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SSN and IGN partner once again to bring you everything you need to know about this years Comic-Con. First up, are the five movies IGN is most excited about at the con. Interestingly, Sony, Paramount and Marvel Studios are all skipping big presentations this year, but there’s still plenty to look forward to.
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Next up, SSN and IGN bring you five TV show panels we're most excited about at this years con. TV has become an increasingly big part of the con even as the movie studios have started to ease off with their panel presentations.
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OTHER HEADLINES
An offer was reportedly made to actress Marisa Tomei for the role of Aunt May, Peter Parker’s guardian, for the new solo
Spider-Man film from Columbia Pictures which is set for release in 2017.
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South Park will continue for another five years as a major cable presence and simultaneously as one of the biggest streaming properties with an extension of its Comedy Central deal together with a huge re-up of its Hulu deal.
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Courteney Cox and Roselyn Sanchez have joined the cast of Paul Duddridge’s drama
Mothers Day, currently in production with shooting in Los Angeles. Cast also includes Susan Sarandon and her daughter Eva Amurri Martino, Sharon Stone, Christina Ricci and Paul Wesley.
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The Working Title production, based on a true story, stars
Jason Clarke, Josh Brolin, John Hawkes, Robin Wright, Michael Kelly, Sam Worthington, Keira Knightley, Emily Watson and Jake Gyllenhaal. Working Title's Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner produced alongside Baltasar Kormákur, Nicky Kentish Barnes, Brian Oliver and Tyler Thompson.
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Fox Searchlight's production president Claudia Lewis promotes two senior executives, Matthew Greenfield and David Greenbaum, to Executive Vice Presidents of Production. Reporting to Lewis, they'll jointly steer all aspects of production going forward.
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Directed by Rob Letterman, the big screen adaptation of R.L. Stine‘s classic YA books stars Jack Black, Amy Ryan, Ken Marino, Dylan Minnette, Odeya Rush, Jillian Bell and Ryan Lee. Columbia Pictures’
Goosebumps movie opens in theaters on October 16.
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The Finest Hours is a adaptation of Michael J. Tougias and Casey Sherman's 2009 book of the same name, which chronicled the true story of the Coast Guard's 1952 rescue of the SS
Pendleton. Craig Gillespie is directing the movie, Chris Pine is set to star as Captain Bernie Webber, the leader of the rescue expedition, with Casey Affleck, Ben Foster, and Eric Bana in supporting roles. Disney releases the film January 29, 2016.
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