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There’s an undeniable neatness to the concept of an indie film, about overcoming socioeconomic obstacles to realise your dreams, being plucked from relative obscurity for wide release. As with Michael Showalter’s delightful The Big Sick, earlier this year, Patti Cake$ – from feature-newcomer Geremy Jasper – is a beneficiary of such a ‘rags to riches’ journey, having been snapped up by Fox at Sundance for an impressive $9.5m.
If reports are to be believed, a Joker origins story is on its way from comic book producers DC – but it comes with a twist and a potential for a whole Universe of ‘Extended’ ramifications.
Steven Spielberg’s upcoming dramatisation of the Washington Post’s campaign to see the Pentagon Papers published in 1971 has been given a new title, according to producers: 20th Century Fox and Amblin Entertainment.
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