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15:42 - Shonda Rhimes, Dee Rees Team for FX Drama Based on 'The Warmth of Other Suns'
Shonda Rhimes and Betsy Beers' Shondaland banner is heading to cable.
The prolific producers behind ABC's Grey's Anatomy, Scandal and How to Get Away With Murder are teaming with Pariah writer/director Dee Rees to adapt Isabel Wilkerson's The Warmth of Other Suns as a limited series for FX, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
The historical study, published in 2010, chronicles the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. From 1915 to 1970, the exodus of almost 6 million people changed the face of America.
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TheHollywoodReporter
15:30 - Machinima picks up "Clive Barkers Creepy Pasta" to series
Thanks to Mac for the heads up.
Creepypasta is the collective term for short horror stories, fanfiction, videos or other media, shared online with the aim of freaking out the reader. Takes after the act of “copypasta”, postng the same thing again and again across the net, creepypastas can take the form of animated gifs or games as well… they can also include supposedly lost episodes of TV shows that feature death, or something downright odd.
The most famous creepypasta is probably the horror figure Slender Man, or the fictional arcade game Polybius, which have crept into urban legend, but there are many more including the fake lost Simpsons episode in which Bart Simpson dies, a haunted version of the Majora’s Mask game that have led players to take their lives, or the Lavender Town level of Pokemon that was meant to feature frequencies that only children could hear.
So who better to visit this than Clive Barker? Taking on the legends of Slender Man, Jeff The Killer and BEN Drowned…. as a series of short films from Machinima called Clive Barker’s Creepy Pasta, and adapted by Barker from submissions sent to him from the creepypasta community.
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Bleeding Cool
14:40 - Fox Drama & Comedy Pilots Start Staffing
As we await more new series orders, I hear two of the hottest Fox pilots have started staffing. That includes drama front-runner Minority Report, based on Steven Spielberg’s 2002 movie, and comedy Grandpa starring John Stamos. Additionally, drama Rosewood has given indications that it will be hiring soon, while comedy standout The Grinder is actively searching for a showrunner in anticipation of a series pickup. Also, word is dramas Studios City and comedy Cooper Barrett’s Guide To Surviving Life remain in serious contention, and Frankenstein is a possibility.
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Deadline
14:20 - MOVIES: Avengers: Age Of Ultron - Hulk Was Originally Planned To Turn Grey
Marvel's Avengers: Age of Ultron was originally going to feature a grey version of the Hulk.
In a recent interview with the visual effects team at ILM, it was revealed that the color change for Bruce Banner's alter ego would've happened during the Hulk vs. Hulkbuster scene.
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IGN
14:04 - Brooklyn Nine-Nine - Episode 2.23 - Johnny and Dora (Season Finale) - Promotional Photos
12:45 - Black-ish - Episode 1.22 - Please Don’t Ask, Please Don’t Tell - Sneak Peek
10:30 - The Walking Dead - Seth K. Gilliam arrested for DUI
PEACHTREE CITY, Ga. - Police say they arrested one of the cast members from "The Walking Dead" for DUI, speeding and drug possession.
Seth K. Gilliam, 46, who plays Father Gabriel on the hit AMC show, was arrested by Peachtree City Police on Sunday. Documents obtained by FOX 5 Atlanta state that officers pulled him over after clocking him driving down Georgia Highway 74 doing over 100 miles per hour just after 2 a.m.
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Police say he had a blood alcohol reading of .107. They also found marijuana in a cigarette pack in his car.
Jail records show Gilliam is being charged with speeding, reckless driving, DUI, and marijuana possession.
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myfoxatlanta
10:15 - MOVIES: It Remake - Will Poulter To Play Pennywise The Dancing Clown
New Line and “True Detective” director Cary Fukunaga have found their “It.”
Sources tell Variety that Will Poulter (“We’re the Millers”) is in negotiations to play Pennywise, the evil monster who lured in children disguised as a clown, in the upcoming remake of Stephen King’s horror classic.
Fukunaga will direct “It,” which will be split into two feature films.
Source:
Variety
10:00 - Machinima announces new Robocop series
Thanks to Mac for the heads up.
From Machinima’s presentation in New York City… the return of Robocop to the screen. Three original movies, a TV series, and a rebooted movie… and now returning to the smaller screen.
RoboCop returns to Delta City where viewers ride along with the now standard-issue RoboCop officers as they respond to calls from dispatch. Tapping into current themes of the surveillance state, the series is shot from the first person point of view of the RoboCop officers’ heads up display, along with security cameras, dash-cams, and drones.
Source:
Bleeding Cool
09:45 - Joss Whedon Vanishes From Twitter
If you try to visit writer-director Joss Whedon's Twitter account, it's not there.
It's been replaced with a, "Sorry, that page doesn't exist!" message, even though Google still lists it as an active page.
According to the Screen Crush Twitter page, Whedon's last tweet read, "Thank you to all the people who've been so kind and funny and inspiring up in here."
Source:
IGN
09:30 - Into The Badlands - Marton Csokas Joins Cast
The Equalizer star Marton Csokas has joined the cast of AMC’s straight-to-series martial arts drama Into The Badlands as a series regular.
Set to premiere in the fall, the six-episode Into the Badlands is loosely based on the Chinese tale Journey To The West. In a land controlled by feudal barons, the series tells the story of a ruthless, well-trained warrior named Sunny (Daniel Wu) and a young boy, M.K. (Aramis Knight), who embark on a journey across a dangerous land to find enlightenment. Csokas will play Quinn, the most powerful Baron in the Badlands who spent his youth patrolling the Badlands and killing. Once a great fighter, he now he reigns in power and nobody who crosses him lives to tell the tale.
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Deadline
09:15 - MOVIES: Star Wars 2nd Anthology - To be about Boba Fett?
The next “Star Wars” anthology movie due in 2018 that recently lost director Josh Trank will be a Boba Fett origin story, confirming one of many rumors that have appeared online in the last several months, TheWrap has learned.
A representative for Disney had no comment.
Boba Fett is a Mandalorian warrior who was trained by his father-figure Jango Fett and became a notorious bounty hunter throughout the galaxy. His travels led him to work for the Empire, collaborate with Darth Vader and take assignments from figures such as Jabba the Hutt, for whom he once captured Han Solo.
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TheWrap
09:00 - Machinima picks up DC series "#4Hero" to series and renews "Justice League"
Thanks to Mac for the heads up.
Comic book heroes are joining digital television more than ever, and on Monday Machinima announced three projects with DC Entertainment. Presented as part of the Digital Content Upfronts, Machinima and DC are developing a revamped version of Dial H For Hero titled #4Hero, a reality TV competition show for filmmakers to produce a Starman short called DC's Hero Project, and a second season of the animated series Justice League: Gods & Monsters Chronicles set to launch in June.
#4Hero is described as a live-action "modern adaptation" of Dial H For Hero that will be focused on Nellie Tribble, who founds a smartphone app that turns her into a super hero for a limited amount of time. This social media tweak goes to more than just an app, as the random hero Tribble becomes is based on whatever is trending on social media at the time. Machinima describes #4Hero as a "VFX-heavy action comedy."
Starman comes to life as a reality show competition called DC's Hero Project. Eight contestants vie in elimination challenges for the reward of developing a live-action short video based on Starman. Machinima promises "well-known guest judges" with Geoff Johns named as one of a panel of judges for the entire show.
The announced second season of Justice League: Gods and Monsters Chonicles at Machinima comes before the first season even debuts in June. Machinima says the second season will be 10 episodes.
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Newsarama
08:45 - Highschool 51 - Orlando Jones joins cast
Thanks to Mac for the heads up.
Jay Williams — former president of global marketing and brand strategy for Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci’s K/O Paper Products — and actor-producer Orlando Jones’ Drive-By Entertainment have partnered to form Legion of Creatives, a digital-centric entertainment company.
Legion of Creatives announced its debut series, “High School 51,” in partnership with Machinima at the 2015 NewFronts in New York on Monday. The show will be exec produced by Williams and writer-producer Roberto Orci and will star Jones, who is producing alongside Drive-By president Noam Dromi.
“High School 51″ is centered around Dream Lake High School in the heart of Area 51, populated by a wholly alien student body — until the arrival of 16-year-old Alex Valencia, the first and only human ever to attend Dream Lake, who not only faces the challenge of fitting in, but also saving the human race.
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Variety