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After a few weeks on the sidelines, Senior Editor Neil Turitz is back with his eponymous column a day after the Emmy nominations were announced. But while so many others are belting out to the back row their overall displeasure with the list of honorees — pretty much an annual occurrence — we take a different viewpoint. One you won’t see anywhere else.
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Another busy week in Hollywoodland has a Fox exec leaving the company to start a new shingle, several different major company acquisitions, as well as the usual amount of comings and goings, hirings and firings. Click on the link to get the full skinny.
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OTHER HEADLINES
Michael Sheen has joined the space-set drama, scripted by Jon Spats and to be directed by
The Imitation Game helmer Morten Tyldum, story takes place on a spacecraft that’s traveling to a distant planet on which a passenger wakes up from a cryogenic sleep 90 years before planned and decides to wake up a female passenger. Sheen will appear as the voice of a robot with whom both passengers interact.
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Director with many different titles through his career — indie breakout, second coming of Terrence Malick, studio stoner comedy helmer, reviver of once-great actors — has
Our Brand Is Crisis starring Sandra Bullock and Anthony Mackie on the way, and is taking on a true-life tale that could be Oscar material. He will direct a film based on the memoir of Jeff Bauman, who lost both legs in the bombing and became a key witness in the subsequent criminal case.
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Service debuted on Apple devices in April, but the exclusivity deal expired earlier this week. As of now, the streaming service is available on Android devices (OS 4.2 and later) and Amazon Fire tablets. Support for Google Chromecast, Android TV, Amazon Fire TV, and Fire TV Stick is expected to follow in short order. Basically, you’ll be able to access HBO Now anywhere you can access HBO Go.
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In the newly created position, Kaplan — who exited as Nick’s EVP of original programming and live events in January — will lead AwesomenessTV’s talent initiatives and casting strategies across all film and series production. In addition, she will oversee the creation and execution of live events and programming.
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The original film, previously called
The Stag, was directed by John Butler in his feature debut. Co-written by Peter McDonald, the story centers on a group of modern, sensitive Irish men who reluctantly agree to go on a stag weekend in the countryside. But their peaceful weekend enjoying the outdoors is interrupted when they're joined by the groom's obnoxious brother-in-law (McDonald), who stirs up plenty of trouble.
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Sean Teale will star in
Incorporated, an espionage thriller set in a dystopian future where companies have unlimited power. Actor will star as Ben Larson, a rising star in a mega-corporation called Chrysalis who is determined to climb the rickety, bloodstained ladder of success in order to find and rescue the woman he loves — and will tromp on anyone who gets in his way. Show hails from Damon and Affleck’s Pearl Street Productions.
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After nearly quitting the industry and turning her home into a wedding venue to make money instead, she was cast in Allen’s current film,
Irrational Man, which opens today. Now, the legendary director has already cast Posey in his next film, an untitled 2016 project with Blake Lively, Kristen Stewart, Jesse Eisenberg, and Bruce Willis already in the cast.
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Feeling unprofessional? Here are a few of the attributes you can demonstrate to make yourself seem more professional. They’re not necessarily easy, but they are pretty simple. (Keep in mind though — even nobody demonstrates them all constantly. You’re only human. Just try to be the best human you can.)
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