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Hearst and Disney-owned media company has pulled the plug on the historical and science-skewing channel and will be rebranding it as Vice. This will create a linear cable channel for the millennial-targeted media company, which will focus on lifestyle programming with Vice’s signature documentary-style.
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The Oscar-winner joins Ice Cube and Cedric The Entertainer, who are both back to reprise their starring roles. The original 2003 movie found Cube as the South Side Chicago barber Calvin Palmer, a man who plied his trade surrounded by friends, lovers and oddballs. It was successful enough to spawn not only a sequel in 2004’s
Barbershop 2: Back In Business, but a spin-off in the Queen Latifah-centric
Beauty Shop and a short-lived TV series. Malcolm D. Lee is directing.
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Socially minded billionaire Jeff Skoll's Participant Media is nearing a deal to make a $200 million-plus equity investment in DreamWorks and officially partner on a slate of films. The companies have flirted for years, with Participant co-financing and co-producing a slew of DreamWorks titles, including
The Kite Runner,
The Help,
Lincoln and
Bridge of Spies, the Spielberg-directed film starring Tom Hanks that hits theaters Oct. 16th.
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Filmmaker Damián Szifron, who wrote and directed last year’s Best Foreign Language Film nominee
Wild Tales, has been tasked with penning the screenplay for the project. The original TV series starred Lee Majors as Steve Austin, a test pilot who is outfitted with bionic limbs and implants in order to become a super-powered secret agent. This new iteration once again follows Austin, this time to be played by Wahlberg.
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Twentieth Century Fox, the studio behind the video game adaptation, has partnered with comic publisher Boom! Studios to create a one-shot that acts as a prequel to the movie, which hits theaters August 28. F.J. DeSanto wrote the comic, which will have art by Jesus Hervas. Toni Infante is the cover illustrator. Movie stars Rupert Friend as the titular anti-hero, a genetically engineered assassin, along with Zachary Quinto and Hannah Ware.
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Company run by Broderick Johnson and Andrew Kosove picked up the rights to the drama about the 2010 Chilean mine disaster, directed by Patricia Riggen and starring Antonio Banderas, Juliette Binoche, Mario Casas, Lou Diamond Phillips, Rodrigo Santoro, Gabriel Byrne and James Brolin. Alcon is putting it in theaters November 13th through its output deal with Warner Bros.
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According to James Cameron’s composer James Horner, the legendary director has written four scripts for potential sequels, however Cameron isn’t completely sure how many films these pages will ultimately become. Three more films were originally planned, coming out once a year starting in 2017.
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Imperative Entertainment has set Nicholl Fellowship winner Stephanie Shannon to adapt the feature adaptation of the E. Lockhart bestselling YA novel
We Were Liars. Formed in 2014 by Dan Friedkin, Bradley Thomas, Zak Kadison and Tim Kring, Imperative will finance the film, with Friedkin, Thomas and Kadison producing. They bought the novel before its publication.
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Starz has released the first trailer for its upcoming ballet drama, from Emmy-winning writer and executive producer Moira Walley-Beckett. The eight-part series premieres November 8th.
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The 31-page screenplay for the 2013 film starring Robert Redford, written and directed by J.C. Chandor. Script is dated February 28th, 2011.
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