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The Accidental Turitz On Some Big Movie News, More CAA Agents Defect To UTA,...
SSN ORIGINALS The Accidental Turitz: Why Big Superhero Movie News Might Force Us To Rethink the Whole Movie Biz The latest edition of SSN Senior Editor Neil Turitz’s eponymous column drops some pretty...
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CAA Plots Next Move, Ferrell and Wiig Star in Secret Lifetime Movie, Dwayne...
CAA Plots Its Next Move In the Wake Of the UTA Defections Creative Artists Agency appears in damage-control mode and is putting on a good face that it’s business as usual. But apparently the managing...
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Film Development for 4/2/15: Hugh Jackman to be ‘Apostle Paul’, Warner Bros....
NEW ATTACHMENTS Animal Crackers Logline: An animated film about a family inherits a neglected circus and a magical box of Animal Crackers that turns whoever eats them into an animal. Studio: Blue Dream...
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Quitting Your Day Job To Write, Disney’s Live Action ‘Winnie the Pooh’, Cross...
SSN ORIGINALS How To Quit Your Day Job To Write: First Steps To Becoming a Full-Time Screenwriter Web creator and former development exec Cary Tusan takes readers through his own odyssey of becoming a...
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De Luca Bolts Sony, CAA Files Suit Against UTA, Hasbro and Fox Teaming For...
Michael De Luca Is Returning To the Producing Game, Leaves His Sony Gig To Make Films For Universal De Luca had been serving as president of production at Sony, and at Universal, he will oversee the...
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Exec Shuffle 4/3/15: The CAA-UTA Shakeup, De Luca Leaving Sony, Anne Sweeney...
Company Launches Former National Geographic Channels president Howard T. Owens is heading back to independent TV production by launching Propagate Content, a company that will create, develop, produce...
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The Query Letter Hoax, WME Injects Itself Into CAA-UTA Brouhaha, ABC...
SSN ORIGINALS Screenwriters Guide: The Great Query Letter Hoax Let’s say you plan to write a query letter to get a screenplay agent. Here’s my advice – don’t. Query letters can work for novels but not...
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‘Furious 7′ Breaks April BO Record, Netflix’s Visiting ‘Montauk’, Lord and...
‘Furious 7’ Does the Expected, Breaks the April Opening Weekend Record With $143.6 Million Previous record holder was last year’s Captain America: The Winter Solider, with just over $95 million, which...
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On the Set for 4/6/15: ‘Captain America: Civil War’ &‘The Huntsman’ Start...
STARTS Captain America: Civil War 4/4/2015 Logline: Tony Stark and Steve Rogers go head to head in battle over the Superhero Registration Act which governs that those with superhuman abilities must...
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UTA’s Haul Could Number 150, TWC Selling TV Division, ‘Doctor Who’ Renewed To...
SSN ORIGINALS On the Set For 4/6/15: ‘Captain America: Civil War’, and ‘The Huntsman’ Start Shooting, Ryan Coogler Wraps ‘Rocky’ Sequel ‘Creed’ Other new beginnings include Matt Damon’s The Great Wall,...
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Webby Noms Announced, Relativity Scores Fresh Financing, Dobrev Leaving...
The Webby Nominations Are Out! Did Your Internet Video Make the Cut? Vice Media is the one to beat at the 19th annual Webby Awards. The youth-oriented media company came out on top with 17 nominations...
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TV Development for 4/7/15: Discovery Greenlights First US TV Series to Film...
Untitled Boy In The Suitcase Project Network: Amazon Studio: Amazon Studios Production Company(s): City Entertainment Executive Producer(s): Joshua Maurer, Alixandre Witlin Writer(s): Kirsten Sheridan...
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SSN’s Development Pick List, ‘Jurassic World’ Writing Credits Settled, Russo...
SSN ORIGINALS Development Pick List: Online #Stunning #Fantasy, #Instagram, #WebComics, #Games To Snap Up For Film/TV Last week we revealed some of the sources behind where we find rising talent and...
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New Mexico Governor Signs New Tax Incentives Bill, No ‘Fast 8′ In Sight,...
Get Ready For Even More Movies and TV Shows To Be Shot In New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez signed a bill today that will allow production companies to pre-assign their tax rebates to third parties....
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Rep Moves for 4/8/15: A Slew of CAA Clients Book it to UTA, Jerry Seinfeld &...
UTA: Continuing with the CAA/UTA shake-up in which Chris Pratt, Will Ferrell and Ed Helms all followed their agents to UTA, Melissa McCarthy, Zach Galifianakis, Jonathan Krisel (EP of Baskets), Adam...
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Showrunner Advice, ‘Pinocchio’ Next In Line For Live Action Treatment, EA...
SSN ORIGINALS Showrunner Advice With ‘Battle Creek’s Russel Friend: How To Get an Agent and Job Writing For Television Every working writer has their unique story about how they broke into the film and...
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The Accidental Turitz On the CAA-UTA Mess, ‘Billy Lynn’ Adds Diesel & Tucker,...
SSN ORIGINALS The Accidental Turitz: There’s Another Way To Look At This CAA-UTA War, and It’s More Dire Than You Thought SSN Senior Editor Neil Turitz takes a look at what happened last week, and how...
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Film Development for 4/9/15: Vin Diesel in for Long Halftime Walk, Judd...
NEW ATTACHMENTS Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk Logline: A young soldier hailed as a hero experiences a cavalcade of emotions and events on his last day home before returning back to the war in Iraq in...
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How To Procrastinate Like a Pro, Showtime Still Negotiating With Lynch, ABC...
SSN ORIGINALS Confessions Of a Recovering TV Writer: How To Procrastinate Like a Pro It’s no secret that when it comes to sitting down to actually doing the writing, we writers excel at...
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Lord and Miller Developing ‘The Flash’, Next Two ‘Avengers’ Sequels Get...
Warner Has Hired Phil Lord and Chris Miller To Plot Their ‘Flash’ Movie The filmmaking pair behind The LEGO Movie and the 21 Jump Street franchise is developing the story for the superhero film, but...
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