Showtime Is Already Making A Limited Series On The Capitol Riots
Showtime is developing a Capitol riots limited series on the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, from The Comey Rule's Billy Ray and Shane Salerno.
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'The Comey Rule' Teaser: See Brendan Gleeson As Donald Trump And Jeff Daniels As Former FBI Director James Comey
Brendan Gleeson and Jeff Daniels star in Showtime's The Comey Rule teaser, providing a brief look at the upcoming two-part mini-series event.
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'The Comey Rule' Release Date Bumped Up To Air Before The 2020 Election
After initially being slated to air sometime in late November, Showtime has bumped up The Comey Rule release date to sometime before the 2020 election.
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Get A First Look At Brendan Gleeson As Donald Trump In Showtime's 'The Comey Rule' Limited Series
Get a first look at Brendan Gleeson as Donald Trump in Showtime's upcoming limited series The Comey Rule, also starring Jeff Daniels as James Comey.
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New 'Terminator' Sequel Adds 'Hunger Games' Writer Billy Ray, New Character Details Emerge
The new Terminator sequel from producer James Cameron and director Tim Miller has added Billy Ray to the writing team for one more pass on the script.
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Bad Robot's 'Overlord' May Be A WWII-Set 'Cloverfield' Sequel: How Does It Connect?
J.J. Abrams is producing a new WWII thriller that certainly sounds like it could be next Cloverfield sequel. What are the Overlord Cloverfield connections?
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Julius Avery Directing Bad Robot's Supernatural D-Day Movie 'Overlord'
Julius Avery will direct Overlord, based on an original idea by producer J.J. Abrams and Billy Ray. Learn more about the supernatural WWII Bad Robot movie.
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New 'Don Quioxte' Movie In The Works As God Recruits Disney In His War On Terry Gilliam
A Don Quixote movie is in the works over at Disney, which may very well mean that God's ongoing way against Terry Gilliam may be reaching its climax.
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'Secret In Their Eyes' Trailer: Julia Roberts Is Out For Revenge
Watch the Secret in Their Eyes trailer. Chiwetel Ejiofor, Julia Roberts, and Nicole Kidman star in Billy Ray's remake of the 2009 Argentinian thriller.
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'Secret In Their Eyes' Trailer: Chiwetel Ejiofor Cracks An Old Case
Watch the first Secret in Their Eyes trailer. Chiwetel Ejiofor, Nicole Kidman, and Julia Roberts lead Billy Ray's remake of the 2010 Argentinian thriller.
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Paul Greengrass Eyes Leonardo DiCaprio's Atlanta Olympics Bombing Movie
Paul Greengrass may helm Leonardo DiCaprio's Atlanta Olympics bombing movie, The Ballad of Richard Jewell. Billy Ray (Captain Phillips) is scripting.
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Chiwetel Ejiofor Starring In 'The Secret In Their Eyes' Remake
The Secret in Their Eyes remake is moving forward, with a plot slightly reworked from the Oscar-winning Argentine original and Chiwetel Ejiofor in the lead.
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Leonardo DiCaprio's Atlanta Olympics Bombing Movie Gets A Writer
Leonardo DiCaprio's Atlanta Olympics bombing movie The Ballad of Richard Jewell has tapped Captain Phillips scribe Billy Ray to write the screenplay.
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WGA Rewards 'Her' And 'Captain Phillips'
By this point in the awards race, it's usually pretty clear who the frontrunners are. Most of the guilds have already thrown their support behind a few favorite films, which typically then go on to fare well at the Academy Awards. Nevertheless, there were a couple of mild surprises when the WGA announced its 2014 Writers…
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'Captain Phillips' Trailer: Tom Hanks And Paul Greengrass Bring Drama To The High Seas
One word comes to mind watching the first trailer for Paul Greengrass' latest film Captain Phillips: Intense. Few filmmakers are better at creating incredible tension and drama out of real world situations, and it appears the director of United 93, Bloody Sunday and two Bourne movies has done it again. This time he's joined by…
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Universal Hires 'Hunger Games' Writer To Pen Second, Competing 'Mummy' Script
Universal really, really wants their The Mummy reboot to work. Last spring, the studio set Prometheus co-writer Jon Spaihts to pen a modern-day reboot of the classic franchise. Now, they're bringing in some extra help in the form of Hunger Games scribe Billy Ray. While it's pretty typical for a high-profile tentpole pic to go…
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Billy Ray Rewriting Martin Scorsese's 'Sinatra' Biopic
Like most famous, talented directors, Martin Scorsese always has a bevy of projects at his fingertips. Right now he's shooting The Wolf of Wall Street with Leonardo DiCaprio but once he finishes that, who knows? Maybe it'll be Silence, maybe it'll be The Irishman, or maybe he'll finally get around to directing the long rumored…
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'Warrior' Helmer Gavin O'Connor In Talks To Direct Channing Tatum's Peter Pan Origin Story 'Neverland'
Warrior director Gavin O'Connor could follow up his moving tale of brotherly love and competition in the boxing ring with a story about an eternal man-child in bright green tights. Well, maybe the last part isn't entirely a fair description of Billy Ray's Neverland, but the only hard knowledge we have about the script at…
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The Feature Film Version Of '24' Might Not Happen This Year After All
The final episode of 24 was broadcast in May 2010, and not long after we started to hear serious talk about a feature film continuation of the series anchored by Kiefer Sutherland's character Jack Bauer. Fox spent a lot of time choosing a screenwriter (Billy Ray eventually scripted, with Mark Bomback polishing) and starting the…
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'The Hunger Games' Trailer
Here's the first full trailer for the Gary Ross-directed adaptation of The Hunger Games, the first novel in Suzanne Collins' darkly futuristic trilogy of novels about teenagers chosen by lottery to fight to the death as representatives of their local district. Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, and Liam Hemsworth are the young leads in the Lionsgate…
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Billy Ray To Rewrite Johnny Depp's 'The Thin Man'
The new version of The Thin Man, which Johnny Depp set in motion at Warner Bros. last year, is still moving forward. The star has wanted to make a new film based on Dashiell Hammett's classic novel (which already spawned a six-film series and a television show) and last year roped in his Pirates 4…
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Billy Ray And JJ Abrams Working On A Mysterious New Project For Paramount
Briefly: The "mysterious" part of the headline really goes without saying, doesn't it? Deadline reports that famously secretive filmmaker JJ Abrams is joining forces with screenwriter Billy Ray for a "mystery adventure," the pitch for which has just been purchased by Paramount. That's all we know at this point, but we like Abrams enough that…
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Casting Bits: Denzel Washington Offered 'Secret In Their Eyes' Remake, Will Forte Joins 'Neighborhood Watch', Isla Fisher Replaces Amanda Seyfried In 'Now You See Me'
Denzel Washington has reportedly been offered the lead role in the English-language remake of The Secret in Their Eyes, which is being helmed by Billy Ray (Shattered Glass). The original Argentinian version, by director Juan José Campanella, was a critical success that won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Picture in 2010. In other words,…
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Paul Greengrass Offered Sony's Somali Pirate Film, 'Maersk Alabama'
Here's an incremental update on both the film to be based on Captain Richard Phillips' memoir A Captain's Duty and the next stage in the career of director Paul Greengrass (The Bourne Supremacy, Green Zone). Last week we reported that the director had become a candidate for Sony's film based on the book, which Tom…
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Peter Pan Is The New Snow White: Five Projects In Development
Hollywood has never been a town that likes original ideas. It likes safe and established and easy. But sometimes the attraction to stories with those qualities veers into bizarre obsession. So it has been lately with anything that looks like a fairy tale or romantic fantasy story. We've got multiple Snow White movies in development…
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Tom Hanks Attached To Play Richard Phillips In Somali Pirate Movie
Some actors attach themselves to scores of films, most of which will never get made, or will never get made with those actors in the cast. Tom Hanks is not one of those actors. He latches on to far fewer projects, and the ones he does pick have a higher probability of getting made. He's…
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Sony Buying Into Channing Tatum's Peter Pan Origin Story 'Pan'
Briefly: Last week we told you about a pitch called Peter Pan Begins -- a title which was erroneous, as the project is simply called Pan -- which was going around town with Channing Tatum attached to star, Billy Ray writing and Joe Roth producing. Now Sony is negotiating to buy the project, with THR…
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