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‘Sausage Party’ At SXSW: The Red Band Trailer Doesn’t Come Close To Doing The Vulgar Masterpiece Justice

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“What the [expletive] did I just watch?” That’s the very first thing I tweeted after the credits ended on Sausage Party. The eight-years-in-the-making animated film directed by Greg Tiernan (Thomas & Friends) and Conrad Vernon (Shrek 2, Monsters vs. Aliens) and written by Evan Goldberg, Seth Rogen, Kyle Hunter, and Ariel Shaffir destroyed the Paramount Theater audience tonight during its SXSW work-in-progress screening, and I still have no idea how to even talk about it… Read

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‘Bachlorette’ Choice Could Be Thorny For Franchise Lacking Diversity In Leads

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SPOILER ALERT: This report contains spoilers from the Season 20 finale of The Bachelor. ABC announced its next contestant on The Bachelorette tonight, but for some it’s a case of same old, same old, diversity-wise. Jo Jo Fletcher, runner-up on the just-ended Season 20 of The Bachelor, will have the fellas chasing her this summer in the 12th edition of The Bachelorette. And the next Bachelorette is… pic.twitter.com/xRTknyzf83 — The Bachelorette (@BacheloretteABC) March 1… Read

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‘Little Big Shots’ Gets Season 2 Renewal On NBC After 2 Airings

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It only took two episodes for the big shots at NBC to renew Little Big Shots for a 13-episode second season. The network had had high expectations for the kids talent competition, and it delivered, with highly rated preview behind The Voice and regular-slot premiere. "I've been amazed at how smart and talented these kids are," said host Steve Harvey, who executive produces the series with Ellen DeGeneres. "They may be small in stature, but they're giants in what they're… Read

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Rod Durham Dies: ‘Extreme Weight Loss’ Contestant Was 52

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Rod Durham, a high school teacher who appeared on ABC’s Extreme Weight Loss, has died. He was 52. Local paper the Tallahassee Democrat reported Durham was found during the weekend at a motel in Fort Lauderdale, where he was visiting during spring break. Friends told the paper he died of diabetic shock. Durham lost more than 180 pounds during Season 4 of the ABC reality series. “I was the third oldest and second heaviest,” Durham told the Democrat in 2014. “I wasn’t always… Read

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‘Batman v Superman’ Advance Ticket Sales Pacing Ahead Of ‘Deadpool’, ‘Avengers’ & ‘Furious 7’

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EXCLUSIVE: Latest word on advance ticket sales for Warner Bros’ Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice per various sources is that they’re outstripping 20th Century Fox’s Deadpool (opening weekend $132.4M), The Avengers ($207.4M) and Universal’s Furious 7 ($147.1M) two weeks prior to their stateside releases. One non-Warner Bros analyst has the figure between $20M-$25M, which isn’t that far from where The Dark Knight Rises’ advance ticket sales were before it debuted to… Read

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‘Preacher’ At SXSW: Bloody, Violent & Hilarious Series Could Be AMC’s Next ‘Walking Dead’

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Anyone doubting that the seminal 1990s comic series Preacher could be successfully translated for television may now consider their concerns moot. The pilot episode of the upcoming AMC series based on Garth Ennis’ lengthy, insane look at American culture that premiered today during SXSW turns out to be a textbook example of understanding the difference between the letter and the spirit of the law. Expanding on the comic’s philosophical themes while (for budgetary reasons)… Read

Chris Harris Re-ups Overall Deal With CBS TV Studios, Joins ‘The Great Indoors’ CBS Pilot As Showrunner

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Comedy writer Chris Harris has extended his overall deal with CBS Television Studios through 2019. Under the pact, Harris will serve as executive producer and showrunner on the studio CBS pilot, The Great Indoors. Additionally, he will develop new projects for network, cable, and streaming services. The multi-camera The Great Indoors, written and executive produced by Mike Gibbons, stars Community‘s Joel McHale as Joel, an adventure reporter who must adapt to the times… Read

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‘Good Place’: UCB Performer D’Arcy Carden Cast In Mike Schur NBC Series

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D'Arcy Carden is set as a series regular on Good Place, Mike Schur's 13-episode straight-to-series comedy series for NBC. She joins Kristen Bell, Ted Danson, William Jackson Harper and Jameela Jamil. Good Place centers on Eleanor (Bell), a woman from New Jersey who comes to realize that she hasn't been a very good person. She decides to turn over a new leaf by learning what it actually means to be "good" or "bad," and then trying to make up for her past behavior. Carden… Read

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Animals & Aliens Mow Down ‘Messiah’, ‘Perfect Match’ & ‘Grimsby’ – Monday Box Office Update

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6TH WRITETHRU Monday PM:  Updated with final actuals Disney’s family juggernaut  Zootopia keeps growing. We thought it was going to do in the $40Ms this weekend. Now, Disney has finaled its second weekend at $51.3M, down 32% from its opening weekend of $75M. Currently, B.O. analysts think it’s going to be a close third weekend between Zootopia and Lionsgate’s threequel The Divergent Series: Allegiant both of which are expected to make around $35M. Zootopia together with… Read

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Paramount Stake Auction: DMG Entertainment Emerges As Surprise Suitor

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EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has learned that Dan Mintz's Beijing- and Los Angeles-based DMG Entertainment is one of the entities seeking to buy a piece of Paramount Pictures. The sale of what is believed to be a 40% stake in the Melrose Avenue studio is thought to be going for about $2 billion. Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman told investors last month that the company had been "approached by several potential strategic investors in Paramount" and is "pursuing a transaction with a… Read

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Donald Trump & Campaign Won’t Face Charges Over Sucker-Punch At Campaign Rally After All – Update

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UPDATED, 5:23 PM: A North Carolina sheriff’s office now says it will not file charges of inciting a riot against Donald Trump and his campaign. “The evidence does not meet the requisites of the law as established under the relevant North Carolina statute and case law to support a conviction of the crime of inciting a riot,” the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement released hours its original statement (read it here) said it was weighing such charges. PREV… Read

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IFC Midnight Picks Off Rights To Sniper Thriller ‘Carnage Park’ – SXSW

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IFC Midnight has pulled the trigger on U.S. rights to Carnage Park, the sniper horror pic from writer-director Mickey Keating. The film premiered at Sundance and screened at SXSW over the weekend. Set in 1978, it follows two bank robbers and their hostage as they flee the law after a botched holdup in a rural California town. Taking the back roads, they unwittingly drive into a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a psychotic ex-military sniper who doesn’t dig… Read

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