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Amongst other moves are actor Harry Hamlin to UTA and Management 360, as well as TV actress Jaina Lee Ortiz landing her first representation at CAA.
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OTHER HEADLINES
Acclaimed writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson (
Boogie Nights,
There Will Be Blood, The Master) has signed on to write and possibly direct Robert Downey Jr. as Geppetto in a re-imagined take on Carlo Collodi’s
Pinocchio. (CS)
20th Century Fox is developing the project, with
Mad Men veterans Maria and Andre Jacquemetton penning the script about a married man whose affair turns into a total nightmare when his lover can't let him go.
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Fishburne will play Haley, the author of the novel
Roots: The Saga of an American Family, an American family origin story based around the life of Kunta Kinte.
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The latest Hasbro movie adaptation is
Monopoly, the board game that teaches financial management and the brutal practice of capitalism. Hasbro Allspark Pictures will be producing the picture with Lionsgate on board to provide financing. Andrew Niccol (
The Truman Show) has been set to pen the adaptation, which is expected to center on a boy from the game’s budget-priced Baltic Avenue who sets out into the world to make his fortune.
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After film behemoths Marvel, Sony and Paramount opted to sit out Comic-Con this year, TV is taking a front seat at the annual pop culture convention, set for July 8-12. And that includes the party circuit, with the familiar (Warner Bros. Television, Fox,
The Walking Dead) and new faces (Universal Cable Productions,
Fear the Walking Dead) helping to off-set missing studio bashes.
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A 1957 infographic of Walt Disney's corporate theory reveals a complex web of strategic channels. The illustration might be nearly 60 years old, but it's still the basis of the brand's success.
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United Passions, funded by FIFA itself, arrived just in time for the “revelations” about the football governing body’s systemic corruption and Sepp Blatter’s resignation. Empire looks back to 15 other vanity projects that didn’t always quite score the intended goal.
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Steve Jobs, based on Walter Isaacson’s eponymous biography, hits theaters Oct. 9.
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