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Rogue Nation scored $29.4 million in its second weekend to take the top spot, while Fox’s much maligned comic book adaptation bombed with just $26.2 million to finish second. Joel Edgerton’s directorial debut,
The Gift, had an impressive $12 million opening for third, while
Vacation came in third at $9.15 million and
Ant-Man rounded out the top five with $7.8 mil.
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Created and executive produced by Lana and Andy Wachowski and J. Michael Straczynski, the series tells the story of eight people connected around the world who, after experiencing a violent vision, are able to see, feel, hear, and talk to each other as if they are in the same place. While they are being hunted by an organization out to do them harm, these eight must quickly adapt to this new ability and to each other. The new season should premiere in 2016.
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There was no last-minute miracle for show, as the network and the director were not able to reach a compromise on the size of the budget for the conspiracy thriller series. As a result, the cast, which included Rooney Mara, Colm Feore, Eric McCormack, Dallas Roberts, Jason Ritter, Brandon Scott and Agyness Deyn, has been released. They had been rehearsing for a month with Fincher and writer Gillian Flynn while budget negotiations were unraveling.
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Phil Lord and Chris Miller, who directed the first two films in the series, will serve as producers for the third film, but will hand off directing duties due to their commitments to an animated Spider-Man film and the standalone
Star Wars movie centering on a young Han Solo. Rodney Rothman, who wrote
22 Jump Street, is on board to write the new film, but the studio has also announced a crossover between this franchise and its
Men In Black property.
(COL)
The former
Colbert Report host, who will take over for David Letterman on September 8th, has announced that George Clooney will be his very first guest when he debuts on CBS at 11:35 pm that night. Colbert made the announcement about Clooney via Twitter, and asked his followers, “Could one of you let him know?”
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No details on who Murray will play or what we’ll do in the new film, which stars Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones, Andy Garcia and Chris Hemsworth, but like original movie co-star Dan Akyroyd, it’ll be probably be a small cameo. Originally scheduled to hit theaters July 22nd, 2016, the movie has now been moved up a week, to the 15th.
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Commercials helmer Bruno Aveillan will make his feature film debut helming the project, which has a recently completed screenplay from writer-director of the first film, Tommy Wirkola. The new film, which is hoping to find a spot in star Jeremy Renner’s busy schedule, will also co-star Gemma Arterton, who appeared with Renner in the surprise 2013 sleeper hit.
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Early word has the
Kingsman star as the frontrunner for the role in the
Robin Hood: Origins project from writer Joby Harold, who also penned next summer’s Knights of the Round Table:
King Arthur film for director Guy Ritchie. Otto Bathurst will be directing this incarnation (there are no less than three others in development around town), and negotiations between the studio and Egerton have just started.
(EMP)
HBO has released the first teaser trailer for its upcoming revamp of the 70s cult classic film. While the original started Yul Brenner, the new series stars Ed Harris and Anthony Hopkins, and will premiere on the cable network in 2016.
(VAR)
The process of reading for a major screenwriting contest has has sparked a number of thoughts and observations about certain screenwriting-related matters. While none of these items are involved enough to fill an entire column by itself, they’re still worth addressing. So here are some random notes – a sampler of screenwriting-related opinions and advice that will hopefully provide you with a few notions to chew on as we head into the dog days of summer.
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