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CREATIVE ARTS/GUEST PERFORMER
When you’re making the life-consuming commitment to series television, it helps to know someone like Guillermo del Toro is captain of the ship. Especially when your work involves crafting freaky creatures and grotesque makeup effects as Steve Newburn and Seamn Sansom do for FX’s hit horror thriller. After all, del Toro is a modern-day master of the macabre.
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And that's just one tale from the year's top contenders in wardrobe design as they open up about conscripting a local theater pro's wife to sew, discovering the drawbacks of 3D printers and more challenges. Artisans from shows like
Game Of Thrones,
Outlander,
Boardwalk Empire and
The Americans all weigh in.
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It can be tough for any actor to make an impression through a guest role on a handful of episodes, but developing and portraying a fully fleshed-out character in a single episode is the real trick. And now that an actor has to appear in 50% or less of a show’s season to be considered guest, the Emmys could have more room to nominate prestige single-episode perfs from this season.
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This video featurette dives into the tone of the ABC anthology series with emphasis on the original score. Music is essential to creating that tone, and here, we see an in-depth look at how composer Mark Isham collaborated with creator/EP John Ridley to do just that.
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SSN ORIGINALS
The Emmy race for Guest Actor and Actress is heating up with exceptional talent in the running. Unlike the other acting categories where actors have seasons to develop their characters, these actors only have a few episodes or sometimes even just one to make a lasting impression. They have to be authentic from the get go and instantly meld into the world of the show. That’s no easy task.
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A brand new Spider-Man is just one of the items on this week’s docket. There is also a new director for a very hot property, the announcement of a producer’s directorial debut, a new faith-based film for Queen Latifah, a new inspirational film for Reese Witherspoon and Bruna Papandrea, and a host of new projects, to boot.
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OTHER HEADLINES
AMC Studios and Lionsgate, where Phillips is under an overall deal, will co-produce. The project, which Phillips will executive produce, has received a 10-episode order for a 2016 premiere.
Broke joins three other straight-to-series orders handed by AMC in the past year or so,
Into the Badlands, Humans and
The Night Manager, as well as three drama scripts (
Goliath,
The Son, and
Lodge 49) to develop with an eye toward straight-to-series orders.
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The creator/showrunner's production company will develop TV projects exclusively for Amazon Prime Instant Video, a deal that is the first of its kind for Amazon, which won its first two Golden Globes for
Transparent earlier this year. The series' second season starts production next week and will air this fall.
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Just a couple days after announcing it would not bring back the bloody thriller that stars Mads Mikkelsen and Hugh Dancy, the Peacock network announced it will be bringing back the 60s period drama, starring Duchovny as a cop, that follows a fictionalized investigation into Charles Manson before the infamous Manson Murders. The second season is expected to be 13 episodes and premiere in 2016.
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IFC Films has released the first look at the Sundance hit, starring Jason Sudeikis, Alison Brie, Amanda Peet, Adam Scott and Natasha Lyonne. It hits theaters September 11th.
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