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6 hours ago | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »

Fox Searchlight Pictures has set a July 7 release for Amanda Lipitz’s documentary “Step” — making it the first title to go up against Sony’s “Spider-Man: Homecoming.”

Fox Searchlight bought rights to the movie last month following its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival.

The film, featuring Blessin Giraldo, Cori Grainger, Tayla Solomon, Gari McIntyre, and Paula Dofat, documents the senior year of a girls’ high-school step dance team�in inner-city Baltimore. Each student is trying to become the first in their families to attend college and striving to make their dancing a success against the backdrop of social unrest in the troubled city.

“Step” is a Stick Figure, Impact Partners, Vulcan, and Scott Rudin production, and produced by Lipitz and Steven Cantor. Exec producers are Dan Cogan, Geralyn Dreyfous, Jenny Raskin, Rudin, Paul G. Allen, Carole Tomko, Micheal Flaherty, Valerie McGowan, »

- Dave McNary

15 hours ago | Deadline | See recent Deadline news »

Neon has acquired rights to Errol Morris’ latest documentary The B-Side, which turns the lens on photographer Elsa Dorfman. The pic had its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival in the fall and has been playing the fest circuit. The newbie distributor plans a theatrical release June 2. Dorfman worked with the�Polaroid Land 20�24 camera for 35 years, capturing subjects at her studio in Cambridge, Ma. As the photos begin to fade and Dorfman's retirement looms, the… »

15 hours ago | The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News | See recent The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News news »

Hell or High Water actor Ben Foster will star in My Abandonment, to be helmed by Winter's Bone director Debra Granik.

Newcomer Thomasin McKenzie (The Hobbit:� Battle of the Five Armies) will also star in the project, which will be co-financed and executive produced by Bron Creative and First Look Media.

Granik and Anne Rosellini wrote the script based on Peter Rock’s novel of the same name. The film tells the story of 13-year-old Caroline (McKenzie) and her father, Will (Foster), who are found living in Forest Park, a temperate rainforest abutting Portland, Oregon. When authorities pluck them »

- Rebecca Ford

5 hours ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »

[Editor’s note: Major spoilers for “The Expanse” Season 2, Episode 5, “Home,” below.]

If you’ve never read the books written by James S.A. Corey upon which “The Expanse” is based, then Episode 5 of the second season more than likely came as a massive shock. As a show adapted from a popular book series with serious genre roots, “The Expanse” has elicited comparisons to “Game of Thrones” before. But the series reached Red Wedding-levels of surprise with “Home,” in which Miller (Thomas Jane) bonds with the protomolecule-infected Julie Mao (Florence Faivre) to prevent the Eros station from crashing into Earth.

Read More:�‘The Expanse’ Season 2 Review: Syfy’s Boldest Gamble Continues to Pay Out Richly

It’s a surprisingly romantic sequence, dense with visual effects to capture the depths to which Julie has become bonded with the protomolecule. But the actual filming featured none of those trappings: Jane and�Faivre�were acting, according to executive producer Mark Fergus, in “a big empty room with just a chair. »

- Liz Shannon Miller

5 hours ago | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »

With Neill Blomkamp‘s “Alien” looking unlikely to happen, the future of the franchise rests on the shoulders of the man who started it all: Ridley Scott. He’s back with “Alien: Covenant,” which for fans will have to show some improvement over the beautiful looking, viscerally engaging, but kinda really dumb “Prometheus.” And he’s going to try, bringing buckets of blood along with him.

Continue reading ‘Alien: Covenant’ Serves Up 5-Minute ‘Last Supper’ Prologue at The Playlist. »

- Kevin Jagernauth

8 hours ago | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »

If you’ve ever heard the term “Hollywood elite” used as an insult, it likely came from a Republican politician. George Clooney takes issue with that characterization in a new Canal+ interview, noting that Donald Trump and his advisor Steve Bannon fit the term as well as anyone. “Donald Trump has 22 acting credits,” the actor says. “He collects $120,000 a year in his Screen Actors Guild pension fund. He is a Hollywood elitist.”

Read More: Stephen K. Bannon’s Indie Film Career Contradicts His Alt-Right Vision

Trump has made a number of cameos in movies and television shows dating back decades, increasing his profile further with “The Apprentice” and “The Celebrity Apprentice.” Bannon, meanwhile, has produced a number of films of his own — and unsuccessfully tried to make several more. “Steve Bannon is a failed film writer,” Clooney says of former Breitbart editor, whose unrealized projects include a Shakespearean rap movie about the L. »

- Michael Nordine

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