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Three-time Academy Award-nominated actor is in talks to helm Warner Brothers’ long-in-development remake, based on the 1937 film starring Janet Gaynor and Fredric March. The film centers on an aging, self-destructive actor who helps an aspiring actress achieve her dreams of stardom. Cooper is looking to star, as well, and wants Beyonce to star alongside him.
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The Trap is set deep in the Miami music scene, and finds Benicio Del Toro playing a man who has been in prison for 14 years, simmering with resentment against the rapper and former friend (Elba) who let him take the fall. Upon his release, he recruits a surfer (Pattinson) to help him get revenge. Al Pacino and James Franco also star.
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Titled
Nocturnal Animals, the film is an adaptation of the book "Tony and Susan" by Austin Wright. The novel boasts an interesting narrative twist, which finds the main character reading the manuscript for a thriller that becomes part of the main plot thread. Ford’s first film,
A Single Man came out in 2009 and earned Colin Firth an Oscar nomination for Best Actor.
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Show’s stars Keegan-Michael Key & Jordan Peele popular sketch, about an inner-city substitute teacher - Mr. Garvey - who has trouble adjusting to a classroom full of middle-class white students, has been picked up by the studio. Key, who stars in the sketch, will also star in the feature adaptation, with Peele as a rival teacher determined to be the students’ favorite. Rich Talarico and Alex Rubens (co-producers of "Key & Peele") have been hired to pen the script.
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Studio has enlisted
RoboCop writer Joshua Zetumer to adapt Casey Sherman and Dave Wedge’s nonfiction book
Boston Strong, which chronicles the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013.
The Fighter writers Eric Johnson and Paul Tamasy wrote a draft of the screenplay that piqued Fox's interest enough to bite. The studio then turned to Zetumer.
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News of Lee’s involvement comes hot on the heels of Monday’s reveal that Shannon Doherty would also be reprising her role. Also confirmed to return are Michael Rooker, Stan Lee, Jason Mewes, and of course Smith himself as Silent Bob. Still unknown is if Claire Forlani, Jeremy London, Joey Lauren Adams, Ben Affleck, Ethan Suplee, and Renée Humphrey will return.
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Indie distributor has picked up
Sneakerheadz, a documentary about the world of sneaker collecting. Directed by David T. Friendly and Mick Partridge, the film includes rapper Wale, skateboarder Rob Dydrek and designer Jeff Staple. The film will be released in theaters and on VOD this fall.
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Network and production company Warner Bros. TV have opted to hold off on the project, from creators Sherry Bilsing-Graham and Ellen Kreamer, and has instead pushed it to next season. The decision was made after the comedy had undergone a table read and a run-through as it was gearing up for taping. The consensus was that the project in its current form didn’t live up to its potential and that it would benefit from redevelopment.
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The latest look at the upcoming comedy, based on the popular, long-running HBO sitcom and starring Adrien Grenier, Kevin Connelly, Jerry Ferrara, Kevin Dillon and Jeremy Piven. The star-studded feature hits theaters on June 5th.
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The 132-page, Oscar-nominated script by George Axelrod, based on the novel by Truman Capote. Script is labeled Second Draft and dated June 22nd, 1960.
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