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Today, Hollywood’s addiction to technological wonder tantalizes the movie-goer: IMAX, 3D, Dolby 5.1/7.1, Atmos, Surround Sound, Blu-ray, 4K! Surely, all this – and more! – will entice you, the movie-goer, to fall in love again with the Big Screen immersive storytelling experience! Storytelling expert Bobette Buster’s series continues exclusively here at SSN.
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Among the other projects announced this week are Greg Berlanti’s trip to
The Infinite Horizon, new projects from producers Matt Tolmach and Reese Witherspoon, and new attachments to established projects like
Zootopie and
IT. Click on the link to get all the info.
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TODAY’S HEADLINES
NBCUniversal’s male-skewing network has ordered 10 episodes of the dark drama
Spotless, set to premiere this fall. Ed McCardie and Corinne Marrinan are co-creators, and Rola Bauer will serve as exec producer, alongside Jonas Bauer and Suzanne Berger. Hourlong drama, set in London, follows a troubled man whose life is turned upside down when his outlaw brother crash lands into his world.
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Peacock Network kicked off its comedy pickup orders Thursday with series orders to
People Are Talking,
starring Mark-Paul Gosselaar and Tone Bell, as well as
Crowded, from
Hot In Cleveland creator Suzanne Martin and EP Sean Hayes, and single camera show
Superstore, starring America Ferrera and Ben Feldman.
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The network picked up
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend from sister network Showtime, but needs to overhaul it from a half-hour to an hourlong, and also ordered the
Arrow-Flash spinoff, titled
Legends of Tomorrow, and Julie Plec’s
Cordon, both from Warner Bros. TV. The studio’s remaining pilot,
Dead People is well, dead.
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Van Camp will reprise her role as Sharon Carter, aka Agent 13, while Rudd will again play Scott Lang/Ant-Man, a role that will first hit theaters in July with the release of
Ant-Man. They join Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie, Elizabeth Olsen, Daniel Brühl, Frank Grillo, Martin Freeman, Sebastian Stan and Chadwick Boseman. A full synopsis is also available for the film, which hits theaters May 6th, 2016.
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The renewal comes hot on the heels of eight other series renewals by CW. According to the report, while not a ratings juggernaut,
iZombie was steady enough and impressed executives of The CW by maintaining its ratings even when its lead-in
The Flash was in repeats. Show stars Rose McIver as a medical student who becomes a zombie and uses her undead powers to solve crimes.
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TriStar Pictures has released the first look at the new film from director Jonathan Demme, and starring Meryl Streep, Mamie Gummer, Kevin Kline, Sebastian Stan, Rick Springfield, Audra McDonald and Ben Platt. Diablo Cody wrote the script for the film, which is out August 7th.
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The first look at the highly anticipated new Netflix series from the Wachowskis and writer J. Michael Straczynski. The sci-fi series about the psychic link between eight strangers drops all 12 episodes on June 5th, exclusively on the online streaming service.
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The red band trailer for the upcoming reboot of the popular franchise, with Ed Helms starring as Rusty Griswold and Christina Applegate as his wife. Chevy Chase and Beverly D’Angelo also appear in the film, which hits theaters July 29th.
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