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The cable network announced yesterday that its acclaimed espionage drama will become the first American television series to ever to shoot a full season entirely in Germany. The new season will be filmed at Studio Babelsberg in Berlin. The new season will pick-up two years after Carrie Mathison’s (Claire Danes) ill-fated tenure as Islamabad station chief, where she is in a self-imposed exile in Berlin, estranged from the CIA and working for a private security firm.
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The Oscar-nominated actress is developing a TV movie for the cable net, with the
Entourage EP Doug Ellin on board, as well as scribe Kirk Ellis, and Amblin TV. The project will reportedly be based on Kate Clifford Larson’s
Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman — Portrait of an American Hero, which gives a detailed look at how Tubman took the reins as one of the most fearless conductors of the Underground Railroad.
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Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, the writing duo behind films like
Zombieland and the upcoming X-Men franchise spinoff
Deadpool, are developing a feature film based on the 1985 advertising debacle that was New Coke. The pair have themselves acquired the big screen rights to the 1987 nonfiction account of the pop ordeal,
The Real Coke, The Real Story, written by Thomas Oliver.
(CS)
Producer Michael De Luca is at the center of a deal for
Dukes Of Oxy, an article in the April 23rd issue of
Rolling Stone about a pair of teen high school wrestlers from Florida who built a multimillion-dollar business smuggling OxyContin and other painkillers. De Luca will produce the film with Ansel Elgort and Emily Gerson Saines. The hope is for Elgort, whose star launched with
The Fault In Their Stars, to play one of the two drug dealers.
(DH)
The star of the hit horror flicks
The Guest and
It Follows, Monroe’s casting was announced by the film’s director Roland Emmerich, over Twitter. Bill Pullman, Viveca A. Fox, Jeff Goldblum and Judd Hirsch are returning for the sequel, along with newcomers Liam Hemsworth, Britt Robertson, Jessie Usher and Charlotte Gainsbourg. The film will hit theaters June 24th, 2016.
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The director of
You’re Next and
The Guest is about to start shooting
The Woods for Lionsgate, after which he will jump on this project, which previously had Shane Black attached to direct. Film centers on a student who discovers a supernatural notebook that allows him to kill anyone by writing the victim’s name who then decides to cleanse the world of whom he deems evil. The student is tracked by a reclusive police office with a cat-and-mouse game ensuing.
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Chris Evans, who plays Captain America and is about to start shooting
Captain America: Civil War with Robert Downey Jr., confirmed that he is scheduled to appear in the two films, to be directed by Anthony and Joe Russo. The brother directing team is also helming
Civil War, which will be in theaters May 6th, 2016. The two
Infinity War installments will be released a year apart, with Part One on May 4th, 2018, and Part Two on May 3rd, 2019.
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Fellowes is finding time in his busy schedule to write the three-part drama, adapted from Anthony Trollope’s 19th century novel, produced by Hat Trick Productions, with filming to begin later this year. Fellowes said he took on the project as he was a "lifetime devotee of Trollope," revealing that the 19th-century English novelist was "certainly the strongest influence over my work that I am conscious of."
(THR)
The Viacom-owned network has scrapped plans for a reboot of
The Osbournes, the MTV show that focused on Ozzy, Sharon, Jack and Kelly Osbourne that ignited the famous family reality TV format. Sharon Osbourne announced the news of the revamp in November on an episode of
The Talk, the CBS daytime show she co-hosts.
(VAR)
Naturally, those commercials (for Nike, Levi’s and others) would contain some of the motifs that Fincher still hasn’t shifted away from two decades later. Blues vs Oranges, derelict futurism and shadows. Oh, so many shadows.
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