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Paul Reubens’ signature character will be in a new film for Netflix called
Pee-Wee’s Big Holiday, and will be produced by Reubens and Judd Apatow. Ruben co-wrote the script with Jack Rust, and director John Lee will make his feature debut behind the camera. No word yet on shooting dates or a release schedule from the online streaming service.
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Peter Gould is in the early stages of developing a telepic for the cable net based on Guy Lawson’s 2012 nonfiction book
Octopus: Sam Israel, the Secret Market and Wall Street’s Wildest Con. He will write and direct the HBO Films project, which will revolve around a colorful cast of rogues and schemers who create an audacious hedge fund fraud and then go on a wild search for “the Octopus,” a secret and elite market that controls the world financial system.
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The former
Ally McBeal star will play Cat Grant, a self-made media magnate. Melissa Benoist stars as Kara Zor-El, who works as her assistant. Flockhart alums joins recently announced Laura Benanti as Kara's birth mother.
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Snipes will star with Phillip Winchester and Damon Gupton in
Endgame, created by
Leverage’s John Rogers. Show is being touted as a fast-paced thriller show set in the high-stakes world of Las Vegas. Winchester’s playing a former intelligence officer who now works as a security expert in the gambling paradise, and finds himself drawn into a mysterious conspiracy that will require him to complete a series of challenges to save innocent people. Snipes is a mysterious sort named Johnson who oversees the game.
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The
21 Jump Street alum and
Saturday Night Live vet have been tapped to star in comedy pilot
48 Hours 'Til Monday. The single-camera comedy from
The Mindy Project's Charlie Grandy centers on one husband's desperate struggle to not let every weekend go completely to hell. Riggle will star as Charlie Bishop, an energetic, overcommitted yet blindly confident father of three kids who is happily married. Curtin is his mother-in-law.
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Nicolas Cage will play the role of a former U.S. Intelligence Official in the film that already stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt as the former computer contractor who leaked classified National Security Agency documents in the summer of 2013. Shailene Woodley, Melissa Leo, Zachary Quinto, Tom Wilkinson, Rhys Ifans, Joely Richardson, and Timothy Olyphant also star.
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Star Rooney Mara, who earned an Oscar nod for her performance as Lisbeth Salander in the film, has said a sequel is almost certainly not going to happen. She said in an interview, “I’m sad never to do it again, but it just doesn’t seem like it’s in the cards.”
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The latest look at the action film starring Sean Penn, Mark Rylance, Ray Winstone, Idris Elba and Javier Bardem. Film hits theaters March 20th.
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You know that music cue when Oscar winners thank way too many people? Now you can use it to make speeches and presentations more efficient. Agency Rethink has just rolled out a new app that recreates the award show play-off music, placing it right inside your phone. “You’re Cut Off” tells anybody who has gone on too long that it's time to do a dismount.
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Today marks the one year anniversary of director John McTiernan‘s release from jail after being convicted of lying to the FBI in a case involving wiretapping and a disgraced private investigator. He hasn’t made a film since 2003’s
Basic, but he has some great ones on his resume including
Die Hard,
The Hunt for Red October,
The Thomas Crowne Affair and… 1987’s
Predator.
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