NBC is sold on a pair of Bryans: The Peacock has partnered with Bryan Singer and Pushing Daisies' Bryan Fuller to adapt Augusten Burroughs' Sellevision into a series.
The one-hour dramedy, to be written by Fuller and directed by Singer, will focus on the inner workings of a fictional home shopping network, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Singer and Fuller will executive-produce the project with Galgos Entertainment's Russell Nuce and Mark Bozek. A former CEO of the Home Shopping Network and QVC, Bozek had originally planned ...
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Despite his couch-jumping on Oprah and his bickering with Matt Lauer, Tom Cruise remains one of the heroes of American cinema. But in his first leading role since 2006, Cruise plays a German hero — one many Americans know little about.
In Valkyrie, a gripping World War II suspense thriller about one of the many attempts to assassinate Adolf Hitler, Cruise plays Claus von Stauffenberg, a German army officer who works with the Resistance movement to try to remove the Nazis from power ...
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Director Bryan Singer has wooed Tom Cruise into taking a role in an untitled thriller based on an attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler at the height of World War II.... The Devil Wears Prada's Emily Blunt will topline The Young Victoria, a biopic of the 19th-century monarch.... Jennifer Connelly, Crispin Glover, Martin Landau, Christopher Plummer, John C. Reilly and Elijah Wood will voice rag dolls from a parallel universe in the animated 9.... Emile Hirsch is in talks to star in the Wachowski siblings' Speed Racer, to film this summer and to be released next year.... New Line has acquired film rights to the hit video game Gears of War.
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ABC has ordered pilots for X-Men director Bryan Singer's Dirty Sexy Money, described as "Dynasty meets Six Feet Under," and Judy's Got a Gun, about a single-mom detective solving crimes in suburbia. Please, please, please cast Gail O'Grady! C'mon, we said please.
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Per Variety, ABC has greenlit a pilot for a U.S. adaptation of the U.K. hit Footballers' Wives, and even has X-Men's Bryan Singer — whose last TV pilot was House — loosely attached to direct. In its American incarnation, Wives will be set in the world of pro football rather than that "other" football, soccer, yet promises to retain its over-the-top frothiness. Also in the U.S. version: more-conspicuous dental hygiene.
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