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The actress who starred in
Ex Machina and
Testament Of Youth will join the cast of the upcoming Jason Bourne film, to star Matt Damon and Julia Stiles and be directed by Paul Greengrass. She reportedly chose the
Bourne film over the video game adaptation (which will star Michael Fassbender) because the latter wouldn’t fit into her suddenly busy schedule.
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Kevin Spacey and Michael Shannon star in the film, which centers on the historic 1970 meeting between King and the president that famously yielded one of the more curious White House photo ops in pop culture history. Amazon is spending $4 million to purchase the film and teaming with Bleecker Street, who will handle the film’s release.
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DreamWork’s AwesomenessTV has hired former Lionsgate executive Matt Kaplan to run the recently created Awesomeness Films. Kaplan previously founded Chapter One Films, from which Awesomeness Films also recruited two more new team members, Robyn Marshall and Max Siemers.
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The exec is leaving Chernin Entertainment to join Robinov’s company, where she will run the new television department, and will work closely with Robinov as she builds and oversees Studio 8’s television business from the ground up. The former Chernin television prez oversaw all development and production for the 20th Century Fox-based company, where she worked on Fox’s
New Girl.
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The streaming service will be offered to subscribers through Hulu in early July. New and existing Hulu subscribers will be able to sign up for Showtime on Hulu.com and stream the premium cable company's content on various Internet-connected devices. Subscribers will be able to add it for $8.99 per month on top of the $7.99 per month cost of their Hulu subscription. Showtime's previously announced standalone service will cost $10.99 per month.
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Spacey and partner Dana Brunetti's Trigger Street shingle just signed a two-year deal with 20th TV and Fox 21 Television Studios, with the first project being
The Resident. Show follows the relationships between White House residence staffers and the various First Families that come into the famous address over the course of several administrations. And, in her first scripted effort, Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly is on board as a co-executive producer.
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Syriana writer-director Stephen Gaghan is on board to turn the pitch into a thrilling adventure film from Darwin’s travels, likely focusing on his five-year voyage of discovery aboard the HMS Beagle in 1831. There were a few encounters with natives and others along the way, and the crew experienced an earthquake in Chile, which figures to add drama.
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Editor Kevin Nolting, whose previous credits include Pixar’s
Up, reteamed with Oscar-winning
Up director Peter Docter on the studio’s inventive
Inside Out, which follows an 11-year-old named Riley who moves to San Francisco, and how she’s guided by five emotions inside her head—Joy, Sadness, Fear, Anger and Disgust—which operate inside her “headquarters.” He also gives away the secret to how those Pixar folks always get right to the heart of it.
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Relativity has released the latest look at the upcoming comedy starring Zach Galifianakis, Kirsten Wiig, Owen Wilson and Jason Sudeikis. Directed by Jared Hess, the based-on-real-events tale hits theaters August 7th.
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The undated, unlabeled 118-page screenplay by Ryan Coogler.
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