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Ridley Scott and Joaquin Phoenix Reteam for Napoleon Movie ‘Kitbag’

Ridley Scott and Joaquin Phoenix appear determined to meet their Waterloo… or at least film it with the pair mounting a new historical war epic about French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. The news was broken by Deadline, which filed the story on the last day of filming of production for Scott’s current historical epic, The Last Duel. The name of Scott’s Napoleon movie is Kitbag, apparently taken from the saying, “There is a general’s staff hidden in every soldier’s kitbag.” And the movie is coming together quickly for Scott, who’s already working with screenwriter David Scarpa, the writer of Scott’s previous…
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Kings of America: Adam McKay and Amy Adams Reteam for Netflix Limited Series

The creative partnership between Adam McKay and Amy Adams has taken them to Talladega Superspeedway and The White House. Now the pair is set to head somewhere a little more modest: Walmart.  Netflix announced during its virtual summer TCA press tour appearance that it has ordered Kings of America, a limited series about three powerful women and their relationship to retail giant Walmart. Netflix’s official synopsis for the series reads:  “Kings of America centers on the stories of three powerful women whose lives were inextricably intertwined with the world’s largest company: a Walmart heiress, a maverick executive, and a longtime…
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