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The actor is mesmerizing as the wealthy, lonely, manipulative John du Pont. Based on real events, the film and the performance are both tinged with a melancholy, sinister tone that borders on the macabre. Carell’s performance was aided in no small part to makeup and hairstylists Bill Corso and Dennis Liddiard, who are up for an Academy Award.
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TODAY’S HEADLINES
ABC brings
BattleBots back to life, Marc Cherry’s
Cheerleader Death Squad is one of The CW’s pickups, while HBO, NBC, Fox, MTV, ITV, Cinemax and a host of others all get in on the pilot go aheads.
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Sony will continue to finance, distribute, own, and have creative control of the
Spider-Man films, the two studios are exploring opportunities to integrate other characters from the MCU into future
Spider-Man movies, the part of Spider-Man will be recast with a much younger actor than the 31-year old Andrew Garfield, and director Marc Webb will also not return. There’s more.
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After last night’s announcement that Sony and Marvel will now be working together to reboot Spider-Man and introduce him into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the spin-off film about a half dozen of the web slinger’s biggest villains has been pulled from its November 11th, 2016 release date. Project will remain in development but not move forward any time soon, though Drew Goddard is still attached to write and direct.
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The cable net has renewed the sketch comedy series for seasons six and seven, ensuring the network's biggest hit remains happy for another two years. Stars Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein remain attached, of course, along with co-creator and series director Jonathan Krisel. Season five is currently airing Thursdays at 10pm, and Seasons one through four are available on Netflix.
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Studio is arguing that two ex-employees had failed to show that they suffered “concrete injury” from the data breach. In a response to one class action lawsuit filed by two former employees, the studio called the breach “massive and unprecedented,” and even included an FBI press release attributing it to North Korea. It is arguing that the plaintiffs do not have standing.
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Producer has acquired film and TV rights to Emily St. John Mandel's best-selling novel
Station Eleven, and will be produced by Steindorff and Dylan Russell. Novel revolves around a Hollywood star, his would-be savior and a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes region, risking everything for art and humanity.
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Cable net has nabbed domestic and international distribution rights to broadcast Oscar-winning director Louie Psihoyos’s documentary, which just premiered at last month’s Sundance Film Festival. Network will premiere the doc in all of its 220 international markets, and will give it a 10 market, U.S. theatrical run and special event screenings, as well as VOD.
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Sony has hired the writer to adapt Sylvain Neuvel’s sci-fi novel,
The Themis Files. Book posits a world where aliens have buried the parts of a giant humanoid relic throughout the world and a physicist working with the University of Chicago spearheads an attempt to re-assemble the giant figure, sparking public panic and greed and the shadow of war, even as the research team try to figure out what the humanoid could represent.
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The latest look at the upcoming sequel to the huge — and surprising — hit 2012 film. New film, directed by Elizabeth Banks and starring Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson, Brittany Snow, Alexis Knapp, Anna Camp, Hana Mae Lee and Hailee Steinfeld, finds the Barden Bellas at a crisis point.
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