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Aaron Sorkin Confirms Christian Bale Playing Steve Jobs in Sony Movie

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Christian Bale will play Steve Jobs in Sony’s upcoming biopic about the late Apple co-founder,screenwriter Aaron Sorkin confirmed in a Bloomberg Television interview with Emily Chang. “We needed the best actor on the board in a certain age range and that’s Chris Bale,” Sorkin said. “He didn’t have to audition. Well, there was a meeting.” Bale was originally eyed to play […]

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‘The Mummy’ Reboot Plot Details Revealed?

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Seeing as shared universes are all the rage these days, Universal is preparing one of their own starring the studio’s classic movie monsters – Dracula, Frankenstein, The Mummy, The Invisible Man, and so on. This shared monster universe officially kicked off earlier this month when Universal released Dracula Untold, a new spin on the vampire’s tragic origin. Untold was met with […]

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WB Planning New ‘Mortal Kombat’ & Live-Action ‘Static Shock’ Webseries

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As if Warner Bros.’ recent slew of big announcements – from officially debuting their plans for a shared DC Comics movie universe to their upcoming Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them series and The LEGO Movie spinoff, LEGO Batman - weren’t enough, the company is now prepared to unveil its new digital division: Blue Ribbon Content. Along with the reveal of a brand-spanking new […]

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Disney Loses ‘John Carter’ Rights – Will We See a Reboot

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In 2012, Disney took advantage of their ownership of Marvel to reap the benefits of the billion-dollar grossing Avengers movie, but that wasn’t the only major franchise they were hoping to launch that year. You may recall that a couple of months prior to Earth’s Mightiest doing battle with Loki, the Mouse House released John Carter, an adaptation […]

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FOX Greenlights First Comedy-Horror Anthology, “Scream Queens” from GLEE Creators

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FOX has ordered SCREAM QUEENS, a new genre-bending comedy-horror anthology series, it was announced today by Dana Walden and Gary Newman, Chairmen and CEOs of Fox Television Group. The series, produced by 20th Century Fox Television, is from Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, Ian Brennan and Dante Di Loreto, the executive producers of GLEE and “American Horror […]

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Disney Animation’s ‘Moana’ Set for 2016 Release

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Walt Disney Animation Studios has been on roll of late, with such films as Wreck-It Ralph and Frozen having both earned critical acclaim and cleaned up at the box office, and next month’s Big Hero 6 looks to keep that win streak alive. The Mouse House will unveil two Pixar animated features next year, with Inside Out arriving in June and The Good Dinosaur in November in lieu of […]

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Ebola TV Series in the Works From Lynda Obst, Ridley Scott

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As the Ebola virus continues to dominate the headlines, producer Lynda Obst and director-producerRidley Scott are bringing the deadly pathogen to the small screen with a limited series for Fox TV Studios based on Richard Preston‘s 1994 nonfiction best-seller The Hot Zone. For the past year, the pair quietly has been working on the property, which they optioned two decades […]

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