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George Clooney and Brad Pitt star as two of New York’s most accomplished “fixers” in the new crime comedy Wolfs. Directed by Jon Watts, who previously worked on the Spider-Man franchise, the film sees the aging stars play professionally discreet clean-up men hired to handle problematic situations.

Their characters are each called to help after a deadly incident in a Manhattan hotel room, but end up forced to team up when they discover they’ve been double booked for the same job.

The unlikely pairing forms the basis for the story, which screened recently at the Venice Film Festival ahead of its limited theatrical release. Audiences will have the chance to catch it on the big screen starting this month before the movie hits Apple TV+ globally in late September.

Watts seems to relish the comedic potential of the renowned actors butting heads as masters of their covert trade.

Exclusive: Netflix is lining up its next cult documentary.

The streamer has ordered Escaping Twin Flames, a three-part series about the Twin Flames dating platform. The service promised to find people’s true love, or Twin Flame, but what sounded like love might have been more of a dangerous obsession rooted in a cultish mindset.

The series, which launches November 8, comes from Cecilia Peck, who directed Starz’s Seduced: Inside the Nxivm Cult, and Good Caper Content, the ITV America production company behind TLC’s Taken At Birth.

It will explore the story of Jeff and Shaleia Divine, the leaders of Twin Flames Universe, who sell online classes that guarantee harmonious union with your destined partner and will pull back the veil of the universe, a controversial online community that preys on people looking for love.

Related: ‘Seduced: Inside The Nxivm Cult’: Starz Reveals Trailer For Four-Part Docuseries

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Hartley Sawyer will have more to do on The Flash next season. The actor, who recurred in Season 4 as private eye and eventual Team Flash member Ralph Dibny — aka Elongated Man — has been bumped to up series regular for 2018-19.

A former corrupt cop who was kicked out of the Central City PD for planting evidence, the character debuted in last season’s fourth episode, “Elongated Journey Into Night,” and recurred during the rest of Season 4. Watch a clip from Sawyer’s debut episode below.

Based on the DC characters, The Flash is executive produced by Greg Berlanti, showrunner Todd Helbing and Sarah Schechter. The series is produced by Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. Television.

Hartley, whose credits include web series Miss 2059 and Caper and CBS’ The Young and the Restless, is repped by Pakula/King & Associates.

Wes Anderson's "The Grand Budapest Hotel" won the Original Screenplay honor at the recently concluded Writers Guild Awards while Morten Tyldum's "The Imitation Game" took home the Adapted Screenplay trophy. "The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swarts" written by Brian Knappenberger won Documentary Screenplay award. The film is not nominated for an Academy award.

In TV land, HBO's "True Detective" won the Drama Series award and FX's "Louie" received the Comedy Series trophy.

Here's the complete list of winners (highlighted) and nominees of the 2015 Writers Guild Awards:

Feature Film

Original Screenplay

Boyhood, Written by Richard Linklater; IFC Films

Foxcatcher, Written by E. Max Frye and Dan Futterman; Sony Pictures Classics

The Grand Budapest Hotel, Screenplay by Wes Anderson; Story by Wes Anderson & Hugo Guinness; Fox Searchlight Winner

Nightcrawler, Written by Dan Gilroy; Open Road Films

Whiplash, Written by Damien Chazelle; Sony Pictures Classics

Adapted Screenplay

American Sniper,...

The Writers Guild of America announced the TV nominees for the 2015 WGA Awards on Thursday (December 4) morning and several new shows broke into the fields in a big way. And, of course, there were a number of big WGA Award nomination head-scratchers. Specifically, where the heck was FX's "Fargo"? The answer is below. Making perhaps the biggest splash was "Transparent," which earned three nominations and, since "Orange Is The New Black" earned two nods and "House of Cards" pick up one, that meant that Amazon Prime and Netflix are, at least for one award-giving organization, on equal footing as creators of original programming. The Jill Soloway-created "Transparent" is nominated for New Series, where it will go against "The Affair," "The Knick," "Silicon Valley" and "True Detective." "Transparent" and "Silicon Valley" are also up for Comedy Series, going against "Louie," "Veep" and "Orange Is The New Black." Lest you panic...

Bryan Singer and Felicia Day have officially brought their paranormal comedy to the web. Singer's Bad Hat Harry studio and Day's Geek & Sundry channel have teamed up to debut Spooked, which has arrived on both YouTube and Hulu. Spooked was first announced in March as the latest nerd-friendly web series from Geek & Sundry, which has previously hosted Day's influential gaming web series, The Guild, as well as a nine-episode superhero comedy called Caper. Spooked is crafted from a similar mold; as with those two series, it centers around a ragtag band of protagonists who work together despite their disparate backgrounds and values. It's main difference is its length, as it is the first TV-length scripted series produced by Geek & Sundry. The first episode introduces viewers to the Paranormal Investigative Team (P.I.T.) and its first two clients: A lesbian couple played by Alison Haislip and Dichen Lachman who are...

Supernatural comedy is all the rage these days, and Geek & Sundry is getting in on the fun. Felicia Day's YouTube channel is teaming up with Bryan Singer's Bad Hat Harry production company for Spooked, a TV-length digital series. Spooked follows a "Paranormal Investigation Team" as it investigates paranormal events across the globe. According to a press release, the first episode will feature a poltergeist who is trying to ruin his daughter's gay marriage, and will feature Dichen Lachman and Alison Haislip as guest stars. Four episodes are planned, with each one coming in a sitcom-length, 22-minute package. As with Geek & Sundry's last scripted web series, Caper, Spooked will be distributed on Hulu as well as YouTube. Spooked is co-produced by Singer, best known for his work on films like X-Men and The Usual Suspects as well as the TV series House. “It’s been a thrill to expand...

Welcome back to the series of posts here at SciFi Mafia that we’re calling Web Series Wednesday where we devote a space to the wonderment of the web series. Every Wednesday we’ll cover an awesome web series and give you all the info to get into it.

If you’ve got a favorite web series you’d like us to cover, head on over to the Contact Us page and shoot us your request. To catch up on past Web Series Wednesday posts click here.

This week we’re covering Caper.

So the geniuses over at Geek and Sundry have started a great super hero web series called Caper. You’ve got Penny Blue (Abby Miller) who’s got an Iron Man-like suit, Alexia (Beth Riesgraf) who’s got super strength and a bad attitude, Dagr (Hartley Sawyer) the all powerful demi god and finally Luke (Harry Shum Jr....

Last week, Felicia Day's YouTube channel Geek & Sundry debuted their latest live-action scripted show, Caper. Created by Amy Berg (Leverage, Eureka) and Mike Sizemore (Slingers), it concerns a team of impoverished superheroes who reluctantly turn to a life of crime, only to quickly find that it's a big mistake...

Based on the first two episodes of the show's nine-episode first season, here's why you should be watching, and how it comments on the superhero genre and tells its own story within it.

First off, it's fun. The series is directed in a fittingly comic book style, and even capers gleefully into motion comic-style animation for the action sequences; presumably not only to save on budget (superpowers can be pricey), but also as an effective stylistic choice. Our heroes (or protagonists, at least—more on that later; or, to put it another way: to be continued) are the underdogs, at...

The Geek and Sundry channel has always been closely tied to YouTube, featuring heavily in the site's Original Channels Initiative as well as its themed Geek Week. For its latest series, however, Geek and Sundry is branching out. Felicia Day's nerd-centric hub will make its Hulu debut through Caper, a sci-fi series about three "immortals" and their human roommate. Caper, created by TV vet Amy Berg, stars Justified's Abby Miller as Penny, a human who must fit in with her three roommates, all of whom are super-powered, immortal beings. Not to be outdone, Penny herself is a superhero, possessing an Iron Man-like metal suit. The lack of financial compensation for crime fighting causes rent to become tight, so the four roommates decide to pull off a heist, though they call it a Caper because that sounds better. Caper will run for nine total episodes, with the first two arriving on Hulu,...

Saving the day might be noble work, but it doesn't pay the rent -- which is exactly the problem that forces the crime fighters in Amy Berg's new web series Caper to switch sides for the ultimate heist …or so they hope. The trailer for the Web series created for Felicia Day's Geek & Sundry channel was unveiled during a fan event held at L.A.'s Meltdown Comics yesterday, with Berg and the show's lead cast -- Beth Riesgraf, Harry Shum Jr., Hartley Sawyer and Justified's Abby Miller -- in attendance (you can watch the trailer below). Story: 'Glee' Alum, 'Justified' Actress

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Harry Shum, Jr. has a Caper, Daniel Radcliffe debuts his Igor hairstyle, Idina Menzel sparkles in “Let It Be”

While I wasn’t surprised to see Macklemore & Lewis receive seven Grammy nominations announced, I was a bit shocked that their entry for Song of the Year turned out to be “Same Love” featuring Mary Lambert. They’ll be taking on Pink, Katy Perry, Lordes, and Bruno Mars in the category.

Catching Fire is fighting for its third week at the top of the box office against Frozen, with both films expected to do around $30 million.

An anti-gay group in Russia is posting a bounty for information that can lead to the exposure of Glbt teachers under the guise that they must be promoting homosexuality to their students in violation of the law.

Congratulations to Hunting Season, who hit their Kickstarter goal of $150,000 at the last minute, enabling them to make a second,...