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DeKnight joins a braintrust that is lead by Academy Award winner Akiva Goldsman and includes Robert Kirkman, Art Marcum and Matt Holloway, Jeff Pinkner, Zak Penn, Andrew Barrer & Gabriel Ferrari, Ken Nolan, Geneva Robertson-Dworetrepeat, Christina Hodson, and Lindsey Beer. Some films previously mentioned as being possibilities from the writers room are a solo Bumblebee movie, a Cybertron origin film, as well as a revival of
Beast Wars.
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Studio is reviving its doomed live-action adaptation of the
Akira manga, this time with some Marvel blood. Ramirez has been tapped to pen a new screenplay adaptation of the project. For those unfamiliar with
Akira, the source material takes place in a post-nuclear apocalypse version of Tokyo and revolves around the rivalry between two young men, one of whom misuses his telekinetic abilities.
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Lizzie and Wendy Molyneux, writers on animated comedy
Bob's Burgers, have signed on to work on the project. The sisters are the second writing team to board the project, as the studio also has Lucia Aniello and Paul W. Downs, who are working on Comedy Central’s buzzy
Broad City. The studio liked a pitch from the Molyneuxs, so it is moving forward with dual-track development, in which both writing teams are working on separate scripts.
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Just days after its cancellation in Canada on MTV the show has found a new life on Netflix. "Degrassi graduates to Netflix. Meet the
Next Class, coming in 2016," the U.S. video streamer said this morning on its Twitter account. Netflix and Canada's Family Channel have ordered 20 episodes of
Degrassi: Next Class, the latest incarnation of the franchise from Canadian indie producer Epitome Pictures.
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The Independent Filmmaker Project is out with the list of projects for its annual yearlong fellowship for rookie filmmakers. The teams behind the 10 narratives began their first week of sessions yesterday at the Made in NY Media Center. The projects cover genres ranging from sci-fi, fantasy, drama to young adult, comedy, horror and hybrid. Deadline has the full list.
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Robert Zemeckis is directing the film, which centers on two assassins (Pitt, Cotillard), who fall in love during a mission in Casablanca to kill a German ambassador. The duo marry, but domestic bliss is cut short when Pitt’s character, a French-Canadian, is informed his wife is a double agent working for the German government and he must kill her. Steven Knight wrote the script.
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Despite popularizing the split-film formula that now defines much of serialized Hollywood with the second two
Matrix films, the Wachowskis’ recent filmography looks positively alien in a landscape of shared cinematic universes and cyclical reboots.
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The Weinstein Company has released the latest look at the upcoming Jake Gyllenhaal boxing drama, from director Antoine Fuqua. Written by Kurt Sutter and also starring Rachel McAdams and Rita Ora, it opens in theaters July 24th.
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At the 2015 Produced By Conference in Los Angeles, filmmaker Eli Roth conducted a panel discussion with producer Jason Blum and top executives at Blum's wildly successful company, Blumhouse Productions. During the conversation, Blum provided some unique insights about low budget filmmaking.
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