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Venice-based messaging app has tapped Marcus Wiley as head of program planning and development, giving him oversight of original series produced for Snapchat's Discover channel. Wiley previously served as co-senior vp comedy development at Fox, where he oversaw projects including
Brooklyn Nine-Nine and
The Mindy Project. He left the network to transition into producing in 2013.
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Based on Rick Rosner’s cult TV series that saw Erik Estrada and Larry Wilcox as dedicated, khaki-clad cops Frank “Ponch” Poncherrello and Jon Baker, who kept the mean streets of California’s highways safe from crime between 1977 and 1983, Sheppard will play Baker and Michael Peña Ponch, and now it looks like Vincent D’Onofrio will play the big bad. No word yet on shooting dates.
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Jimmy Smits is joining the cast of
The Get Down, Luhrman’s series is set in 1970s New York City and revolves around a ragtag crew of South Bronx teenagers who are wild in the streets. Smits will play Francisco Cruz, aka “Papa Fuerte,” a South Bronx political boss who delivers services the City fails to provide – jobs, housing, healthcare, etc.
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Director Asante will helm
A United Kingdom, the true story of Seretse Khama, a member of the royal family of a former English colony and south African nation called Bechuanaland, which eventually became Botswana with Khama as its first president. Preceding this development, however, Khama was embroiled in controversy when he married a white woman in 1949. Guy Hibbert wrote the script.
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Azealia Banks will star in
It Doesn’t Have to Rhyme, which is being directed by rapper-turned-director RZA. Also joining the Lionsgate production, which was previously going by the title
Coco, is another rapper, Common. Jill Scott and Lorraine Toussaint are also on board the production which will begin shooting this week in New York.
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Tony Wood’s Buccaneer Media is overseeing the project, based on the feature starring Gillian Anderson and Ben Kingsley. The agreement, signed with Piers Tempest and Jo Bamford’s Tempo Productions, who produced the movie, will see Buccaneer create a TV series set in a parallel universe to the original movie, which features a group of survivors following the invasion of Earth by alien robots.
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The Director List, the web site dedicated to news about women film and TV directors and their projects, has just launched its new web site which features an online database with a list of 850 female directors of movies, TV shows, music videos and commercials. Searchable by medium, genre and home base, this database allows for film and TV executives to find female directors for their projects.
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Warner Bros. and Alcon Entertainment have released the first trailer from the upcoming remake of the 1991 hit film directed by Kathryn Bigelow and starring Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze. The new film stars Luke Bracey, Edgar Ramirez, Teresa Palmer, Ray Winstone, and Delroy Lindo. It hits theaters Christmas Day.
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Sony Pictures Classics has released the first trailer from the Sundance hit, which follows the illicit affair between a 15-year-old girl and her mother's boyfriend in 1976 San Francisco. Movie is based on the graphic novel by Phoebe Gloeckner and marks actress Marielle Heller's feature film debut as a writer/director. Newcomer Bel Powley stars alongside Alexander Skarsgård, Christopher Meloni, and Kristen Wiig. It gets a limited theatrical release August 7th.
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The 126-page screenplay by Jeff Nichols, labeled Shooting Script and dated September 16th, 2011.
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