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Angelina Jolie has already directed her husband in the upcoming drama
By the Sea, and now is preparing for her next project,
Africa, written by Oscar winner Eric Roth. Pitt is in talks to play the lead in the biopic about Kenyan Richard Leakey, who came from a line of archaeologists, but turned his attentions to paleontology and most famously to anti-poaching efforts.
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Morten Tyldum is signing on to helm the sci-fi project, based on a Jon Spaihts script detailing a love story unfolding aboard a cargo spaceship destined for a far-flung planet. That romance is kicked off when a male passenger is awoken 90 years before the rest of his slumbering crew, leading to him waking up a female passenger for company.
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James Dixon, whose Dixon Talent represents Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel, among others, is selling his business to the sports and entertainment behemoth that has been on a buying spree of late. Dixon's A-list clients are expected to remain with the firm.
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The kid-entertainment giant intends to follow the example of HBO and unveil a direct-to-consumer subscription service in February. More details about the service will be revealed when Nickelodeon hosts its “upfront” meeting with advertisers next month. U.S. TV networks try to sell the bulk of their ad inventory in the upfront market, and TV networks that cater to children typically lead the salvo.
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Now known as
Wet Hot American Summer: The First Day, the project from David Wain and Michael Showalter has added Jon Hamm, Kristen Wiig, Chris Pine and Jason Schwartzman. Apparently, Hamm will play a secret spy, Wiig is playing a snobby counselor at the preppy rival camp Camp Tigerclaw, Schwartzman is the boy’s camp head counselor while Pine’s character is described as “mysterious.”
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In the film
Nine Lives, the two-time Oscar winner joins the director of all three
Men In Black films for a movie in which Spacey will play a workaholic businessman who gets in an accident and winds up inside his family’s cat. Luc Besson is producing.
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Mehcad Brooks has been tapped to play DC Comics’ famed photographer in CBS’ superhero drama pilot. The project stars Melissa Benoist as Kara Zor-El, who escaped Krypton amid its destruction years ago. Since arriving on Earth, she’s been hiding the powers she shares with her famous cousin. But now at age 24, she decides to embrace her superhuman abilities and be the hero she was always meant to be.
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The wife of the first film’s creator and star, Ben Stiller, confirmed that she is involved in the new film, which looks like it will be happening sooner than later. As it stands right now, the film has Stiller back directing a script by Justin Theroux, while Owen Wilson's Hansel and Will Ferrell’s nefarious Mugato are rumored to return.
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Penelope Cruz and Diane Kruger will headline the upcoming romantic feature film
This Man, This Woman. Scripted by Frederic Raphael, film follows an estranged man, Matt, and a woman, Martha (Cruz) who encounter each other by chance on a plane, and relive memories of their turbulent romantic relationship. Kruger will play Kirsty, a talk show host who has an affair with Matt and who changes the course of his whirlwind relationship with Martha.
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Writer and consultant Jengo Robinson talks about Act II, which is the longest and most difficult part of any screenplay. It is the 60-page heart of the script. But it's a broken heart, split into two very distinct halves, and the dividing page contains the most critical part of the story. This must happen at the mid-point on page 60.
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