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The movie’s original release date, July 24th, would have put it firmly up against a lot of tough summer fare, including the new
Mission: Impossible movie, which is scheduled for a week later. Now, with an October 9th release date, the plan is to give the movie more space to stretch its wings and, potentially, put it in place for awards season.
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Acting pair joined the series in the second season as Mockingbird and Lance Hunter, respectively, and are finalizing deals to headline the spinoff series. This seems to suggest that the new show would revolve around these two characters, a former husband and wife duo that also happen to be highly trained spies.
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Along with this news came confirmation that the idea of a shared universe for the characters is also in motion, with Akiva Goldsman leading a team of writers to create a strategic plan around the Transformers characters. No word yet from Paramount, the studio behind the series, but that is expected soon.
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The musical will be released in New York on July 24th and will complement the theatrical release by making the film available to all U.S. and Canadian cable, satellite and digital platforms for a simultaneous day-and-date release. Jason Alexander stars, Christopher Ashley directed, Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty wrote the screenplay and lyrics and Victor Syrmis and J. Todd Harris produced.
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Called
Fuller House, the 13-episode revival series will focus on Candace Cameron Bure’s character, D.J. Tanner, who is a recently widowed and pregnant veterinarian. Her younger sister and aspiring musician Stephanie Tanner (Jodie Sweetin) and her childhood best friend, Kimmy Gibbler, (Andrea Barber), along with Gibbler’s feisty teenage daughter Ramona, move in to help D.J. raise her two sons and soon-to-arrive baby. John Stamos is producing and will guest star.
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Just four episodes into the show’s freshman season, cable net has renewed the single-camera comedy for a second season with a 12-episode order. Created and executive produced by Darren Star
, Younger stars Sutton Foster, Hilary Duff, Debi Mazar, Miriam Shor and Nico Tortorella.
Younger is TV Land’s second original single-camera comedy series, following
Jennifer Falls, which lasted one season.
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There is no business model more accustomed to failure than that of broadcast TV. Of the 90 scripted pilots commissioned last year by the four major English-language networks, nearly half (41, or 46%) were ordered to series. No more than 11 of these will return for a second season; in other words, 88% of the 2014-15 pilots either never saw the light of day or could not deliver a viable audience upon securing a spot on the prime-time roster.
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It’s a new group of Lucasfilm employees, headed up by Kiri Hart and created by President Kathleen Kennedy, whose job is to make sure every single
Star Wars movie, TV show, book, comic book and video game tell one, big story. At Star Wars Celebration Group, a panel called One Big Story shed light on this new initiative to make sure all Star Wars stories tell the same story.
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The third full-length trailer from Disney’s summer blockbuster, starring George Clooney and Britt Robertson and directed by Brad Bird. The film hits theaters May 22nd.
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No conversation about artificial intelligence in movies is complete without the inclusion of Ridley Scott‘s 1982 classic. It’s a character-driven, sci-fi/noir about a detective tasked with locating and “retiring” replicants — genetically engineered humanoids created to work as slave labor or serve as entertainment — who’ve violently rebelled against their human masters in a bid for freedom. Scott’s commentary comes from a 2007 DVD release.
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