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In the wake of Relativity Media's filing for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy earlier yesterday, Tom Forman, the CEO of Relativity Television, tried to calm the waters at the embattled company. In an email to his colleagues in the TV division, Foreman said that it will be “business as usual.” With an auction of the company scheduled for October, Relativity's TV division is expected to be one of its most hotly contested assets.
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The embattled company may be shedding films, but with an auction now pending, lenders have a vested interest in seeing the company remain in the film business. To do that, a restructured Relativity will need to keep some product in the pipeline. With the company’s future in flux, Relatively remains committed to the release of at least two films,
Masterminds and
Kidnap, and hopes to start production on a third,
The Crow, this fall. The rest of the slate is up in the air.
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Fans have speculated how long the fantasy drama based on George R.R. Martin's books would last, and HBO programming president Michael Lombardo shed light on the subject yesterday at the Television Critics Association’s press tour. “Seven-seasons-and-out has never been the conversation,” Lombardo said. “The question is how much beyond seven are we going to do.”
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The 11th annual celebration of genre-bending films will include the World Premiere of director S. Craig Zahler's
Bone Tomahawk with stars Kurt Russell and Matthew Fox in attendance, a retrospective of Turkish Genre Cinema, and a special Mondo Gallery event and programming series curated by filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn to celebrate the release of his new book, which profiles his collection of vintage exploitation-era American movie posters.
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Cable net has inked an overall first-look deal with Russell Simmons' new media company All Def Digital (ADD), which will see Simmons and his team create and develop a wide range of television projects for HBO. Simmons currently has five active projects set up at HBO, three of which are being developed through his ADD.
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The first-look producing deal will now go through 2017. Bateman signed the initial deal in 2012. Aggregate and Bluegrass Films produced Melissa McCarthy’s
Identity Thief, and Aggregate produced Bateman’s directorial debut
Bad Words. Aggregate is also producing Fox Searchlight’s
IPO Man and an untitled FBI wedding comedy for Universal from a script by David Bar Katz.
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With
Suicide Squad currently in production and
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice in post, now comes word that the next two films scheduled,
Wonder Woman and
Justice League have start dates for their productions.
Wonder Woman, which will be directed by Patty Jenkins, will shoot in England in the fall, while Zack Snyder’s
Justice League starts shooting next spring.
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When the show premieres in the fall, it will introduce Constance Zimmer as a lady with similar interests to the team led by Clark Gregg’s Agent Coulson. Zimmer will be in the first episode of the new season and will play a woman who happens to be the head of a “mysterious” new agency that is also looking into the Inhumans. Zimmer’s character will be looking for new Inhumans, just like Coulson, and of course they’ll cross paths.
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Warner Bros. has released the first full-length trailer for the upcoming Whitey Bulger biopic, which stars Johnny Depp in the lead role, as well as Joel Edgerton, Benedict Cumberbatch, Juno Temple, Kevin Bacon, Adam Scott, Corey Stoll, Peter Sarsgaard and Julianne Nicholson. Scott Cooper directed the film, which opens September 18th.
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The 127 page final shooting script by Paul Thomas Anderson, based on the novel by Thomas Pynchon. Script is Dated August 7th, 2013.
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