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Tom Hanks is in negotiations with Eastwood and Warner Bros. to play Captain Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, who became an instant American hero in 2009 when he engineered a miraculous emergency landing of US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River after a flock of geese hit the plane just after it took off from La Guardia Airport, saving the lives of all 155 people aboard. Eastwood will direct from a screenplay by Todd Komarnicki.
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Having closed his three-year Fox deal, which includes National Geographic Channel, FX Networks and Fox Broadcasting, his first series will be with Nat Geo. Rudin scooped up the rights himself at the book proposal stage, for Simon & Schuster's non-fiction title about the Chernobyl disaster,
The Invisible Enemy, written by Adam Higginbotham. Rudin will develop and produce the series which covers the leadup to the nuclear plant disaster.
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Giancarlo Esposito will play Pastor Ramon Cruz (the brother of Jimmy Smits’ character), who is described as the charismatic head of the local Pentecostal church that attracts a flock of followers with his fiery sermons and leadership. The rest of the cast is mostly unknowns, including Justice Smith, Shameik Moore, Skylan Brooks, Tremaine Brown, Jr., Herizen Guardiola, Yahya Abdul-Mateen and Mamoudou Athie.
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Britne Oldford will play the female lead in the show, an alien drama produced by
The Walking Dead’s Gale Anne Hurd. She joins Australian actor Nathan Phillips. Written by Natalie Chaidez, it’s based on Whitley Strieber’s 2013 novel, which centers on a Philadelphia cop obsessed with finding his missing wife. His search leads him to a secret government unit tasked with hunting a group of shadowy terrorists who may not be from this world.
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The writer-director who started the franchise with the hit 2010 film skipped the sequel because he was buys making
X-Men: First Class. Now, after the unsuccessful
Kick-Ass 2, he is working on a
Hit Girl prequel, that would lead to a third
Kick-Ass film that would bring the entire series to a close. No word on whether the studio behind the series, Universal, is involved at this stage.
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Recently, Disney’s purchase of Lucasfilm led to more speculation about a fifth outing for Indy, with Lucasfilm saying that a film will happen, with no indication of when. Yet more conversations have suggested that Chris Pratt is being eyed as a replacement for original star Harrison Ford, which Pratt has denied. Now there are rumors of loose plans for a 2018 release developing, but producer Frank Marshall insists there have been “no discussions on
Indy 5 to date.”
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It was released on this weekend in 1995, with a new director, a new Batman, and exceedingly low expectations. Though
Batman Returns was a moderate success, it was viewed as a disappointment by the studio, which wasn’t sure how to proceed with the franchise. Enter Joel Schumacher, a veteran director who would change the course of Batman’s onscreen history.
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A24 and DIRECTV have released the new trailer for the adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s second novel, starring Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Tye Sheridan, Christina Hendricks, Corey Stoll and Chloë Grace Moretz. Directed by Gilles Paquet-Brenner, it opens in theaters August 7th, and is currently available for a 30-day exclusive window on DIRECTV.
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Sony Pictures Classics has released the first trailer for the Sundance hit, starring Lily Tomlin in her first starring role in almost three decades. It hits theaters August 18th.
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The 107-page screenplay by Justin Simien, labels Revised and dated August 21st, 2013.
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