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Actor Benjamin Walker, star of BLOODY BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON, has been dropped from his role as Beast in 'X-Men: First Class,' The Daily Mail's Baz Bamigboye reports. However, adds Bamigboye, Walker may be offered the role again, as screen tests for potential replacements have not yet been satisfactory.

Following the June 18th opening of the feature film Jonah Hex, Reprise Records will release a 6-track EP from Mastodon from the film's original motion picture score Jonah Hex on June 29th, 2010.

Building on the success of the program's first two years, Focus Features will accept entries for a third year of its Africa First Program beginning Monday, May 17th and continuing through Monday, August 3rd. Focus CEO James Schamus made the announcement today.

According to Variety, Antonia Banderas and Bill Paxton will join the cast of 'Knockout' along with mixed martial arts fighter Gina Carano. Steven Soderbergh's new film is an action-thriller with a script by Lem Dobbs. The two also worked together on 'The Limey' and 'Kafka.'

The New York Film Critics Circle, is an organization of film reviewers from New York-based publications that exists to honor excellence in U.S. and world cinema.

Nominees for the 16th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards® for outstanding performances in 2009 in five film and eight primetime television categories and for the SAG honors for film and television stunt ensembles were announced this morning in Los Angeles at the Pacific Design Center's Silver Screen Theater in West Hollywood.

Leading lady Muriel Brassler (Portia), though an accomplished stage actresses, was described by Houseman as 'decorative, adequate and hardly memorable'.

The full list of winners for the British Academy of Film and Television arts were given out in London on February 8, 2009.

The full list of nominations for the British Academy of Film and Television arts was announced this morning. FROST/NIXON received 6 nominations and DOUBT 3 amongst other theatre-related nominees. The awards will be given out on February 8, 2009 in London.