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Training Day scribe chosen to write remake of crime classic!

A-List Actor/Producer seeks personal assistant. Duties include scheduling, handling errands, general multi-tasking and typical personal assistant duties. Must be able to tolerate a high demand of
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Film Independent, the non-profit arts organization that produces the Spirit Awards and the Los Angeles Film Festival, announced nominations this morning for the 2012 Film Independent Spirit Awards. Anthony Mackie and Kate Beckinsale served as presenters.

Logline: The story of William Dodd who was appointed as United States ambassador to Germany in 1933, right at the beginning of Hitler’s rise to power, and took his family along.

Logline: When his son is kidnapped by a powerful drug lord, a washed out naval officer must smuggle a shipment of cocaine to America in an old Soviet submarine in order to save his son’s life.

Logline: Story follows a successful writer who, before getting married, decides to travel across the country to meet his four ex-girlfriends in a series of hotel rooms.

Logline: Follows an ex-con who becomes entangled in a manipulative chess game between federal agents, local police and the mob.

“Super 8” thesp joins Mark Wahlberg and Russell Crowe in Albert Hughes’ crime-thriller!

Logline: Three female college students spend an eventful night in Compton on the eve of their college graduation.

Logline: Kept under wraps, but will be set in the world of competitive fishing.

Harris to play Ulysses S. Grant in Abraham Lincoln biopic!

Logline: Story will center on the lives and careers of the 1970s disco group, the Bee Gees, originally composed by brothers Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb.

Helmer takes charge of the James Wan-produced horror pic!

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Lithgow attached to appear in Will Ferrell/Zach Galifinakis political comedy!

Apted asked to lend a hand in the Gerard Butler-starring surfing pic!

Leonardo DiCaprio being considered for Frank Sinatra biopic!

Logline: Follows a man who finds out he is suffering from a venereal disease and decides to hide in the village fleeing from his own inner demons.

Logline: Follows the 1861 invasion of Mexico by Emperor Napoleon III’s troops.

Logline: Follows two friends in desperate need of cash start a “gold farming” sweatshop in which people are paid to play World of Warcraft to earn hold which is then used to buy special in-game weapons that are then sold on e-bay for real world money.

Logline: A writer and producer struggles to turn his experience surviving a helicopter crash in the Himalayas into a film.

Logline: A reformed convicted felon with a gangster past strives to become a Memphis police officer.

J. Blakeson’s noir-thriller begins to take shape!

McBride makes a move on new action-comedy!

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Logline: A cop and his team go undercover to take down one China’s most ruthless gang leaders.

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Logline: Follows the relationship between a politician and another former militant of one of Argentina’s 1970s anti-Junta revolutionary groups. Together they organizes a jail-break from a clandestine detention center.

Follows the story of what happened when Ingrid Betancourt, a Senator in Colombia and at the time a candidate for president, was taken hostage by terrorists and held in a South American jungle from 2002 to 2008 before being rescued by Colombian security forces.

Thesp gets ferocious in new pic!