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SSN AWARDS ORIGINALS
DOCUMENTARY FEATURES
The youngest child of Ethel and Senator Robert F. Kennedy turned her camera on the final days of the Vietnam War in her Oscar-nominated documentary. The film explores the messy final hours as the U.S. quickly exited South Vietnam in 1975 as Communist forces moved in on Saigon. As Kennedy says, even historians have seen the film and said, “we had no idea.”
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Getting Oscar-ready may require fittings, special diets and fitness training sessions. However, the gifting suites and lounges in Los Angeles held in the days leading up to the Academy Awards also ensure celebs get pampered with manicures, spray tans and facials while browsing for accessories to wear on the red carpet like watches, jewelry and handbags.
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TODAY’S HEADLINES
Plenty of action as some performers move from one agency to another, others land new representation, and at least one music supervisor ends up with a boutique agency.
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Already set to star in the adaptation of Philip Roth’s
American Pastoral alongside Jennifer Connelly and Dakota Fanning, McGregor will now also make his directorial debut. Set during the Vietnam War years, story
follows a once all-conquering high-school athlete who’s married to a beauty queen and runs the business he’s inherited from his dad. His daughter joins the countercultural of the time, becomes a revolutionary and commits a fatal act of violence.
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The actor’s
Focus hits theaters next weekend, and his NFL concussion drama arrives Christmas Day, and now he will star in Paramount Pictures’
Bounty, based on Sascha Penn’s spec script. The story is set in Boston and centers on a man (Smith) who is wrongly convicted of murder. He escapes from prison determined to prove his innocence—a nearly impossible task after the widow of the man he supposedly killed puts a $10 million bounty on him, dead or alive.
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The online service grants full seasons to
The Man in the High Castle,
Mad Dogs, the docu-series
The New Yorker Presents,
Just Add Magic, for kids ages 6-11 and
The Stinky and Dirty Show, for preschoolers. Amazon gleaned feedback on the shows by streaming the pilots for Prime Instant users;
The Man in High Castle was the streaming service's most-watched pilot ever.
Mozart in the Jungle was also given a second season.
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Former
House executive producer Katie Jacobs is taking the indie route with another medical drama project,
Dr. Del, which she is producing with Nick Wechsler. Hawkes is set to star in the pilot, developed and to be filmed without the backing of a studio. Show follows Del Canyon (Hawkes) as he reluctantly returns to his small hometown to run his family’s apothecary, the only source for medical attention for hundreds of miles.
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The EGOT winner will co-star in the sitcom
Delores & Jermaine, based on Jermaine Fowler's life. She will play Fowler's grandmother, Delores, a former cop who became a football-obsessed recluse after retiring from the force and takes in her millennial grandson after he's kicked out of his parents' house.
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Talk to any top executive or producer in the movie, television and digital businesses today and they will tell you that the challenges they face are more severe and confounding than ever. Industryites are grappling with profound concerns that cut to the heart of the traditional models to which Hollywood has adhered for decades. Here’s what’s on the minds of the media business’s best and brightest, in their own words.
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The first look at the Tom Hardy adaptation, starring Carey Mulligan, Tom Sturridge, Matthias Schoenaerts, and Michael Sheen the story of a newly wealthy and very independent woman and the three suitors who vie for her attention. Film, directed by Thomas Vinterberg, opens May 1st.
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