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Each year the Toronto Screenwriting Conference features a top of the line screenwriter who unfolds his or her nuggets of wisdom. This year David S. Goyer (expert story architect) will give a masterclass on his work and also sits down with us to give TSL readers the inside skinny on his process, favorite lines and what other stories inspire him as a writer.
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HBO also picks up a string of shows, including a new comedy with Sarah Jessica Parker, while ABC Family is active as well with a handful of new projects, and Hossein Amini and Anonymous Content resurrects Caleb Carr’s
The Alienist. Click the link for all the info.
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TODAY’S HEADLINES
Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling and Brad Pitt are all signing on to the project, which adapts Michael Lewis’ book,
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine. Melissa Leo and Marisa Tomei also star. McKay wrote the most recent draft, which tells the story of the genius contrarian investors who, recognizing just how insane the housing bubble had become, figured out how to “short” the market prior to the financial collapse of 2008.
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The 52-year-old comedian announced on the Monday edition of his acclaimed Comedy Central series that his last day on the job will be Thursday, August 6th. He revealed his departure date at the end of the broadcast, and also mentioned that fans will have a chance to win tickets to the final show, with proceeds going to the Night of Too Many Stars charity.
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The 68th annual festival’s jury features five men and four women, including director Guillermo del Toro, actors Jake Gyllenhaal, Sierra Miller and Sophie Marceau, and last year’s Jury Prize winner,
Mommy helmer Xavier Dolan. They will judge the films in the Official Competition, selecting the winners including the top prize, the Palme d’Or, which will be awarded during the closing ceremony on Sunday, May 24th. The fest kicks off on May 12th.
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Robert Gordon, who co-wrote the DreamWorks feature with David Howard, is in negotiations to work on the TV adaptation, as are original director Dean Parisot and executive producers Mark Johnson and Melissa Bernstein. The movie’s conceit — revolving around the cast of a beloved 1970s sci-fi TV series who are inadvertently reunited for a real space trek to help an alien race — seems tailor-made for a series rendition.
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Ewan McGregor will join the cast as Lumiere in the film, joining an all-star lineup that includes Emma Watson as Belle, Dan Stevens as the Beast/Prince, Luke Evans as the vain villain Gaston, Josh Gad as Le Fou, Gaston’s buffoonish and loyal sidekick, Ian McKellen as Cogsworth and Audra McDonald as Garderobe. The film starts shooting in London next month.
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Chad and Carey Hayes — who worked with Wan on
The Conjuring — will write the screenplay, finding a new spin for the tale of the demon-abused single mother and her sceptical psychiatrist. Based on a true story - of course - the original's director was Sidney J. Furie, whose stars were Barbara Hershey and Ron Silver. No director is set yet.
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Despite the fact that the third season of
Inside Amy Schumer hasn’t actually started yet, the cable net has enough faith in Schumer that they have already given the go ahead to a fourth, to run in 2016. Schumer revealed the news last night during her final appearance on
Late Show With David Letterman. Season three premieres tonight at 10:30.
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Dean Devlin’s international sales division will commence pre-sales next month on the psychological thriller, based on the novel by Pat Barker. Bette Gordon will direct the story and Josh Charles, Julia Stiles, Avan Jogia, Tracie Thoms, Leo Fitzpatrick and John C McGinley will star. Movie is a cat-and-mouse tale about a psychologist who reopens old wounds and an old case after he rescues a drowning person whom he helped convict 12 years earlier.
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