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Exclusive: Netflix’s film division has preemptively acquired a pitch for an untitled law school thriller from Holland, Michigan‘s Andrew Sodroski, sources tell Deadline.

Netflix could not be reached for comment. While plot details are unknown at this time, the pitch is said to be described as a contemporary spin on The Firm meets The Wolf of Wall Street. Ben Pugh and Peter Dealbert will produce for the L.A. and London-based management and production company 42.

Most recently, 42 worked with Netflix as a producer on its sci-fi actioner Outside the Wire starring Anthony Mackie, which debuted at #1 and was watched by 66 million households in its first quarter on the platform. Sodroski’s pitch marks 42’s second pre-emptive sale in a row on the heels of The Bet, a thriller spec from Enemy‘s Javier Gullón that sold to Warner Bros for what we’re told was a significant figure.

Catching Killers season 3 premiered on June 23 on Netflix.

In previous seasons, the true crime documentary series explored infamous murders such as The Happy Face Killer, Btk, and the Phoenix Serial Shooter. Now the latest season dives into the stories of four new killers: the Railroad Killer, the New York Zodiac Killer, the Olympic Park Bomber and the D.C. Sniper.

However, the Netflix series is not the first time these serial killers have been looked at by the media. If you want to know where to find more information about each of these four cases, here is where you can look.

Railroad Killer

Angel Maturino Reséndiz, also known as the Railroad Killer is suspected of killing at least 23 people across the United States and Mexico in the 1990s. Before voluntarily surrendering himself to law enforcement in 1999, Reséndiz was on the FBI’s Top 10 Most Wanted list. He also featured on the show America’s Most Wanted.

In a lawsuit filed Friday in New York, former NBC and CNN executive Michael Bass was accused of sexually assaulting his former intern in an incident alleged to have happened in 1996 when Bass was at NBC.

The accuser, Aarthi Rajaraman, who filed the lawsuit, says the attack occurred when she was 20 years old and working as an intern for NBC Sports during the network’s coverage of the Atlanta Olympic games.

According to the lawsuit, which was obtained by The Daily Beast, during this time Rajaraman “observed a freewheeling, unchecked culture in which married, older and more senior NBC employees regularly targeted far younger women… for sexual harassment.”

The assault, the suit says, occurred when Bass was a coordinating producer for NBC, handling late-night coverage of the games. He was also a producer on NBC’s “Today Show.” Rajaraman worked for Bass and, along with other staff, accompanied him to Atlanta for the Olympics.

On Oct. 27, 2018, as worshipers gathered at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, a gunman opened fire and killed 11 people.

The federal death penalty trial of the alleged shooter Robert G. Bowers, 50, began Tuesday with an audio recording of a 911 call one of the victims, Bernice Simon, made after her husband, Sylvan Simon, was shot. Shannon Basa-Sabol, the operator, was the prosecution’s first witness, and testified she answered Simon’s call from inside the synagogue that day, the Washington Post reports.

“Tree of Life, we’re being attacked,” Simon...

Jack Huston of “Boardwalk Empire” and “House of Gucci” has been cast as the pivotal and mysterious character Lasher in AMC’s “Mayfair Witches” series, the cabler announced on Friday. The series is based on the Mayfair trilogy by “Interview With the Vampire” author Anne Rice.

Lasher is a shape-shifting demon who has been linked to the family of witches for generations after being summoned in the 1600s. Rice described him as “a slim, pale, elegant figure with dark eyes and dark hair and a hypnotically seductive power over any of [the Mayfairs] reckless enough to entertain him.”

The character first appeared in Rice’s novel “The Witching Hour” in 1990, which was followed by 1993’s “Lasher” and 1994’s “Taltos.” He was voiced by Joe Morton in the 2000 audiobook.

Huston joins the previously announced series regulars, including Harry Hamlin as Cortland Mayfair, Alexandra Daddario as Dr. Rowan Fielding, who has just discovered her unusual heritage,...

Exclusive: Manhunt co-creator Andrew Sodroski has been hired to adapt the screenplay for action-thriller Rogue from STXfilms, Tencent and producer David Goyer.

As we revealed earlier this year, Dean Israelite (Power Rangers) is directing. Dark Knight scribe Goyer and Keith Levine are producing for Phantom Four, which has a first look deal with Tencent. The film, which revolves around a CIA agent, is originally based on a pitch from writer Tj Fixman. Drew Simon is overseeing the project at Stx along with Sam Brown.

The feature marks Sodroski’s return to features after writing and exec producing two seasons of true crime series Manhunt. He most recently wrote and executive-produced Manhunt: Deadly Games, the 10-hour limited series for Charter Spectrum and Lionsgate. The series tells the story of the search for the 1996 Atlanta Olympics Bomber, Eric Rudolph (Jack Huston) — and the media firestorm surrounding Richard Jewell (Cameron Britton). Prior to that,...

The true story of the nerdy security guard who saved many lives during a terror attack at the Atlanta Olympics features a couple of great performances – and a lot of silliness

Clint Eastwood’s latest film is a miscarriage-of-justice tale taken from real life, a parable about the evils of “big government” that plays like a weird mashup of Paul Blart: Mall Cop with a bit of Marty, the 1955 Ernest Borgnine film about a sweet, unattractive guy who lives with his mother. It’s got a couple of great performances – and a lot of ropey acting from actors playing crass and mendacious caricatures.

During the 1996 Olympic games in Atlanta, an extreme-right terrorist named Eric Rudolph planted a pipe bomb at the city’s Centennial Park that killed one person and injured many; he was not caught until 2003. The fact that the casualties were not higher is down to the...

Spectrum Originals is on the hunt. Recently, the On Demand platform announced season two of Manhunt will premiere its entire second season in February.

Titled Deadly Games, season two of the anthology drama series "chronicles one of the largest and most complex manhunts on U.S. soil. FBI agents hunt for an elusive serial bomber, Eric Rudolph (Jack Huston), while a wrongly-accused innocent man, Richard Jewell (Cameron Britton), battles the FBI, the national news media, as well as his own inner demons, to prove his innocence and clear his name."

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With her fourth nomination for an Oscar, Kathy Bates talks about overcoming brutal criticism about her looks, her pride at playing real women and why she loved working with Clint Eastwood

‘Oh, I’m a bumper!” says Kathy Bates as I reach out to shake her hand. A small fist comes towards me with a large, round, pink-rose ring on the middle finger. We bump and laugh and one of the truly unique American acting powerhouses of the past half-century beams back at me. She has a splendid smile, full of mischief and wisdom: a small and compact woman buoyed by that straight-up, unfeigned southern warmth that abides no matter where you encounter it. She fusses over me kindly, offering drinks – a world away from the nervous, shy, deeply rattled and easily hurt woman I have just watched in Clint Eastwood’s new movie, Richard Jewell.

Bates plays Bobi, the mother of the eponymous character,...

1996 Atlanta Olympics bombing drama opens on Friday in North America.

The furore over Richard Jewell has escalated in the run-up to the North American release of Clint Eastwood’s latest drama on Friday (13), as Warner Bros pledged to defend the film following a legal demand by an Atlanta newspaper that the studio issue a statement over the use of dramatic licence and run a disclaimer.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Ajc) disputes facts in the film and has taken umbrage over the depiction of its reporting on the 1996 Atlanta Olympics bombing. Of particular concern to the publication is a suggestion in the...

1996 Atlanta Olympics bombing drama opens on Friday in North America.

The furore over Clint Eastwood’s latest drama Richard Jewell escalated on Monday (9) when Warner Bros pledged to defend the film following a legal demand by an Atlanta newspaper that the studio issue a statement over the use of dramatic licence and run a disclaimer.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Ajc) disputes facts in the film and has taken umbrage over the depiction of its reporting on the 1996 Atlanta Olympics bombing. Of particular concern to the publication is a suggestion in the film that the deceased crime reporter Kathy Scruggs, played by Olivia Wilde,...

Warner Bros had not commented at time of writing.

The furore over Clint Eastwood’s latest drama Richard Jewell escalated on Monday (9) when a major Us newspaper demanded Warner Bros and Clint Eastwood issue a statement declaring they used dramatic licence depicting people and events in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics bombing drama.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Ajc) has also called for a “prominent disclaimer” when the film opens across North America this week and hinted at a defmation case as a possible next step. Warner Bros had not commented at time of writing.

At issue is the depiction of the Ajc and deceased crime reporter Kathy Scruggs,...

Warner Bros. is standing behind “Richard Jewell,” the Clint Eastwood drama that is the source of controversy over its portrayal of a female journalist trading sex for scoops. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution sent a legal threat to the filmmakers on Monday asking them to include a disclaimer noting that the film took dramatic license.

In a fiery statement, the studio accused the paper of trying to draw attention away from its own questionable reporting on law enforcement officials’ decision to treat Jewell as a suspect in the Centennial Olympic Park bombing. Jewell, a security guard who evacuated the area, was ultimately exonerated, but not before his reputation was damaged in the ensuing media circus.

“The film is based on a wide range of highly credible source material,” Warner Bros.’ statement reads. “There is no disputing that Richard Jewell was an innocent man whose reputation and life were shredded by a miscarriage of justice.

Warner Bros is more than willing to take on one of America’s largest newspapers over claims that portions of the studio’s Clint Eastwood-directed Richard Jewell movie are defamatory.

“The film is based on a wide range of highly credible source material,” the AT&T-owned studio said today after being threatened with a defamation lawsuit by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s outside counsel.

“There is no disputing that Richard Jewell was an innocent man whose reputation and life were shredded by a miscarriage of justice,” Warner Bros added of the AT&T security guard at the center of the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing. “It is unfortunate and the ultimate irony that The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, having been a part of the rush to judgment of Richard Jewell, is now trying to malign our filmmakers and cast. Richard Jewell focuses on the real victim, seeks to tell his story, confirm his innocence and restore his name.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is asking Warner Bros. and the makers of “Richard Jewell” to release a statement acknowledging it took dramatic license when it portrayed journalist Kathy Scruggs as trading sex for tips.

The Clint Eastwood film looks at the media circus that broke out around Jewell, a security guard who came under suspicion for orchestrating the Centennial Olympic Park bombing before being exonerated. Scruggs, an employee at the paper, broke the story that Jewell was under investigation by the FBI. The film shows Scruggs, portrayed by Olivia Wilde, sleeping with an FBI agent (Jon Hamm) to get the story. Scruggs died in 2001 at the age of 42. The paper has maintained that there is no evidence that Scruggs slept with anyone involved in the Jewell investigation.

“We hereby demand that you immediately issue a statement publicly acknowledging that some events were imagined for dramatic purposes and artistic license and dramatization...

Clint Eastwood's biopic Richard Jewell follows the innocent titular character's arc from hero to suspect during the 1996 Atlanta Olympics bombing, which killed two and hurt over 100. Jewell, the security officer helping people clear the area, found himself put under a microscope by the FBI and press despite doing no wrong. It wasn't until almost a decade later when the FBI caught the real bomber: Eric Rudolph, an anti-abortion, homophobic white supremacist who continued setting off bombs after the Atlanta attack.

Eric Rudolph's Early Years

Rudolph's background had many twists and turns. Born in Florida in 1966, his father passed away during his teenage years, a time when he began prescribing to a subculture of intolerance and developed racist views. Before enlisting in the military, he joined a Christian Identity compound, which was devoted to white supremacy. His military service ran short due to him being discharged because of his marijuana use.

If it is an awards season, the name Clint Eastwood can’t be too far away. And so it is yet again as another Eastwood movie has just thrown its hat in the ring. Richard Jewell had a rousing AFI Fest premiere Wednesday night at the Tcl Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, as well as a SAG Nominating Committee screening at Harmony Gold followed by a Q&a that drew standing ovations for Eastwood and the man he cast as Jewell, Paul Walter Hauser. There also was big applause for co-stars Kathy Bates, who plays Jewell’s mother, Bobbi; Sam Rockwell as his lawyer, Watson Bryant; and Jon Hamm, who plays Tom Shaw (a fictional name representing a number of FBI agents). The real Watson Bryant and Bobbi Jewell were also among those in attendance at the premiere and afterparty.

The four-time Oscar winner for producing and directing Best Picture winners...

Richard Jewell's life would forever change after he discovered a bomb at the 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics. In the blink of an eye, the FBI and media drastically shifted the narrative around him being a public hero to being the case's primary suspect. Two decades later, Clint Eastwood brings Jewell's shocking true story to the big screen in a new project starring Paul Walter Hauser. Based on Marie Brenner's 1997 Vanity Fair profile on Jewell, the film already has the faint hum of Oscar buzz, boasting a star-powered cast with Olivia Wilde, Sam Rockwell, and Jon Hamm. But putting aside this Hollywood glamour, what really happened to Jewell?

The 1996 Olympics Bombing

By age 34, Jewell had resigned from his job working as a police officer at Piedmont College and went to Atlanta. He moved in with his mother Bobi (played by Kathy Bates in the movie), who was recovering from a foot operation,...

Brad William Henke (Orange is the New Black) has landed a key role on season 2 of the Spectrum Original anthology series Manhunt: Lone Wolf from Lionsgate Television. Season 2, Manhunt: Lone Wolf, will chronicle one of the largest and most complex manhunts on U.S. soil — the search for the 1996 Atlanta Olympics Bomber, Eric Rudolph (Jack Huston) — and the media firestorm that consumed the life of Richard Jewell (Cameron Britton) in its wake. Henek will play Big John Gray, a man of few words with immense silent power who is the head of an anti-government militia. Henke’s television credits include October Road, Justified, The Bridge, and Orange Is The New Black. His feature credits include the recent Netflix feature film Bright, as well as notable roles in Split, Draft Day, Pacific Rim, and Pee-Wee’s Big Holiday. Henke is repped by Apa, and Jr Talent Group.

Tim Johnson Jr. has landed a recurring role on the fifth and final season of HBO’s Ballers. Created by Stephen Levinson, (HBO’s Boardwalk Empire), Ballers explores the glamorous and often cutthroat world of pro football through a group of past and present players striving to stay in the game. It stars Dwayne Johnson and the cast includes John David Washington, Russell Brand, Rob Corddy, and London Brown. Johnson will play Lazar, the soft spoken sibling in a trio of brothers who are all competitive gamers. The brothers are approached by Vernon (Donovan W. Carter) who shifts his focus from football to his love of professional gaming. In addition to acting Tim recently released his second musical album Summer Sessions. He will next be seen in the Deon Taylor movie Meet The Blacks 2 – The House Next Door out this Halloween. He’s repped by Mmv Talent Agency and Luber Roklin Entertainment.

Three months ago, I supposed the next great movie newsroom drama would look more like Absence of Malice than All The President’s Men. Who knew that Clint Eastwood, filmdom’s Great Disruptor, would so soon be on his way to making sense of that supposition?

Just last week, Warner Bros. confirmed that Eastwood was poised to begin shooting Richard Jewell, the real-life story of a security guard who was mistakenly hounded as a possible perpetrator of Atlanta’s 1996 Olympic Park bombing. Following news reports, the studio acknowledged that Eastwood will be filming in Georgia, never mind the calls for a boycott over the state’s new abortion law. But that likely won’t be the last spark of controversy around a project that has it all: Reputational damage, over-reaching journalists, investigative onslaught—just like Absence of Malice, and very much like a scene from the current media-political wars.

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Manhunt has some new company. Deadline reports Judith Light, Carla Gugino, and more have joined season two of the Spectrum Originals TV show.

Season two of the anthology series "will chronicle one of the largest and most complex manhunts on U.S. soil — the search for the 1996 Atlanta Olympics Bomber, Eric Rudolph (Jack Huston) — and the media firestorm that consumed the life of Richard Jewell (Cameron Britton) in its wake."

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Exclusive: Arliss Howard (Moneyball), Desmond Harrington (Dexter), Kelly Jenrette (The Handmaid’s Tale) and Ness Bautista (Sense8) are set as series regulars for season 2 of Spectrum Originals’ anthology series Manhunt, from Lionsgate Television. They join previously announced Jack Huston, Cameron Britton, Carla Gugino, Judith Light, Gethin Anthony and Jay O. Sanders.

Spectrum parent Charter Communications last year made a deal with Lionsgate for new seasons of the Manhunt anthology series whose first installment, Manhunt: Unabomber, ran on Discovery Channel.

Season 2, Manhunt: Lone Wolf, will chronicle one of the largest and most complex manhunts on U.S. soil — the search for the 1996 Atlanta Olympics Bomber, Eric Rudolph (Huston) — and the media firestorm that consumed the life of Richard Jewell (Britton) in its wake. The series is currently filming in Pittsburgh, Pa.

Howard plays Earl Embry, the top bomb expert in the Atf who has a depth of hands-on knowledge that nobody can rival.

Judith Light (Transparent), Gethin Anthony (Game of Thrones) and Jay O. Sanders (Sneaky Pete) are set for lead roles alongside Jack Huston, Cameron Britton and Carla Gugino in season 2 of Spectrum Originals’ anthology series Manhunt, from Lionsgate Television.

Spectrum parent Charter Communications last year made a deal with Lionsgate for new seasons of the Manhunt anthology series whose first installment, Manhunt: Unabomber, ran on Discovery Channel.

Season 2, Manhunt: Lone Wolf, will chronicle one of the largest and most complex manhunts on U.S. soil — the search for the 1996 Atlanta Olympics Bomber, Eric Rudolph (Huston) — and the media firestorm that consumed the life of Richard Jewell (Britton) in its wake. The series is currently filming in Pittsburgh, Pa.

Light plays “Bobi” Jewell, Richard’s mother who is astonished when her son is heralded in the national media as the hero of the Atlanta bombing. When Richard is unjustly accused of the bombing,...

Carla Gugino will play the female lead alongside Jack Huston and Cameron Britton in Season 2 of the Spectrum anthology series “Manhunt” from Lionsgate Television.

The first season of the anthology series focused on the story of the Unabomber. The new season, “Manhunt: Lone Wolf,” will cover one of the largest manhunts in U.S. history, the search for the 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympics bomber, and the media firestorm that consumed the life of Olympics security guard Richard Jewell.

Gugino is set to play Kathy Scruggs. Per Spectrum, Scruggs is a hard-drinking, tough-talking crime reporter for Atlanta’s biggest daily newspaper who gets the once-in-a-lifetime scoop that Richard Jewell may be the Olympic Park bomber. Breaking the biggest story in the world makes a Kathy a sensation – but her life unravels as evidence starts pointing against it being the truth.

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Exclusive: Carla Gugino has been tapped as the female lead opposite Jack Huston and Cameron Britton in season 2 of Spectrum Originals’ anthology series Manhunt, from Lionsgate Television.

Spectrum parent Charter Communications last year made a deal with Lionsgate for new seasons of the Manhunt anthology series whose first installment, Manhunt: Unibomber, ran on Discovery Channel.

Season 2, Manhunt: Lone Wolf, will chronicle one of the largest and most complex manhunts on U.S. soil — the search for the 1996 Atlanta Olympics Bomber, Eric Rudolph (Huston) — and the media firestorm that consumed the life of Richard Jewell (Britton) in its wake.

Gugino will play Kathy Scruggs, a hard-drinking, tough-talking crime reporter for Atlanta’s biggest daily newspaper who gets the once-in-a-lifetime scoop that Richard Jewell may be the Olympic Park bomber. Breaking the biggest story in the world makes a Kathy a sensation – but her life unravels as evidence starts pointing against it being the truth.

Explosive devices and/or suspicious packages were sent to a number of major Democratic Party-linked figures this week, including Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, philanthropist and financier George Soros, former DNC chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-ca), and former CIA chief John Brennan.

The offices of the San Diego Union-Tribune were also evacuated after “suspicious packages” were found, and a device was removed from the Time Warner center in Manhattan, home to CNN.

Early news stories drew immediate connections to aggressive and irresponsible rhetoric from the right, including from President Trump.