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How To Quit Your Day Job To Write, ‘X-Files’ Premiere Announced, Liam Neeson’s Next Action Flick, On the Set For 5/11/15

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How To Quit Your Day Job To Write: Next Steps To Becoming a Full-Time TV & Film Writer

Leaving a paycheck to write and head off into the unknown is not for everyone. There are lots of ups and downs, times when you’re not sure what to write, unexpected expenses, wondering why people aren't getting back to you, and so on. Here's advice on how to navigate the choppy waters. (SSN)

On the Set For 5/11/15: Cameras Roll On ‘Barbershop 3’, Jason Blum’s Film 'Stephanie' and Rob Reiner’s ‘Being Charlie' Wrap Up

Other films that have begun shooting are the Kevin Hart-Dwayne Johnson action comedy Central Intelligence, the Meryl Streep-Hugh Grant drama Florence Foster Jenkins and the Nate Parker film, The Birth of a Nation. Meanwhile, films like the Nicole Kidman vehicle Lion and the Bill Lee biopic The Wrong Stuff wrap principal photography. (SSN)

TODAY’S HEADLINES

‘X-Files’ Fans Mark Your Calendars, Fox Has Set a Premiere Date For the Upcoming Event Series

The network announced that the highly anticipated show will premiere January 24th, 2016 after the NFC Championship Game on FOX, with its second episode airing the very next day in its regular Monday time slot. The six-episode series will feature original series stars David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson. (IW)

Liam Neeson’s Particular Set Of Skills Will Again Be On Display Soon In ‘A Willing Patriot’

In the terrorist-themed thriller, Neeson will play a CIA agent who finds himself in the middle of “an elaborate cat-and-mouse game with a sinister terrorist planning an imminent attack. He’ll risk everything, including his own life, to stop his foe and avenge his mysterious past. Martin Zandvliet is set to direct with Marc Butan‘s MadRiver Pictures fully financing and producing the film. (COL)

On the Heels Of Fox’s ‘American Idol’ Announcement Comes News From CBS That It Is Canceling ‘CSI’

After a 15-year run on the network, the series will wrap up with a TV movie to tie up all loose ends, though the network has not yet confirmed that. The good news for CSI fans is that spinoff CSI: Cyber has been picked up for a second season. The Eye has also renewed bubble crime dramas Person of Interest and Hawaii Five-O and mid-season comedy The Odd Couple(VUL)

Paramount Is Releasing a Leslie Mann Comedy Produced By Judd Apatow

The Hangover writers Jon Lucas and Scott Moore are preparing to direct the comedy, which they also wrote. The film is currently untitled, but now Paramount has picked up the project, and will release it next year. The studio announced that it will hits theaters April 15th, 2016, against Disney’s The Jungle Book, directed by Jon Favreau. (SF)

Amazon Studios’ Foray Into Children’s Programming Continues With the Greenlighting Of Six More Pilots

The four animated are The Adventures of Knickerbock Teetertop,” Lost in Oz, Lily the Unicorn  (from the Jim Henson Co.) and Bear in Underwear; while the live-action shows are A History of Radness and The Kicks. The pilots, slated to debut this summer, will be available free for Amazon customers to view, rate and comment on; Amazon Studios will incorporate that feedback into which shows will be turned into full series for Prime members. (VAR)

Add Selma Blair To the Growing Cast Of Ryan Murphy’s ‘American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson’

She will play Kris Jenner in the limited series, the ex-wife of O.J. Simpson’s lawyer, Robert Kardashian, who will be played by David Schwimmer. The 10-episode first season will star Cuba Gooding Jr. as the former football player, Sarah Paulson as head prosecutor Marcia Clark, and John Travolta as Simpson’s other attorney, Robert Shapiro. (HP)

Lionsgate Hires Pair Of Nicholl’s Fellowship Winners To Adapt ‘White Girl Problems

Alisha Brophy and Scott Miles, who wrote United States Of F—-in’ Awesome, will join the project, based on the 2012 pseudo-memoir about a young woman with a huge social media following who melts down one afternoon after spending about a quarter of a million dollars in Barney’s and ends up in shopping rehab, where she decides to write about her life — of excess and meaningless problems. (DH)

Trailer Buzz: ‘Orange Is the New Black’

The new trailer for the Emmy-winning series from Netflix, which will debut its third season on June 11th. (EMP)

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