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Discovery Communications CFO Andy Warren noted the loss on the company’s second-quarter earnings report conference call yesterday, citing a deficit from “higher restructuring and other charges this year of $19 million primarily due to content impairment charges from canceling TLC’s
19 Kids and Counting.”
(EW)
Pans are to scrap the lackluster 2010 reboot and start with a fresh new take. Plot details are kept under lock and key, though fans can safely assume that the red-and-green sweater/fedora wearing Freddy Krueger will once again be up to his old tricks, ready to terrorize a new group of sleep-deprived youngsters. There’s no producer on board yet, but
Orphan scribe David Leslie Johnson has been tapped to script.
(TB)
Tom Quinn and Jason Janego, who worked together at Magnolia before co-founding Radius, are leaving to start a new company that will utliize a traditional theatrical release model, unlike the day-and-date model of Radius. It is still being worked out when the pair will leave. TWC is in discussions to possibly invest in the new enterprise.
(BIZ)
With its renewed momentum, sci-fi project Passengers is coming together properly under the aegis of director Morten Tyldum, who is looking to add Laurence Fishburne to the cast. Story chronicles a ship en route to a distant colony with all of its crew in cryosleep. A malfunction causes one man (Pratt) to be rudely awakened 90 years before anyone else, so he wakes up a female passenger (Lawrence) to keep him company. No word on Fishburne’s role.
(EMP)
Wilson, who wrote the book
Robopocalypse that Steven Spielberg was once hot to direct, wrote
Small Things as part of the short-story collection
Robot Uprisings. The tale follows a disgraced scientist who is sent to an island that has been overrun by advanced forms of nanotechnology that swirl through the jungle, consuming raw materials.
(DH)
Producer Lionel Wigram confirmed that the team was hard at work on the script for what would be the third film in the franchise, starring Downey as the legendary detective and Jude Law as Doctor Watson. No word on whether Guy Ritchie, who directed the first two films in the series, is also a part of this one, but he and Wigram have
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. coming out next week, so it’s probably a good bet.
(CB)
Kelynan Lonsdale has joined the CW superhero drama in the series-regular role of Wally West. Lonsdale’s character — who will make his debut in the winter — becomes the speedster known as Kid Flash in the comics lore. In assorted DC Comics iterations, Wally has been both the nephew of Iris West and husband to Linda Park (who was played during Season 1 by Malese Jow).
(TVL)
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(LH)
HBO has released the first full-length trailer for season two of its popular drama, co-created by Damon Lindelof. Justin Theroux and Carrie Coon lead the cast, which also includes Margaret Qualley, Regina King, Kevin Carroll, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Jovan Adepo, Christopher Eccleston, Janel Maloney, Amy Brenneman, Chris Zylka, and Liv Tyler. The new season premieres October 4th.
(COL)
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