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SSN AWARDS ORIGINALS
SAG AND PGA AWARDS PREDICTIONS
The brilliant and winning team of Neil Turitz and Dina Gachman are back with another installment of their series, this time taking on the two big awards shows happening this weekend. As usual, there is plenty of disagreement, though some of that has nothing to do with the awards themselves.
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Each year the Producers Guild of America (PGA) honors the finest producers of film and television at their annual awards show, being held this Saturday. To celebrate, SSN sat down with a number of the nominated producers about their journeys to the screen and the hurdles along the way.
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TODAY’S HEADLINES
Lots of action this week, with company launches and plenty of hires across the TV, film, agency and digital landscapes, with the Fox network being especially busy.
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Jay and Mark Duplass, who are behind the current HBO show
Togetherness, and produced
The Bronze, which will premiere at the festival this weekend have signed a four-picture deal with Netflix, which will finance the duo’s next four films and then stream them exclusively after a brief theatrical release window.
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Quentin Tarantino’s ninth film has begun shooting in Telluride, with Channing Tatum, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Tim Roth, Michael Madsen, Demian Bechir and Walton Goggins starring in a Western about a group of stagecoach travelers trapped after a blizzard sends them off course. TWC will release the film at the end of this year.
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With so much restructuring and streamlining taking place, and with the company planning to release just two movies per year, expect a third
Kung Fu Panda movie in 2016, a second
The Croods in 2017, and a third
How To Train Your Dragon in 2018, with the plan being to release one original and one sequel in each of the next three years.
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The project, from married
Memphis Beat creators Liz W. Garcia and Josh Harto, is described as a modern retelling of the story of the Lonely Hearts Killers of the 1940s. It follows the unlikely coupling of a sexy, violent grifter and a quiet, love starved Dairy Plant employee on a cross-country crime spree. They seduce and ultimately murder lonely women – but most surprising of all, fall deeply in love with each other along the way.
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The network has ordered to pilot the untitled single-camera comedy, which will star Stamos as a version of himself, a ladies’ man whose life is turned upside down when he unexpectedly finds out he’s a father and a grandfather. The series will follow an unlikely trio — the bachelor, played by Stamos, along with his nerdy grown son and grandson — as they live together under the same roof.
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Following in the footsteps of Alex Karras, Bob Uecker, Terry Crews, and plenty of others, Shaq will star in TruTV’s first scripted sitcom pilot. The working title is
Shaq Inq, a workplace comedy loosely based on Shaq’s wild and frenetic business empire. He will executive-produce with Mike Tollin, while
The Wedding Ringer writer-director Jeremy Garelick will write the pilot.
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The first look at the new romantic comedy starring Hugh Grant and Marisa Tomei, and written and directed by Marc Lawrence, which will hit theaters February 13th, just in time for Valentine’s Day.
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