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Amazon is giving the public an opportunity to watch the Golden Globe-winning show for free for a single, 24-hour period tomorrow. Saturday only, people will be able to stream all 10 episodes of the series’ first season. It is also offering discounts for Amazon Prime membership, at $72 for the year, down from the normal $95.
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Just after celebrating DWA’s Golden Globe win and an Oscar nomination for
How to Train Your Dragon 2, the Redwood City, Calif.-based animation studio that DreamWorks Animation acquired in 2000 is being shut down as part of a major reorganization by its parent company after a string of box office disappointments have taken a creative and financial toll.
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The project has been shelved because the the two men’s camps are apparently in disagreement about creative control. Portions of the film, which was announced in December 2012, have been shot over the past two years. The documentary was described as looking at Clinton's Clinton's perspectives on history, politics, culture and the world. It would examine his time in office and after.
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The actor-comedian will star in
Taxi-22, which was a passion project of the late actor. CBS had bought the project, based on the hit French Canadian comedy about a politically incorrect cabbie, from the actor two weeks before his death in June 2013. Gandolfini had planned to serve as an EP, a role that will now be filled by Leguizamo, among others. Gandolfini will ge a posthumous EP credit for the pilot and potential first season.
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Director Bryan Singer announced that the roles of Storm, Jean Grey and Cyclops — originally played by Halle Berry, Famke Janssen and James Marsden, respectively — will now be played by Alexandra Shipp, Sophie Turner and Tye Sheridan, respectively, in the latest installment of the franchise, which will shoot this year and be in theaters May 27th, 2016.
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The
Star Trek and
Dredd star is sought for what is thought to be a villainous role, opposite star Jason Momoa. While
Mud director Jeff Nichols is being discussed as a potential director, and now Warner Bros. is apparently also considering
300: Rise Of an Empire helmer Noam Murro for the job. Two scripts, by Kurt Johnston and Will Beall, are currently being considered for the project.
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Chiwetel Ejiofor, an Oscar nominee last year for his work in
12 Years a Slave, is in talks to join the cast of the film, which will star 2015 nominee Benedict Cumberbatch in the title role. No word yet on which part Ejiofor might play. Scott Derrickson is directing the film, which will hit theaters November 4th, 2016.
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The first look at Season Three of the popular NBC drama series, starring Mads Mikkelsen and Hugh Dancy, which will premiere some time this summer.
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An extended look at the new Netflix sitcom, created by Tina Fey and Robert Carlock, and starring Elle Kemper, Jane Krakowski and Tituss Burgess. The entire 13-episode first season is available on the streaming service on March 6th.
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The 93-page, Oscar-nominated screenplay by Mike Figgis, based on the novel by John O’Brien, unspecified draft dated February 8th, 1994.
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