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SSN AWARDS ORIGINALS
ANIMATED FEATURE/GOTHAM AWARDS
No awards show is an exact blueprint for what we can expect at the Oscars, but there’s obviously plenty of overlap each year, although last year’s big Gotham Awards winners,
Inside Llewyn Davis and
Fruitvale Station, were all but snubbed come Oscar time.
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Walt Disney Animation Studios won an Academy Award for last year’s
Frozen, and a nomination for Best Animated Feature the previous year with
Wreck-It Ralph. The success of this year’s
Big Hero Six could land the company its third consecutive nod.
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TODAY’S HEADLINES
In honor of this week’s release of
Horrible Bosses 2, we asked several former and current assistants about their own real-life horrible boss stories. They all spoke on condition of anonymity of course – you’ll see why when you read their sordid tales of humiliation, agony, and normal, workaday torture.
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Shelter also signs one of the stars of the upcoming and highly anticipated
Unbroken, Japanese actor Miyavi, while Gersh, WME, Verve, APA and Wolf-Kasteler all sign new clients, as well.
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Natalie Portman is now in talks for a mystery role in the film, which already has Michael Fassbender on board to play the title role and Seth Rogen negotiating to play co-founder Steve Wozniak.
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The long-awaited film has been slotted for a May production start as the studio moves to close Roland Emmerich’s directing deal. The movie will hit theaters June 24th, 2016.
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The comedic legend will voice the role of Vlad, the ancient, undead and incredibly grumpy father to Dracula, who of course is once again played by Adam Sandler. Film is slated for a September 25th, 2015 release.
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The Oscar-winning filmmaker and his team of four writers —Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver, Josh Friedman and Shane Salerno— are hard at work on the next three films in the series, which he says are “gonna be bitchin’.”
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The red band trailer for the upcoming Vince Vaughn comedy, directed by Vaughn’s
Delivery Man helmer Ken Scott, and due in theaters March 6th.
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The very first teaser for the fifth season of the insanely popular HBO series has arrived, and it’s in the form of a new website that is asking fans to sign up for “visions” of the new season and, one imagines, the first real trailer in the coming weeks.
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