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While his brother Bill (Benedict Cumberbatch) remains a powerful leader in the Massachusetts Senate, Irish hoodlum James "Whitey" Bulger (Johnny Depp) continues to pursue a life of crime in 1970s Boston. Approached by FBI agent John Connolly (Joel Edgerton), the lawman convinces Whitey to help the agency fight the Italian mob. As their unholy alliance spirals out of control, Bulger increases his power and evades capture to become one of the most dangerous gangsters in U.S. history.James "Whitey" Bulger was recently found guilty of many crimes.
- Long Island Newsday: 'Black Mass' review: Johnny Depp convincing as Boston gangster Whitey Bulger
- The Playlist: Review: Gangster Tale 'Black Mass' Starring Johnny Depp Doesn't Go Deep Enough
- Film School Rejects: Black Mass Could Have Used a Hail Mary
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Johnny Depp, Joel Edgerton, Benedict Cumberbatch, Jesse Plemons, Kevin Bacon, David Harbour, Dakota Johnson, Julianne Nicholson, Adam Scott, Corey Stoll, Juno Temple — Scott Cooper's "Black Mass" is not wanting in characters or stars to play them, but a movie can only hold so much, and unfortunately one had to go: the underrated and very talented Sienna Miller. So, why was she left on the cutting room floor?
“It came down to narrative choices,” the director told Boston Globe.
- Digital Spy: Sienna Miller's role in Black Mass was cut over "narrative choices"
- The Playlist: 'Black Mass' Director Scott Cooper To Helm Endangered Species Drama 'American Wolf'
- Shockya: Black Mass Movie Review
- Variety: ‘Black Mass’ Continues Its Awards Buzz at Telluride
- Variety: Telluride and Venice Give Kudos Boosts to ‘Black Mass,’ ‘Spotlight’
Johnny Depp, Joel Edgerton, Benedict Cumberbatch, Jesse Plemons, Kevin Bacon, David Harbour, Dakota Johnson, Julianne Nicholson, Adam Scott, Corey Stoll, Juno Temple — Scott Cooper's "Black Mass" is not wanting in characters or stars to play them, but a movie can only hold so much, and unfortunately one had to go: the underrated and very talented Sienna Miller. So, why was she left on the cutting room floor?
“It came down to narrative choices,” the director told Boston Globe.
- Digital Spy: Sienna Miller's role in Black Mass was cut over "narrative choices"
- The Playlist: 'Black Mass' Director Scott Cooper To Helm Endangered Species Drama 'American Wolf'
- Shockya: Black Mass Movie Review
- SlashFilm: ‘Black Mass’ Early Buzz: A Return to Form for Johnny Depp?
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“The Imitation Game” is an awards contender with pedigree to spare: star power in Benedict Cumberbatch, a prestige-loving distributor in The Weinstein Company and a staggering box office performance in limited release. But moviegoers and certain media outlets are raising concerns over the hushed bedroom politics around the film's subject, gay mathematician Alan Turing. “He's never seen with any male love interest,” longtime entertainment journalist Wayman Wong wrote TheWrap in an email and commented on Entertainment Weekly's website.
Awards hopeful “The Imitation Game” exploded at the specialty box office this weekend, averaging $120,000 in four theaters.
That's the second-best limited opening of the year, behind only “The Grand Budapest Hotel,” which averaged more than $202,000 in its four-theater debut in March.
The Morten Tyldum-directed drama, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley, took in $480,000 from four locations in New York and Los Angeles for the Weinstein Company.
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- Deadline: ‘The Imitation Game’ For Real: Year’s 2nd-Best Debut Per Theater
- IndieWire: Specialty Box Office: 'Imitation Game' Plays To One Of Best Limited Debuts of All Time
- Entertainment Weekly: Fact-Checking the Film: ‘The Imitation Game’
- Thompson on Hollywood: 'Mockingjay' Dominates Depressed Holiday Weekend; 'Imitation Games' Computes Huge Opening
- Variety: ‘Imitation Game’ Scores Huge Debut Thanks to Oscar Buzz, Benedict Cumberbatch
- Bleeding Cool: The Imitation Game – Cumberbatch Faces Down A Fascist Armageddon
- ScreenRant: SR Geek Picks: ‘Star Wars 7′ Fan Trailer, Real Science of ‘Imitation Game’ & More
- MTV Movies Blog: The Reviews Are In: Does ‘The Imitation Game’ Stand Out?
- USA Today: Knightley knows 'Imitation Game' is inaccurate
- Hollywood Reporter: 'Imitation Game' "Baddie" Misrepresented, Family Claims
- Hollywood Reporter: 'The Imitation Game': What the Critics Are Saying
- Entertainment Weekly: Fact-Checking the Film: ‘The Imitation Game’
- Bleeding Cool: The Imitation Game – Cumberbatch Faces Down A Fascist Armageddon
By Chris Maltby
The Imitation Game, in its original definition, is a party game. A man and a woman go into separate rooms and then guests attempt to tell them apart by asking a series of questions, and both the man and woman send out a series of answers with the specific intention of convincing the participants that one is actually the other.
- The Playlist: Review: Entertaining And Well-Crafted 'The Imitation Game' Starring Benedict Cumberbatch & Keira Knightley
- Hollywood Reporter: Oscars: How 'Imitation Game' Team Re-Created the Turing Machine
- Thompson on Hollywood: 'The Imitation Game': from Black List to Crowdpleasing Oscar Contender
- USA Today: Knightley knows 'Imitation Game' is inaccurate
- Hollywood Reporter: 'Imitation Game' "Baddie" Misrepresented, Family Claims
- Hollywood Reporter: 'The Imitation Game': What the Critics Are Saying
- Entertainment Weekly: Fact-Checking the Film: ‘The Imitation Game’
- Twitch: Review: THE IMITATION GAME Cannot Live Up To Its Inherent Drama
When audiences see “The Imitation Game” starring Benedict Cumberbatch as British mathematician Alan Turing, it will be a very different film than the one originally imagined.
“We kinda had this lost year at Warner Bros.,” screenwriter Graham Moore recalled after TheWrap‘s Awards Season Screening Series presentation of the film at The Landmark Theater in Los Angeles on Thursday.
- Vulture: Watch an Exclusive Clip of Benedict Cumberbatch Talk About Coming Out in The Imitation Game
- Variety: Editor William Goldenberg on Cutting ‘Imitation Game,’ ‘Unbroken’
- Long Island Newsday: 'The Imitation Game' and other math related films that add up
- MTV Movies Blog: Benedict Cumberbatch Has A Disturbing Plan For Penguin-Murder: Watch
Directed by Morten Tyldum (Headhunters) and starring Benedict Cumberbatch as pioneering and unjustly prosecuted computer scientist Alan Turing, The Imitation Game has been squarely established as a key player in this year’s awards race. That means it can be easy to talk about Cumberbatch’s Oscar chances rather than the film itself. But set aside questions about awards for now.
- Thompson on Hollywood: Live Stream Q&A: Benedict Cumberbatch Talks 'The Imitation Game'
- Hollywood Reporter: Benedict Cumberbatch Explains the Subtle Intention of the Final Scene in 'The Imitation Game'
- IndieWire: 'The Imitation Game' Director on Lack of Gay Sex in Movie and Working With Benedict Cumberbatch
- Cinema Blend: The Big Scene That Had To Be Cut Off Of The End Of The Imitation Game
- Bleeding Cool: Benedict Cumberbatch Plays A Different Imitation Game