCaptain Phillips - Columbia Pictures; Sony Pictures ReleasingGravity - Warner Bros. Pictures / Esperanto Filmoj / Heyday Films; Warner Bros. PicturesPhilomena - Pathe, BBC Films, BFI, Canal+, Cine+, Baby Cow/Magnolia Mae; The Weinstein CompanyRush - Universal Pictures, Cross Creek Pictures, Exclusive Media, Imagine Entertainment, Working Title, Revolution Films; Universal Pictures

Best Performance By An Actor In A Motion Picture - Drama

Matthew McConaughey - Dallas Buyers Club

Chiwetel Ejiofor - 12 Years a Slave

Idris Elba -...

Zoe Saldana, Olivia Wilde and Aziz Ansari were introduced by HFPA president Theo Kingma at the Beverly Hilton Hotel to announce the nominations for The 71st Annual Golden Globe Awards.

Golden Globe winner Tina Fey (30 Rock) and Golden Globe nominee Amy Poehler (Parks and Recreation) will host The 71st Annual Golden Globe Awards live on Sunday, January 12, 2014. NBC will broadcast the show live from coast-to-coast starting at 5-8 Pm (Pt) and 8-11 (Et) from the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills.

The 2014 Golden Globe Nominations are as follows:

Best Motion Picture - Drama

12 Years a Slave - Plan B Entertainment, New Regency Productions and River Road Entertainment; Fox Searchlight PicturesCaptain Phillips - Columbia Pictures; Sony Pictures ReleasingGravity - Warner Bros. Pictures / Esperanto Filmoj / Heyday Films; Warner Bros. PicturesPhilomena - Pathe, BBC Films, BFI, Canal+, Cine+, Baby Cow/Magnolia Mae; The Weinstein CompanyRush - Universal Pictures, Cross Creek Pictures, Exclusive Media, Imagine Entertainment,...

The Matthew Vaughn and Brad Pitt-produced actioner packed less than the original, while Disney's animation soared nicely

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Thanks to Wednesday/Thursday previews totalling just over £1m, Kick-Ass 2 lands at the top of the UK box-office chart with takings of £2.48m. It's the fifth chart-topper of 2013 for the distributor Universal, following Les Misérables, Oblivion, Fast & Furious 6 and Despicable Me 2.

While Universal and the production companies – Matthew Vaughn's Marv and Brad Pitt's Plan B – will be happy with the chart placing, closer consideration of the data yields less for them to celebrate. The original Kick-Ass debuted with £3.88m, including extensive previews of £2.05m, on its way to an £11.77m total. While you wouldn't always expect a sequel to match the total box-office of the original, you would certainly anticipate a relatively strong opening,...

The big-screen adaptation of the 2011 Nicholas Sparks novel The Best of Me has switched hands from Warner Bros. to Relativity, the studio that ushered Safe Haven and Dear John into theaters, Deadline reports. While I have seen every Nicholas Sparks movie, I don’t actually read the books. Therefore, to help cast the film — i.e. the people who will inevitably be touching each other’s faces on the movie poster — I reached out to my mother, who’s read the entire Sparks canon and is currently bored awaiting release from the hospital. (She’s swooning over her doctor – she’s fine).

The story,...

This week's Entertainment Weekly is home to a handful of new stills from some of the summer's biggest movies. Because the images are on the smallish side of the fence, we thew them all into one story for you cats! Dig it!

World War Z - June 21st

Synopsis

In the film Brad Pitt plays a U.N. employee racing against time and fate as he travels the world trying to stop the outbreak of a deadly zombie pandemic, and his Plan B shingle is producing. Mireille Enos ("Big Love", "The Killing") plays his wife, a mother of two girls. Their co-stars include Eric West, Matthew Fox, David Morse, and James Badge Dale.

Pacific Rim - July 12th

Synopsis:

When legions of monstrous creatures, known as Kaiju, started rising from the sea, a war began that would take millions of lives and consume humanity’s resources for years on end.

You might have forgotten, but in 2011 Cameron Crowe dropped three movies after being absent from the big screen for six years: the Matt Damon dramedy "We Bought a Zoo" and two music documentaries, "The Union" and "Pearl Jam Twenty." And heading into 2012, he isn't slowing down one bit. At the end of last month, his once-aborted romantic comedy "Deep Tiki" came back to life over at Sony with Emma Stone attached, and now he's got two more projects brewing that he'll tackle once that picture is in the can. The Wrap reveals that the drug addiction memoir "Beautiful Boy" is being prepped as Crowe's followup effort to "Deep Tiki." This one has been in the works for a while as well, and in early 2011 it was reported that Crowe's adapation of David Sheff's memoir -- which chronicled his son's meth addiction -- was rejected by Brad Pitt's Plan B...

• Gerard Butler revs up for Motor City, where Jake Gyllenhaal and Dominic Cooper stalled. (Both actors’ deals fell through due to scheduling conflicts.) Butler will join Amber Heard and Gary Oldman in the ex-con-with-a-vendetta action flick. [Variety]

• Colin Firth may play an aristocrat who becomes quadriplegic after a tragic accident in Untouchable. Bridesmaids director Paul Feig is also in talks to direct the remake of the French dramedy (originally called The Intouchables). [Variety]

• True Story: Jonah Hill is set to face off against James Franco. Brad Pitt’s production company Plan B is producing the stranger-than-fiction tale about New York Times...

Good news for 30 Rock fans! Tom Hanks stirred up the twitter-verse last night with the following tweet: “RadioMan delivers msg from T.Fey. Result? I’m on 30 Rock! Thanks, RMan Hanx.” The two-time Academy Award winner, who got his start on television with the early ’80s sitcom Bosom Buddies, has not been a guest star on a TV series since his turn as Uncle Ned on Family Ties in 1984. Of course, 30 Rock has had great success luring big guest stars (including Matt Damon, Jon Hamm, Jennifer Aniston, Steve Martin, Oprah) and just the idea of a Hanks-Fey team-up is pretty funny already.

Tune in alert and preview, on March 30th, PBS will premiere Plan B: Mobilizing to Save Civilization, a new documentary about the pioneering environmentalist Lester Brown. Brown is the founder of the Earth Policy Institute and the creator of Plan B, a blueprint for solving many of the environmental problems that plague the planet. In the special, which also features economist Paul Krugman, writer Thomas Friedman and others, Brown explains how reducing greenhouse gases could also lower our income tax, create jobs, and stem the rise of terrorism. Hosted by Matt Damon and produced by Emmy-Award winning filmmakers Marilyn and Hal Weiner, Plan B is shot on location around the world, the film's message is clear and...

Last week, my friend Piper Weiss of the Yahoo blog Shine asked me if I’d join her in a crucial human experiment to determine whether it’s easier for a man or a woman to sneak into New York Fashion Week. Being the fashionphile and bold anarchist that I am (no words in this statement are true, including “that”), I immediately agreed. Below is our triumphant story, along with some tips on how to go about sneaking into Fashion Week yourself, should you ever Daaaaareeeeeeee (the extra E’s stand for “it’s actually pretty Easy.”) You can read Piper’s recollection of the events here. Before we embarked on our guerrilla assault to shake up the fashion galaxy this morning, we contacted an industry insider (who I think was either some girl Piper knew or the actual Anna Wintour, I forget), who gave us Three Quick Tips on...