August 2012

The Newsroom – The Blackout Part II: Mock Debate

  • Title: The Newsroom – The Blackout Part II: Mock Debate
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Following the recent power outage in the studio, the newsroom team holds a mock debate for two officials (Adam ArkinJake McDorman) of the Republican Party to showcase the kind of debate they would like to put on the air. Not surprisingly, it doesn’t go over very well.

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News and Notes

The Hollywood Reporter is reporting Marvel Studios is now talking exclusively with James Gunn (Slither, Super) to direct 2014’s Guardians of the Galaxy about a ragtag team of interstellar heroes that includes a talking tree and a mercenary raccoon

The New York Post is reporting that Marvel Studios is considering Anna Kendrick, Felicity Jones, and Imogen Poots for the female lead in Captain America: The Winter Soldier

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Hit & Run

  • Title: Hit & Run
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hit-and-run-posterWritten, co-directed, and starring Dax Shepard Hit & Run is, simply put, a mess of a film likely to remind viewers of similar recent train wrecks such as Smokin’ Aces and Catch .44. Shepard stars as Charlie Bronson, a getaway driver from Los Angeles now living in the middle of nowhere in the Witness Protection Program. When his girlfriend Annie (Kristen Bell) gets an interview for her dream job in Los Angeles, Charlie throws caution to the wind and decides to go with her.

Their road to L.A. is complicated by Annie’s stalker ex-boyfriend Gil (Michael Rosenbaum) intent on proving Charlie is nothing but a crook, Charlie’s ridiculous United States Marshal (Tom Arnold) in charge of his safety, and the even more ridiculous Alex Dimitri (Bradley Cooper) the man who Charlie testified against and is still looking for revenge. Gil, knowing Charlie’s secret, contacts Dimitri in a last-ditch attempt to win back Annie by getting her current boyfriend killed. Yeah… that’s the kind of logic central to ever single plot point in Hit & Run.

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Leverage – The Gimmie a K Street Job

  • Title: Leverage – The Gimmie a K Street Job
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The Leverage team sets their sites on a the CEO (Danielle Bisutti) of PEP, a corrupt corporation in control of a cheerleading empire whose cost-cutting measures, substandard safety regulations, and negligence is putting the young women in danger. Parker (Beth Riesgraf) goes undercover as the new coach of a team whose former coach, and the team’s new client, was scapegoated when one of her cheerleaders is hospitalized with serious injuries. Meanwhile, the rest of the team heads to Washington D.C. to take on Congress.

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