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Warner Bros. has nabbed the rights to photojournalist Lynsey Addario’s recently released memoir
It’s What I Do: A Photographer’s Life of Love and War, and though there was formidable competition to acquire the option, WB had a secret weapon: a can’t-lose director/star duo. Studio is closing a deal to acquire the book with Spielberg attached to direct and Lawrence to star, with
American Sniper’s Andrew Lazar producing.
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The two companies have launched a multiple picture co-financing and co-production deal for music-driven feature film titles. The first movie under the deal will be urban comedy
Rollin’ Thunder to be directed by Bille Woodruff, produced by IM Global Music chief David Schulhof, Republic’s Monte Lipman and IM Global’s Matt Jackson, and co-produced by hip-hop artist Nelly and actor-comedian Nick Cannon.
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The film, starring Idris Elba and directed by Emmy winner Cary Fukunaga, is an adaptation of the novel by Uzodinma Iweala, the story follows Agu, a young boy forced to become a child soldier, with Elba taking the role of The Commander who initiates Agu into his army. Film is looking for a distributor, the online streaming service is closing a worldwide deal for the movie worth $12 million bucks, and that they will be bringing it to theaters and to their platform as well.
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True Blood alumnus Rob Kazinsky has landed the lead role in the Fox pilot, from Rand Ravich and Howard Gordon. Taking inspiration from the basic Mary Shelley mythology of a man brought back to life by scientists playing god,
Frankenstein centers on Ray Pritchard (Kazinsky), a morally corrupt retired cop who is given a second chance at life when he is brought back from the dead.
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Jeremy Jordan has signed on as Winslow “Winn” Schott, described as "a tech genius and superstar IT whiz" who is a co-worker of the titular character, (played by Melissa Benoist). Winslow Schott is the alter ego of Toyman, a genius inventor who uses toy-themed gadgets to commit crime.
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Welsh actor Tom Ellis will play the lead role in the adaptation of the popular comic book, from director Len Wiseman and producer Jerry Bruckheimer. Show is a supernatural crime drama, in which the lord of hell becomes bored with his duties and moves to Los Angeles to help the LAPD bust bad guys.
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After defending her bantamweight title against Cat Zingano on Saturday, she’ll now fight alongside
The Raid star Iko Uwais in
Mile 22, a buddy thriller that explores the relationship between a CIA field officer and an Indonesian police officer, forced to work together as they confront violent and extreme political corruption.
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TalentGrow founder Halelly Azulay shares her thoughts on how we can't successfully manage talent with industrial-age policies, as she draws on the fields of neuroscience and positive psychology to give advice on how leaders should better support and develop their people.
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In case you were wondering where the Oscar-nominated feature came from, here is the 18-minute short film that premiered at Sundance in 2013 and won the Jury Award. In the movie, J.K. Simmons plays the same relentless jazz instructor that won him an Oscar, while Johnny Simmons (
Perks of Being a Wallflower) plays the drummer who is the object of his aggression. Johnny Simmons would later be replaced by actor Miles Teller.
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The late German filmmaker, who died in 1982 at the age of 37, was both an exceptionally high-functioning and often troubled filmmaker. As a gay man and political dissident who at a young age witnessed the social and economic marginalization of immigrants in Germany, Fassbinder used his films as witness to various political themes and injustices.
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