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You have to admire the chutzpah, if not necessarily the filmmaking skills, of Jay and Mark Duplass, the duo behind the stay-at-home-son comedy-drama Jeff, Who Lives at Home. With their 2005 debut, The Puffy Chair, the Duplass brothers took an uninteresting story fleshed out with lackadaisical dialogue and, using barely rudimentary camera skills, fashioned a noodly tale about love, life and relationships.

As any meander through the movies that have their origins in Saturday Night Livesketches will demonstrate, comedic ideas that work in the short form do not necessarily a funny feature make.

Sony pictures has closed a deal to acquire the Valiant Comics series, "Bloodshot," according to Deadline. Neal Moritz will produce through his Original Film Banner along with Jason Kothair and Dinesh Shamdasani for Valiant Entertainment.

Casting Michael Shannon as a potential psychotic is a bit like crowing over the discovery that water is wet. And sure enough, in Jeff Nichols’s Take Shelter, Shannon gets his chance to go all bug-eyed and thin-lipped, to sweat through his clothes

Martin Scorsese's "Hugo Cabret" is now going to be called simply..."Hugo." So long Cabret!

Jeff Tremaine, the guy who gave us the "Jackass" franchise, is about to ditch his merry pranksters, at least for now, to make his narrative debut with the comedy "Revenge of the Jocks!"

One of the highlights during NAB last week in Las Vegas was when DreamWorks Animation CEO, Jeffrey Katzenberg shared the stage with moderator, David Wertheimer, CEO and Executive Director of the Entertainment Technology Center @USC for a candid conversation about 3D.

Only 12 men in history have walked on the moon and yet there is no personal account of how these historical missions affected each man personally. The Wonder of it All recounts the narrative of their journeys from childhood to the present. The story unfolds as each astronaut talks candidly about his adventure, with never heard statements until now.