Launch Pad Alum Alexis Perkins Signs With Stagecoach Entertainment (EXCLUSIVE)
Launch Pad Alum Alexis Perkins has signed with Stagecoach Entertainment managers Evan Lewis and Steve Smith. Perkins’s script, Derby City, was a standout from the 2016 Launch Pad Feature Competition and finished in the Top 3.
The Runway: Tracking the 2017 Pilots, Trends, & Networks
The Tracking Board presents the 4th annual edition of The Runway! The premise is simple: we read, review and prognosticate on the future of every single network show picked up to pilot. So fasten your seatbelts, because pilot season is about to take off.
Amy Adams Named 31st Recipient of American Cinematheque Award
Though she still has yet to receive the Oscar, although she’s been nominated five times, Amy Adams will receive the American Cinematheque Award at this year’s ceremony on November 10 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
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The WHC Association announced that comedian Hasan Minhaj has been set to entertain the press corps during the 2017 White House Correspondents’ Dinner. (Deadline)
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Christopher Lloyd is joining William Shatner in the romantic comedy Senior Moment from director Giorgio Serafini and screenwriters Kurt Brungardt and Christopher Momenee. (Variety)
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Acorn TV has acquired BBC One comedy Decline and Fall, starring Desperate Housewives alumna Eva Longoria in the first TV adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s classic novel. (Deadline)
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Justin Hartley, star of breakout series This Is Us, has come aboard STXfilms’ A Bad Moms Christmas, joining original stars Mila Kunis, Kristen Bell, and Kathryn Hahn. (Deadline)
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Asa Butterfield and Sophie Turner have signed on to the cast of the romantic comedy Time Freak along with Skyler Gisondo, Will Peltz, Aubrey Reynolds and Jillian Joy. (Deadline)
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Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA and JT Neal are the latest to join Overbrook Entertainment/Marc Bienstock’s Life In A Year, the romantic young adult drama toplined by Jaden Smith and Cara Delevingne. (Deadline)
