Emmy 2015: Best Actor/Actress — Comedy, E3 — Let the Games Begin, Netflix Spends Big On Brad Pitt Film, Aaron Paul’s New TV Show, Rep Moves For 6/17/15

   

BEST ACTOR/ACTRESS — COMEDY

Put Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Jeffrey Tambor In a Room Together, and They Will Discuss the Responsibility Of Their Roles

The two legendary actors, and frontrunners for this year’s awards, sit down to talk about their respective roles, both of which could be described as career-defining. What they both make cert clear to each other is just how important the concept and the writing are to their decision-making process. (VAR)

Anthony Anderson Forces His Way Into the Best Actor - Comedy Conversation With a Role Much Like Himself

Between senior citizens and digital-brained teens, tweens and tots are the befuddled middle-agers trying to make sense of it all—while texting at the same time. Anderson takes this bafflement to new heights in Black-ish as Andre “Dre” Johnson, caught between his old-school “Pops” (Laurence Fishburne) from hard-knocks Compton and his own four children—products of suburban affluence who can’t remember a time before the United States had a black president. (AL)

From Unknown To Megastar, Gina Rodriguez Has Had Quite a Year, Both For Herself and Her Network

As unlikely as it is that a show called Jane the Virgin would even exist, the CW drama has broken barriers and exceeded expectations on several levels. The show gave the youth-driven network its first Golden Globe nominations, including a win for Best Actress – Musical or Comedy, for star Gina Rodriguez. On a show steeped in telenovela lore with all the crazy twists and turns to go with it, Rodriguez got to run the gamut in terms of acting. (TW)

Just as the Drama Category Is Packed To the Gills With Great Actors, So Is the Comedy Category

After a long stretch in which Jim Parsons has dominated this category, there are suddenly a bevy of newcomers here, including a brand new frontrunner whose character wears dresses and the renewed emergence of a standup comic at the top of his game, not to mention at least three and possibly five potential nominees from HBO and Showtime series. (AC)

SSN ORIGINALS

E3 2015: Let the Games Begin — The Nine Video Games Ripe For Film/TV Adaptation

The industry-only annual trade fair for the video game industry kicked off yesterday at the LA Convention Center. If you look deeper than all the CGI explosions, gunfire and magical elves there’s some captivating stories to be heard. This is a multi-billion dollar industry of course, so there’s bound to be a good cinematic experience or two and that’s just what SSN found. (SSN)

Rep Moves For 6/17/15: Beyonce Moves To CAA, ‘Star Wars’ Lead John Boyega Scooped Up By WME, and More

A few big moves this week, with Paradigm especially having a lot of heat with a couple of new clients. UTA also has a big week, along with the name clients landed by CAA and WME. As usual, click on the link to get the full skinny. (SSN)

OTHER HEADLINES

Netflix Apparently Paid $60 Million For the Right To Make Brad Pitt’s Military Satire

The film had been set up at New Regency and RatPac Entertainment, but even though New Regency made 12 Years a Slave with Plan B, the backers wanted Michod and producers to lower the proposed $60 million to $70 million budget. The filmmakers balked, putting the project up for grabs, and Netflix revealed June 8 that it had swooped in and grabbed War Machine. Netflix chief content officer Ted Sarandos was willing to pay the price tag. (THR)

Jason Katims Lands Aaron Paul For His Faith-Based Hulu Drama

A 10-episode series created by Katims’ fellow Parenthood scribe Jessica Goldberg, The Way examines a family at the center of a controversial movement struggling with relationships, marriage and power. Paul will play Eddie Cleary, a convert to the movement with a wayward past. He’s a husband and father who suffers a crisis of faith when all that he’s come to accept as truth in his life is fundamentally challenged. (TVL)

Because No Idea Isn’t Worth Copying, Skydance Follows Universal and WB, Develops a Bermuda Triangle Film Of Its Own

Doug Miro and Carlo Bernard are rewriting a script based on an original screenplay by Damian Shannon and Mark Swift for Skydance Productions. The Bermuda Triangle seems to be a hot spot for Hollywood right now as this is the second project currently brewing about the area. Juliet Snowden and Stiles White are rewriting the script for Universal's untitled Bermuda Triangle movie. Meanwhile, Warner has a Bermuda Triangle script from Dan Kunka. (HV)

Trailer Buzz: ‘Hotel Transylvania 2’

Sony Pictures Animation has released the final trailer from the upcoming animated sequel, starring the voice talents of Adam Sandler, Steve Buscemi, Mel Brooks, Selena Gomez and David Spade. Directed by Genndy Tartkovsky, from a script by Adam Sandler and Robert Smigel, the movie hits theaters September 25th. (AS)