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ME & TAMMY FAYE AT THE BETTY FORD CLINIC (SPEC)
The story of the unlikely bond between a drag queen and the queen of Christian televangelism… Inspired by the very real life of Tammy Faye Bakker.
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Kyle Chandler to Star in Hulu’s “Catch-22” as George Clooney Switches Roles
Clooney was originally slated to play Colonel Cathcart, but that role will now go to Chandler. Clooney will instead play the supporting part of Scheisskopf, which gives him more time to focus on directing and producing.
Adam Sandler, Jennifer Aniston to Star in Action Comedy “Murder Mystery” at Netflix (Exclusive)
Sandler will play a NYC cop who finally takes his wife (Aniston) on a long promised European trip. A chance meeting on the flight gets them invited to an intimate family gathering on the Super Yacht of elderly billionaire Malcolm Quince. When Quince is murdered, they become the prime suspects in a modern day whodunit.
Directed by Stephen Gaghan (Syriana), production for the Universal release has already begun in London with Downey joined by Antonio Banderas, Michael Sheen, Harry Collett and Jim Broadbent.
While the team at Annapurna has loved this project since the company first became involved with it several years ago, sources say Megan Ellison was wary about financing the film, given the hit the company took on Kathryn Bigelow’s underperforming drama Detroit.
Written and directed by Josh Trank (Fantastic Four), the film will cover Capone’s later years when he was suffering from dementia while in prison.
TV Casting Round-Up (03.15.18) – Justin Kirk to Recur on Jim Carrey Comedy “Kidding” and More…
The 100 alum Tati Gabrielle joins Netflix’s Riverdale spinoff, Frequency star Peyton List boards Fox’s Gone Baby series, and Chuck‘s Ryan McPartlin signs on for a co-starring role opposite Jessica Alba in Bad Boys.
Miranda July Teams with Plan B, Annapurna For Her Third Film
The new project from the writer/director of Me and You and Everyone We Know will begin filming in late May with July once again starring in it.
The Oscar-winner has most recently been seen on the small screen in WGN’s Bellevue, the Margaret Atwood adaptation of Alias Grace, and Amazon’s Electric Dreams.
The Italian filmmaker directed the Gomorrah TV series before taking over for Denis Villeneuve on the action-thriller sequel starring Benicio del Toro and Josh Brolin.
In this family holiday musical, a cobblestone world comes to life in this tale of an embattled toymaker, his precocious granddaughter, and a magical invention that could change their lives forever — if they can get it to work in time for the holidays.
JINGLE JANGLE (PITCH)
An embattled toymaker and his precocious granddaughter work to finish a magical invention in time for the holidays.
Seth Meyers in Talks to Host 2018 Golden Globes
The Late Night With Seth Meyers host will follow in the footsteps of Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon, who hosted the 2017 ceremony.
Gyllenhaal will play a financial reporter who travels to Rio de Janeiro to visit a wealthy friend (Cumberbatch), only to get sucked into a plot to fake his friend’s death.
Retired exploitation film director Doris Wishman lives in obscurity, spending her days working at a Miami sex shop and nights with her hilarious and heartbreaking family, until an avid fan shows her that her old movies still have some left in them, and Doris shows him that she does, too.
The SNL alum is slated to play a scientists in Ruben Fleischer’s comic book movie, which will co-star Michelle Williams as a district attorney who may fall for Hardy’s Eddie Brock.
The Oscar-winning actress joins the cast of Scorsese’s crime-drama for Netflix, in which De Niro will play hitman Frank “The Irishman” Sheeran, who might have been responsible for Jimmy Hoffa’s disappearance.
The “Desperate Housewives” star would play a wife and mother whose adopted daughter falls in love with a lost dog, and that’s just one of a bunch of dog-related stories in the movie.
It’s been remarkable to see Williams’ career blossom since her Dawson’s Creek days, as she’s racked up four Oscar nominations for her work in Brokeback Mountain, Blue Valentine, My Week With Marilyn and Manchester by the Sea.
Plot details remain under wraps, but sources say the script was written by Guy Busick and Ryan Murphy, and describe it as being in the vein of Jordan Peele’s hit Get Out.
The show follows a hopeful young doctor who serves under an experienced, brilliant resident who shows the good and evil in modern day medicine. Atias will play Renata Thorpe, a strong, elegant businesswoman who serves as the hospitals CEO.
The filmmaker best known for comedies like Horrible Bosses, Four Christmases, and the recent Baywatch will tackle more serious fare with the 1999 Texas drug scandal documented in the 2005 book Tulia: Race, Cocaine, and Corruption in a Small Texas Town.
David Mackenzie’s period film won’t just be about ransacking castles, as the script is said to feature a prominent love story between Robert the Bruce and his Queen, Elizabeth de Burgh.
After getting expelled from college in his senior year for a frat prank gone wrong, Kieran falls into a job as an aide for a teenage boy with autism and ends up in an unexpected friendship with the boy’s mother who is dealing with many issues of her own.
A European woman escaping a life of forced prostitution becomes romantically involved with an American man with a troubled past.
TV PILOT & SERIES CASTING (09.05.14)
