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Creative Artists Agency appears in damage-control mode and is putting on a good face that it’s business as usual. But apparently the managing partners held a meeting yesterday morning to address employees’ concerns about the state of the agency and discuss how to proceed. The meeting was characterized as a major pep rally to keep spirits high, with no one dwelling on any anxiety or worry in the marble hallways of the Century City agency.
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Amazingly, the pair has teamed for a top-secret Lifetime movie called
A Deadly Adoption. Set for a likely early summer debut, they star in the dramatic thriller as a successful couple who house and care for a pregnant woman with the hopes of adopting her unborn child — when things quickly go awry. The movie is described as campy and fun, a contemporary wink at the genre that comes as Lifetime is poised to mark the 25th anniversary of its TV movie business.
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The actor formerly known as The Rock will also sing in the animated comedy-adventure, which revolves around a spirited teenager and born navigator who teams up with the legendary demi-god Maui and sets out to fulfill her ancestors’ quest. Directed by
The Little Mermaid helmers Ron Clements and John Musker, the film opens November 23th, 2016.
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The studio that has brought you
Bosch, based on the series of detective novels by Michael Connelly, has snagged the rights to the Scandinavian series
The Boy in the Suitcase, by Lene Kaaberbol and Agnete Friis, published by SoHo Crime. Kirsten Sheridan (
In America) will write script for the project, executive produced by Joshua Maurer & Alixandre Witlin through their company City Entertainment.
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No network is attached yet, although Collins recently inked a first-look deal with BET, so one might assume that the series may find a home there. Story follows four best friends at Manhattan’s Fashion International High School, who are about to enter the contest of their lives. Each year, students split up into Fashion Houses and compete to design, produce, and show fully original fashion lines. The winner gets a scholarship, a professional show, and a real shot at a career in fashion.
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Anna Kendrick has signed on to play
“a wild child with a romantic heart” in the raunchy comedy that follows two brothers (Efron will play Mike with DeVine starring as Dave) who place an online ad to find dates for a wedding, only to have the ad go viral. TV director Jake Szymanski has been tapped to helm the comedy from a script by Andrew J. Cohen and Brendan O’Brien.
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Writer-director Kevin Smith announced that Renée Humphrey, Joey Lauren Adams and Sven-Ole Thorsen are the latest trio to return from the original film, which was released in 1995. They join the already announced Smith, Jason Mewes, Michael Rooker, Shannen Doherty, Jeremy London, Ethan Suplee, and Jason Lee. No word on whether or not Ben Affleck and Claire Forlani will also return. Smith has said he expects to shoot the film in 2016.
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The small but treasured comedy classic is easy to watch; just enough belly laughs and quotable moments to drive you to a second, third or fourth viewing; just enough heart that it’ll grow on you just a bit more each time. If Orson Welles ever made a movie where a guy attempts cow tipping, slips and falls in mud and then you realize,
hohohoho there’s probably poop in that mud, that movie would be
Tommy Boy.
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The first look at director Cédric Jimenez's stylish throwback to the gritty crime dramas of the ‘70s. The film stars Oscar-winner Jean Dujardin, and will hit select theaters on May 15th.
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Every working writer has their unique story about how they broke into the film and television industry. Russel Friend, Executive Producer/Writer of
House, Executive Producer/Writer of
Glee, Executive Producer/Writer of
Battle Creek, shares his.
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