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UPDATE, 9:26 PM PT: Miles Taylor appeared on Chris Cuomo’s CNN show and explained why he lied to Anderson Cooper in August about being Anonymous, the Trump administration figure who wrote a scathing New York Times op ed and book. “Why should CNN keep you on the payroll after lying like that?” Cuomo asked Taylor, who…

EXCLUSIVE: It’s known as the Dark Web — the encrypted network that is fully anonymous and where both criminals and truth-tellers dwell, and now there’s a movie. Here is the first trailer for Anonymous, which will open in the top 20 markets across the country beginning in Los Angeles and New York on December 2. The…

EXCLUSIVE: First Look Media, one of the financiers behind last year’s Best Picture winner Spotlight, is becoming the catalyst for another fascinating fact-based film. I’m told the company is going to finance We Do Not Forget, a drama to star Daniel Radcliffe and Zachary Quinto. Scripted by Stranger Than Fiction scribe…

UPDATED, 5:28 PM: North American rights to Diary Of An Oxygen Thief just sold to Jeremie Ruby-Straus at Gallery, the Simon & Schuster imprint. Waxman Leavell now is looking to make an international deal. EARLIER EXCLUSIVE, 1:42 pm: Just as an auction for publishing rights is going on, Gotham Group has acquired screen…

EXCLUSIVE: Lock up your rabbits. Paramount is rebooting its iconic thriller Fatal Attraction into a one-hour event TV series with Maria and Andre Jacquemetton (Mad Men) exec producing and writing.  The series is being developed under the auspices of Paramount Television Production. Fox Broadcasting Network is on-board…

TNT has put in development Anonymous, an action-driven drama from Sons Of Anarchy executive producer Chris Collins. Wild West Prods is in negotiations to board the project, about an ex-special ops soldier who discovers a global coverup that forces him to go off the grid to help those who cannot help themselves…

The multinational group supports file sharing and is known for denial-of-service attacks that crash or overwhelm sites, and the grand jury indictment says its first target was the MPAA. Thirteen suspected U.S. members of Anonymous face conspiracy charges tied to the loose-knit group's "Operation Payback," an effort…

EXCLUSIVE: A character-driven action dramedy from Friday Night Lights and Parenthood developer/executive producer Jason Katims and feature writer Simon Kinberg has landed at Fox with a rich put pilot commitment. Titled Anonymous, the project follows a rebellious, hot-shot wunderkind who is plucked as the CIA’s latest…

The German Film Academy has announced nominations for its Lola awards, the country’s equivalent to the Oscar. Christian Petzold’s Barbara, the story of an East German doctor transferred to the countryside in 1980, scored eight nods, while Roland Emmerich’s controversial Shakespeare film Anonymous and Andreas Dresen’s…

When it comes to meting out naked statuettes for Costume Design, the Academy loves its period looks. Consider the most recent winners: Alice In Wonderland, The Young Victoria, The Duchess, Elizabeth: The Golden Age and Marie Antoinette. This year, again, there's no shortage of organza, tweed and cloches from films…

MPAA Cheers Federal Assault on Megaupload Feds Shut File-Sharing Site Megaupload The group Anonymous appears to have crashed sites for the Justice Department, Universal Music, and the MPAA — apparently to retaliate for the Justice Department’s effort to close Megaupload. The so-called hacktivist collective claimed…

Time Warner’s Jeff Bewkes and Viacom’s Sumner Redstone are among the honchos under attack by Anonymous — a group of so-called Internet “hacktivists” — The New York Times reports. Bewkes apparently has already been hit with threatening phone calls and emails after the group disclosed his home addresses and phone…