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Studio is planning to bring to the screen the story of Jim Obergefell, the lead plaintiff in Obergefell v. Hodges, which led to the Supreme Court ruling finding a fundamental right to same-sex marriage in the United States. The studio has acquired Obergefell’s life rights as well as those of his attorney Al Gerhardstein. Additionally, it has acquired the rights to the upcoming book,
21 Years to Midnight: The Promise that Brought Marriage Equality to America.
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Brian Henson will direct the project, based on a story by Todd Berger and Dee Robertson. Berger wrote the screenplay with revisions by siblings Erich and Jon Hoeber; the story is set in a world where puppets and humans live together. The plot is centered on the puppet stars of a TV show who begin to be mysteriously murdered, and two mismatched detectives – a take-no-prisoners human and a hard-drinking puppet — must stop the killings and catch the culprit.
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With the shooting of the new season underway, Elodie Yung has landed the coveted part of the protagonist’s Greek-born trained assassin/love interest/enemy/obsession. Her casting follows that of Jon Bernthal, who will be showing up as The Punisher, in the second season, and it’ll be interesting to see who causes the most trouble for star Charlie Cox’s Matt Murdock.
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Doc tells the story of the tiny Alabama town, where a group of unassuming, yet incredibly talented locals came together and spawned some of the greatest music of all time: “Mustang Sally,” “I Never Loved a Man,” “Wild Horses,” and many more. Johnny Depp’s production company, Infinitum Nihil, is teaming up with Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Produced, and City Entertainment, to develop a scripted series, which will go behind the music to tell the stories.
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Leading the pack is Cary Fukunaga's
Beasts of No Nation, which the streaming service pushes into the awards corridor day-and-date on October 16th. It will be distributed in theaters by Netflix partner Bleecker Street. The first of four Adam Sandler vehicles set for Netflix,
The Ridiculous Six, will premiere in time for the holidays on December 11th. Meanwhile,
Pee-wee's Big Holiday and
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: The Green Legend will hit theaters in early 2016.
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Neil Casey, who appears on Feig’s Yahoo sci-fi series
Other Space, has joined the Sony-produced film. He’ll play a character named Rowan in the film that recently began shooting outside of Boston. The film is scheduled to haunt theaters starting July 22, 2016.
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Christopher Plummer also stars in the film, based on the novel by Alan Judd, which takes place around the 1940 invasion of Holland which brings the Nazis face to face with their former monarch, Kaiser Wilhelm. A lethally dangerous love affair ignites between a German officer and a young Jewish Dutch woman with consequences that neither they nor the Kaiser himself could have foreseen.
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A day after newly unsealed court documents revealed that Bill Cosby testified in 2005 to giving prescription drugs to women with the intention of having sex with them, two TV networks have reacted swiftly. Both Centric and Bounce TV plan to pull reruns of
The Cosby Show and
Cosby from their respective networks starting as early as today. Both shows is still available for viewing on Amazon and Hulu.
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Director Paul Feig has tweeted out the first image of the Ecto-1, the car used by the female Ghostbusters in the upcoming reboot. The film, which stars Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones, Chris Hemsworth, Andy Garcia, Michael K. Williams and Neil Casey, is currently shooting in Boston and hits theaters next summer.
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The undated, unlabeled 115-page screenplay by Bridget O’Connor & Peter Straughan, based on the novel by John Le Carré.
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