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EMMY PREDICTIONS
When it comes to predicting certain awards trends, it gets a lot easier once the nominations actually come out. Until then, it’s something of a crap shoot, especially in years when there is a lot of quality television. This year is no different. With the rise of original content from online streaming services like Netflix and Amazon — not to mention Yahoo and Hulu, among others — this trend shows no signs of changing.
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With that in mind, rather than giving you links to just one website and its collection of prognosticators, we’re giving you links to three of them, thus maximizing the analysis. If you’ve got a statistical bent, you could examine all three and put together the likeliest nominees based on the opinions you will find by clicking on these provided links.
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There are still three weeks to go before the nominations are actually announced, which means plenty of time to properly examine the possibilities. So take your time, pour over everything, and then count down the days until July 16th, when the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences reveals this year’s lucky batch of nominees.
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SSN ORIGINALS
There’s still a little bit of time to get your vote in before the all online Emmy polls close today at 10pm PDT. If you look at your choices you’ll see plenty of series about detectives, police officers and lawyers, but you’ll also see series about transgender fathers, women in prison, an eternal optimist who broke away from a cult, a hip hop empire and more.
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Among the many deals in yet another busy week in Hollywoodland are an acquisition for ITV, big deals for Jill Soloway, Paul Downs Colaizzo and the creator of
Mr. Robot, a couple of mergers, the purchase of AOL by Verizon, as well as the usual amount of hirings, firings, comings and goings. Click on the link to get the whole shebang.
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OTHER HEADLINES
Studio is in final negotiations to scoop up the New York Times bestselling novel
Greenglass House by Kate Milford — a middle grade story that won the Edgar Award for Best Juvenile Mystery. The project, which was picked up for mid-six figure deal after a pre-emptive bid, is being eyed as a possible new franchise for the studio. Ian Bryce will produce with Joe Ballarini adapting.
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DreamWorks has acquired the film rights to
Micro, with Frank Marshall producing. The thriller follows a group of grad students lured to Hawaii to work for a mysterious biotech company, only to find themselves miniaturized and cast into the rain forest, with nothing but their scientific expertise and wits to protect them.
Micro was unfinished when Crichton passed away in 2008, but later completed by author Richard Preston and published by HarperCollins in 2011.
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Among the properties the duo discuss are
Terminator,
Star Trek,
Top Gun,
Mission: Impossible,
World War Z and
Jack Reacher, as well as a new
Three Days of the Condor TV series and the impending stardom of
Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation’s Rebecca Ferguson. They also discuss the origins of the company and where it’s headed. A most interesting read.
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Screenwriter Anthony Tambakis will adapt the not-yet-written book “Houses of Deceit” by Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Ken Bensinger (he previously wrote the article “Mr. Ten Percent: The Man Who Built — And Bilked — American Soccer” at BuzzFeed, which led to the book proposal). Gavin O’Connor will direct the film, whenever it moves forward.
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Both Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto have signed on for
Star Trek 4, despite the fact that
Star Trek 3 has just started filming. The move was apparently a condition of Pine and Quinto's huge raises for the third film, which the duo won by arguing that they are far more famous now than when they signed on for the series back in 2007.
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