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A half dozen other projects also begin shooting, including Jodie Foster’s
Money Monster with George Clooney, Julia Roberts, and Jack O’Connell, and Guy Ritchie’s
Knights of the Roundtable: King Arthur, with Charlie Hunnam, Jude Law and Eric Bana, while several other projects finish with principal photography.
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TODAY’S HEADLINES
Season three of
Orange Is the New Black will drop on June 12.
First Day of Camp, the sequel series to star-studded 2001 cult comedy
Wet Hot American Summer, is set to debut on July 17. Other notable premieres include the debut of Lana and Andy Wachowski's drama series
Sense8, which will appear on June 5, and several original specials.
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With the film now being made in concert with Marvel Studios, the storyline could involve Spidey auditioning for The Avengers. The new film, called
The Spectacular Spider-Man, will still introduce the members of the Sinister Six, with the idea to spin them off into individual films later. The new film will arrive in theaters July 28th, 2017.
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The trio all worked together in
Training Day, for which Washington won his second Academy Award and Hawke earned his first Oscar nomination. Screenwriters John Lee Hancock and Nic Pizzolatto base their script on Kurosawa's 1954
Seven Samurai written by Kurosawa, Shinobu Hashimoto and Hideo Oguni.
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Veronica Roth’s new series, for HarperCollins Children's Books are currently untitled, with the first one expected in 2017 and the next in 2018. Roth and her publisher offered few specifics beyond saying the series is in "the vein of
Star Wars" and will tell of a boy's "unlikely alliance" with an enemy.
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Luc Besson and partner Christophe Lambert are taking their successful formula of building action films around good actors who they can turn into action stars, and filling their own pipeline with their Red distribution label. Now, they’ve just set the Aussie star of
300: Rise of an Empire to star in
The Lake, an action thriller that Besson wrote with
The Equalizer scribe Richard Wenk, with Steven Quale directing.
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Snipes will appear in
Endgame for Sony Pictures Television, which is the company with whom he just signed that deal. Agreement will see the actor develop and produce a diverse slate of projects, via his Maandi Media shingle.
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Venture, known as Studio 61, is a bid to create more custom content for marketers interested in reaching its online audience. The in-house unit brings together a team of creative talent, CBS’s production capabilities, and the insights CBS Interactive has about the people who regularly visit its portfolio of digital properties, which include CBSNews.com, CBSSports.com, CNET, and GameSpot.
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It is worth pointing out that March is rather filled with potentially big films while April takes a month-long break after the surefire blockbuster
Furious 7. There are ten wide releases in March. Five of them are R-rated and one of them is a PG-rated live-action film that is explicitly targeted at older audiences. Yet despite that encouraging news, it is worth noting that the three biggest films of the month will likely be the three comparatively kid-centric titles.
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The first full-length trailer for the upcoming third season of the hit BBC-America thriller, starring Tatiana Maslany. For fans of the show, there is also an involved and detailed synopsis for the new season, which premieres April 18th.
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