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Somebody's Making a 'Good Times' Movie

There's no deal signed for an Arrested Development movie yet, but Sony Pictures is working to turn the 1970s sitcom Good Times into a feature film. Deadline reports that Sony and producer Scott Rudin (True Grit, The Social Network) have teamed up and hired Phil Johnston (Cedar Rapids, Wreck-It Ralph) to write the script. Developed by Norman Lear, Good Times ran for six seasons on CBS from 1974 to 1979 and followed an African-American family living in a Chicago housing project. The movie will be set in the '60s. There currently isn't a cast or director attached to the film, but you can imagine a lot of actors [...]

Book of Mormon May Spread the Good Word to a Bigger Theater

The Book of Mormon may be moving to a bigger theater, and not just so it can sell more tickets. The move may also be a power play on behalf of producer Scott Rudin to piss off the owner of the theater Mormon's currently in. Broadway: the drama is not just onstage.

A Book of Mormon Movie Is Pretty Much Inevitable

Tickets for The Book of Mormon are both expensive and difficult to come by, with the Broadway show sold out well into the summer already. But it sounds like it'll get much easier to see Trey Parker and Matt Stone's super-popular musical, at least on a long enough timeline, as they've been discussing adapting it into a movie with producer Scott Rudin.

No concrete plans are set up yet, and no studio is attached, but all involved say it'll happen sooner or later. Getting the cash to make it shouldn't be tough, according to Parker: “We’ve learned in our careers that as long as something is successful, they [...]

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