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Warner Bros, Atlas And Jay Roach Plan Bike Doping Scandal Pic; Acquire Life Rights To Lance Armstrong Teammate Tyler Hamilton

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday March 8, 2013 @ 10:20am PSTTags: Jay Roach, JJ Abrams, Lance Armstrong, Warner Bros
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EXCLUSIVE: The doping scandal that enveloped the Tour de France and led to the downfall of 7-time champion Lance Armstrong is now the focus of movies being developed by two major studios. Warner Bros has just acquired an untitled project from Atlas Entertainment’s Charles Roven and Alex Gartner that will be scripted by Side Effects scribe Scott Z. Burns to be directed by Jay Roach. Roach, coming off the Emmy-winning HBO pics Game Change and Recount, will produce with Roven and Gartner. The package includes the life rights of Tyler Hamilton, the former professional bike racer who was in Armstrong’s inner circle on the US Postal Service Team.

A former Olympic gold medalist and NCAA champion, Hamilton was one of the first insiders to testify under oath and come forward publicly–on 60 Minutes—to break the code of silence. Michael Radutzky, an executive producer at CBS News and senior producer for 60 Minutes, is also in talks to produce. The studio is in talks to acquire confidential rights of other key individuals involved in the story, and all of this creates the tapestry to explore the biggest and most sophisticated doping scandal in the history of sports. READ MORE »

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Bradley Cooper In Talks With J.J. Abrams To Play Lance Armstrong: Report

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Sunday January 27, 2013 @ 1:33pm PSTTags: Big Deals Film, Bradley Cooper, J.J. Abrams, Lance Armstrong

Best Actor Oscar nominee Bradley Cooper is in talks with J.J. Abrams about playing Lance Armstrong in the producer-director’s planned movie project about the disgraced cyclist, according to Entertainment Tonight. Shortly after Deadline broke the news about Abrams … Read More »

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SNL’s Lance Armstrong Cold Open

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Sunday January 20, 2013 @ 12:12am PSTTags: Lance Armstrong, Piers Morgan, Saturday Night Live

But in Saturday Night Live‘s alternate universe it was Piers Morgan interviewing the not-particularly-contrite athlete plus talking to Manti Te’o concerning his girlfriend issues and to Jodie Foster about her Golden Globes speech.

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Lance To Oprah: “I Owe A Lot Of People Apologies” – Video

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday January 18, 2013 @ 7:43pm PSTTags: Lance Armstrong, Oprah's Next Chapter

At least this much of what Lance Armstrong says is true in part 2 of Oprah’s Next Chapter interview. Then she asks whether he owes an apology to David Walsh — the journalist who was villified and held up to public ridicule for his 13-year pursuit of the truth: … Read More »

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Oprah’s Lance Armstrong Interview Draws 3.2 Million In Night One Debut

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday January 18, 2013 @ 12:11pm PSTTags: Lance Armstrong, Oprah Winfrey
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Given the wave of publicity, Oprah Winfrey‘s sit-down with disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong was expected to be a ratings monster and a game-changer for Winfrey’s OWN network. The first part of Winfrey’s interview, in which Armstrong admitted to doping, was big but not a record breaker. It averaged 3.2 million total viewers in its premiere telecast at 9 PM and another 1.1 million at 10:30 PM for a total of 4.3 million. The original telecast couldn’t top Winfrey’s newsmaking Oprah’s Next Chapter interview with Whitney Houston’s family, which garnered 3.5 million on March 11. The special’s premiere still ranked as the highest rated weekday telecast in OWN history across all key demos. Here are the stats:

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Paramount, JJ Abrams’ Bad Robot Target Lance Armstrong Cheat Scandal For Pic

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Friday January 18, 2013 @ 11:02am PSTTags: JJ Abrams, Lance Armstrong, Paramount Pictures, Tour De France
Mike Fleming

Lance Armstrong Movie JJ AbramsEXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures and Bad Robot partners JJ Abrams and Bryan Burk are going to make a movie about the epic rise and fall of doping bicyclist Lance Armstrong. They’ve just closed a … Read More »

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Lance Armstrong Confesses To Oprah: Video

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday January 17, 2013 @ 9:37pm PSTTags: Lance Armstrong, Oprah's Next Chapter, OWN

In the first clip from Oprah’s Next Chapter interview with the athlete, he answers simply “yes” to her questions about his use of different performance-enhancing substances and touches on his history, specifically when he began using banned substances:


In the clip that follows, Winfrey points out that for 13 years Armstrong “brazenly and defiantly denied everything you just admitted to … why now admit it”? Armstrong says “I don’t know that I have a great answer … I will start my answer by saying this is too late.” Read More »

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Ad Time For Oprah’s Lance Armstrong Interview Expected To Sell Out: Report

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday January 16, 2013 @ 5:43pm PSTTags: Lance Armstrong, Oprah's Next Chapter, OWN

Oprah Winfrey’s two-part interview with Lance Armstrong is close to selling out commercial time at premium prices, Reuters reports. OWN President Erik Logan said current and new sponsors have been calling to secure ad … Read More »

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OWN Expands Lance Armstrong Interview To Two Nights

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday January 15, 2013 @ 6:36am PSTTags: Lance Armstrong, Oprah Winfrey, OWN

Related: AP: Lance Armstrong Admits To Doping In Interview With Oprah Winfrey

Los Angeles – Oprah Winfrey’s exclusive no-holds-barred interview with Lance Armstrong, “Oprah and Lance Armstrong: The Worldwide Exclusive,” has expanded to air as a two-night event on OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network. The special episode of “Oprah’s Next Chapter” will air Thursday, January 17 from 9-10:30 p.m. ET/PT (as previously announced) and Friday, January 18 at 9 p.m. ET/PT. The interview will be simultaneously streamed LIVE worldwide both nights on Oprah.com.

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AP: Lance Armstrong Admits To Doping In Interview With Oprah Winfrey

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday January 14, 2013 @ 4:55pm PSTTags: Lance Armstrong, Oprah Winfrey, OWN

Lance Armstrong confessed to Oprah Winfrey today in an interview that he used performance-enhancing drugs to win the Tour de France, The Associated Press reports, citing a person familiar with the situation. The interview is scheduled … Read More »

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Coming Clean? Lance Armstrong Going On Oprah Next Week

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Tuesday January 8, 2013 @ 4:40pm PSTTags: Lance Armstrong, Oprah Winfrey, Oprah's Next Chapter, OWN

Is Lance Armstrong pedaling a confession? The disgraced former seven-time Tour de France cycling champion will appear on OWN’s Oprah’s Next Chapter on January 17, the network announced today. This interview with Oprah Winfrey will be Armstrong’s first since the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency charged him with using illegal performance-enhancing drugs during a career that has made him one of America’s and the world’s most well-known athletes. The big question is whether Oprah will rip the skin off Armstrong the way she did author James Frey after he promoted his recovery memoir A Million Little Pieces, and then came back to be flayed when it was revealed he’d embellished big parts of the book. Read More »

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