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SSN ORIGINALS
SSN Senior Editor Neil Turitz returns with a followup to last week’s examination of how the CAA-UTA mess is symptomatic of a larger problem in the entertainment business. This week, he looks at how to fix the problem, and it’s maybe easier than you might think.
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A very light week in this part of the industry sees just a small handful of moves, including a major player on
Game of Thrones. To check out the full list and get all the info, click on the link.
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TODAY’S HEADLINES
Peter Gallagher claims that the movie is "virtually identical" to his 2006 novel
The Little White Trip: A Night In the Pines. Gallagher's book also follows the story of five friends who visit a cabin only to learn that
(spoiler alert) they're being killed and filmed by a third party controlling events from elsewhere. He is suing Whedon, co-writer and director Drew Goddard, Lionsgate and Whedon’s Mutant Enemy shingle for $10 million.
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The Primetime lineup, which will be announced in the coming months, will present up to six contemporary TV programs from broadcasters, streaming services or independent filmmakers. In addition to public screenings and Q&A sessions, the festival will offer related programming in its industry confab, with creative producers and experts from the global TV landscape in the mix.
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With the third season due to be released on June 12th, the network announced that the Emmy-winning series has already been renewed for a fourth season, which will debut in 2016. The second season will be up for this year’s Emmys, but will be competing for the first time in the Drama categories, due to rules changes.
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Pratt is attached to star in
The Real McCoy, a pitch from writer Bill Dubuque. Project started making the rounds in recent days, but meetings yesterday and today were canceled after Warners and Universal began bidding aggressively on the action-adventure film. Universal won the rights when it plunked down $1.5 million against $3 million. Story centers on bootlegger Bill McCoy, whose life inspired the phrase "the real McCoy," meaning the liquor hadn't been cut.
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Big screen rights to the Gregory McDonald novel series have moved from Warner Bros. Pictures to Relativity. There, plans are underway to get a new film into production with the previously-attached Sudeikis still set to headline. No director or writer is currently attached to the new project, but Relativity’s Ryan Kavanaugh is set to produce alongside David List, John Rickard and the Boies/Schiller Film Group’s Zach Schiller.
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The actor and executive producer for
Olive Kitteridge,
John Adams,
The Pacific, and
Band of Brothers, is bringing
The Wright Brothers to the cable net, based on the David McCullough nonfiction tome. Book follows the story of Wilbur and Orville Wright, who went from bicycle repairmen in Ohio to aeronautic engineers. Hanks and Playtone partner Gary Goetzman are executive producing. No word yet on a timeline or number of episodes.
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Eight months after the network pulled the plug on its 10-episode straight-to-series
Wizard of Oz drama
, the project has come back to life. The network again has given a 10-episode series order to the project, which has undergone a redevelopment with a new writer/executive producer, David Schulner.
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Fox is behind the project, which will once more be based on Alex Raymond’s space-going hero, and the current script is by J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay, who wrote drafts of Star Trek 3 and crafted the Flash material from a treatment by producer George Nolfi. It’s likely Vaughn would want to take his own crack at the screenplay, possibly with regular collaborator Jane Goldman.
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