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Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, who have hosted each of the previous three shows, will not return to produce the Oscars ceremony in 2016. This year's Oscars ceremony had the show's lowest ratings since 2009. Following the broadcast, Zadan hinted that their run at the Academy Awards was over.
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Former co-star of another CBS show,
The Mentalist, Yeoman will play the DC Comics character Vartox. Per DC Comics lore, Vartox hailed from the planet Valeron and boasted powers on par with those of Superman, with whom he was friendly. In the pilot, though, Vartox is an alien convict who has been hiding on Earth for 12 years. After Supergirl’s emergence as a public hero, he seeks her out to ascertain her identity and do battle with her.
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Gareth Neame, the executive producer and managing director of the production company behind the show, Carnival Films, was asked about the possibility of a film. He confirmed that both he and creator Julian Fellowes could be open to such a concept. Just in case things don’t get properly wrapped up by the end of next season, of course.
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Emmy-winning
Veep star is in negotiations to star in the remake of the Oscar nominated Swedish drama. In the film, an avalanche threatens the resort and the father, in an act of selfish cowardice, deserts his family. When the avalanche passes and the family is safely reunited, the man’s actions create a deep fissure in the unit that might not be repaired. No writer or director on board yet, but Louis-Dreyfus will also be involved as a producer.
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The Sony Pictures film centers on the scandal that ensued when an auctioned cache of wine bottles purported to have been owned by Thomas Jefferson were called fakes. Script is by Michael Brandt and Derek Haas, the team behind
Wanted, 3:10 To Yuma and
Chicago Fire. Escape Artists and Overbrook Entertainment have been developing the project for several years, based on the book by Benjamin Wallace that Crown published.
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NBC is reviving the Emmy-winning sitcom that ran for nine seasons, from 1989 to 1997. The show will not be a reboot, but a sequel. The pitch: “Coach Hayden Fox, in the present day, has retired from coaching. He is called back to become assistant coach to his own grown son, who is the new head coach at an Ivy league school in Pennsylvania that is just starting up a new team.” Network has ordered 13 episodes and will shoot it “multi-cam” style.
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The alliance is teaming to establish Erebus Pictures and is launching with a three-picture co-production deal starting with
Temple, originally acquired and developed by WWE Studios. It will sell worldwide rights on all titles and use WWE’s TV shows, including
Monday Night Raw and
SmackDown, along with digital, social media and the WWE Network, to market its titles.
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Mischa Rozema, who directs ads in Amsterdam, wrote the concept with Kevin Koehler. It finds Brian Petsos as a man who begins to realise that he himself and the world around him are not what they seem – indeed, the whole universe appears to be slowly falling apart. But can he trust even his own senses? Now, the plan is for Rozema to work on a potential film with new writers and make it his directorial debut.
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Film stars Peter Saarsgard as Stanley Milgram, a psychologist who made history in the 1960s with his troubling Yale study on obedience to authority, known as the "Milgram Experiment." These experiments observed the reactions of test subjects when asked to send painful electric shocks to a stranger. Michael Almereyda wrote and directed. The film will be released this year.
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The undated, unspecified 158 script by James Vanderbilt, based on the books "Zodiac" and "Zodiac Unmasked" by Robert Graysmith.
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