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    'Ready Player One' Comic-Con Teaser: Steven Spielberg Goes Back to the (Movie and Video Game) Future

    At Comic-Con, director talks upcoming 'Ready Player One,' based on the bestseller by Ernest Cline and chock full of references to 1980s' pop culture

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    'Dunkirk': Allied Forces Vow to Never Surrender in Intense New Promo for Christopher Nolan's WWII Epic

    60-second promo for Christopher Nolan's upcoming World War II epic 'Dunkirk' packs a punch, stressing danger and heroism in story of daring rescue mission

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    Oscar Isaac to Star in Steven Spielberg's 'Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara'

    Oscar Isaac is joining forces with Steven Spielberg. The Star Wars and “X-Men” actor is currently in talks to star in the director’s The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara for Amblin Entertainment. Isaac will star opposite Oscar winner Mark Rylance, a Spielberg favorite recently (Bridge of Spies, The BFG), in the religious drama.

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    Gobblefunk: Steven Spielberg and Cast Get You Caught Up on 'BFG' Glossary Terms

    The film adaptation of the classic children’s book, The BFG, opens this weekend, and with it comes gobblefunk, author Roald Dahl’s own language, used when his dreamworlds transcend normal adjectives. To get you caught up before you hopscotchy yourself into the theater, we sat down with director Steven Spielberg and some of the film’s stars, including Jemaine Clement, Ruby Barnhill, Rebecca Hall and Oscar winner Mark Rylance, to help us break it all down.

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    The Inspiration Behind Mark Rylance's Gait in 'The BFG'

    The BFG comes to theaters on Friday, and Yahoo Movies Senior Editor Kevin Polowy had the opportunity to sit down with two of its stars, Jemaine Clement and Oscar Winner Mark Rylance. Rylance, of course, plays *the* big friendly giant in this movie. Knowing Rylance, a real actor’s actor, you might have thought he spent months honing it and perfecting it before shooting.

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    Yodel the News: Here's the First Clip from 'The BFG' (Exclusive)

    Like Dr. Seuss, Roald Dahl had a true gift for manufacturing bizarro words. In his 1982 classic The BFG, the odd phraseology comes to us via the titular big guy, whose version of our vocabulary is close enough to understand, yet disparate enough to be sublimely wackadoo. The Big Friendly Giant’s words come alive in the new Steven Spielberg-directed movie version, with Oscar winner Mark Rylance (Bridge of Spies) playing the eponymous role.

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    Steven Spielberg to Tackle 'The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara' as Next Film

    Steven Spielberg will tackle his long-gestating religious period drama The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara after he wraps Ready Player One, setting his Bridge of Spies co-star Mark Rylance to star in the Amblin Entertainment project. Tony Kushner, who worked on Spielberg’s Lincoln and Munich, wrote the script adapting the David Kertzer novel, which has been in development with the filmmaker since 2008. The true story centers on a 6-year-old Jewish boy who, in 1858, was seized by the police and rem