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Hammers announce new haunted house project
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Hammer is to produce a a film based on the story of the Winchester Mystery House – considered the “world’s most haunted house”. The California property is a popular tourist destination thanks to the legend of Sarah Winchester, heiress to the Winchester Rifle fortune, who was haunted by the spirits of those killed by “the…
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BBC recommissions The Syndicate
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BBC One has commissioned a second series of Kay Mellor’s drama The Syndicate after the first series attracted an average audience of six million. The first series saw Timothy Spall head the cast of five lottery winners whose lives are turned upside down after they jointly win the lottery. The BBC says the second series…
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First look: Tarantino’s Django Unchained
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Set in the South two years before the Civil War, Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained satrs Jamie Foxx as Django, a slave whose brutal history with his former owners lands him face-to-face with German-born bounty hunter Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz). Schultz is on the trail of the murderous Brittle brothers, and only Django can lead…
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LexisNexis launches new ebook law library
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Law book publishers LexisNexis has partnered with ebook distributers OverDrive to make their law content available as ebooks for desktops and mobile devices. The company says its LexisNexis Digital Library “is an innovative new service that offers legal professionals access to the largest collection of authoritative legal eBook content on all major mobile devices and…
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Tor UK follows US and drops DRM
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The UK division of Tor books is following its US parent and dropping DRM from ebooks. Earlier this week Tor US announced it will drop DRM from ebooks from July 2012. The imprints are owned by publishing house Macmillan “We know that this is what many Tor authors passionately want. We also understand that readers…
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Russell Tovey to star in new ITV sitcom
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Former Being Human star Russell Tovey is to star in The Job Lot, a new ITV sitcom set in a busy West Midlands Job Centre. The series, which focuses on the relationships between the people who work there, and the people who don’t, also stars Sarah Hadland (Miranda) and will air on ITV 1 next…