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SSN ORIGINALS
Pen Densham draws from his own extremely simple breakthrough techniques, shares his philosophy of finding a personal well of creativity from your inner voice, to overcoming the many challenges in a unique business, managing stress, the real secrets to selling your work, finding the right agent and being true to one’s nature to create a lasting and passion filled career.
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While Gunn is just the writer-prodcuer of his project, Greg McLean is directing. Other projects to start up this week include the Zac Efron vehicle
Mike and Dave Need Wedding Date, the Key and Peele movie
Keanu and
Comancheria, starring Chris Pine, Ben Foster and Jeff Bridges. Meanwhile, Todd Phillips wraps up
Arms and the Dudes, while William H. Macy finishes up his road comedy,
The Layover.
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TODAY’S HEADLINES
The cult filmmaker made a video announcement via his Facebook page that his long held-up cannibal opus will finally see release thanks to Jason Blum’s successful production shingle, which will open the film in theaters on September 25th. That’s over a year after it’s original intended release date of September 5th, 2014. At the time, Open Road Films was dealing with financial difficulties incurred by its production company, Worldview Entertainment.
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Bob Berney, the former CEO of indie film distributor Picturehouse, will head movie marketing and distribution, while former Disney/ABC TV digital chief Albert Cheng has signed on as chief operating officer. In January, Amazon announced plans to produce up to 12 movies per year, which would be indie-oriented pictures with budgets ranging from $5 million to $25 million.
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Series co-creator Howard Gordon confirmed that the spotlight will be on someone new, but who keeps up the tradition of hunting terrorists and other criminals while reporting to an older, seasoned female operative. Show veterans Manny Coto and Evan Katz, who oversaw last year’s mini-series
24: Live Another Day, are overseeing the new show. The plan, apparently, is for Kiefer Sutherland’s Bauer to pop up in the new series, but not star.
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Mann was set to star and Apatow to produce, the project, written and to be directed by Jon Lucas & Scott Moore. They are married and planned to do this together and sources close to them said that the picture wasn’t going to make the window they had carved into their schedule. It was a tight squeeze that necessitated the picture starting by July 12th.
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The writer announced today that later this month, she'll be publishing a new version of "Fifty Shades Of Grey," but here's the twist: it's told from Christian's point-of-view. Apparently, fans have been asking for this, and James has indulged their request. No word yet on whether or not this will fit into the ongoing movie franchise that stars Jamie Dornan and Dakota Fanning.
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Formerly titled
That’s What I’m Talking About, the “spiritual sequel” to his 1993 hit
Dazed and Confused is now getting its title from a Van Halen song and will be called
Everybody Wants Some. The movie Tyler Hoechlin, Wyatt Russell, Ryan Guzman, Will Brittain, Glen Powell, and Zoey Deutch.
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The prolific author has had no less than 50 of his novels, novellas and short stories adapted into films, miniseries and TV shows over the last four decades. Among those are
The Shining (celebrating its 35th anniversary this year) and
It, the remake of which just lost director Cary Fukunaga over budget concerns.
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TV's ongoing ratings erosion has given a new lease on life to lightweight broadcast shows that in any other era would've ended up on the scrapheap. The Big Four broadcast networks this past season renewed more low-rated scripted series than ever before, as the average rating for a show picked up for 2015-16 was a 1.9 in the adults 18-to-49 demo. That marked a 5% drop from the year-ago 2.0 average and a 17% decline from the 2012-13 campaign's 2.3 rating.
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