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Just a couple days after Disney and Lucasfilm announced that Josh Trank has left the project comes word that it would center on the popular character who was thought to be killed off in
Return of the Jedi when he fell into the Sarlacc Pit. The first standalone anthology film will be Gareth Edwards’
Star Wars: Rogue One, which will star Felicity Jones, Ben Mendelsohn and Riz Ahmed, and follow resistance fighters who unite to steal the plans for the Death Star.
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This news did not come as a surprise, as the show continues to perform well in its regular Sunday night time slot. “I’ve outlasted Letterman, Jon Stewart and ‘McDreamy,’ because I have something they don’t: a costly 200-donut-a-day addiction,” reads a statement from the man himself, Homer Simpson.
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The actor-comedian’s first film since the 2001 Chris Rock bomb
Pootie Tang will tell the story of a depressed middle-aged man who is a volunteer police officer living in the shadow of his mother, a highly decorated retired officer. When she dies, her continued influence forces him to become a real police officer, which is something he never wanted to be. No word yet on when the film will shoot or any kind of release info.
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Two months after
Midnight Rider director Randall Miller pled guilty to involuntary manslaughter and criminal trespass in the death of Sarah Jones, the camera assistant killed on the set of the Gregg Allman biopic, the production company, Film Allman LLC asked the judge's permission to amend a lawsuit against New York Marine and General Insurance Company with new claims of breaching contract, anticipatory repudiation and breach of good faith.
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Will Poulter will play Pennywise, the evil monster who lured in children disguised as a clown, in the upcoming remake of Stephen King’s horror classic. The story, which will be split into two different films, follows a group of outcast kids who come together over summer break to take on the monster that’s haunting their town, battling their own personal monsters in the process.
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In a shakeup of the talent agency world specializing in film and TV composers, Robert Messinger has bolted First Artists Management and taken two of his colleagues with him to form Fortress Talent Management. Messinger, who had been a partner and co-owner of First Artists, will be joined in the new venture by former First Artists agents Rich Jacobellis and Randy Gerston.
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The actress, who previously worked with director Roland Emmerich on
The Day After Tomorrow, has joined the cast of the film, which is currently filming. She will play the film’s new President of the United States, President Landford. The original film’s President Thomas J. Whitmore will also be returning with Bill Pullman reprising his role opposite fellow alums Jeff Goldblum, Vivica A. Fox, Judd Hirsch and Brent Spiner as well as a cast of franchise newcomers.
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When
Hillary Clinton announced her bid for the 2016 presidential election, the Internet freaked out — mostly over her campaign logo. Rumored to be designed by Pentagram’s Michael Bierut, the logo was called everything from an ode to the hospital sign to an Easter egg revealing Clinton’s true, right-leaning agenda.
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Paramount has released the first image from Martin Scorsese’s decades in the making new film, which stars Andrew Garfield, Liam Neeson and Adam Driver. Based on Shusako Endo’s 1966 novel,
Silence tells the story of a Portuguese Jesuit missionary who is persecuted along with other Christians in 17th-century Japan. Garfield portrays Father Rodrigues, pictured in an exclusive image with Shinya Tsukamoto, who plays a villager named Mokichi.
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The director of such diverse fare as
A Hard Day’s Night,
The Knack … And How To Get It,
How I Won the War,
The Three Musketeers and a pair of
Superman sequels offers a half dozen tidbits to which any young filmmaker should listen.
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