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SSN AWARDS ORIGINALS
ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
With the SAG Awards coming up this weekend, it remains to be seen who will have the ultimate edge going in to the final lap of the Oscar race, Redmayne or
Birdman star Michael Keaton. Yet no matter what happens on that fateful evening, there’s no question that playing Hawking has been a career-making role for Redmayne.
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TODAY’S HEADLINES
Kicking off tomorrow, the 2015 version of indie film’s biggest fortnight will feature a host of new films, some by established filmmakers like Noah Baumbach, others from newbies you’ve never heard of. SSN has a selection of flicks that could be this year’s
Whiplash or
Boyhood.
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ICM makes a couple big moves, like the fact that it will now be rapping author Michael Crichton’s entire library, while ICM nabs a Broadway star, and a couple PR firms land new clients.
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The Peacock network will allow
Super Bowl XLIX to stream for free, no strings attached, on February 1st. As part of that deal, the halftime show hosted by Katy Perry will also stream for free. Typically the network asks users to log in with their cable provider to stream content, but the new deal will allow citizens to bypass the subscription login.
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The distributor has hired a new executive on the acquisitions and co-productions front. Rosanne Korenberg, who produced Indie Spirit nominee
Half Nelson and was an exec producer on the company’s upcoming thriller
The 9th Life of Louis Drax, has been named Senior VP, acquisitions and co-productions, reporting to Exec VP Zanne Devine.
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Borat director Larry Charles will forge the based-on-truth film about one Gary Faulkner, a flamboyant Colorado resident who in 2010 decided he was going to be the man to take down Osama Bin Laden, Rambo-style. Charles will adapt the story from an article that appeared in a 2010 issue of
GQ.
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The 44th edition of the festival is set for March 18th through the 29th, and the Museum of Modern Art and the Film Society of Lincoln Center have announced the first official nine selections for the event “dedicated to the discovery of new works by emerging and dynamic filmmaking talent.”
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The company just picked up Global eSports Management, a talent agency that represents clients in the professional gaming sphere. GEM was founded in 2013 by Tobias Sherman and Min-Sik Ko, reflecting the growing popularity of professional gamers. The League of Legends World Championship in 2013, for example, was viewed by 32 million people.
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Series star Milla Jovovich, who is due to give birth to her second child in 10 weeks, made the announcement to fans that she will be ready to shoot the sixth and final installment of the franchise in August, for a September 2nd, 2016 release. Her husband, Paul W.S. Anderson, returns to direct, and Wentworth Miller will again co-star.
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The first image from
Birdman director Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárittu’s next film, the historical drama about real-life fur trapper Hugh Glass, stars Leonard DiCaprio, Tom Hardy, Will Poulter, and Domnhall Gleeson, and is currently shooting in Calgary.
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