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SSN ORIGINALS
She grew up in small town Kentucky, listening to her grandparents and neighbors tell stories over pie and coffee. Years later, after completing the Peter Stark Producing program at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts, and working as a creative executive for Ray Stark, Larry Gelbart, and Tony Scott, she parlayed her skills into teaching, lecturing, and becoming a story guru around the world, as well as at Disney, Pixar, Sony and Twentieth Century Fox.
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It’s a busy week for shooting, as a host of new projects get up and running, including two new Luc Besson productions, Barry Sonnenfeld’s
Nine Lives with Kevin Spacey, and the new Robert Langdon film,
Inferno. Meanwhile, the
Pete’s Dragon remake also completes principal photography, as does Bryan Cranston’s
The Infiltrator.
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TODAY’S HEADLINES
Adam Driver, Gwendoline Christie and Lupita Nyong’o all will appear in the upcoming
The Force Awakens, which hits theaters December 18th. Both Driver and Christie will play characters loyal to The First Order, which is what remains of The Empire from the original trilogy. Meanwhile, Nyong’o will be portraying an entirely CGI character, an intergalactic pirate known as Maz Kanata. Merchandise for the franchise will start rolling out on September 4th.
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Keanu Reeves will reload as vengeful former assassin John Wick in
John Wick 2, and, even better, he won’t be working under the direction of a new filmmaker. The original creative team of David Leitch and Chad Stahelski are also back, with screenwriter Derek Kolstad set to return to script. International sales are set to take place this month at Cannes, which means this should be the directing duo’s next film after they do
Bloodshot for Valiant Entertainment and Sony.
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HBO has given a series order to
Video Synchronicity (previously known as
Living on Video), which will bring Fincher back to the roles of TV director and executive producer, after kickstarting
House of Cards. The series is based on his own idea, and Fincher will write the first season alongside Bob Stephenson and Rich Wilkes. Charlie Rowe will play series star Robby, who will run the gamut of the decade's attractions and heartbreak in Los Angeles.
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The movie, which stars Chris Pine and Ben Foster as two brothers who go on a bank robbery spree in order to save their family's West Texas farm. Jeff Bridges will play a West Texas Ranger who is determined to catch them. Scottish helmer David Mackenzie will direct the project from a Black List script by Taylor Sheridan.
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Cable net has given a 12-episode series order to the project, which hails from Michael London’s Groundswell Productions, Universal Cable Productions and writers John McNamara and Sera Gamble. Show stars Jason Ralph as a brilliant grad student who enrolls in a secret upstate New York university specializing in magic. He and his friends soon discover that the magical fantasy world they read about as children is all too real, and poses a grave danger to humanity.
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Three years on from
Red Dwarf X, Lister, Rimmer, Kryten and the Cat will return to UK freeview channel Dave for series XI and XII, to be broadcast over the next two years. The sci-fi sitcom's original run was on the BBC for eight series between 1988 and 1999. It was then picked up by Dave in 2009 for an odd three-episode mash-up taking in
Coronation Street and
Blade Runner, before its full six-episode run three years ago.
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As
Avengers: Age of Ultron shows, there are only so many stories you can tell in a shared universe before they start, if not contradicting, then at least overlapping each other. This piece is filled with spoilers, but has an interesting point to make about the MCCU.
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Warner Bros. has released the final trailer from this summer’s disaster epic, starring Dwayne Johnson, Carla Gugino and Alexandra Daddario. The film hits theaters May 29th.
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