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SSN ORIGINALS
Since its start in 2002, the Festival has screened over 1400 films from over 80 countries and attracted an international cumulative audience of more than 4 million attendees. Here at SSN we’re pushing past the hype to narrow down the five documentaries and five narrative films that we think are not only bankable but thought-provoking and deserve some attention.
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Additionally, Ang Lee gets rolling on
Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, as does New Line’s
How To Be Single and Alexander Janko’s
A Year By the Sea, while Natalie Dormer wraps up
Patient Zero, while
The Danish Girl and
London Has Fallen also complete principal photography. Click the link for all the details.
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TODAY’S HEADLINES
It’s currently unclear how long each episode of the HBO
High Maintenance will be — webisodes ran between 5 and 12 minutes each — or whether the new version will maintain the series' anthologized narrative. The network said that the old
High Maintenance will still be around: the show's first 19 installments, previously available on Vimeo, will eventually go up on HBO Go and HBO Now eventually.
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Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris will direct the film, called
Battle of the Sexes, will star Emma Stone as King and Steve Carell as Riggs, from a script by Simon Beaufoy. The film is set to go forward in the fall, ahead of HBO and Playtone — which has David Auburn writing for Elizabeth Banks and Paul Giamatti to star — and Chernin Entertainment and Gary Sanchez, which are percolating
Match Maker with Steve Conrad writing and Will Ferrell attached.
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The plan is to release up to 30 movies over the next five-plus years, including
The Man From U.N.C.L.E.,
In the Heart of the Sea,
Baman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, the
Tarzan movie,
Knights of the Round Table: King Arthur,
Suicide Squad,
Geostorm,
Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them,
Jungle Book: Origins,
Godzilla 2, as well as the upcoming DC tentpoles, and future LEGO movies.
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The Digital Cinema Distribution Coalition has developed a high-quality live-streaming technology solution that allows the DCDC KenCast catch server to stream live content into an unlimited number of auditoriums from two simultaneous event feeds along with two additional pre-recorded events. That means exhibitors can book up to four events simultaneously to an unlimited number of auditoriums.
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Studio has unveiled its master plan for its upcoming Lego movies, staking out release dates for the next three movies in the franchise. The
Lego Batman movie, which at this stage is untitled, will be the first new Lego movie out of the gate and will open Feb. 10, 2017. Also in 2017, on Sept. 22,
Ninjago will hit theaters. Finally,
The Lego Movie Sequel, yes that is the title, will open May 18, 2018. The new date pushes up the movie by a week.
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Ben Stiller is already on board as producer-director-star, and he is joined by Owen Wilson, Christine Taylor, Will Ferrell, Kristen Wiig and Penelope Cruz, and now it appears Zane will reprise his performance from the first film as … Billy Zane. Justin Theroux wrote the script for the film, which will open February 12th, 2016.
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Bill Pullman and Judd Hirsch will join the cast of Roland Emmerich’s sequel to the enormous 1996 hit film. Jeff Goldblum and Viveca A. Fox are also on board, as well as newcomers Liam Hemsworth and Jessie Usher, who plays Smith's son.
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Universal has released the latest full-length trailer for the next installment of the monster franchise. Colin Trevorrow directs the film, which stars Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Irrfan Khan, Omar Sy, Nick Robinson, Ty Simpkins, Vincent D’Onofrio, BD Wong, Jake Johnson and Judy Greer star. It hits theaters June 12th.
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