Welcome to the Box Office Report where we're talking about curious casting, the Olympics, and movies about aspiring marble champions.
Gangster Squad, the new film from Zombieland director Ruben Fleischer, got some undue attention this summer when it hastily moved off its original September release date. It really wasn't worth all the fuss.
Out of deference to the victims' families, and also in a likely effort to avoid controversy, movie studios and television networks have altered their schedules and amended their plans. Also: dictionaries.
Today in showbiz news: Oprah brings back some old tricks to save OWN, The CW has a good night, and Jason Schwartzman takes on a thrilling new role.
Just two days after Warner Bros. announced that it would be doing last minute edits on its upcoming thriller Gangster Squad, because of a scene that mirrored last week's movie theater shooting in Aurora, CO, the studio has announced that it is pulling the 1940s gangster film from the fall schedule entirely.
Today in showbiz news: A graphic and too-soon scene is excised from an upcoming movie, the script is flipped on romantic otherness, and welcome two new guys to the world of Glee.
The shootings in Aurora, Colorado are impacting Gangster Squad, the upcoming Warner Bros. release featuring Ryan Gosling and Sean Penn.
Two old talk show pals reunite, NBC is keeping people employed and Dunder Mifflin, and Charlize Theron sounds funny.
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