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Two months after the California Film Commission board approved new regulations for the state’s film and television tax incentives, Sacramento has signed off. Yesterday, the Office of Administrative Law approved the new regs pretty much as the CFC submitted them back in February.
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The blind superhero’s TV show is doing something to champion visually impaired fans, with the online streaming service adding audio descriptions to some of its original series. Audio description is a narration track that explains by sound what is occuring on-screen, similiar to a play-by-play announce for a sports telecast. It will start with
Daredevil and then be rolled out for other shows, like
House of Cards,
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and
Orange Is the New Black.
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The studio and producers have bought Marie Lu's fantasy novel
The Young Elites. The book, which hit shelves in October 2014, centers on the survivors of a deadly plague, and many of the teens that survive have been physically transformed and discover that they've acquired special powers. This secret group of gifted teens is called the Young Elites, and their lives are threatened by a group called the Inquisition Axis, which is seeking to destroy them.
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Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone, who have each been nominated for an Academy Award and have co-starred together twice before, in
Crazy, Stupid, Love and
Gangster Squad, are looking to headline
La La Land, Chazelle’s followup to
Whiplash. The film is said to be a contemporary Musical set in Los Angeles.
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The director and L.A.-based Cecchi Gori Media are in final development stages on their long-gestating “Ferrari” biopic, about Italian automotive mogul Enzo Ferrari, which Mann is set to direct. Mann and CGM chief exec Niels Juul are eying a 2016 shooting date for the extensively researched pic, based on Brock Yates’ 1991 book “Enzo Ferrari: The Man, the Cars, the Races,” about the man who redefined the high-powered Italian sports car and almost single-handedly created Formula One racing.
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Guillame Canet and Mark Strong are also on board the film, which is set in 1961 and follows the real-life events around the siege of an Irish UN battalion by 3,000 Congolese troops under the command of French and Belgian mercenaries paid by big mining companies. Dornan is set as the Irish commander, Patrick Quinlan, with O’ Mara as Company Sergeant Jack “Sarge” Prendergast, Quinlan’s right-hand man.
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A network presentation yesterday in New York revealed 460 hours of original programming, including eight new series and specials, 16 movies, as well as new production relationships with new partners, including familiar industry creatives and executives like Suzanne de Passe, Chris Stokes, Charles Murray, and Reuben Cannon.
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The Weinstein Co. has just picked up the rights to the true-crime masterpiece, with the intention of adapting it into an event miniseries. Gary Oldman and Douglas Urbanski will produce, while Kevin Hood (
Becoming Jane) will write the script. No casting or network has been announced.
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A new look at the upcoming film about the life of founding Beach Boy Brian Wilson, starring Paul Dano and John Cusack each playing the legendary musician at different points in his life. Paul Giamatti and Jake Abel also star and Bill Pohlad directed the film, which hits theaters June 5th.
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Producer and Script Magazine columnist Barri Evins doesn’t know anything about cars, but she does know about drive, and she talks about it in her latest column. It’s easy to spot people who have what it takes to potentially succeed in this tough business. Real drive comes through in every move that they make.
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