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The legendary producer is teaming up with All Nippon Entertainment Works to produce
6000, a Japanese comic set in a deep sea research facility 6,000 meters below the ocean’s surface. A mysterious disaster three years earlier killed the crew and shuttered the station. Now, when a new team is sent down to get the operation running again, tension builds as they struggle against claustrophobia, their own deteriorating minds and a danger lurking in the depths.
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The dark comedy, starring Jack Black and Tim Robbins, was renewed, just a month after its June premiere. Show focuses on a geopolitical crisis and its effect on three disparate and desperate men: Walter Larson (Robbins), U.S. secretary of state; Alex Talbot, a lowly foreign service officer (Black); and Zeke Tilson (Pablo Schreiber), an ace Navy fighter pilot. The series was created by Roberto Benabib and Kim Benabib.
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Emmy winner and
The Shield alum Michael Chiklis has joined the DC Comics adaptation as Capt. Nathaniel Barnes, who joins the Gotham City Police Department and rids it of its "dead wood." He's unafraid of making enemies — on either side of the law — and serves as a mentor for Ben McKenzie's Lt. Gordon. The character will prove himself to be a strong ally to Gordon — but one day may make for an equally powerful enemy.
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Roadside Attractions will release the film, director Roland Emmerich’s drama about the 1969 Stonewall riots that started America’s LGBT rights movement, on September 25th. Written by Jon Robin Baitz and directed by Emmerich, both out gay men, the film stars Jeremy Irvine and newcomer Jonny Beauchamp, alongside Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Ron Perlman.
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Teri Everett is finalizing a deal to replace Kori Bernards as EVP Global Communications at the studio. Bernards announced last week she would be leaving the company after seven years. Everett most recently had been in Time Inc’s corporate communications department in New York, and before that she worked for the Fox Entertainment Group in L.A.
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Lauren Ambrose, Robbie Amell and Kumail Nanjiani have joined the cast. The first two are on to play fellow FBI agents, with Ambrose as the sharp, confident Agent Einstein and Amell as the smooth, smart Agent Miller.
Silicon Valley’s Nanjiani, meanwhile, will play an animal control officer who helps the leads track down a mysterious creature.
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Citizen Kane continues to be the reigning champ in U.S. cinema, and the BBC’s Top 10 shares six selections with AFI’s
100 Years … 100 Movies. Billy Wilder, Steven Spielberg, and Stanley Kubrick tied for most films with each director having five of their works land on the list, but while
The Dark Knight made the list, there are no films by the Coen Brothers on it, so take the whole thing for what it’s worth.
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Sony Pictures and MGM have released the first full-length trailer for the latest in the seminal film series. Daniel Craig returns as James Bond, alongside Ralph Fiennes, Ben Whishaw, Naomie Harris, Lea Seydoux, Monica Bellucci, Dave Bautista and Christoph Waltz. It opens in theaters everywhere November 6th.
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FX has released the first full-length trailer for the second season of its Emmy-winning crime anthology series, based on the Oscar-winning Coen Brothers film. Patrick Wilson, Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemons, Ted Danson, Jean Smart, Brad Garrett and Nick Offerman star in the show, which premieres on the cable network in October.
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The April 4th, 2010, Green Revision-draft of the 119-page screenplay by Seth Lochhead and David Farr, with story by Lochhead.
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