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Disney announced today that the release date for DreamWorks’ Wikileaks movie The Fifth Estate has moved to October 11, 2013, nearly a month earlier than its initial November 15th date. And Delivery Man has moved to November 22, 2013 from its initial date of October 4th. With the shift, The Fifth Estate avoids Paramount’s The Wolf Of Wall Street, Fox’s thriller The Counselor and Universal’s comedy/drama The Best Man Holiday and faces Sony/Columbia’s drama Captain Phillips, Fox’s horror pic Haunts and Film District’s thriller Old Boy. Delivery Man now goes up against Lionsgate’s The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and Paramount’s Nebraska.

Nerds, start your hate-tweets: Damon Lindelof, one of the most celebrated and reviled writers in the geek universe, suggests in an interview with Grantland where he doesn't acknowledge or even try to explain the dozens of gaping plot holes and leaps in logic in "Star Trek Into Darkness" (which he co-wrote), that he will probably be involved in one of Disney's upcoming "Star Wars" projects (the crop that will begin with J.J. Abrams' 2015 film). In basements all across the country, angry blog posts are already being written. Lindelof also gave some more details about "Tomorrowland," his secretive Disney project with Brad Bird, which are pretty exciting for any fan of sci-fi. First, let's get the "Star Wars" thing out of the way: in a lengthy profile in the Hollywood Reporter last week, he said that he would probably be involved in J.J. Abrams new "Star Wars" entry because the two have a relationship where they show (and work on, officially or otherwise) whatever the other is up to....