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Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and
Big Hero 6 were the big winners at the 13th annual event, which was hosted by Patton Oswald.
Dawn won three awards including Outstanding Visual Effects in a Visual Effects-Driven Photoreal/Live Action Feature Motion Picture;
Big Hero took all five it was going for, including the big toon prize. J.J. Abrams received the Visionary Award.
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Peter Dinklage is joining the comedy, co-written by McCarthy (who will star) and her husband, Ben Falcone, who will direct. McCarthy will play a former big shot businesswoman whose career and reputation are damaged when she’s sent to prison for insider trading. Upon her release, she attempts to rebrand herself as a lovable heroine, but not everyone she cheated and hurt is ready to forgive her. Dinklage will play her main antagonist.
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A year and a half ago, it was announced that Issa Rae was developing a series for HBO, created by her and Larry Wilmore, now the host of
The Nightly Show on Comedy Central. The focus of the show was on "the awkward experiences and racy tribulations of a modern day African-American woman.“ Yesterday, HBO gave a pilot order for the project, in which Rae will star and co-write with Wilmore.
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The British mini-series, based on J.K. Rowling’s novel, will hit TV screens on April 29th.
EastEnders’ Sarah Phelps is writing while
In the Flesh’s Jonny Campbell is directing the series, which will focus on a seemingly picturesque English village with a lot of tension underneath the surface. Michael Gambon, Keeley Hawes, Rory Kinnear, Monica Dolan, and Julia McKenzie star.
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With Joseph Gordon-Levitt on board as Snowden and Shailene Woodley as his girlfriend, Oscar-winner Melissa Leo will play Laura Poitras, the journalist/filmmaker who was part of Snowden’s revelations and directed the Best Documentary Oscar nominee,
CitizenFour. Zachary Quinto will play Glenn Greenwald, the journalist Snowden chooses to help release the secrets and Oscar-nominee Tom Wilkinson will play Ewen MacAskill, a reporter at
The Guardian who fact-checked and helped break these secrets.
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After kicking up some dust in 2007 with Tobey Maguire attached to produce (and presumably star) the big-screen version of this intergalactic saga has been percolating for quite some time. While the project has pretty much always been at Warner Bros., people like Akiva Goldsman and Lawrence Kasdan have tried and failed to get it off the ground in the ensuing years. Now, Hollywood Gang, another production company on the Warners lot run by Mark Canton and Gianni Nunnari, is taking a crack at it and want
Mama‘s Andy Muschietti to develop.
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Relativity Studios and IM Global have set Oct. 30 as the U.S. release date for action-thriller
Autobahn, which also stars Ben Kingsley and Anthony Hopkins. Story involves Hoult’s character scheming to pull a drug heist for an eccentric gangster (played by Kingsley) to pay for his girlfriend’s medical emergency. Hopkins portrays an evil druglord menacing the girlfriend, played by Jones.
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The actor has been cast as a recurring character in a multiple-episode story arc on
Fox’s Gotham. The character, Jason Lennon aka The Ogre, first appears in episode 19. Described as handsome, wealthy and seductive, the Ogre is a serial killer who has been preying on the young women of Gotham for nearly a decade, luring them into his web and confronting them with a series of “tests” as he searches for his perfect mate. When the women fail to live up to his impossible standard, Lennon disposes of them quickly and viciously.
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This may be the shortest month of the year, but that doesn't mean it's any less packed with movies, shows and other fun stuff to fill the hole in your heart. Get ready to go back in time with Rob Corddry, cover Frank Sinatra with Bob Dylan, read Kim Gordon's memoir, and kill zombies.
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The promise of the rewrite is very sweet. The more authentic the labor put into rewriting your screenplay, the greater the reward, and the reward is high, for whatever lovely, wonderful moments you might have discovered in the frightening process of plowing through the first draft, those moments, those seeds, are only seeds, and they only fulfill their destiny as giant, involving scenes in the movie that screens before people.
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