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Just in time for summer, SSN has sorted through the internet to find that available talent and content on the cusp of greatness. This list is filled with hidden gems in the form of talent and content that are steps from hitting the mainstream. Besides talent and produced content, some are articles that would make for a fascinating miniseries or film.
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Another busy week in Hollywoodland, as lots of hirings and firings and comings and goings occur all over town. Companies are bought and sold, execs land golden parachutes, and the world keeps spinning. Click on the link to get all the info.
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TODAY’S HEADLINES
A high-quality copy of the pilot for the new drama series leaked to pirate sites early this morning according to German all-things-piracy-tracking firm Excipio. Excipio reports the pirated pilot turned up around 3 AM ET today, and does not appear to have watermarks. CBS and Warner Bros Television declined to comment.
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Just a few weeks before the release of her first film,
Trainwreck, the buzzing comedian is set to write and star in a mother-daughter comedy for Fox. Paul Feig is attached to produce. The film, co-written by Schumer and her sister Kim Caramele, will be based on a script reportedly about "a mother-daughter duo trapped in a vacation gone wrong."
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The screenwriter behind
Four Weddings and a Funeral,
Mr. Bean,
Bridget Jones' Diary, and
War Horse, will script a biopic of Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb — the brothers who formed the Bee Gees in 1958 — for DreamWorks and MGM. Barry Gibb, the lone surviving member of the group, and MGM's Gary Barber are set to produce.
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The studio confirms it’s already entered the “early planning” stages for the threequel, now that
Now You See Me 2 has wrapped production.
Now You See Me: The Second Act began shooting in late 2014, and is scheduled to arrive in theaters June 10th, 2016. Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Woody Harrelson, Isla Fisher, Dave Franco, Morgan Freeman, Michael Caine, Lizzy Caplan and Daniel Radcliffe star.
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Cable network has ordered a 10-episode first season of his ambitious, gory and hotly anticipated period piece. The
Sons of Anarchy creator recently wrapped production on the pilot for the late Middle Ages-set drama, which is shooting in Wales. Production will resume this summer before bowing on FX this fall. Show tells the story of a warrior knight in King Edward I’s charge who is broken by the ravages of war and vows to lay down his sword.
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Aaron Paul has joined the Dwayne Johnson-Kevin Hart action comedy from New Line, to be directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber. The movie sees Hart as a boring accountant who was once the cool guy in high school. He reconnects with an old school acquaintance (Johnson), a man who was a formerly a bullied nerd, but is now a rogue spy. Hilarity ensues. Paul will play Johnson’s CIA partner who seemingly sacrifices himself for Johnson.
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A first image has been released from the new Meryl Streep movie, currently shooting in London, about the 1940s opera singing socialite who had a horrible voice, but never knew because no one told her. Hugh Grant, Simon Helberg and Nina Arianda also star.
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Netflix has released the first trailer for the much buzzed about Christmas special from Bill Murray and Sofia Coppola. The plot centers on Murray worrying that “no one will show up to his TV show due to a massive snowstorm in New York City. Through luck and perseverance, guests arrive at Gotham’s Carlyle hotel to help him — dancing and singing in holiday spirit,” and will air sometime in December.
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