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From the network that has brought you
Banshee and
Strike Back will come an adaptation of a series of Max Allan Colins novels, about a Marine who returns home to Memphis from Vietnam in 1972 and finds himself “shunned by those he loves and demonized by the public.” He subsequently becomes drawn into a network of killing and corruption along the Mississippi River. Logan Marshall-Green will star and Greg Yaitanes will direct and executive produce.
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After months of being referred to as
The Untitled Hawaii Project, the latest from the writer-director of
Say Anything …,
Singles,
Jerry Maguire, and
Almost Famous will now be called
Aloha. Film stars Bradley Cooper, Emma Stone, Rachel McAdams, Alec Baldwin, Bill Murray, John Krasinski, Danny McBride and Jay Baruchel, and opens in theaters May 29th.
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The game developer announced that in the future they will be owned by Columbus Nova under the name Daybreak Game Company. The developer said it didn’t expect any changes to its games such as
DC Universe Online,
EverQuest Next and the popular new title
H1Z1. In fact, it expects a burst in revenue from the acquisition.
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The production company whose chief, Mark Ciardi, produced
Million Dollar Arm and
Miracle has inked an exclusive two-year development deal with the magazine to create and distribute films, TV series and other content on various platforms based on stories published in the magazine. Despite Ciardi’s background, the Newsweek partnership will not focus solely on sports.
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The
Ender’s Game star will go
Out Of This World for director Peter Chelsom. Film sees the human race finally colonizing Mars with the help of a billionaire entrepreneur. When an astronaut is found to be pregnant, only to die during childbirth, her son is raised on the Red Planet in secrecy. After years spent communicating with a young woman back on Earth, the now-teenage lad (Butterfield) heads for the planet and a road trip to meet the father he never knew.
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Helmer of
How To Get Away With Murder will now direct
Runner, which is to guns what
Traffic was to drugs and delves into the traditionally masculine world of arms dealing through the lens of a woman. Plot centers on a woman whose seemingly perfect life is ripped apart by one simple twist of fate. To uncover the truth, she must follow a trail of lies that takes her into the world of cartels and the illegal gun trade between the U.S. and Mexico.
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The actor has sold an action pitch to Universal Pictures titled "Desert Eagle," which he co-wrote with Mike Le, with the plan being for Gibson to also star. Film follows two border patrol agents who investigate a drug cartel that's being operated out of a Native American reservation casino. Matthew Stuecken and Josh Campbell have been hired to rewrite the script.
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Sixteen years after they starred together in Stillman’s third film, Kate Beckinsale and Chloë Sevigny are making another one. They will star in the director's characteristically long-gestating
Love & Friendship, an adaptation of Jane Austen's novella
Lady Susan. Beckinsale's replacing Sienna Miller as the formerly titular Lady Susan, a beautiful widow in 1790s England trying to land husbands for both herself and her daughter.
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The first look at the upcoming seventh entry in the action franchise, which debuted during Sunday’s Super Bowl, directed by James Wan, starring Vin Diesel, Dwayne Johnson, Luke Evans, Jason Statham, Lucas Black, Michelle Rodriguez, Jordana Brewster, Tyrese Gibson, Kurt Russell and Ludacris, as well as being the final screen performance by the late Paul Walker. Film opens April 3rd.
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Directors Chad Stahelski and David Leitch wax rhapsodic on the commentary track to the action-packed Keanu Reeves revenge film, originally released in theaters last fall.
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