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Foxx and Joseph Gordon-Levitt have signed on for an untitled
sci-fi feature project at Netflix…Mel Gibson will co-write, executive produce
and direct a remake of Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch for Warner Bros.
Pictures…Glory’s Ed Zwick will executive produce and direct the first episode of
Away, an upcoming Netflix series about the first human mission to Mars…NBC is
developing a TV project using a character from Seth Grahame-Smith’s novel
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. The Last American Vampire would follow Abby, a
young analyst, as she’s recruited into a special division of the FBI that
investigates unique and mysterious cases. She will work with a 500-year-old
vampire…Warner Media is also planning a streaming service that will launch by
the end of the year. The channel would use the entire Warners’ portfolio except
for CNN…the boutique distributor Annapurna Pictures seems to be in financial
trouble…John Carter’s Taylor Kitsch will star in a new HBO series that has him
playing a drug dealer who ends up taking some bad dope that leaves him in a
temporary vegetative state. The series will be told in present day and in
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