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On the Set for 5/18/15: Emma Watson Starts ‘Beauty and The Beast’, Oliver...
STARTS Beauty and The Beast 5/18/2015 Logline: In this live-action re-imagining of the fairy tale "Beauty and the Beast," a young woman takes her father's place as prisoner in a beast's castle, only to...
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BAFTA Winner Stephen Beresford Discusses His Career, Miles Teller Will ‘Bleed...
SSN ORIGINALS Stephen Beresford Talks About His Career Path From Actor To BAFTA-Winning Screenwriter Of ‘Pride’ It’s a rare occurrence when a writer’s first screenplay earns BAFTA and British...
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Will Ferrell Goes Period With ‘Tom’s Dad’, Jamie Foxx Lands ‘Blink’, ‘Wedding...
Will Ferrell Will Travel Back In Time For the ‘60s Comedic Drama ‘Tom’s Dad’ Martin Casella penned the screenplay for this '60s set tale that follows a struggling nightclub performer hoping to make it...
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TV Development for 5/19/15: All the Turner Upfront News, David Lynch to...
Untitled Bass Reeves/Western Series Network: HBO Production Company(s): Revelations Entertainment, Bay Spring Productions Executive Producer(s): Morgan Freeman, Lori McCreary, James Pickens Jr....
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Eight Most Wanted Pilot Scripts, Netflix’s Big Cannes Splash, NBC Wins TV...
SSN ORIGINALS The Eight Most Wanted TV Pilot Scripts Writing A TV Pilot Script? One of the best ways to learn how to write a TV pilot script is by reading pilot scripts. Gathered here are eight pilot...
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DreamWorks’‘Phenomenon’, Ang Lee Finds His Bravo Company, Fox Takes a Big...
DreamWorks Just Nabbed the Rights To a Pretty Important and Groundbreaking Sports Story The studio has optioned Phenomenon, Roseanne Montillo's biography of Betty Robinson, which details how Robinson...
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BOI: ‘Pitch Perfect 2′ v ‘Mad Max’, Focus Revives Gramercy, ‘Magnificent 7′...
SSN ORIGINALS Box Office Insight: ‘Pitch Perfect 2' Won the Weekend, but Will It Win the War Against ‘Mad Max’ Around the World? One film is selling adult stylized violence while the other is selling...
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UTA Responds To CAA Lawsuit But Bags Another Big Client, Paramount’s...
UTA Fires Back At CAA Over Agent Defection Lawsuit, Saying Action Is “Desperate Attempt To Save Face” The agency’s response begins with the statement, "Despite what CAA would like to believe, its front...
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UCLA Professor On “Genre” Hoax, ACLU Launches Gender Bias Petition, Ealing...
SSN ORIGINALS UCLA Screenwriting Professor Richard Walter On the Hoax Called “Genre” One screenwriting pundit claims that there are sixteen or eighteen, or two dozen, or thirty genres, it doesn’t...
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Reese Witherspoon’s ‘Think’, Oscar Isaac’s HBO Mini, ‘WWZ2′ News, Tate Taylor...
Clap Your Hands! Reese Witherspoon Will Don Wings To Play a Live Action Tinkerbell Witherspoon will star in and produce Tink for Disney, with Finding Dory co-writer Victoria Strouse at work on a...
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Exec Shuffle for 5/22/15: Alex Garcia Launches AG Capital, Ben Latham-Jones...
Company Launches, Partnerships & Deals Jenny Daly’s T Group Prods has inked an overall co-production deal with long-time producer Ann Lewis Roberts, and her new shingle Roberts Media which will...
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Development Pick List, ‘Supergirl’ Gets Pirated, Amy Schumer’s Next Gig,...
SSN ORIGINALS Development Pick List: the #Future #Biopics, Dinosaur #Directors, Time-Traveling #Female #Heroes To Check Out Just in time for summer, SSN has sorted through the internet to find that...
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On the Set for 5/25/15: Chris Pratt Starts on The Magnificent Seven, Brad...
STARTS I.T. 5/25/2015 Logline: A successful businessman, who was once a thug in his youth but has since changed his ways, discovers that his new I.T. handyman is actually a dangerous lunatic who's out...
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‘Tomorrowland’ Limps To BO Win, Cannes Winners, ‘Mr. Holmes’ Lawsuit,...
‘Tomorrowland’ Limps To Box Office Crown In Weakest Memorial Day Weekend In a Decade Brad Bird’s latest film came in with a disappointing $41.7 million over the four-day weekend. It barely beat Pitch...
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Charter To Buy Time Warner, Showtime Extends ‘Twin Peaks’ Order, Fukunaga...
Charter Communications Steps Up To Buy Time Warner, Will Spend $78.7 Billion To Do So The mega merger sets Charter up as a formidable rival to Comcast Corp. in the cable and broadband service arena....
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TV Development for 5/26/15: Justin Lin Bringing Bruce Lee’s Passion Project...
Untitled Christian Hageseth Unscripted Series Production Company(s): High Noon Entertainment, Farah Films Executive Producer(s): Dan Farah, Jim Berger Logline: Chronicles Hageseth’s experience on the...
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BEA 2015: Eight Books For Development, WB Gets Robert Rodriguez To Helm...
SSN ORIGINALS BEA 2015: The Eight Books Ripe For Film and TV Development Starting tomorrow, New York’s Javits Center will once again be inundated with editors, agents, writers and book geeks all...
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Snapchat’s Big Hire, ‘CHiPs’ Big Villain, ‘The Get Down’s Big TV Star,...
Snapchat Gets Serious About Original Programming, Hires Former Fox Exec To Run Things Venice-based messaging app has tapped Marcus Wiley as head of program planning and development, giving him...
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Rep Moves for 5/27/15: Melissa McCarthy Stays at CAA While Zooey Deschanel...
UTA: New Girl star Zooey Deschanel has moved from CAA to UTA. Although she was at CAA for the good part of the last ten years, she was actually at UTA for a period of time in 2013. On the features...
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The Accidental Turitz On Real Hollywood Clichés, Big Music Lawsuit Targets...
SSN ORIGINALS The Accidental Turitz: Let’s Be Professional — What To Do When a Hollywood Cliché Turns Real In his eponymous column, Senior Editor Neil Turitz takes a look at one of the hotter rumors...
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