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Dutch director Diederick Van Rooijen has been hired to helm the project, which is being produced by Platinum Dunes, Mandalay and Universal. Hitchcock’s classic 1963 film centered on a socialite who moves up to Northern California only to discover that the peaceful seaside town is under attack by hordes of birds that have suddenly turned murderous.
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Show from creators Nick Antosca and Max Landis will follow a single story throughout each season, starting with the short story
Candle Cove by Kris Straub. That story, which delves into the creepy set of online memes and stories, follows a mysterious children’s television show from the 1980s and the show’s role in a series of murders and one man’s dark secret.
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ABC is rebooting its 1950s/1960s hybrid game show/variety show,
To Tell The Truth, which will be hosted by the
Black-ish star. Confirmed regular celebrity panelists include NeNe Leakes and Betty White (who actually was a panelist on the original program, decades ago). Also Anderson’s own mother. Original show featured a panel of four celebrities tasked with correctly identifying a mystery contestant, who has an unusual occupation or experience.
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The
Mr. Turner star is in talks to join the new film
The Journey as the late British Democratic Union Party leader Sir Ian Paisley. Nick Hamm’s film is actually chronicling the story of how two seemingly implacable enemies – Paisley, the stalwart, vocal leader of Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party and Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuinness – who had to find common ground and make history. Producers are still casting the role of McGuinness.
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Ten days after NBC cancelled the show, the series no longer has its cast under contract. Starting today, stars Hugh Dancy and Mads Mikkelsen are free agents, and they are already fielding film and TV offers. Their options expired last night and were not extended by
Hannibal producer Gaumont International Television.
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Reelz has picked up the rights to the telecast after NBC on Monday scrapped plans to air the pageant amid a growing controversy involving Donald Trump. The Miss Universe Organization, which presents the pageant, is a joint venture between Trump and NBCUniversal.
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With the show’s fifth season having just premiered, the cable network is signing on for another season of the hit legal drama. No premiere date has been announced, but it will almost certainly be in 2016, and the network did confirm that there will be 16 episodes.
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James Cameron’s original 1984
The Terminator includes an early scene that has become a sci-fi touchstone: A naked man (Arnold Schwarzenegger) arrives in a flash of lightning and smoke at the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, takes on three punk rockers who harass him, and steals their clothes. For
Genisys, the filmmakers re-created that scene, but with a pivotal twist.
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Paramount Insurge has just released the trailer for a new comedy produced by Lorne Michaels. Directed by Rhys Thomas, film follows pals Danny and Frank, two young men who spend the summer after high school working as lifeguards while figuring out their future. Fred Armisen, Bobby Moynihan, Will Forte, Cecily Strong, Graham Phillips, Zack Pearlman, Ashley Greene, Kate Walsh, Jackson Nicoll, Jim Gaffigan and Method Man star. It hits Netflix July 31st.
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Part of surviving the inevitable ups and downs of a career producing entertainment — be it movies, books, TV, or even an article such as this — one has to accept that no matter how much one thinks a story is worthy of public consumption, there will always be those who think the work simply sucks.
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