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The latest in Steven Spielberg’s dinosaur saga follows up the biggest opening weekend ever with the second biggest second weekend ever, with $102 million to give it a cute of $398.2 million through 10 days, another record. The Pixar film, meanwhile, did $91 million, the second best ever for the company.
Spy finished third with $10.5 million,
San Andreas was fourth with $8.2 million, and
Dope had a disappointing $6 million to finish fifth.
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Philip Gawthorne has been tapped to write the screenplay for the modern-day film adaptation of the classic TV series. Diesel will produce with Samantha Vincent for their Universal-based One Race Films alongside Scott Stuber and Dylan Clark, who board the project with their Universal-based Bluegrass Films banner.
Kojak is intended to be a starring vehicle for Diesel, who most recently starred in
Furious 7, with worldwide grosses of more than $1.5 billion.
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Studio won a heated bidding battle late Friday and closed a deal for an untitled R-rated comedy spec script by Lucia Aniello & Paul W. Downs. She is attached to direct a female-driven comedy described as
The Hangover meets
Weekend At Bernie’s, and he is attached to play the male lead. Aniello directed the pilot and multiple episodes of
Broad City, in which Downs plays the role of Trey, and both are exec producers of the show.
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Michael Gummelt’s project,
Star Trek: Uncharted, is something the hardcore Trek fan has been working on for close to 20 years, and is now being offered the chance to pitch it to the studio. Concept takes a fresh look at the series and seems to want a direction opposite of J.J. Abrams’ film series. There’s a diverse crew, a new galaxy to explore, and modern themes. All in the effort to grab some attention from those who hold the reigns to the franchise.
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Despite the fact that the one hour pilot did not land a spot in the fall lineup, the network was moving last week to lock in final details for the pilot to be reshot this fall, putting it on the fast-track for series contention.
Doubt, which starred Teddy Sears, KaDee Strickland, Dule Hill and Laverne Cox but is now being recast,
revolves around a female lawyer who becomes romantically involved with one of her clients who may or may not be guilty of a brutal crime.
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The streaming giant has partnered with News Corp’s social news agency Storyful to launch the new venture, a new video channel dedicated to helping journalists and news organizations find on-the-ground user-generated clips of important worldwide events. The channel offers curated feeds covering both global and regional news. All videos appearing on the feed will have been verified by Storyful’s team of editors and will be embeddable from their original source.
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The contract between Marvel and Sony lists strict "mandatory character traits" for Spider-Man, whether it's Peter Parker or an alternative Spider-Man character, but is more specific with its requirements for Peter Parker specifically, the character/alter ego who's most associated with the Spider-Man costume. For instance, Peter Parker (but not necessarily Spider-Man) is Caucasian and heterosexual.
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Much has been made in the last two months of actor Mark Ruffalo’s comments about the future of the Marvel superhero Hulk on the big screen. In an interview, he said that the rights to a standalone Hulk movie are owned by Universal. Ever since, fans and media outlets have been speculating about Marvel not owning the rights to the Hulk on film, and there’s been a lot of guesswork about what precisely Ruffalo was referring to.
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After being hosed by the Ukrainian Oscar committee despite winning an award at Cannes in 2014, director Miroslav Slaboshpitsky’s debut feature has been earning rave reviews for its portrayal of a deaf school in the former Soviet Union. The behind the scenes tale of the film is almost as interesting as the film itself.
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It’s a common misconception that sharks must keep swimming or they will die. Truth is, a shark must keep swimming
or it will sink to the bottom of the ocean. Much like that great monster of the sea, a story
must move forward, or it will languish and die. At a standstill, it will sink to the bottom of a stack of submissions; hit the lowest rung on the tracking board; disappear into the dark crevasse of unreplied-to queries; or be tossed overboard in the first cut of a competition.
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