Limitless star Jake McDorman has joined the upcoming film Unlovable from internet sensation Charlene deGuzman and actor-writer-director Mark Duplass. In July, the project started a Kickstarter campaign and ended up raising over $60,000 in August.
The main job a television network has is to draw viewers and achieve good ratings. It has always been this way, as long as there has been television and the networks that appear on it. Except, of course, when it’s not. Take, for instance, The CW.
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Ben Affleck’s adaptation of Dennis Lehane’s Prohibition-era crime novel Live by Night was last scheduled to open in theaters early next year, but it has been confirmed that it has been pushed to an awards-friendly release date. (/Film)
Pat Healy has booked a series regular role opposite Garret Dillahunt in Rod Lurie’s post-Civil War drama pilot Monsters of God for TNT. (Deadline)
Sony Pictures Classics have landed the North American rights to Robert De Niro’s The Comedian. The Taylor Hackford-directed film also stars Leslie Mann, Edie Falco, Veronica Ferres, Harvey Keitel and Danny DeVito. (The Wrap)
ABC has put in development Protect & Serve, a drama from the Secrets & Lies duo of executive producer-showrunner Barbie Kligman and executive producer Aaron Kaplan. (Deadline)
Orange is the New Black star Diane Guerrero has signed to the drama pilot In the Country We Love where she will portray a corporate attorney who begins defending undocumented immigrants for free. (TVLine)
Pascal Breton’s Paris- and Los Angeles-based Federation Entertainment has announced its first distribution pickup on a North American series, acquiring world sales rights to Canadian thriller Premonitions. (Variety)
Nashville executive producers Meredith Lavender and Marcie Ulin are developing a yet-to-be-titled soapy drama following a co-ed team of Special Forces. (Deadline)
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