A Guide to Veterans’ Day Programming, Tonight’s PEN Awards, Spotlight: Tommy Lee Jones, TV Development For 11/11/14

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Your Guide to the Docs, TV Specials and Books Honoring the 100th Anniversary of Veterans’ Day

With 2014 marking the 100th anniversary of the start of WW1, this year’s holiday takes on even more significance. (SSN)

Tonight’s PEN Literary Awards Continue Mission to Allow Uninhibited Storytelling and Protect Writers’ Freedom

Never has it been more important to protect the written word and creative expression than in this day and age of digital media and social exposure, recognized at the 24^th Annual Literary Awards at the Beverly Wilshire tonight. (SSN)

Spotlight: Tommy Lee Jones Talks Producing/Writing/Directing ‘The Homesman’ and Casting Meryl Streep

The Oscar winner is a triple threat on the western drama, about an independent-minded woman who volunteers to drive three mentally ill women in a wagon from Nebraska to Iowa, which has a gala premiere at the AFI Film Festival tonight. (SSN)

TV Development For 11/11/14: NBC Drafting ‘A Few Good Men’ For Live Special and New Projects For Bryan Cranston and Mark Burnett

Other announced projects include an untitled Ali Wentworth comedy, a new American Gothic, an updated Little Women and plenty of brand new comedies. (SSN)

TODAY’S HEADLINES

Producers Cut Out of Jake Gyllenhaal Film Are Suing the Screenwriter

Randall Emmett and George Furla are suing The Man Who Made It Snow writer Brett Tabor for $5 million and seeking an injunction against any distribution. (HE)

Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart in a Buddy Comedy For New Line? What’s Not to Like?

The Hercules star is being recruited to join Hart in Central Intelligence, with We’re The Millers helmer Rawson Marshall Thurber writing the latest draft and directing. (EMP)

Netflix’s Next Big Show, ‘The Crown,’ Finds Its Queen Elizabeth II

British actress Claire Foy has been offered the plum role in the forthcoming $100 million series, written by Peter Morgan. Show charts the monarch’s reign from the moment she heard of her father George VI’s death in 1952 through to present day. (DH)

The Next Round of Amazon Pilots Has Been Announced. Is Your Project On the List?

Projects include the online service’s first docu-series, as well as new scripted fare from Carlton Cuse, Frank Spotnitz, and Sam Shaw, and featuring Jason Lee, Brian Dennehy, Steve Zahn and Romany Malco, among others. (IW)

Fans of ‘My Big Fat Greek Wedding’ Hoping For a Sequel Are Finally Getting Their Wish

Universal is behind My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2, also to be written by and starring Nia Vardalos, with Nanny McPhee director Kirk Jones helming. (VAR)

Quentin Tarantino Is Already Looking Seriously at Retirement

About to start shooting his eighth film, coincidentally titled The Hateful Eight, the two-time Oscar winner appears serious about calling it quits on his film career after his tenth film. He’s still got a lot to do, though, before he goes. (TP)