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Broadening the studio’s role comes as AMC Networks wants to own more of the scripted content its networks use and work more diligently to monetize them in international markets. Both executives will report to Charlie Collier, President of AMC, SundanceTV and AMC Studios. Olshansky, head of business affairs of AMC, is based in Los Angeles and Reinhardt, senior vice president of finance and studio operations for AMC Networks, is based in New York.
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The cult 1985 MGM movie written and directed by William Friedkin, is headed to the small screen. In a competitive situation, the cable network has landed a drama series adaptation of the action thriller, with Oscar winner Friedkin directing and executive producing. Fellow Oscar-winner Bobby Moresco will write the script and will also executive produce. The project has received a script-to-series commitment and will move straight to series upon script approval.
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The actor is in negotiations to star in Amazon's new legal drama from David E. Kelley in what would be his first series regular role. Show centers on a once respectable lawyer who was ousted from the high-profile firm he co-founded, but is reinvigorated when he takes on a wrongful death case that pits him against the head of his former firm. Project would mark Amazon's first straight to series order, provided the deal with Costner works out.
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Joseph Fiennes will star as Eric Liddell in
The Last Race, with a story that follows Liddell after the events of
Chariots of Fire, when he became a teacher and missionary in China, eventually being interned in a prison camp by Japanese forces in 1943. (Ian Charleston played Liddell in the original film.) This new picture is written by Stephen Shin, and co-directed by Shin and Michael Parker.
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The series, from British author Andy McNab, is based on an ex-SAS soldier working on deniable operations for British intelligence. The series draws extensively on McNab's own real-life experiences and knowledge of Special Forces soldiering. TWC wants Fuqua to direct the pilot of the series and then serve as an executive producer.
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Stunt coordinators and second unit directors Darrin Prescott and Wade Allen have hired Eckhart to star in their switch to first unit work with the film, which finds Eckhart as a disgraced cop on a mission to rescue the police commissioner’s daughter, who has been kidnapped and is being held somewhere in the city with a countdown clock of 80 minutes before she dies, while also being tracked by a deranged killer. Jeremy Drysdale wrote the script.
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Vikander was briefly attached to the project, but bolted in favor of the next installment of the Jason Bourne series. Meanwhile, this is the most high-profile booking for Labed. The actress won the Best Actress awards at several film festivals for her role in
Attenberg, about a 23-year-old woman stuck in a boring factory town. She will co-star with Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard in the video game adaptation.
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At long last, you can clear all those syndicated
Seinfeld episodes off your DVR. Following years of speculation about when and where the historic sitcom would arrive online, Wednesday it finally became available. But with 168 episodes (so discerned as such by considering all two-part and hour-long episodes as single entries) in the
Seinfeld archive, it's understandable if you're intimidated by the the idea of entering the vault without a guide.
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Universal and Blumhouse have released the new trailer from Eli Roth’s long-delayed horror flick. The film stars Lorenza Isso, Ariel Levy, Daryl Sabara, and Kirby Bliss Blanton and hits theaters September 25th.
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The 98-page, undated, unlabeled screenplay by Nicole Holofcener.
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