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John Wick: Chapter 2 – Official Teaser Trailer (Keanu Reeves, Common, Ian McShane)
Legendary hitman John Wick is forced back out of retirement by a former associate plotting to seize control of a shadowy international assassins’ guild. Bound by a blood oath to help him, John travels to Rome where he squares off against some of the world’s deadliest killers.
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BEST DAY OF MY LIFE (SALES)
A singer in New York struggles with a severe health diagnosis.
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Anders Holm Tapped For Judy Greer’s “A Happening Of Monumental Proportions”
Anders Holm has been cast in Judy Greer’s A Happening of Monumental Proportions. The movie marks the Archer actress’s directorial debut.
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BARBERSHOP – OFFICIAL TRAILER (ICE CUBE, COMMON, NICKI MINAJ)
It’s been more than 10 years since our last appointment at Calvin’s Barbershop. Calvin and his longtime crew are still there, but the shop has undergone some major changes.
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Judy Greer Makes Directorial Debut With Dramedy “A Happening of Monumental Proportions”
Actress Judy Greer is set to make her directorial debut on the comedic drama A Happening of Monumental Proportions. Common and Allison Janney will star in the dramedy, which Chris Weitz, Paul Weitz and Andrew Miano are producing under their Depth of Field banner.
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A HAPPENING OF MONUMENTAL PROPORTIONS (SALES)
Kept under wraps, but takes place in a small school in Los Angeles, which serves as the setting for an all-in-one-day story of of sex, lies and death.
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CHIRAQ — TRAILER (Samuel L. Jackson, John Cusack, Teyonah Paris)
Kept under wraps, but centers on street violence in Chicago in a reimagining of Aristophanes’ play “Lysistrata.”
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Common To Play Big Bad In “John Wick 2”
Oscar-winning musician and prolific actor Common joins the cast of the upcoming sequel to the Keanu Reeves action flick John Wick as the main baddie, which will start shooting next week.
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PILOT, TV & SERIES SALES & CASTING (8.14.15)
A round-up of this week’s pilot and series TV casting and sales!
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SUICIDE SQUAD — COMIC CON TRAILER (Will Smith, Margot Robbie, Jared Leto)
A team of supervillains is given one last shot at redemption by taking on missions that will most likely get them killed.
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COCO (SALES)
An aspiring twentysomething rapper who wants a career in hip-hop is torn by her parents’ dreams that she finish college, where she finds her true talent in the power of the spoken word.
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BEING CHARLIE (SALES)
Logline: An 18-year-old breaks out of a youth drug treatment clinic, but when he returns home to Los Angeles, he’s given an intervention by his parents and forced to go to an adult rehab.
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JOHN WICK 2 (SALES)
Logline: Kept under wraps, follows Wick on his continued revenge journey.
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SELMA – TRAILER (Cuba Gooding Jr., Oprah Winfrey, Carmen Ejogo)
Story focuses on the historic–and often violent–marches that took place in Selma, Alabama in 1965, which marked the political and emotional peak of the civil rights movement.
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Common Marches to the Beat of His Own Drum in “Selma”
The actor will fight for civil rights in the biopic.
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X/Y (SALES)
Logline: Explores the impact a couple’s crumbling relationship has on their circle of friends.
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L.U.V. — TRAILER (COMMON, DANNY GLOVER, CHARLES S. DUTTON, MICHAEL KENNETH WILLIAMS)
When a young boy follows his recently paroled uncle around town, he finds himself growing up quickly in a series of escalating events that include a triple homicide and his first drug deal.
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THE MAN WHO LOVED WOMEN (REMAKE) (SALES)
Logline: A man in Buenos Aires decides to write a memoir chronicling his love life and past relationships.
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THE ODD LIFE OF TIMOTHY GREEN — TRAILER (Jennifer Garner, Joel Edgerton, Ron Livingston)
Happily married couple, Cindy and Jim Green can’t wait to start a family but can only dream about what their child would be like. When young Timothy shows up on their doorstep one stormy night, Cindy and Jim–and their small town of Stanleyville–learn that sometimes the unexpected can bring some of life’s greatest gifts.
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RUN ALL NIGHT (SALES)
Logline: An aging hitman must protect his family as he goes up against his boss in a single night.
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PAWN (SALES)
Logline: Follows an ex-con who becomes entangled in a manipulative chess game between federal agents, local police and the mob.
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LEARNING UNCLE VERNON (SALES)
Logline: When a young boy follows his recently paroled uncle around town, he finds himself growing up quickly in a series of escalating events that include a triple homicide and his first drug deal.
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THREE SECONDS (SALES)
Logline: Story follows an ex-con, working undercover for the police, who is sent into a maximum security prison to break a criminal organization’s stranglehold on amphetamine dealings on the inside.
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EVERY SECRET THING (SALES)
Logline: Story follows two pre-teenage girls who after being sent home early from a birthday party discover an unattended baby in a carriage, and after failing to care for it, the baby ends up dead, and the girls are put away for seven years. It’s only when they are released that what appears to be the truth about their stories begins to reveal itself, but it is clouded bt the fact that suddenly, other children have begun to disappear.
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SELMA (SALES)
Logline: Story focuses on the historic–and often violent–marches that took place in Selma, Alabama in 1965, which marked the political and emotional peak of the civil rights movement.