COLIN TREVORROW BITES ON AREA 51 PIC |
'JURASSIC WORLD' DIRECTOR SETS SIGHTS ON PARAMOUNT, MAXIMUM EFFORT CONSPIRACY THRILLER |
After helping relaunch the Jurassic World franchise at Universal, director Colin Trevorrow has set his sights on his next project revolving around another infamous location featuring creatures not of this world.
Trevorrow will direct and produce an untitled conspiracy thriller at Paramount Pictures with Maximum Effort also on board to produce. Set in the late 1980s, the project follows the local Las Vegas TV news journalist who first broke the story of Area 51, the U.S. Air Force facility in Nevada.
Trevorrow will produce through his Metronome banner, with Ryan Reynolds, George Dewey, Ashley Fox and Johnny Pariseau producing for the Maximum Effort. Patrick Gooing exec produces. >>>Thomas & William Wheeler Script |
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Top Tropper - Apple TV+ has renewed its exclusive television overall deal with Jonathan Tropper, who has emerged as the streamer’s most prolific writer-creator across both TV and film with two on-air series, Your Friends and Neighbors and the upcoming Lucky. >>>Third Deal
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The Christmas Reunion - A new holiday film is reuniting 90s big screen lovebirds Rachael Leigh Cook and Freddie Prinze Jr. more than two decades after starring alongside one another in She’s All That. >>>Duo Play Sportscasters
It Starts On The Page - Read Industry episode 304 script “White Mischief” with foreword by Mickey Down and Konrad Kay >>>"Incredibly Fun To Write" |
Mark Johnson is closing in on two decades at AMC. The Oscar-winning film producer behind such movies as Rain Man, The Notebook and The Holdovers started his run at the cable network with Vince Gilligan’s Emmy-winning Breaking Bad. It led to seven other series to date — and more in the works as Johnson has renewed his first-look deal with AMC Studios. “Why wouldn’t I be at AMC?,” he told Deadline in an interview tied to the new pact. >>>Read The Interview |
Julia Garner has closed her deal and will star opposite Anthony Boyle in a new Netflix series about Sam Bankman-Fried and Caroline Ellison and the collapse of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, titled The Altruists.
Liev Schreiber, Zazie Beetz and Stephen Graham will star in an as-yet untitled series for Apple and A+E Studios based on the Lars Kepler novels. Tom Hardy was originally in talks for the role of cunning serial killer Jurek, which Graham has now landed. exclusive Melissa George is set to star in Ms. X, a crime dramedy commissioned by Warner Bros. Discovery's TV3 in New Zealand. Plus6Four and South Pacific Pictures will produce, with Dynamic Television co-producing and handling worldwide distribution. exclusive Prime Video's new Muhammad Ali limited series The Greatest has cast Giovanni Ribisi, Reno Wilson, Erica Tazel and Aleks Paunovic in recurring roles, as production gets underway in Toronto. Jaalen Best leads the cast, portraying boxing great Ali.
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Fri - Lester Holt's last broadcast as NBC Nightly News anchor; Your Friends and Neighbors finale
Sat - Netflix's Tudum Live event; Produced By Conference
Sun – Duck Dynasty: The Revival premieres on A&E
Mon - Gotham TV Awards
Tue – Love Island USA Season 7 premiere on Peacock |
Sex, In A Different City - Nicole Ari Parker, Kristin Davis, Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon, and Sarita Choudhury attend a Paris photocall for Season 3 of And Just Like That… |
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