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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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Among the other projects announced are at least one more comic book adaptation, a remake and reimagining of
Urban Cowboy, an American adaptation of the British series
Doc Martin, a new show from Julie Plec, and a brand new series based on the Tom Ripley books of Patricia Highsmith. Click on the link to get the full skinny.
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TODAY’S HEADLINES
The multiple Oscar winner will helm Warner Bros. Pictures’ as-yet-untitled drama about the life of Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, who became an American hero when, in 2009, he landed his disabled jet on the Hudson River, saving the lives of everyone aboard — passengers and crew, which numbered 155 people. Todd Komarnicki wrote the script, based on the book
Highest Duty: My Search For What Really Matters, by Sullenberger and Jeffrey Zaslow.
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With the film’s November 6th release, Sony’s deal with MGM to distribute the franchise expires. Now, insiders speculate that the close relationship between MGM chief Gary Barber and Warner Bros. CEO Kevin Tsujihara could result in the super-spy shifting addresses to the Burbank studio. MGM and Warner Bros. have partnered on several films including the
Hobbit trilogy, the May box office dud
Hot Pursuit and the upcoming Rocky Balboa spin-off,
Creed.
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A week after the controversy over a lack of diversity hit the internet, the studio has hired Christina Hodson and Lindsey Beer, the first two female writers in a group that includes Robert Kirkman, Art Marcum and Matt Holloway, Andrew Barrer and Gabriel Ferrari, Zak Penn and Jeff Pinkner. It’s lead by Akiva Goldsman and their aim is to have a fifth film ready to go when Michael Bay finishes his current movie, then multiple films lined up to be made after.
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Sony Pictures Entertainment, which signed on earlier this year to finance the franchise, is circling Nikolaj Arcel — the writer-director of 2013 Foreign Film Oscar Nominee
A Royal Affair and the writer of the Swedish version of
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo — to direct and rewrite this massive genre project that will involve condensing, or expounding upon, the eight novels in King's celebrated, quasi-Western, sci-fi fantasy opus.
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Previously listed Ted Melfi and Jonathan Levine are still on the list, as are the team of John Francis Daley & Jonathan M. Goldstein, while Jason Moore and Jared Hess appear out of the running. Meanwhile, Jon Watts, the director of the upcoming Kevin Bacon film
Cop Car, has also apparently been added. The project still needs a screenwriter, but has a release date of July 28th, 2017.
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Corddry’s show, which he created and executive produces, has won two Emmys during its run, and features a star-studded cast of comedic talent. The show explores the emotional struggles and sexual politics of a group of doctors charged with healthy libidos. Their dedication to their personal lives is relentless, interrupted only by the occasional need to treat sick children.
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Thirty-five years after it screened with
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back in 1980, it is now moving forward with Rutger Hauer and John Rhys-Davies attached. Roger Christian is returning to write and direct
Black Angel: The Feature Film. While the short film, about a warrior charged with saving a young maiden from an evil force called the Black Angel, was commissioned by George Lucas and cost $38,000, the budget for the new film is $15 million.
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Disney and Pixar have released the first look at the previously delayed animated film, which asks the question, what if the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs had missed the planet entirely? Directed by Peter Sohn, it hits theaters November 25th.
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