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The studio has optioned
Phenomenon, Roseanne Montillo's biography of Betty Robinson, which details how Robinson became the first woman to win an Olympic gold medal in track and field and the incredible challenges she surmounted to win her second. Frank Marshall is on board to produce the adaptation along with Rob Weisbach. Montillo and Kevin Yorn will co-produce.
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Filling the ranks are Arturo Castro, who will play “Mango”; Barney Harris, who will play “Sykes”; Beau Knapp, who plays “Crack”; Mason Lee, who plays “Foo”; Brian “Astro” Bradley, who plays “Lodis”; and Ismael Cruz Cordova, who plays “Holiday.” In addition, Makenzie Leigh will play Faison, a Texas cheerleader and love interest to main character Billy Flynn. They join actor Joe Alwyn, already cast in the title role.
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The studio will be the first to create all its movies in High Dynamic Range, Ultra HD for home viewing, which is viewed by many Hollywood tech leaders as the key feature to create a noticeable picture advancement for viewers. It also intends to make HDR UHD versions of its recent releases, including
X-Men: Days of Future Past and
The Maze Runner.
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Brittany Snow will be doing voice work for the show, which follows five awkward outcasts who discover they have the same father (who just so happens to be a prince…and a total cad). The group of misfits become royalty overnight, but it’s not your typical fairytale. Sharon Osbourne, Natasha Leggero, Nasim Pedrad, John Roberts, Jameeliah Garrett and Jessica Lowe are also in the cast.
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The cable net announced a summer TV lineup that includes 2 new original movies, new series, specials, live events and more. Among the attractions are Regina King's feature length film directorial debut, an adaptation of
Let the Church Say Amen, the best-selling novel by Reshonda Tate Billingsley, Mara Brock Akil and Salim Akil’s
The Start Up, as well as a reboot of
Punk’d, a Muhammad Ali tribute and season nine of
The Game.
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The Ben Affleck action-thriller
The Accountant has been given the release date of January 29th, The pic will open opposite
Kung Fu Panda 3 and the Disney coast guard drama
The Finest Hours, which stars Affleck’s brother Casey Affleck. Other release dates were announced for
Project XX,
Arms & the Dudes and a “Special Event Film” which might be the
Annabelle sequel.
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Espinosa will helm a new adaptation of Vilhelm Moberg’s novel
The Emigrants, which was previously adapted for a 1971 movie that earned four Academy Award nominations, for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, and Best Adapted Screenplay. Story tells the tale of the epic journey of a couple who immigrate to American from Sweden in the 1850s seeking a better life. Petter Skavlan (
Kon-Tiki) will write the script and filming is slated to begin in 2017.
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The writer-actor who has starred as Montgomery Scott in two
Star Trek movies, is co-writing the upcoming third installment, and will appear in his third
Mission: Impossible film this summer, has a few thoughts about the way Geek Culture has affected Pop Culture, and that we are losing our focus on the more important things.
(RT)
Fox has released the first full-length trailer of Ryan Murphy’s next creation, the horror-comedy mashup that will star Jamie Lee Curtis, Emma Roberts, Lea Michele, Abigail Breslin, Nasim Pedrad, Oliver Hudson, Skyler Samuels, Keke Palmer, Billie Lourd, Diego Boneta, Glen Powell, Lucien Laviscount, Niecy Nash, Nick Jonas, and Ariana Grande. Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan are co-creators of the project, which will premiere in the fall.
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The 119-page screenplay by Aaron Guzikowski, dated January 17th, 2013, and labeled Full Pink Version.
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