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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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Benedict Cumberbatch and company kick things off in styleThe stars came out and the heavens opened for the opening night of the 58th BFI London Film Festival. Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley and the cast and crew of the opening film, Alan Turing biopic The Imitation Game, walked a sodden red carpet in Leicester Square for the European premiere of the movie.Clare Stewart, director of the LFF, is now in her third year managing both the festival and the expectations that people have of the event.
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Watch: Benedict Cumberbatch & Keira Knightley Crack Nazi Code in 'The Imitation Game' Trailer
A new UK trailer for director Lynn Shelton's Laggies has just debuted (via Digital Spy) under its international title Say When
and you can check it out below!
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- Digital Spy: Watch Keira Knightley, Chloë Grace Moretz in Say When trailer
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- FirstShowing.net: Watch: Keira Knightly Struggles to Grow Up in UK Trailer for 'Laggies'
- MovieWeb: 'Laggies' International Trailer Starring Chloe Moretz
When Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley and director Morten Tyldum took the stage of the Princess of Wales Theatre on Tuesday night to introduce the Toronto International Film Festival premiere of “The Imitation Game,” they had more than just the fate of one screening hanging in the balance.
They also carried with them the Oscar hopes of the company that transformed the awards game — hopes that were most likely buoyed by reactions to the screening.
At the moment, “The Imitation Game” looks to be the Weinstein Company's best hope for a major awards film, its
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In 1941, brilliant Cambridge mathematician Alan Turing was hired by the British military to break an infamous and seemingly unbreakable Nazi code called Enigma. Leading a group of misfit cryptanalysts, logicians and wunderkind minds, Turing directed the operation of code breakers to crack Enigma and win the war.
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Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley feature in the first teaser trailer for The Imitation Game. Get your peepers on it below, and then scroll down for the official synopsis. Here's the official synopsis: THE IMITATION GAME is a nail-biting race against time following Alan Turing (pioneer of modern-day computing and credited with cracking the German Enigma code) and his brilliant team at Britain's top-secret code-breaking centre, Bletchley Park, during the darkest days of World War II.
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