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Willem Dafoe has closed a deal to join Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara in Guillermo del Toro’s adaptation of “Nightmare Alley.”

Collider had first reported that Dafoe was being considered for a role in the film, but sources now say the “Lighthouse” star has closed a deal to join the cast. The “At Eternity’s Gate” Oscar nominee will play the head barker at a traveling carnival who gives Bradley Cooper’s character a job, ushering him into a world of show biz and grifting.

Del Toro, who co-wrote the script with Kim Morgan, will direct the thriller for Fox Searchlight. Production is eyeing a start date at the top of 2020.

“Nightmare Alley” is being produced and financed by del Toro and J. Miles Dale with Tsg Entertainment. Fox Searchlight will distribute the film worldwide.

While Fox was already the home of a “Nightmare Alley” movie in...

The Circle, Sing and Ted Cinema Experience top Tanner's What to Watch weekend previewThe Circle, Sing and Ted Cinema Experience top Tanner's What to Watch weekend previewTanner Zipchen4/28/2017 4:23:00 Pm

This weekend in theatres, we have The Circle, Sing and Ted Cinema Experience: TED2017 Highlights Exclusive!

Emma Watson along with Tom Hanks star in The Circle! Based on the popular David Eggers book of the same name, the movie follows a woman who lands a dream job at a powerful tech company. While there, she uncovers a nefarious agenda that will affect the lives of her friends, family and that of humanity. Directed by James Ponsoldt, who's also brought us acclaimed indies such as The Spectacular Now and The End of the Tour. This sounds like a great date night movie!

Returning to limited theatres in our Family Favourites program, we have Sing! I must see with the entire family,...

Chris here. We had expected to see The Circle among the Sundance lineup, but it looks like it will be director James Ponsoldt's first film away from the festival. No matter, because the film still will be one of the more intriguing of the coming spring. From David Eggers's novel, The Circle stars Emma Watson as a young professional given the chance to work for an all-consuming social media entity (think Facebook on steroids) that may be more sinister than meets the eye. The novel was a bit on the nose in its critique, but its anxieties grow all the more realized in our online hive mindset.

Let's take a look at the first trailer and break down the Yes No Maybe So after the jump...

To mark the release of A Hologram For the King on 19th September, we’ve been given 3 sets of the film on DVD and the book by David Eggers to give away. Cultures collide as a washed-up, desperate businessman Alan Clay (Tom Hanks) is sent on a business trip to Saudi Arabia where he hopes to […]

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Academy Award winner Tom Hanks (Best Actor, Forrest Gump, 1994) stars in the classic fish-out- of-water tale A Hologram For The King, is now available on Blu-ray (plus Digital HD), DVD (plus Digital), Digital HD and On Demand from Lionsgate. Based on The New York Times best- selling novel of the same name by David Eggers, the humorous and touching film about one man’s quest to find professional (and personal) redemption was written for the screen and directed by Golden Globe nominee Tom Tykwer (Run Lola Run). Alexander Black (Tim), Sarita Choudhury (TV’s “Homeland”), Sidse Babett Knudsen (TV’s “Westworld”), Ben Whishaw (Spectre) and Tom Skerritt (TV’s “Pickett Fences”) co-star. Academy Award ® winner Tom Hanks delivers one of his most engaging performances as Alan Clay, a recently divorced American businessman who is sent overseas to pitch a state-of- the-art holographic teleconferencing system to a king. As Alan vainly...