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SSN ORIGINALS
SSN Senior Editor Neil Turitz returns with his eponymous column, this time examining the growing issue of a single project or idea being developed in multiple places at once. It’s not exactly new, but always worth a discussion. Click the link to get his take on things.
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It’s been an especially busy week in Hollywood, with a plethora of moves covering the standard company launches and hirings and firings. Some highlights include Cathy Schulman moving to STX, producer Chris Brancato signing a deal with ABC Studios, Nancy Tellem heading to Interlude, but there is plenty more than that.
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TODAY’S HEADLINES
Former CAA touring agent Harold Frogét has joined UTA, becoming the 12th agent to do so this month. Frogét spent 11 years working in CAA’s comedy and music touring department, and will do the same at UTA. Already in UTA's touring department are new comedy touring head Nick Nuciforo and agent Andrew Skikne, both recently of CAA. Nuciforo was one of the five agents who abruptly left CAA to become UTA partners.
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Charter Communications is reportedly crafting a bid for the communications giant, after Comcast bowed out of the proposed $45 billion merger on Thursday. TWC is up 5.5% to about $156.95 in afternoon trading. Charter shares are barely moving today, up 0.5%. (Comcast also is up a mere 1%.) Remember that Charter kicked off the battle for TWC in late 2013 with a complicated offer valued at $61.3 billion including debt.
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Current show runner Marc Guggenheim announced yesterday via twitter that Wendy Mericle will be stepping up as co-showrunner for
Arrow next season. Mericle has written or co-written 13 episodes of
Arrow so far including this week’s
The Fallen. Previously she has worked on
Desperate Housewives,
Eli Stone and
Smallville.
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Paul King will help the adaptation of R.J. Palacio’s bestseller, which tells the story of a ten-year-old boy, August Pullman, who’s been keep away from school due to a craniofacial deformity caused by a rogue gene. He has grown up understandably sensitive to the opinions of others, and when he finally arrives in fifth grade, the doorway opens to a different, bigger and potentially more painful life. Mandeville Films’ David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman are producing.
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Duncan Jones’
Warcraft, which had already been pushed a few months, has moved from March 11th, 2016 to June 10th, 2016.
Pacific Rim 2, directed by Guillermo del Toro, has been moved from April 7th, 2017 to August 4th, 2017. In addition, the new
Mummy film has been moved up from June 24th, 2016, to March 24th, 2017.
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The team at VideoLab took the numerous complaints that Zack Snyder’s film was too dark and did something about it, re-coloring the film to replace the “bleak” look that Snyder chose. After wondering what the movie would look like with the natural colors and hues, the resulting footage is eye-catching, to say the least.
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Fox and creator Ryan Murphy have released the first images from Murphy’s upcoming comedy-horror series,
Scream Queens, starring Emma Roberts, Jamie Lee Curtis, Lea Michele, Keke Palmer, Oliver Hudson, Abigail Breslin, Nick Jonas and Ariana Grande. The show premieres later this year.
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The first look at next month’s HBO Film, starring David Oyelowo in a single-character, single-location drama following a war veteran who slowly loses control over his mind during the 80-minute film. The movie premieres on the cable network on May 29th.
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