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After 16 years behind the desk and giving people the fake news, Stewart will leave the show later this year. Ratings for the show have increased 400% from the year Stewart took over. The show has received 50 Emmy nominations and won 15. In 2000 and 2004, the show won two Peabody Awards for its coverage of the presidential elections relevant to those years, called “Indecision 2000″ and “Indecision 2004,” respectively.
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Williams, who has been the
NBC Nightly News anchor for more than a decade, voluntarily stepped down from his position on Saturday after the network launched an internal investigation into a false claim that his helicopter came under fire during the Iraq war in 2003. Williams made the claim during his January 30th broadcast. Lester Holt will continue to anchor the news in Williams’ absence.
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No Oscar nomination? No problem for the talented filmmaker, who remains very much in demand. She has signed on to direct the pilot for CBS’ drama
For Justice, which hails from
Law & Order writer and showrunner Rene Balcer. The project is based on author James Patterson's very first novel,
The Thomas Berryman Number, which follows the investigation and research of a Nashville reporter into the murder of Jimmie Lee Horn, Nashville's first black mayor.
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Joshua Roth, whose father helped to build CAA, is going to help lead UTA into a whole new world of photographers, painters, sculptors, and mixed media and multi-platform artists. The former Chair of the Art Law Department at Glaser Weil, the firm of heavyweight Hollywood lawyer Patricia Glaser, Roth was announced yesterday as the leader of the brand new UTA Fine Arts.
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But the bad news is that it is moving towards streaming, according to a new report from the Digital Citizens Alliance. The organization, a nonprofit set up to highlight consumer perils from the trafficking in pirated goods online, will unveil their report in a few weeks, but their preliminary findings showed that between the third quarter of 2013 and the third quarter of 2014, there was a “significant shift” to streaming and away from torrent file-sharing and downloads.
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While
The Amazing Spider-Man 3 has been outright cancelled, the studio is still moving forward with
Sinister Six (which has been delayed, but remains in development),
Venom, and a film featuring female characters from the
Spider-Man universe. Marvel Studios’ Kevin Feige, who will produce the next Spider-Man stand alone film with Amy Pascal, is not expected to be creatively involved in these films.
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Written by Mac Barnett and Jory John with illustrations by Kevin Cornell, the two writers will adapt the screenplay for the film, which centers on a middle-school kid named Miles Murphy, who is the best prankster his school has ever seen. When he's forced to move to the sleepy town of Yawnee Valley, he expects to become the best prankster at his new school as well, but he discovers he's got some stiff competition.
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This year’s slate includes nine world premieres among the 11 genre films that fit into the thriller, sci-fi and dark comedy genres from a mix of new and veteran filmmakers. Additionally, 106 short films were selected from a record 4,935 short film submissions, an overall increase of 16% from 2014. The films will play in 10 curated programs.
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The final red band trailer for the Vince Vaughn film, also starring Sienna Miller, James Marsden, Dave Franco and Tom Wilkinson. Raunchy comedy opens in theaters March 6th.
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The 153-page, Oscar-nominated screenplay of the classic film, starring Gary Cooper. Undated shooting draft by Carl Foreman, based on a story by John M. Cunningham.
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