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SSN ORIGINALS
If you’re blessed enough to actually sell a screenplay or get paid for an assignment job, your script will move into the important development process where hopefully your project marches toward production. You want to stay involved in the development process as long as possible to help build your reputation and show your producers and director how vital it is to keep you around.
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It’s another busy week in Hollywood, as lots of new shows get off the ground, including an untitled return for
Prison Break, a new project for Nikki Glaser, an adaptation of the bestselling
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, a new miniseries from Damien Szifron, and a benefit for the troops by Dwayne Johnson, not to mention all that animation. Click on the link for the full skinny.
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TODAY’S HEADLINES
Director of the studio’s
A Most Violent Year will adapt Vicky Ward's non-fiction book. Gideon Yago will pen the script, and Zachary Quinto, who starred in Chandor’s first film,
Margin Call, is among the producers on the project, which includes Chandor. Story follows the purchase of the GE Building in Rockefeller Center.
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The Walking Dead and
Wolf of Wall Street star has joined the cast of the Netflix series, produced with Marvel Studios. The character, previously portrayed in three movies by Dolph Lundgren, Thomas Jane and Ray Stevens, is a vigilante who aims to clean up New York City’s Hell’s Kitchen, not too different than the show’s titular superhero. However, the antihero will resort to any means necessary — no matter how lethal the results.
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Producer Bobby Cohen and Gillian Bohrer, who most recently served as Lionsgate's evp, production & development, have been named co-presidents of production. Meanwhile, former head of development and production Michael Paseornek has been promoted to the newly-created role of president of production of the Lionsgate Motion Picture Group, overseeing production of films encompassed by the company’s nine labels.
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Collateral Beauty, a script written by Allan Loeb, already has Hugh Jackman and Rooney Mara attached to star, with Alfonso Gomez-Rejon making this his follow-up directing effort to the Sundance favorite. The plot centers on a New York advertising executive who experiences a deep personal tragedy. When his colleagues devise an unconventional plan to break him out of his depression, the plan works, but not in a way that anyone imagined. Principal photography is set to begin in the fall.
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The director has added Jack Reynor and Sam Riley to the cast roster for
High-Rise, along with those already on board, including Sharlto Copley, Brie Larson, Armie Hammer, Cillian Murphy and regular collaborator Michael Smiley. Wheatley penned the script with his regular co-writer Amy Jump. Film is about a deal gone wrong that turns into a fight for survival.
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Perlman will adapt Hugh Howey's self-published runaway bestseller
Wool, in which a few rebellious inhabitants of an underground dystopia decide to discover for themselves what else is out there, especially aboveground. The project is out of 20th Century Fox. She will rewrite former drafts by a different screenwriter, and if this first film is a success, Howey's trilogy could end up becoming a film franchise.
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The American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada is on a legal rampage. AFM has filed its third major lawsuit in the past two months, this time targeting Paramount, alleging that the studio lied about the scoring of the upcoming film
Same Kind of Different as Me. According to the complaint, Paramount has breached the terms of a collective bargaining agreement that requires that films produced in North America shall be scored there.
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Lionsgate has released the first trailer from the upcoming fourth installment in the fabulously successful franchise, based on the YA series. Starring Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Woody Harrelson, Elizabeth Banks, the late Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jeffrey Wright, Willow Shields, Sam Claflin, Jena Malone with Stanley Tucci and Donald Sutherland, it opens November 20th.
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