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After directing The Twilight Saga: Eclipse , 30 Days of Night and Hard Candy director David Slade stepped back into more comfortable territory on TV by directing the pilot for "Awake," three episodes of "Hannibal" with Mads Mikkelsen and an episode of "Breaking Bad." Now the director is coming to big screen thriller territory as THR reports Slade ... (more)

Lightning Entertainment, the Santa Monica-based sales, production and distribution company, has acquired international rights to the hit South by Southwest Film Festival comedy, Gus , starring Michelle Monaghan , Radha Mitchell and Michael Weston , it was announced today by Robert Beaumont, President of Lightning.

Film genres have their boom years and their bust years. Every genre has a big hit here and a big hit there every year, but, every now and then, a single year will have multiple watershed films that transcend and extend the genre.

With the space dud and copycat flick "Oblivion" hitting theaters this weekend it seems a perfect time to go back to the film it borrowed from most.

Empowered by the success of Tron: Legacy - and inadvertently lent gravitas by the recent North Korea bomb threat - director and fanboy Joseph Kosinski's long-gestating ode to 1970s sci-fi finally emerges, backed by the considerable star power of Tom Cruise and Morgan Freeman.