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The annual SXSW Film Festival wrapped up this past weekend, and the streets and theaters of Austin, Texas are getting back to their regular, laid-back ways. It was another successful fest with movies that shined because of the risks the determined filmmakers took and the work they put in to get there.
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A number of new projects get up and running, including the next film from Steven Spielberg, the next installment in the
Ring franchise, and James Franco’s next directorial effort, while a pair of projects wrap things up, including one from director Jon Cassar.
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TODAY’S HEADLINES
The online streaming service has picked up
The Way, a drama from Katims and
Parenthood writer-producer Jessica Goldberg. New show examines a family at the center of a controversial faith-based movement struggling with relationships, marriage and power. Each hourlong episode will take an in-depth look at what it means to choose between the life we live and the life we want.
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In an interview, the Oscar-winning actress reveled that she will complete her work on the series with this next film, saying, “It is my last one, actually.” She first appeared in
X-Men: First Class as Mystique, then appeared in the sequel, last year’s
X-Men: Days Of Future Past. The latest in the series, directed by Bryan Singer, hits theaters on May 27th, 2016.
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Last week, the Georgia Studio & Infrastructure Alliance (GSIA) announced the members of a new film and television studio and infrastructure association for Georgia: Tyler Perry Studios, Eagle Rock Studios Atlanta, EUE/Screen Gems Studios Atlanta, Mailing Avenue Stageworks, and Triple Horse Studios.
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Jeremy Renner and Don Handfield’s The Combine is producing
Knightfall along with the network, A+E Studios and Midnight Radio. Show chronicles the actual events leading up to and following the persecution, downfall and burning at the stake of the Knights Templar on Friday the 13th, 1307. More than 700 years later, Friday the 13th is known as a cursed day because of this event.
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Simon Kinberg will produce and Neill Blomkamp will executive produce the project, which is inspired in part by
Moby Dick, with shades of
Dune. Story follows the idea that, by the early 22nd century, mankind had colonized many worlds. Faster than light travel was made possible by harvesting exotic matter from the eggs of the largest species mankind has ever seen. Those that take part in the hunt are mostly involuntary labor.
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The writer will work with filmmakers Andy Mingo and Josh Leake to adapt the book, which was first published in 2002. Story follows Carl Streator, a newspaper reporter who discovers that children – and some adults – are dying after hearing an African chant that has made its way into a book of poems. Streator memorizes the poem, and begins using it to kill people, while also realizing its terrible power, starting a road trip to destroy all the copies of the book.
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He’s still working on the script and is a year away from starting production on
Mallrats 2, but Kevin Smith has begun teasing out some details for the recently announced sequel. Jason Mewes, Michael Rooker, Shannen Doherty and comics icon Stan Lee all appear to be onboard, while Smith next pursues names like Ben Affleck, Jason Lee, Jeremy London and Claire Forlani, among others.
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Show’s creators D.B. Weiss and David Benioff confirmed that spoilers are most definitely coming soon. "We’ll eventually, basically, meet up at pretty much the same place where George is going," Benioff said. Martin, who recently announced he’s Skipping fan conventions to finish Book 6,
The Winds of Winter, said in 2013 that the the odds of the show catching up to the books "are very long."
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