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Throw Like Mo, the TV film will tell the inspiring story of the 13-year-old sports prodigy who made history in August 2014 as the first female to pitch a shutout in the Little League World Series. Sheldon Candis and Justin Wilson will pen the script and Debra Martin Chase is executive producing.
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Billed as a “cannibal love story,”
The Bad Batch is the followup to Amirpour’s 2014 cult hit,
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, and now Jim Carrey, Keanu Reeves and Jason Momoa have joined a cast that already includes Diego Luna and Suki Waterhouse. Megan Ellison is producing.
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With
Battle Creek doing well on CBS, the production company and Fox are going right to series with his supernatural crime drama
Houdini and Doyle, inspired by the unlikely real-life friendship between Sherlock Holmes author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and illusionist Harry Houdini.
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Studio is going full speed ahead with
Agatha, which will have Agatha Christie as its protagonist.
Agatha is currently being re-written by Annie Neal, after being originally written by Allison Schroeder, all the way back in March 2013. Story will revolve around the 11 days in 1926 when the author went missing, while the spec script has been described as
Sherlock Holmes meets
Romancing The Stone, placing firmly in the action-adventure genre.
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The studio is in final negotiations to pick up
Verona, the fair city which is the setting of William Shakespeare's
Romeo and Juliet, a spec by Neil Widener and Gavin James that retells that tale. Joe Roth is attached to produce. The deal was made in a competitive situation by Hannah Minghella, who will oversee for the studio with Matt Milam.
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Executive who most recently worked on the studio hit
The Fault In Our Stars has been bumped up to EVP Production, according to Fox 2000 president Elizabeth Gabler. In addition, Nick D’Angelo was promoted to VP Production.
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The writer of
Wanted will produce
Chrononauts, a book whose first issue just came out this week and which was written by Millar and drawn by Sean Murphy. Other movies based on Millar comics include
Kick-Ass and
Kingsman: The Secret Service, as well as the Samuel L. Jackson version of Nick Fury in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. No word yet on who will write the
Chrononauts script.
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George Clooney, Amy Poehler, Miley Cyrus and Maya Rudolph have joined Bill Murray in the special, which does not yet have a release date or a distributor. All actors involved are reported to be playing themselves. Also making a cameo is Sunset Tower maître d’hôtel Dmitri Dmitrov, who will play the role of Murray’s valet.
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The latest TV spot for the upcoming sequel, with a lot more banter and jokes this time around. The film, which stars Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Mark Ruffalo, Elizabeth Olsen, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Samuel L. Jackson and James Spader and written and directed by Joss Whedon, hits theaters May 1st.
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The 109-page, unspecified draft of the Oscar-winning screenplay by Michael Arndt. Script is dated October 9th, 2003.
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