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First Major Cannes Deal: Warner Bros Acquires U.S. Rights On Ryan Gosling Helming Debut 'How To Catch A Monster' EXCLUSIVE : Warner Bros has scored the first major acquisition of the Cannes Film Festival , before anybody has gotten on a plane.

For many years Ryan Gosling was on the cusp of fame. He seemingly didn't want it.

Targeted by the media, sentenced by the courts, and wrongfully imprisoned for four excruciating years for a crime neither could fathom let alone perpetrate, Raffaele Sollecito and Amanda Knox were the victims in a trial so bizarre it defied all reason.

Gangster Squad is the new 2013 mob movie that is filled with action, crime, and drama.

Could this be a Ryan Gosling Parallax Podcast special? Hosts Luke Buckmaster and Rich Haridy review two new Gosling movies plus Iron Man 3 and Compliance .

For the second week in a row, "Django Unchained" placed first on the home-video sales and rental charts, holding back several new releases from claiming the top spot.

The equivalent of a nice appetizer, GANGSTER SQUAD is an entertaining, glossy flick that will leave you wondering when the rest of dinner is coming your way.

The true story of a family that survived the 2004 tsunami in Thailand leads these new movies on DVD and Blu-ray this week.

Many forget that Anthony Mackie was scaring the panties off Eminem in 2002's rap classic, 8 Mile .

The temptation might have been to fashion "The Impossible" as a modern disaster movie - an update of, or throwback to, the likes of "The Poseidon Adventure" and "The Towering Inferno." Based on the true story of a family that survived the Dec.

The Old West died hard in the City of Angels. And in the years after World War II, battle-hardened veterans came home to a town "under enemy occupation," when the only way to fight off the Mob was with a six gun, your two fists and the right hat.

The Impossible , Grade A: Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor embrace their emotionally challenging and physically draining roles in this account of a family's effort to survive after the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004.

Best extra: "The Gangland Files," an integrated viewing experience that mixes a bulk of the extras into the film a la "pop-up videos" ONE OF THE strangest experiences that comes from watching historical movies is how easy it is to fall prey to a sense of nostalgia you never experienced.

It appears that director Ruben Fleischer is ready to try his hand at sci-fi. The Wrap reports that Fleischer is returning to Sony Pictures-where he made Zombieland and 30 Minutes or Less -to helm an untitled sci-fi/fantasy pic.

Los Angeles 1949. Ruthless Brooklyn-born mob king Mickey Cohen runs the show in this town reaping the ill-gotten gains from the drugs the guns the prostitutes and-if he has his way-every wire bet placed west of Chicago.

Among the movies that became available Tuesday, April 23 on Blu-ray and DVD at retail stores and rental outlets throughout the Valley are a spoof of the "Paranormal Activity" film franchise, a drama in which a family is torn apart by a tsunami and an ensemble thriller set inside of an all-night diner.

As Warner Bros. has been trying to figure out their plans for a Justice League film, one name that has been mentioned as a contender to direct it has been Zack Snyder .

"The Impossible" HH PG-13, 114 minutes, Summit/Lionsgate Story: The catastrophic nature of the 2004 tsunami in the Indian Ocean that opens this fact-based drama is rendered with nightmarish realism by Spanish director J.A. Bayona.

Tuesday means new releases on DVD for film aficionados. But, what these devotees might not know on this day is that a couple are currently playing theatrically.

Action-comedy director Ruben Fleischer is no stranger to mayhem and crime, but taking on this ersatz, film noir-style and almost entirely humorless hard-boiled cops and robbers saga still seems a bizarre choice.