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(Tipped by JMG reader Eric)

Via Deadline: Robert Redford decides it would be great idea to undertake a trek along the 2100-plus-mile Appalachian Trail with old high school buddy Nick Nolte in this Sundance 2015 entry. Before too long the two estranged chums discover the hike through 14 states from Georgia to Maine is going to be an uphill struggle. Literally and figuratively. The movie …

Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore is urging his Facebook supporters to see this upcoming Christian flick, which appears to feature a cameo by Kirk Cameron although he does not appear on the IMDb cast list. More interesting is that the film’s directors, brothers Alex and Stephen Kendrick, are besties with the Duggar family and even appeared in a …

Via CNN: Comedy great Anne Meara, the quick-witted half of the comedy team “Stiller & Meara,” died at 85 on Saturday, her family said. Meara and her husband, Jerry Stiller, were married for 61 years and worked together almost as long, the family said in a statement. In addition to her husband, she is survived by her children, comic actor …

Quite the production! (Tipped by JMG reader Robert)

Via Business Insider: Aaron Sorkin’s movie “Steve Jobs” has gone through its share of iterations, with many members of the cast and the original director leaving the project, but it now appears as if the film is off the ground. Universal Studios just released the first trailer for the film, which shows star Michael Fassbender as the iconic Apple founder. …

“People feel a type of way when they see any sexuality on-screen. I think it’s almost human nature. People are so fascinated by it. It shouldn’t even be a discussion. But it is, because people are still curious, and people still wonder how they feel about things. At the end of the day I don’t really care if someone feels …

Via the Atlantic: According to the North American Association of State and Provincial Lotteries, lotteries took in $70.1 billion in sales in the 2014 fiscal year. That’s more than Americans in all 50 states spent on sports tickets, books, video games, movie tickets, and recorded music sales. The national average hides a lot of variance among the states. In North …

This is yet another reboot of the Chevy Chase series, so yeah, predictable. However you might want to watch it because I can’t even post a screen shot of the final scene. Chris Hemsworth. Yowza. Fake, probably. But still. (Tipped by JMG reader James)

Meryl Streep, Audra McDonald, and…Rick Springfield.

Now playing on VOD.

Via NewNowNext: Warner Bros. has just snatched up The Forever War, an adaptation of the classic sci-fi novel by Joe Haldeman, with Channing Tatum set to star. The film follows William Mandella, a young student enlisted by Earth’s leaders to help fight the alien Taurans. But his travels through space create a time distortion, meaning while only a few years …

From the official Star Wars site: One of the earliest known records of “May the 4th” used in popular culture is in 1979, as described here by author Alan Arnold while he was chronicling the making of The Empire Strikes Back for Lucasfilm: “Margaret Thatcher has won the election and become Britain’s first woman prime minister. To celebrate their victory …

The sequel, due in 2017, hasn’t yet been filmed but it still gets a teaser today. Fifty Shades Of Grey has grossed $569M worldwide

“From Academy Award winner Brian Helgeland comes the true story of the rise and fall of London’s most notorious gangsters, Reggie and Ron Kray, both portrayed by Tom Hardy in an amazing double performance. LEGEND is a classic crime thriller taking us into the secret history of the 1960s and the extraordinary events that secured the infamy of the Kray …

TIME recaps: Johnny Depp is famous for taking on roles that require some serious transformations, but decades into his career, it’s still a shock to see him as Boston crime boss Whitey Bulger in the trailer for Black Mass. The actor is nearly unrecognizable in the somewhat unconventional trailer, which mostly consists of one derailed dinner party scene to convey …

Clip recap: In 1984, a scrappy little neighborhood in San Francisco – home to many low-income tenants and the heart of the gay male leather scene – faced destruction from the bulldozers of redevelopment and the AIDS crisis. The Folsom Street Fair was started to call attention to gentrification and raise money for AIDS charities. Folsom Forever tells the story …