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FILE - In this June 10, 2014 file photo, Rosie Perez arrives at the Samsung Hope for Children Gala 2014 in New York. Perez and Republican media operative Nicolle Wallace are joining ABC's daytime chat show, "The View," for its new season, beginning Sept. 15. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

FILE - In this June 10, 2014 file photo, Rosie Perez arrives at the Samsung Hope for Children Gala 2014 in New York. Perez and Republican media operative Nicolle Wallace are joining ABC's daytime chat show, "The View," for its new season, beginning Sept. 15. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

Friday, September 5, 2014

• Actress Rosie Perez and Republican media operative Nicolle Wallace are joining ABC's daytime chat show, The View. The network said Wednesday that the two will join Whoopi Goldberg and Rosie O'Donnell on the panel for the show's new season, beginning Sept. 15. Goldberg is the only holdover on the program. The show's creator, Barbara Walters, retired from an on-screen role this spring, and longtime producer Bill Geddie left after learning that a new off-screen boss was taking over. Perez is an actress and choreographer who has appeared in the movies Do the Right Thing and Fearless. Wallace, a political analyst for MSNBC, was communications chief for President George W. Bush's re-election campaign and was an adviser on John McCain's 2008 campaign.

Quentin Tarantino is moving forward with The Hateful Eight. The Weinstein Co. says it will distribute the filmmaker's latest project -- a post-Civil War Western -- next year in the largest 70mm release in 20 years. The film studio said Wednesday that Hateful Eight will also be released in other formats after its initial 70mm debut. Tarantino previously proclaimed that he wouldn't make the film after an online leak of the script. Weinstein Co. said Wednesday that production on Hateful Eight would begin in January.

• Sony Pictures announced Wednesday that George Clooney will co-produce and direct the film version of Hack Attack, reporter Nick Davies' book about the British phone hacking scandal. Clooney said in a statement that the account has "all the elements -- lying, corruption, blackmail -- at the highest levels of government by the biggest newspaper in London." Clooney, who is the son of a journalist, called Davies "a brave and stubborn reporter" and said it was "an honor to put his book to film." Davies investigated Rupert Murdock's News Corp. and subsidiary News International for more than six years. His book details widespread hacking of voice mail of public officials, celebrities and ordinary citizens. The scandal drew widespread attention and sent tremors through British politics. The movie starts shooting next year.

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