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'Empire Strikes Back,' 'Mr. & Mrs. Smith' Scribes Reportedly Set For New 'Star Wars' Sequels

'Empire Strikes Back,' 'Mr. & Mrs. Smith' Scribes Reportedly Set For New 'Star Wars' Sequels

Although Disney and LucasFilm remain officially mum, The Hollywood Reporter says Empire Strikes Back/Return of the Jedi screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan and X-Men: The Last Stand/Sherlock Holmes scribe Simon Kinsberg have signed on to write Star Wars sequels following Michael Arndt's Star Wars Episode VII.
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REVIEW: Diane Keaton Loses Her Dog — and the Plot — in Darling Companion

REVIEW: Diane Keaton Loses Her Dog — and the Plot — in Darling Companion

There’s too much people and not enough dog in Lawrence Kasdan’s Darling Companion, and even if you prefer people to dogs, that’s a serious problem. It would be bad enough that Kasdan squanders the gifts of two of his lead actors, Diane Keaton and Kevin Kline, in this aimless, tedious and sometimes downright ridiculous comedy-drama about a fractured family brought closer by unusual circumstances. But he does a disservice to an even more striking face: That of a mutt whom Keaton’s character rescues from the edge of the highway, an elegant, spirited creature she dubs — what else? — Freeway.
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