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SSN ORIGNALS
SSN brings you eight comic book titles being featured at this years Comic-Con that have yet to be nabbed up for film or TV adaptation. And we even give you good reason to give them a look.
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Also, Marisa Tomei attaches to play Aunt May in the
Spider-Man reboot, Michael K. Williams gets supporting roles in both
Assassin's Creed and
Ghostbusters, a Hans Solo spin-off project is announced and Fox 2000 puts a film in development based on the same-sex marriage Supreme Court case.
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OTHER HEADLINES
Warner Bros. has given the greenlight to Affleck’s next directing gig
Live By Night, with plans to begin production this November. The film is based on Dennis Lehane’s Prohibition-era crime novel.
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Fox has ordered a pilot for
Urban Cowboy, a reimagining of the 1980 Paramount movie starring John Travolta and Debra Winger. Craig Brewer (
Footloose remake) is writing, directing and executive producing the project, which is from Paramount TV and 20th Century Fox TV.
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Chris Meledandri’s Universal-based family film company has formed a partnership with Korean animation studio Mofac Alfred, based in South Korea and spearheaded by Korean writer, director and animator Kyungmin Woo. Illumination has optioned the rights to
Johnny Express, the award winning short film that Woo wrote and directed.
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Margo Martindale is set to recur on the upcoming seventh season of the CBS legal drama, playing Willa Eastman, a top campaign operative responsible for previous successes by underdog presidential candidates in Iowa who hides her intelligence and cunning under a fake, folksy charm.
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Nerdist founder, Chris Hardwick and president Adam Rymer are creating an enterprise that's itself part of the entertainment industry it venerates. Nerdist is developing its first TV series for NBC Universal's SyFy channel, based on the web series "Nerdist News," and release its first movie, "The Hive." Learn more about their big plans here.
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Film Fatales is a bicoastal collective of women filmmakers who mentor and collaborate in an indie space. Here they make their picks for the best films directed by women. Start watching now.
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In April, Coke debuted a new campaign in Latin America that focused on friendship across web films. At the time, it debuted two web films that focused on empathy through stories about gossip, secrets and isolation caused by bullying and other forms of social cruelty. Now the brand releases the third web film and reveals that all three films were directed Dustin Lance Black, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of
Milk. View the latest film here.
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