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Newswire || BY Brian Brooks || 04 30 2012 11:20 AM

Biz Break: Bernie Opens Big, Cannes Masters, Tribeca's Cuban Defectors Speak

BernieLocal fave Richard Linklater debuted his black comedy, based on the true story of a charismatic Texas undertaker who killed his elderly companion, last year at the Los Angeles Film Festival to modest critical support. But with an April limited release looming, the Jack Black-Shirley Maclaine starrer is in dire need of a profile raiser. Can the hometown crowd help make Bernie a must-see?Read more of Movieline's SXSW 2012.

Welcome back to Movieline's new industry feature Biz Break. Monday morning's newsy highlights include a big-time opening for Jack Black's Bernie, the film talent leading Cannes' 2012 Master Classes, the end of Sundance's first London foray, the latest word on the Cuban actors who ditched their Tribeca premiere for U.S. asylum, and more...
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Newswire || BY Jen Yamato || 03 15 2012 11:40 AM

WATCH: Clive Owen and Nicole Kidman in HBO's Hemingway & Gelhorn

Hemingway & Gellhorn

I'm not quite sold on Clive Owen as Ernest Hemingway, Nicole Kidman as his war-correspondent third wife, Martha Gellhorn, or the sumptuous look of director Philip Kaufman's take on war-torn WWII-era Europe, but here's your first look at the May "epic motion picture event" Hemingway & Gellhorn.
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