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The show about the making of a reality dating show has earned excellent ratings for the network. Starring Constance Zimmer, Shiri Appleby, and Craig Bierko is in the middle of its 10-episode first season and will have another 10-episode season set to premiere in 2016.
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Walking Dead alum Emily Kinney has landed a recurring role on the upcoming season of the Showtime dram. Kinney will appear in a multi-episode arc as Nora. As a child, Nora was Bill and Libby Masters’ neighbor. Now in her 20s, poised and brimming with intelligence, Nora volunteers to become a sex surrogate in the next phase of Masters and Johnson’s research. Josh Charles, Maggie Grace and Tate Donovan are also in the new season, which premieres Sunday.
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Matt Fogel wrote the script, while David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman of Mandeville Films/TV as well as Tripp Vinson are on board to produce. Disney pioneered the recent and lucrative trend of taking either old animated classics or fairy tales and spinning them into live-action features. Details are being kept behind a moat, but the script is described as a revisionist take on the fairy tales.
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The director of the upcoming Shakespeare film that stars Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard, will re-team with
Snowtown screenwriter Shaun Grant to adapt the bloody Australian saga, which follows the life of legendary bushranger Ned Kelly as he attempts to keep one step ahead of the law. Film will be based on Peter Carey's Booker Prize-winning book.
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Amidst news that Michael K. Williams has also joined the cast comes word about Garcia and comedic actor Matt Walsh, both of whom will appear in the film. Garcia is playing the mayor of New York while
Veep star Walsh will be a mysterious character known as Rourke. The movie, which stars Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Leslie Jones, Kate McKinnonand Chris Hemsworth is currently shooting and will hit theaters next summer.
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The cult show has had a rough couple of weeks after NBC said this third season would be the last, leading to a concerted effort on behalf of the show's producers to try and find a home for the critically acclaimed program. But now, both streaming services have decided to pass, as creator Bryan Fuller has begun focusing his attention next on the Starz series
American Gods.
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The sci-fi film starring Margot Robbie, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Chris Pine, was originally set for an August 21st release, but is now coming out a week later, on the 28th. Film follows a lonely farmer in her mountain Shangri la above the post-nuke clouds that have destroyed the world, until two weary travelers stumble onto her farm and vie for her affection.
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The race to sign the new motoring show from Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May, the former presenters at hit BBC show
Top Gear, took a fresh twist this morning when it emerged that the three are blocked from appearing in a rival auto show on U.K. broadcaster ITV until April 2017 because of a no-compete clause in their old BBC contracts.
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Legendary producer Weintraub, who died of heart failure yesterday at the age of 77, spent years trying to get
The Colonel and Me off the ground. Story was a coming of age tale about how Weintraub was mentored by Elvis Presley’s manager, Colonel Tom Parker.
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Filled with visual artistry, if not an entirely cohesive plot, the film is still the director’s best feature. There are always things to learn from director’s commentaries, and this is no different, with anecdotes about casting, production and costume design, editing and how the film ultimately all came together.
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