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Fox Searchlight’s
Birdman, directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu, was released on September 17 and has picked up steam during awards season, winning seven Critics Choice Awards, two Golden Globes, and nine Academy Awards nominations, including best cinematography for Emmanuel Lubezki, who took some time from shooting
The Revenant to talk to SSN.
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TODAY’S HEADLINES
It happens every year. With each new batch of TV shows comes a new batch of fresh faces for viewers to fall in love with. Critics too, like the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, singled out Gina Rodriguez as this year’s blessed television angel. As the initial batch of fall pilots are being cast, we decided to take a look at the actors who, come autumn, just might break out.
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Among the projects moving forward to pilot are several based on real-life people and situations (including Carson Daly), a new team-up of Chevy Chase and Beverly D’Angelo, and new projects from Fake Empire, Tribeca Films, James Patterson and at least one former Oscar nominee.
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Surprising news arrived today from Harper Publishing, announcing that on July 14th, Lee will unveil her first new book in five decades,
Go Set A Watchman. The book was actually written before
Mockingbird, and only recently discovered attached to a
Mockingbird typescript by Lee's lawyer Tonja Carter. The 304-page book is a sequel of sorts, focusing on Scout as an adult woman, with the story once again set in Maycomb, Alabama, this time during the 1950s.
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The 22nd annual version of the festival will host gala premieres next month of Melissa McCarthy’s
Spy, Will Ferrell-Kevin Hart starrer
Get Hard, Brian Wilson biopic
Love and Mercy and Alex Gibney’s documentary
Steve Jobs: Man in the Machine. The features lineup has 145 films to be shown between March 13 and 21, including 100 world premieres, 13 North American premieres and 11 U.S. premieres.
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Gareth Edwards’ movie, which will hit theaters December 16th, 2016, had tested Rooney Mara and Tatiana Mislany for the female lead in the film, which just switched writers, from Gary Whitta to Chris Weitz. Now, it appears the producers have entered negotiations with Jones, currently up for a Leading Actress Oscar for her performance in
The Theory of Everything.
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Based on the book,
The Reaper: Autobiography Of One Of The Deadliest Special Ops Snipers, tells the story of Nicholas Irving, who accounted for 33 kills in four short months in 2009 while serving in Iraq. The plan is to adapt the book into a five-part mini-series. Weinstein hopes to start production this summer, but has not yet named a writer or a network.
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The award-winning creator is developing a buddy comedy with
#HotMessMoves' Ashley Skidmore and Lyle Friedman. The nameless project spotlights two women who meet at a camp and are struck by lightning. Sharing a passion for feminism, the protagonists will try to save womankind ten years after the incident.
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Fresh off the end of his FX series
Sons of Anarchy, Hunnam joins Sienna Miller and Robert Pattinson in director James Gray’s adaptation of the David Grann bestseller. Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner are producing via Plan B along with Dale Johnson and Anthony Katagas. No domestic distributor is yet set for the project, which starts shooting this summer.
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Carlton Cuse and Josh Holloway’s new show, the alien invasion drama
Colony, has earned a 10-episode order from the cable network.
The Walking Dead alum Sarah Wayne Callies also stars in the show, which features Holloway as a former FBI agent who toes the line with the new overlords, while Callies plays his wife. Amanda Righetti, formerly of
The Mentalist, plays her sister, whose young child is diabetic.
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