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Disney’s highly anticipated sequel opened to $187.6 million in its opening weekend, second only to the $207 million the first film made in its opening weekend in 2012. Some were predicting an even bigger opening, but Saturday’s epic sports day (Kentucky Derby, NBA Playoffs, NFL Draft, Mayweather-Pacquiao fight) put a dent in the final numbers.
The Age of Adaline,
Furious 7 and
Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 all duked it out for second, third and fourth.
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Lucasfilm and Josh Trank have parted ways on the project, with word coming that Trank was actually fired after the production company grew concerned over his behavior during the making if
Fantastic Four. One of that film’s producers, Simon Kinberg, is also involved with the Star Wars film and is said to have communicated his concerns about Trank to the folks at Lucasfilm, who decided they could not trust Trank with such an enormously valuable property.
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The
Furious 7 helmer is in negotiations with the studio to take over the long in development property, which is based on the 1980s anime TV series. For those unfamiliar with the original series,
Robotech is set on a future Earth that has developed giant robots using alien tech recovered from a crashed spacecraft. And said robots become crucial to humanity's survival when waves of alien aggressors set their sights on an invasion.
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The Peacock Network picked up
Chicago Fire spinoff
Chicago Med, crime conspiracy thriller
Blindspot and medical soap
Heartbreaker.
Chicago Med is the third series in the
Chicago series,
Blindspot comes from Greg Berlanti and follows a vast international plot revolving around a Jane Doe discovered in Times Square with strange tattoos all over her body, while
Heartbreaker is based on the real-life experiences of heart transplant surgeon Dr. Kathy Magliato.
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In what might be the beginning of the end of these kinds of cases, the studio will settle the class action suit filed by the estate of director Colin Higgins in January 2013 over his profit participation deal for the studio's musical comedy
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. The proposed $26-million settlement would compensate the class of plaintiffs who claim they've been underpaid.
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Fox is developing a sequel to the film based on Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons'
The Secret Service series. Millar and Gibbons have not announced a sequel to the original comic book series, so this movie sequel could be based on new material. Director Matthew Vaughn, who co-created the comic, has said in interviews that he's up for returning to film a sequel, but no one involved in front of the camera or behind it has been confirmed yet.
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She could’ve been the female Will Ferrell. Instead, she capitalized on
Bridesmaids to carve out an unexpected career. She now has
Welcome To Me in theaters and is about to go make a new
Ghostbusters movie. Her career is unlike anyone else’s. Read how it happened.
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It's easy to call storytelling a cliché, but how exactly can one move beyond it when storytelling is entrenched as the epitome of what defines great marketing? Storymaking has kept coming up as a way to describe the shift away from the broadcast-era mentality of storytelling to a new approach where marketers build on stories that people share with each other.
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Director David Ayer has released the first cast photo in which the actors are actually in costume, including a shot of star Will Smith in full battle regalia as Deadshot. The film, which also stars Margot Robbie, Jai Courtney, Joel Kinnaman, Cara Delvingne, Viola Davis and Jared Leto, is currently shooting in Toronto and will hit theaters August 5th, 2016.
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Writing is a lot like boxing. The bell dings and you enter the ring the moment you first put writing utensil to paper. And boy, you come out swingin’. The trick is to duck, dodge, and keep swinging. Sometimes the prize can blur behind a vale of tears, or when a left hook cuts you above the eye and sticky red stuff pours down your face; let’s call this rejection. Rejection sucks.
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