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Sunday AM UPDATE FINAL: With the No. 1 $31.5M opening success of Ford v Ferrari this morning and an overall $52M global debut, high praise is to be given to 20th Century Fox Film president Emma Watts and execs Mike Ireland and Steve Asbell, who have been shepherding and advocating this project through all its…

Fox/Chernin Entertainment’s Ford v Ferrari, an original movie aimed at older males about the 1966 Le Mans race between Henry Ford II and Enzo Ferrari, will lay claim to the No. 1 spot at the domestic box office with a $20 million, maybe even $30M+ start. That will stop Sony’s franchise reboot of Charlie’s Angels in…

It is hard to believe that Helen Mirren and Ian McKellen, a Dame and a Sir who are lions of the British acting class, never co-starred in a movie together before The Good Liar. It seems a natural teaming, and indeed they have proved that onstage, but until now never on the screen. Fortunately, director Bill Condon has…

James Mangold’s Ford v. Ferrari, which is winning over crowds and critics in early screenings since its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival, is looking at a solid start in the $23 million-$30 million range, per early tracking, when the Disney-Fox/Chernin Entertainment pic opens in theaters November 15. The…

New Line Cinema’s The Good Liar, which pairs Helen Mirren and Ian McKellen on-screen for the first time, has a new trailer. The pic, directed by Bill Condon from a script from Condon’s Mr Holmes screenwriter Jeffrey Hatcher and based on Nicholas Searle’s novel, hits theaters via Warner Bros on November 15. McKellen…

Warner Bros has set a November 15, 2019, release date for The Good Liar, director Bill Condon’s drama starring English screen vets Helen Mirren and Ian McKellen. Scripted by Jeffrey Hatcher based on the novel by pseudonymous author Nicholas Searle, it focuses on Roy (McKellen), a veteran conman and born liar who meets…

Ian McKellen and Helen Mirren have been cast in The Good Liar, a thriller set up at New Line Cinema to be adapted from Nicholas Searle's debut novel and directed by Bill Condon. The pic reunites McKellen and Condon from their collaborations on Gods and Monsters and Mr. Holmes. Jeffrey Hatcher wrote the script for Good…

EXCLUSIVE: New Line Cinema has acquired screen rights to The Good Liar, a first novel by the pseudonymous author Nicholas Searle. The book was published by Penguin. The identity of the author isn’t known, but he’s a former civil servant in the UK who spent much of his time working on security matters before deciding…