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SSN ORIGINALS
So far the boys from
Fast & Furious, the mighty
Avengers and the dinos of
Jurassic World have entered the battlefield. All of those franchises have earned billions for their studios and two of those,
Furious and
World, were revived from almost certain death. This week though, the combatant,
The Terminator, didn’t get the hero’s welcome parade others have. SSN delves into the franchise’s history and its latest installment to find out why.
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In other news, Charlize Theron’s
Brain On Fire starts shooting with Chloe Grace Moretz in the lead, while the YA adaptation
So B. It also fires up principal photography, along with
The Runaround, starring J.K. Simmons. Meanwhile,
Comancheria, with Chris Pine, Ben Foster and Jeff Bridges, and
Mena with Tom Cruise and directed by Doug Liman, call it a wrap.
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OTHER HEADLINES
The two are in negotiations for STX Entertainment to pick up
Out Of This World, which centers on the first human born on Mars, who is secretly raised on the planet after his astronaut mother dies during childbirth. As a teen, he strikes up an online romance with a girl from Colorado, prompting him to travel across the universe to meet her, all the while pursued by NASA. Allan Loeb wrote the script and Peter Chelsom is attached to direct.
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TNT has given a pilot order to
Good Behavior, which stars Dockery and hails from
Wayward Pines boss Chad Hodge. Based on the Letty Dobesh books by Blake Crouch, show tells the story of Letty Dobesh (Dockery), a thief and a con artist whose life is always one bad decision from implosion — which is exactly how she likes it. Hodge will write and executive-produce the drama with Crouch, who also penned the book series on which
Wayward Pines is based.
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There has been talk of a sequel since before the first one came out in 2012 to rave reviews and earned over $470 million in worldwide box office, hailed as “
Toy Story with video games.” The film’s director, Rich Moore, has stated that part two will likely find the big-fisted Ralph exploring the worlds of online gaming and console gaming.
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The actress, who earned an Emmy nomination for her work in last year’s
Fargo limited series, has been tapped to star on
Mad Dogs, which centers on four former frat brothers who travel to Belize for a reunion but their luxury vacation interrupted by a series of wild events that exposes dark secrets, deception and murder. Show was previously developed at FX before landing at Amazon. It is currently shooting in Puerto Rico for a 2016 premiere.
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Andrew Scott, Jeremy Irvine, Anna Chancellor and Sheila Hancock are also in the ensemble cast, with Simon Aboud directing the project, which starts shooting this week in London. Story follows a young woman with OCD who dreams of writing and illustrating children’s books, but is forced to deal with her neglected garden. This brings her into contact with the cantankerous, loveless older man next door who happens to have the greenest thumbs around.
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Lionsgate and Grindstone Entertainment have released the first trailer from the upcoming comedy from legendary director Peter Bogdanovich. The screwball comedy, which stars Owen Wilson, Imogen Poots, Kathryn Hahn, Will Forte, Rhys Ifans, and Jennifer Aniston, opens theatrically and on VOD August 14th.
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HBO has released the first trailer from its upcoming mini-series, starring Oscar Isaac and from
The Wire creator David Simon. True story follows a 1980s mayor whose efforts to integrate his city outrage his white constituents. It premieres August 16th on the pay cable net.
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Warner Bros. has changed course and decided to make public the sizzle reel initially shown at Comic-Con over the weekend. The studio had planned to keep that under wraps, limiting it to the crowd in Hall H, but one of the audience members illegally bootlegged it and put it on the internet, so the studio decided to get ahead of things. The movie, directed by David Ayers, hits theaters August 5th, 2016.
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