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The move came two weeks after WikiLeaks disclosed that it had published 30,287 documents and 173,132 emails stemming from last winter’s cyber-attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment. WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange said in an April 16th statement that information was newsworthy, adding, “It belongs in the public domain. WikiLeaks will ensure it stays there.”
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The newly minted Oscar winner and Emile Hirsch have signed on to star in
The Runaround, a comedy that will be directed by Gavin Wiesen. Seth W. Owen wrote the screenplay, which centers on a workaholic father (Simmons) who attempts to visit his daughter during a last-minute layover in Los Angeles only to discover that she's disappeared. He's forced to team up with her awkward ex-boyfriend (Hirsch) to find her over the course of one night.
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Created by and starring Diallo Riddle and Bashir Salahuddin, directed by Tim Story and produced by Lorne Michaels, show is about struggling entertainers and best friends Langston (Riddle) and Moose (Salahuddin) trying to navigate relationships and life in the black Mecca of Atlanta.
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Studio will remake of Vincenzo Natali‘s 1997 sci-fi horror film, under the working title
Cubed. Jon Spaihts and Roy Lee will produce, with newcomer Saman Kesh set to reimagine Natali’s film and direct. Kesh is best known for his short film
Controller, which recently caught the eye of studios.
Cubed will build on the set up of the original film and described as a sci-fi survival thriller about artificial intelligence, humanity and the birth of a new ‘digital’ race.
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IM Global Television announced plans to turn the legendary author’s novel into a TV show, which will hopefully be long enough to fill an entire week's worth of classes. The 1963 novel effectively satirizes the postwar obsession with technological progress through the author's trademark use of sarcasm and irony. There's no writer, director, cast, or network for the project yet, but rest assured — nothing in it will be true.
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Just as the Marvel experience ran all 11 movies produced by Marvel Studios over 28 hours, the thinking is that this will show all six
Star Wars flicks leading up to the release of
The Force Awakens on December 18th. Using the Marvel model as a guide, expect it to happen on Wednesday, December 16th, with the screening of
Force to happen Thursday night, the 17th.
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After the first film did close to $100 million worldwide, Universal, Blumhouse and Hasbro are teaming to move forward with a sequel. The first film starred Olivia Cooke, and director Stiles White himself wrote the screenplay with Juliet Snowden. In an intriguing change, however, the sequel will be working from a screenplay by Mike Flanagan and Jeff Howard, who were behind last year's
Oculus. It's unclear at this stage whether Flanagan is interested in directing Ouija 2.
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Jordana Brewster is joining the mini-series about the murder trial of O.J. Simpson as Nicole Brown Simpson’s sister Denise. Cuba Gooding Jr. is playing Simpson, with John Travolta as Robert Shapiro, David Schwimmer as Robert Kardashian, Sarah Paulson as Marcia Clark and Connie Britton Faye Resnick.
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Warner Bros. has released the first image from the upcoming comic book adaptation, and it’s of Will Smith as Floyd Lawton aka Deadshot. The film is currently shooting in Toronto and will be in theaters August 5th, 2016.
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The unspecified 94-page original screenplay by Mike Mills, dated October 29th, 2007.
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