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Dwayne Johnson’s disaster film blows away the competition, beating runner-up
Pitch Perfect 2 by almost $40 million. That film came in at $14.8 million, while
Tomorrowland continued its lackluster performance, coming in third with $13.8 million in its second week.
Mad Max: Fury Road and
Avengers: Age Of Ultron rounded out the top five, while
Aloha came in sixth with just $10 million in its opening weekend.
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It was a big night for HBO’s
Silicon Valley and
Olive Kitteridge and FX’s
The Americans, as well as Taraji P. Henson, Jeffrey Tambor, David Oyelowo, Jonathan Banks, Amy Schumer and Allison Janney, all of whom were among the acting winners. The star-studded affair, hosted by
So You Think You Can Dance host Cat Deeley, was the fifth annual event for the organization.
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Asa Butterfield is still thought to be the frontrunner for the role, which is expected to debut in next summer’s
Captain America: Civil War, currently shooting. Aside from the
Ender’s Game star, it is said that Tom Holland, Judah Lewis, Charlie Plummer, Charlie Rose and Matthew Lintz were all in Atlanta this weekend testing for the part. The next
Spider-Man movie, from Sony and Marvel Studios, will come out in 2017.
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Tatum aiming to produce and possibly star in an adaptation of the Matthew Logelin memoir
Two Kisses for Maddy. The film is a father-daughter drama that revolves around Logelin’s marriage, the death of his wife 27 hours after she gives birth, and his experience of raising his daughter as a single parent. Tatum has snapped up the property to produce through his Free Association banner for Sony’s TriStar and Temple Hill Entertainment.
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Disney is reportedly not moving forward with the project. Earlier this year, it had seemed likely there would be a follow-up to 2010's
Tron: Legacy. Stars Olivia Wilde and Garrett Hedlund were set to return with director Joseph Kosinski. Disney was also reportedly looking to add Jared Leto to the cast. In March, the third "Tron" film even received an unofficial title,
Tron: Ascension, and production was expected to begin as early as this fall.
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Pay cable network has given a two-season order to the new animated series
Animals. The series is produced Duplass Brothers Television and marks the second collaboration between the duo and HBO following
Togetherness, which debuted in January. Created by Phil Matarese and Mike Luciano,
Animals centers on the downtrodden creatures that call the Earth's least habitable environment — New York City — home.
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The Image Comic book by Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie has been optioned by Universal Television. Series centers around a group of people with superhuman powers known as “The Pantheon.” Every member of The Pantheon was once a normal person who eventually was chosen to merge with the spirit of a specific deity. It is believed that each cycle of The Pantheon can not live past two years from the start of the series.
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With the press tour for the new film underway, the director said in an interview that he would not be returning for the next film, saying, “Jurassic Park is like Star Wars. Different directors can give a different taste to each movie. I would be involved in some way, but not as director.” The film opens in regular theaters, 3D and IMAX on June 12th.
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As of last month, Hulu had 9m paid subscribers to their Hulu Plus program. As of last week, Hulu CEO Mike Hopkins announced that Hulu Plus would be no more. To be more specific, he said that there was no need for two brands, and that Hulu was going to drop the “Plus,” which could really mean just about anything.
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As a recent UCLA class, the head of HBO, Michael Lombardo, shared that HBO is planning to buy approximately 200 new pilots this year — roughly 120 dramas and 80 comedies. To put this in perspective, if recent trends continue, we’ll probably see somewhere in the neighborhood of 150 feature spec scripts sell this year, meaning HBO will purchase more scripts than all of the movie studios combined.
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