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SSN AWARDS ORIGINALS
PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARDS
In a season where a plethora of exclusive niche clubs dole out awards, there’s one show that opens the voting pool to anyone with an Internet browser—the People’s Choice Awards.
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TODAY’S HEADLINES
Just as the calendar inevitably turns from December to January, from one year to the next, so is it inevitable that operations like ours churn out year-end roundups and looks ahead to what the upcoming year has in store. This time is no different, though it is rather entertaining.
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The producers, the actors, the editors, and the costume designers have already weighed in on their favorites of 2014, and now it’s the writers’ turn to nominate their fellows for achievements this year.
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The network won the project, about the 1990s movie business, in a competitive bidding situation. Tolan is writing the pilot, which will be directed by Bennett Miller. Clooney will executive produce with partner Grant Heslov.
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While the acclaimed film is already a commercial success, reaping more than $25 million to date, some of the revenue will be sitting in a bank account rather than being distributed to some of the film's investors.
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Time to clear your schedules.
The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt comes out March 6th,
Bloodline is online March 20th,
Daredevil on April 10th and
Grace and Frankie hits computer screens on May 8th.
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Broadway producer Kevin McCollum and former
Glee producer Michael Novick have optioned the YA novel by Leila Sales for both stage and film. Book follows a bullied girl who finds a family and a home among the denizens of the underground music scene.
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The film as a working title of
The Breaks, is inspired by journalist Dan Charnas’ book "The Big Payback," a narrative history of business in the hip-hop industry, and might become a series after the movie is made.
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The man who got his start on
Welcome Back, Kotter is coming back in Ryan Murphy’s
American Crime Story, which follows the case of O.J. Simpson’s murder trial. Travolta will play Simpson's defense attorney, Robert Shapiro, opposite Sarah Paulson as prosecutor Marcia Clark.
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The series ended its fifth season in December, and there were expectations of a sixth season renewal, but the network announced today that the show has been canceled.
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