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Web creator and former development exec Cary Tusan takes readers through his own odyssey of becoming a full-time writer, and offers several useful bits of advice, including things like giving yourself time to decompress and scheduling. Click the link to get the full story.
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Plenty of other action this week, as well, including Warner Bros. picking up the short film
Sundays to make into a feature, more action for the third
Barbershop movie, The Weinsteins picking up Matthew McConaughey’s
Gold and a new writer for
Metal Gear Solid, among a bevy of other news.
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TODAY’S HEADLINES
Studio has tapped
Listen Up Phillip writer-director Alex Ross to pen their latest live-action feature adaptation of an animated classic. Perry's version will focus on Christopher Robin as adult who comes back to A.A. Milne's bear and the Hundred Acre Wood. No director has been set yet.
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The online streaming service has ordered original sketch-comedy show
With Bob and David, reuniting the duo from HBO’s
Mr. Show with Bob and David in the ’90s. Netflix picked up four half-hour episodes and one hour-long “making-of” special from Odenkirk and Cross. Premiere date has not been set.
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After over half a decade, the final lottery in the state’s $100 million Film and TC Tax Credit Program came to a quiet end uyesterday. Just $10 million was left on the table for independent TV projects this week. The other $90 million is already set to go to renewed television series that have received credits in the past. The CFC will release a list naming the projects that were selected under the last lottery on July 1, the same day the new program official kicks in.
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Fresh off of her best supporting actress Oscar win for
Boyhood, Arquette has signed on to write a memoir for Random House. The book will center on her unconventional family (siblings Rosanna, Alexis, Richmond and David Arquette are all performers), becoming a single mother at age 20 and her acting career. A title and publication date were not revealed.
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Kristen Stewart is gearing up to work with the Oscar-winning director in the film, based on Ben Fountain’s bestselling novel. Newcomer Joe Alwyn is set in the lead, but the project will reunite Stewart with her
On the Road co-star Garrett Hedlund. She’ll be playing the titular character’s older sister. Lee is working from a screenplay by Oscar-winning scribe Simon Beaufoy (
Slumdog Millionaire), and he intends to shoot the film in HFR 3D with the Sony F65 camera.
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In a new interview with
Esquire, the actor reveals he's contracted for three more
Mad Max films — provided
Fury Road gets both the box office and critical reception everyone is hoping. Director George Miller has already said that he has at least two other stories planned, one of which has already been written as a screenplay, the other as a novelization.
Mad Max: Fury Road opens on May 15th.
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Tom Hiddleston stars as the legendary country musician, in a film written and directed by Marc Abraham. Film chronicles his meteoric rise to fame and its ultimately tragic effect on his health and personal life, and also stars Elizabeth Olsen, Bradley Whitford, David Krumholtz and Cherry Jones. No release date has yet been announced.
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The newest look at the rebooted horror franchise, starring Sam Rockwell and Rosemarie DeWitt, and directed by Gil Kenan, the film hits theaters on May 22nd.
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