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People’s Choice Winners Announced, French Media To Keep ‘Charlie Hedbo’ Going as Creative Freedom Takes Another Hit

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The People Have Spoken: a Complete List Of People’s Choice Winners

Ellen DeGeneres, Matt Bomer, Chris Evans and Ben Affleck are the night’s big winners, as was Betty White, who gave an emotional speech while accepting the TV Icon. (THR)

French Television Networks, Radio and ‘Le Monde' All Pledge To Keep ‘Charlie Hedbo’ Running

France Télévisions, the holding group of the country’s national broadcasters, along with the state-run Radio France and the leading broadsheet said they would provide Charlie Hebdo and its various teams with all of the “human and material resources necessary” to keep it going. (DH)

It’s Been a Bad Few Weeks For Creative Freedom

First the Sony hack and then, much more seriously, yesterday’s terrorist attack on Charlie Hedbo has creative communities all over the globe reacting with defiance, even as freedom of speech is viciously and violently attacked. (VAR)

Ted Hope Is Returning To Producing, Which Means Fandor Has a New CEO

Lead investor Chris Kelly, former Facebook General Counsel and Chief Privacy Officer, is stepping in as interim CEO to replace Hope, who will be "pursuing a new film production venture, and will remain a close advisor to the company.” (TOH)

Alexander Payne and Reese Witherspoon Agree To Try To Recreate Past Glory By Working Together Again On ‘Downsizing’

The sci-fi, social satire will star Matt Damon in the lead role, with Witherspoon and Payne working together for the first time since 1999’s Election. New film is set in a not-too-distant future world where scientists had learned to shrink human beings down to miniature size. (TP)

Dream Casting? Matt Bomer Signs On To Play Montgomery Clift In New HBO Biopic

Project had originally been intended as an independent film, with Larry Moss set to direct a script by Christopher Lovick. Now, with HBO on board, writing duo Ira Sachs and Mauricio Zacharias will rewrite Lovick’s script. (BQ)

Nat Geo Is Getting Into the Late Night Talk Show Game, and Of Course, Their Host Is Neil DeGrasse Tyson

The new show, Star Talk, is at least partially based on the physicist’s podcast of the same name, will premiere later this year and will be taped at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, in front of a live studio audience. (CB)

Trailer Buzz: ‘Good Kill’

The new trailer for the upcoming drama about a drone pilot who begins to question his mission after too many civilian deaths start to pile up. Ethan Hawke stars in the film, which opens April 2nd. (EMP)

Just How True To Real Life Do Historical Films Actually Need To Be?

You know it’s Oscar season when the historical-accuracy hit squads show up. Over the past several weeks, it seems that almost every major awards contender has had some kind of high-profile accusation flung at it over its misappropriation of the truth. It happens every year. (VUL)

Screenwriters: Screenplay Structure In Four Easy Pieces

Every story must have a beginning, must have a middle, and must have an end. These elements can also be called set-up, conflict and resolution. You can dance around this formula until you're blue in the face, but you're always going to come back to it. (MO)

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