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William Monahan, who won an Academy Award for his screenplay for The Departed, has been tapped to write the script for Paramount’s Evel Knievel biopic, based on Sheldon Saltman’s book Evel Knievel On Tour.
A biopic of the iconic stuntman based on the 1977 book.
Follows the exploits of a cocaine-fueled record executive in New York City circa 1977, when punk, disco and a new form of music called hip-hop collided.
A record exec works to save his company during the birth of punk, disco, and hip-hop. Premieres on HBO in 2016.
A round-up of the week’s TV News!
“Showrunners” explores the fascinating world of the US television showrunner and the creative forces around them, as they battle daily between art and commerce to deliver television comedies and dramas to audiences worldwide.
Entering its fifth and final season, the crime drama follows Nucky Thompson, an Atlantic City bootlegger, as he navigates an increasingly hostile underworld.
Logline: Kept under wraps but will focus on the high school career of NBA star LeBron James.
True story centers a Long Island penny stockbroker, who served 20 months in prison for refusing to cooperate in a massive 1990s securities fraud case that involved widespread corruption on Wall Street.
True story centers a Long Island penny stockbroker, who served 20 months in prison for refusing to cooperate in a massive 1990s securities fraud case that involved widespread corruption on Wall Street and in the corporate banking world, including mob infiltration.
Logline: Will focus on the life of notorious Boston drug-dealer and mobster Whitney Bulger
Logline: An immigrant barges his way into the criminal establishment in pursuit of a alternative version of the American dream, becoming a drug kingpin through a campaign of ruthlessness and violent ambition.
Logline: The story of the Camorra, the precursor to the Sicilian Mafia.
The return of D’Onofrio to CI, the Empire expands at HBO, “The Lost Girls” are found by Bruckheimer, Baywatch creator sets up another beach series, and CBS finds a Second Wind and an Untitled Goldstein Sitcom.
Logline: True story centers on Jordan Belfort, a Long Island penny stockbroker, who served 20 months in prison for refusing to cooperate in a massive 1990s securities fraud case that involved widespread corruption on Wall Street and in the corporate banking world, including mob infiltration.
Logline: Story centers on the investigation, and trial of two decorated NYPD cops who were discovered to also be hit men for the mob.