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Peter Fonda To Be Most Hated Preacher In Netflix’s ‘Most Hated Woman In America’

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EXCLUSIVE: Peter Fonda is set for a starring role in The Most Hated Woman in America, the true story of Madalyn O'Hair, an atheist who got the Supreme Court to overturn prayer in public schools. Netflix is financing the motion picture with Melissa Leo starring and Tommy O’Haver directing from his own script (which he co-wrote with Irene Turner). The project is slated to go before the cameras on Monday. Fonda will play Reverend Harrington, a con-artist preacher who… Read

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21st Century Fox’s $250 Million Cut: Who Is Taking the Buyout Packages?

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21st Century Fox’s voluntary buyout program is moving to the next phase, with those tenured TV and film employees who had accepted the buyout offer by the Feb. 29 deadline entering a 45-day window to mull over and agree to the terms in the separation agreement and sign it. No departures are final yet as staffers don't have to commit to the buyout until mid-April and can still change their mind and decline the offer. Still, information has started to trickle out… Read

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AG Capital And Scott LaStaiti Acquire Stephen Flatow’s Life Rights, Crusading Anti-Terror Lawyer

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Alex Garcia’s AG Capital is partnering with producer Scott LaStaiti on the real-life story of Stephen Flatow, the New Jersey-based lawyer whose daughter Alisa was murdered by terrorists during a suicide bombing attack in 1995. After winning a historic judgment against his daughter's killers, Flatow uncovered an international conspiracy exposing corruption within the world's banking system and captured the imaginations of the public worldwide. LaStaiti acquired the… Read

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‘Lethal Weapon’ Pilot: Jordana Brewster To Co-Star

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Jordana Brewster, co-star of The Fast & the Furious movie franchise, is set as the female lead in the series adaptation of another hit action feature franchise, Lethal Weapon. Brewster will co-star in Fox's hourlong pilot based on the hit buddy cop movies. In the pilot, written by Matt Miller and directed by McG, when Texas cop and former Navy SEAL Martin Riggs suffers the loss of his wife and baby, he moves to Los Angeles to start anew. There, he is partnered with LAPD… Read

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Mary Parent To Take Top Legendary Entertainment Post

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In a move that puts Mary Parent back in the executive suites, Legendary chairman/CEO Thomas Tull has set the veteran executive and producer to the newly established title of vice chairman of worldwide production. She replaces Jon Jashni, who just announced his exit to form Raintree Ventures. Parent will oversee Legendary’s film, TV, digital, mobile and new media development and production activities, reporting to Tull. In Parent, Tull is getting a dynamo who is always on… Read

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‘Once Upon a Time’, ‘The Goldbergs’ Among Early Series Renewals At ABC

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UPDATED REFRESH FOR LATEST: In one of her first programming moves since becoming president of ABC Entertainment, Channing Dungey has given early renewals to the bulk of the network’s established series. The only ones officially confirmed so far are Once Upon a Time and The Goldbergs as Once co-creator Adam Horowitz and The Goldbergs creator Adam F. Goldberg tweeted the news. They are expected to be two of many to come today, with comedies Modern Family and Fresh off the Bo… Read

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‘Star Trek’: Rod Roddenberry & Trevor Roth Join CBS Digital Series As EPs

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CBS’ upcoming new Star Trek series has recruited Federation royalty into the production as Roddenberry Entertainment President Eugene “Rod” Roddenberry, son Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, has joined the series as an executive producer along with Roddenberry Entertainment COO Trevor Roth. They join Alex Kurtzman, Heather Kadin and Bryan Fuller, who was previously announced as the new series showrunner. Roddenberry Entertainment will also co-produce alongside CBS… Read

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Donald Trump Says Mitt Romney Would Have “Dropped To His Knees” For Him In 2012 – Update

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Updated with Donald Trump’s response to Mitt Romney’s speech: Mitt Romney is “irrelevant” and a “failed candidate” who was so desperate for Trump’s endorsement when he ran for the White House, “I could have said, ‘Mitt, drop to your knees; he would have dropped.” “He was begging me” for support, Trump added at a raucous rally in Maine, interrupted three times while security ejected protesters. Romney wanted to run again this time, Trump insisted, but backed down because… Read

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Georgina Haig Set As Female Lead In The CW’s Mars Drama Project

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Georgina Haig (Limitless) is set as the female lead opposite Neal Bledsoe in The CW's Untitled Mars Project pilot, from CBS TV Studios. Written by Doris Egan (Reign), the thriller follows an explorer team that arrives on Mars to join the first human colony on the planet, only to discover that their predecessors have vanished. Led by a woman whose husband is among the missing, the colonists are forced to change their mission from exploration and settlement to investigation… Read

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Broadway Royalty Barbara Cook Will Return For Solo Show Staged By Tommy Tune

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Barbara Cook, indelibly River City librarian Marian Paroo opposite Robert Preston own Broadway in The Music Man and Cunegonde in Leonard Bernstein’s Candide, will return to the stage next month to share the stories and songs that shaped her life and career in Barbara Cook: Then and Now, described as “a candid and intimate evening.” Pegged to the June release of her autobiography (same title) the show is conceived by 3-time Tony Award winning writer and director James Lapin… Read

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‘Hunter Killer’ Moving Ahead; Donovan Marsh Helms Gerard Butler/Gary Oldman Thriller In London July 25th

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EXCLUSIVE: Hunter Killer, the Gerard Butler-Gary Oldman action drama that got stalled by Relativity’s plunge into Chapter 11, has a new director and a start date from Millennium Films. iNumber Number director Donovan Marsh has taken the helm, and a July 25 start date has been set in London. Original Film's Neal Moritz and Toby Jaffe — who fought to extricate the film from Relativity when its production start was stalled while Martin Campbell was directing — is producing… Read

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Film Movement Acquires Cesar-Nominated Pic ‘Neither Heaven Nor Earth’

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New York-based distributor Film Movement has snapped up North American rights to French filmmaker Clément Cogitore's feature directorial Neither Heaven Nor Earth, formerly known as The Wakhan Front. The France-Belgium production was nominated for a César in the Best First Film category, and it played Cannes Critics’ Week last year. The pic will make its U.S. premiere in New York on March 19 and will be released later this year followed by a digital and home video release… Read

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