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BEST ACTOR/ACTRESS — DRAMA
Emmy nomination voting opened yesterday and among those in the running for Best Actress in a Drama Series is Taraji B. Henson for her role as Cookie Lyon in the Fox break-out hit. That series is notable for something that should be commonplace in this day and age; having diverse actors in the starring roles of a hit series. Thankfully that’s getting more and more routine.
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You know the Emmy race has shifted a bit when the writer who created Chris Farley’s "Matt Foley: Motivational Speaker" sketch on
Saturday Night Live is the face of this year’s highest-rated new cable drama. Emmy season’s most eclectic (and often funny) stars sound off on bad scripts and the "blessings" of winning — and not winning — an Oscar.
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Playing copywriter Peggy Olson on AMC’s
Mad Men has been as much about Moss’ own life as it has been about following a character’s arc. Although Moss says show creator Matthew Weiner asked her to watch a few period films like 1960’s
The Apartment to prep, she went into the role with the idea of making Peggy feel as real as possible.
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The 2015 Emmys seem to be a year of transition for the Emmys. They’ve expanded the Best Comedy and Best Drama races to include 7 series, redefined Guest and Movie/Mini races following controversy, and so on. But most important of all, Emmy standard-bearers of the last few years seem to be on the decline or going off the air entirely.
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OTHER HEADLINES
The cable network believes in the latest version of the author’s
American Gods, which used to be in development at HBO. Also in this week’s news, a new show from Mark Burnett and Roma Downey, a host of new shows for the Oxygen network, Bradley Cooper’s new Syfy series, and yet another crime drama partnership between John Ridley and ABC.
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Cooper is developing
Ghost Army along with Todd Phillips and Andrew Lazar, with Henry Gayden adapting Rick Beyer and Elizabeth Sayles' recently-published history
The Ghost Army Of World War II: How One Top-Secret Unit Deceived The Enemy With Inflatable Tanks, Sound Effects, And Other Audacious Fakery. No word on whether or not Cooper will also act in the project.
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Woody Harrelson will play the 36th president of the United States in the film, which will start shooting in September. Reiner will direct from a script by Joey Hartstone, which follows Johnson’s ascension from the poor hill country of West Texas to the corridors of power in Washington, being thrust into the Presidency by the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy and the passage of civil rights legislation.
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Created, written and executive produced by three-time Oscar nominee John Logan, show stars Josh Hartnett, Timothy Dalton and Eva Green. A co-production with Sky Atlantic, show will once again shoot on location in Dublin, Ireland for a nine episode order to debut in 2016. The second season, currently airing on Sundays, will air its season finale on Sunday, July 5th.
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Collateral Beauty revolves around a New York advertising executive who suffers a huge tragedy. Unable to comprehend or adjust to his life being flipped upside down in such a dramatic fashion he is plunged into a deep depression. Aware of his downward spiral, the man’s colleagues then devise a unique and unconventional plan to help break him out of his plight. Jackman will play the exec, and no word on who Segel would play.
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Twentieth Century Fox and Blue Sky Studios have released the new trailer for the highly anticipated new adventures of Charlie Brown, Snoopy and the gang. The film will feature the voices of Noah Schnapp, Hadley Belle Miller, AJ Tecce, Noah Johnston, Venus Schultheis, Alexander Garfin, Francesca Capaldi, Mar Mar, Mariel Sheets and Rebecca Bloom, and is due in theaters in 3D on November 6th.
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