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Fresh Off The Boat - Season 3 - Cast Promotional Photos
15:15 - Salem - Season 3 - The Sentinel and The Birds Nest Featurette
09:30 - MOVIES: Justice League Dark - Trailer
Thanks to Folie-Lex for the heads up.
Check out the exclusive debut trailer for DC's Justice League Dark! pic.twitter.com/OZa69tbmiO
— IGN (@IGN) November 15, 2016
09:30 - MOVIES: Minecraft - Steve Carell in Talks to Join Warner Bros. Movie Adaptation
Warner Bros. is getting close to making the first big casting for its “Minecraft” movie: Steve Carell.
Carell is in talks to join the ensemble of the studio’s big-screen adaptation of the popular video game. Rob McElhenney is on board to direct the pic. McElhenney also penned the latest draft with “Wonder Woman” scribe Jason Fuchs.
Warner Bros. had no comment on the casting.
Warner Bros. acquired film rights to the video game franchise in February from Swedish developer Mojang AB and set up the project with Roy Lee through his Vertigo Entertainment production company, along with Jill Messick (“Mean Girls”).
The game, which debuted in 2009, allows players to create their own avatars and build an environment using textured cubes in a 3D world as they battle nocturnal monsters. Multiple gameplay modes are available, including survival mode, creative mode, and adventure mode.
The movie is set to bow on May 25, 2019.
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09:30 - Family Comedy in Development at FOX from Fuller House's Scott Weinger
Fox is looking to one of the stars from Netflix's Fuller House for its next family comedy.
The network is teaming with actor-writer Scott Weinger to develop an untitled family comedy, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
The project, which landed at Fox with a script commitment, is described as a single-camera comedy about a married couple whose lives are turned upside down when the wife's immigrant father comes to live with them. The father-in-law's larger-than-life personality and his inclination to take big risks clashes with his strait-laced son-in-law.
Weinger, who plays D.J.'s ex-boyfriend on the Full House revival, will pen the script and executive produce the new project alongside 3 Arts Entertainment's Jonathan Berry.
The comedy hails from Warner Bros. Television, which also exec produces Fuller House.
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09:30 - Y: The Last Man - Michael Green to Serve as Showrunner in FX Drama in Development
FX has found its man for Y: The Last Man.
The cable network has tapped Michael Green to serve as showrunner on its planned adaptation of graphic novel Y: The Last Man, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
Green, who is currently co-showrunning Starz's adaptation of Neil Gaiman's American Gods alongside Bryan Fuller, will co-write the script for Y: The Last Man alongside comic book creator Brian K. Vaughan. The project, eyed as an ongoing drama series, is still in development. FX declined comment.
Y: The Last Man ranks as one of the most beloved and critically acclaimed comic book series of all time. The Vertigo title was first launched in 2002 and revolves around Yorick Brown — the last surviving human with a Y chromosome — and his Capuchin monkey, Ampersand. The series follows escape artist Yorick after the mysterious plague as he sets out to find what might have wiped out the world's male chromosomes. The series, written and created by Vaughan and artist Pia Guerra, ran for 60 issues and has been collected in multiple graphic novels.
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MOVIES: The Croods 2 - Dreamworks and Universal Cancel Sequel
Less than three months after a new writing team was brought into the project, The Croods 2 is history. Sources confirm to Deadline that DreamWorks Animation and new corporate sib Universal Pictures have axed the long-in-the-works sequel to the 2013 toon.
Sources said the project had been going south for a while and that the companies were weighing priorities after DWA was sold to NBCUniversal parent Comcast this year. The Croods 2 didn’t make the cut.
The film was to be the follow-up to The Croods, which dug up $587M worldwide, more than two-thirds of which came from outside North America. The sequel originally had been set for release December 22, 2017, via 20th Century Fox, but it was put on hold after Comcast’s takeover of DWA.
Kevin and Dan Hageman, the brothers who came up with the story for Warner Bros’ The Lego Movie, were set in August to do a rewrite on Croods 2.
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00:30 - CBS Developing Legal Investigative Drama
CBS has put in development a legal drama procedural from the Kennedy/Marshall Company and CBS Television Studios.
Written and executive produced by Andy Parker (USA pilot Stanistan), the untitled project centers around a U.S. Senator who withdraws from office in the wake of a life-changing crisis to join his brother’s private investigation law firm, unearthing the truth in high-profile and top-secret cases, wherever that truth may lead.
Frank Marshall (Sully) and Robert Zotnowski (House of Cards) will executive produce for the Kennedy/Marshall Company, which has been based at CBS Television Studios.
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23:20 - Encore - Former Boy Band Comedy from Donnie Wahlberg and Nick Lachey in Development at CBS
Nick Lachey, who was a member of 98 Degrees, and Donnie Wahlberg, formerly of New Kids On the Block, have teamed with Entourage creator Doug Ellin for Encore, a single-camera comedy that would draw on the duo’s experience as ex members of popular boy bands. The project, from producers Eric & Kim Tannenbaum, has been set up at CBS through CBS TV Studios and studio-based the Tannenbaum Co.
Written by Ellin, Encore is about former boy band members who reunite 20 years later. Ellin executive produces through his CBS TV Studios-based Halyard Parkr, along with the Tannenbaums, Wahlberg, Lachey and Jonathan Baruch. Halyard Park’s Andrew Moncrief will serve as a producer.
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21:10 - Paul Wesley Producing Shanghai Summer Drama at Freeform, Limited Series, Pecos at ABC & More
The Vampire Diaries star Paul Wesley has signed a pod deal at Warner Bros. TV for his production company, Citizen Media, with partner/former The Vampire Diaries executive producer Bob Levy.
Under the pact, Wesley and Levy will develop new television projects for the studio, starting with a darkly comedic single-camera half-hour based on a non-fiction article by Jason Smith called Confessions Of a Drug-Addicted High School Teacher.
Citizen Media has three other series projects in the works that preceded the WBTV deal, including a limited series at ABC produced by Robert Redford.
Titled Pecos, the ABC limited series, produced by ABC Signature Studios, is inspired by the true story of a 29-year-old rookie journalist who takes down one of the richest, most powerful men in Texas, proving his gigantic business empire is a complete fraud, in 1962 Pecos, Texas. Shawn Christensen, Oscar winner for his short film Curfew, is writing. Citizen Media’s Wesley and Levy executive produce alongside Robert Redford and Laura Michalchyshyn of Sundance Productions.
At Fox 21 TV Studios, Citizen Media has Finding Natalie, a drama about a young Mexican woman searching for her 17-year-old sister Natalie who was recently kidnapped by a sex trafficking cartel. NY Playwright and The American’s writer Hillary Bettis will write.
At Freeform, Wesley and Levy is developing one-hour series Shanghai Summer, about 20-something Americans pursuing their dreams in Shanghai, China. Oanh Ly (The Catch) is on board to write the script.
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04:30 - MOVIES: Collateral Beauty - Trailer 2 feat Will Smith, Edward Norton, Kiera Knightley, Michael Peña, Naomie Harris, Jacob Latimore, Kate Winslet and Helen Mirren
04:30 - Multi-Generational Comedy in Development at ABC
ABC has given a script commitment plus penalty to a single-camera comedy from The Comedians co-creator/executive producer Ben Wexler and Seth Gordon & Mary Rohlich’s Exhibit A. Sony TV, where Exhibit A has a deal, is the studio.
Written by Wexler, the untitled project centers on a recently-widowed 60-something guy who teams up with an entrepreneurial 20-something girl to “monetize” his biggest asset — the single-family brownstone he used to share with his wife — renting out the bedrooms to an eclectic group of housemates. The “sharing economy” just hit home.
Wexler spent last year in an overall deal at 20th Century Fox TV where he served as executive producer/showrunner on the studio’s freshman comedy The Grinder. He recently wrote and directed a video for Funny or Die encouraging millennials to vote, which starred Rob Huebel, Betsy Brandt and Jennette McCurdy.
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04:30 - Altered Carbon - Byron Mann to Recur in Netflix Series
Byron Mann (The Big Short, Hell on Wheels) is set for a recurring role in Altered Carbon, Netflix’s futuristic drama series conceived, written and executive produced by Laeta Kalogridis. Based on Richard Morgan’s award-winning 2002 cyberpunk sci-fi novel, Altered Carbon is set in the 25th century when the human mind has been digitized and the soul is transferable from one body to the next.
Mann will play O.G. Kovacs, the last of the legendary intergalactic warriors known as Envoys. He is a man who has the killing instinct of a soldier along with the moral center of a freedom fighter. He has the razor sharp mind of a master strategist, combat skills that verge on the superhuman, but when he loses his temper people die. Mann will next be seen in the hit Syfy series The Expanse which returns with new episodes January 5. He’s repped by Don Buchwald & Associates and Echelon Talent Management.
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03:30 - Magnolia Springs - Father & Son Comedic Procedural from Psych Creator in Development at CBS
Psych creator Steve Franks is behind another comedic procedural two-hander, Magnolia Springs, which has been set up at CBS.
Written by Franks, the project centers on the Sheriff of Magnolia Springs who discovers that this progressive and idyllic town in the new American South is a hotbed of criminal activity, and he enlists the help of his teenage son to investigate the town’s dark secrets and quirky crimes.
Franks, who is from Orange County, CA, is an avid traveler of the United States and has had a particular affinity for the South.
Franks executive produces Magnolia Springs with Chris Henze of Thruline Entertainment for CBS TV Studios. The two also executive produced Psych together.
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03:30 - Single Dad Comedy Produced By Elizabeth Banks in Development at NBC
NBC has given a script commitment plus penalty for a half-hour single camera comedy from Elizabeth Banks and Max Handelman’s Brownstone Productions, Black List scribes Sam Pitman and Adam Cole-Kelly and Warner Bros. Television.
Co-written and executive produced by Pitman and Cole-Kelly, the untitled project centers on a 30-something father who’s trying to navigate his life a year after his wife suddenly dies: how to live, date, parent, etc., all with the unrelenting, unsolicited advice of his in-laws, parents, friends, wife’s friends and nanny — aka his new makeshift family. Banks and Handelman executive produce through Brownstone as part of the company’s overall deal at WBTV.
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03:30 - Narcos - Season 3 - Andrea Londo to Recur
Thanks to Sonofgod87 for the heads up.
Andrea Londo has signed on for a recurring role in the upcoming third season of Netflix’s drug cartel drama Narcos.
Londo will play Maria, a young and beautiful former Colombian beauty queen who is clever and knows how to survive. Season 3, slated to premiere in 2017, will pick up following the death of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar. Londo recently guest-starred on Faking It and Catfish: The TV Show. She’s repped by Rough Diamond Management.
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03:30 - The Fosters - Season 4 - Shi Ne Nielson to Recur
Thanks to Sonofgod87 for the heads up.
Chasing Life alumna Shi Ne Nielson has landed a recurring role on the fourth season of Freeform’s The Fosters. Executive produced by Jennifer Lopez, The Fosters follows a multi-ethnic family mix of adopted and biological teenage kids being raised by two moms.
Nielson will play Kate O’Brien, a very sharp and extremely capable public defender. Professional and caring, she is one of Stef’s (Teri Polo) friends. She’s regarded as one of the best public defenders in the department. Nielson, known as Raquel on Chasing Life, just wrapped a role on Nancy Meyers’ upcoming film Home Again with Reese Witherspoon. She also recently recurred on Murder in the First and guest-starred on Rosewood and NCIS. She’s repped by BRS/Gage and Impact Artists Group. The Fosters premieres its fourth season on January 31.
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18:25 - Young and Hungry - Season 5 - Andy Buckley Cast as Josh’s Father
As if Josh didn’t have enough relationship problems on Young & Hungry, now he’ll be adding father-son drama to the mix.
EW has exclusively learned that Andy Buckley (The Office and Odd Mom Out) has been cast to play Matt, Josh’s estranged father. The two have a contentious relationship — they don’t know each other well, and Matt wants to try to patch things up. Josh (Jonathan Sadowski) isn’t sure that’s something he wants… or even if he wants to meet him.
Based on how much Gabi (Emily Osment), Elliot (Rex Lee), and Yolanda (Kym Whitley) interfere in his life, we imagine their meeting is imminent.
Buckley will be in at least two episodes when the Freeform show returns in 2017 for its fifth season.
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04:30 - South Park - Rewriting Episode Due To Donald Trump's Presidential Win
Good thing producers of South Park are used to changing on the fly, what with tonight’s episode supposed to be hyper timely, and address previous night’s presidential election. Except, being media members, they wrote it with the Hillary Clinton-esque character vanquishing the Donald Trump stand-in to become our 45th President Elect because, duh.
Originally titled The Very First Gentlemen, the episode now is called Oh Jeez. And, she doesn’t.
On the bright side, looks as though America is going to be great again, and women can be anything – except POTUS, of course.
South Park previewed the results on Twitter today:
Oh Jeez...#SouthPark #TheMorningAfter pic.twitter.com/HRcUm9KxNf
— South Park (@SouthPark) November 9, 2016
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23:40 - Power - Season 4 - Brandon Victor Dixon to Recur
Hamilton star Brandon Victor Dixon has set for a recurring role on the fourth season of Starz drama series Power.
He’ll play Terry Silver, an educated, accomplished attorney suspicious of Ghost’s criminal activity. The series, created by Courtney Kemp Agboh and produced by Curtis 50 Cent Jackson, tells the story of James “Ghost” St. Patrick, a wealthy New York City nightclub owner who caters to the city’s elite. Dixon currently stars as Aaron Burr in Broadway’s hit show Hamilton.
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23:40 - Narcos - Season 3 - Nicholas Gonzalez to Recur
Nicholas Gonzalez (Bordertown, Sleepy Hollow) has booked a recurring role on the upcoming third season of Netflix’s drug cartel drama series Narcos.
Gonzalez will play Lopez, a capable and experienced American DEA agent. Season 3, slated to premiere in 2017, will pick up following the death of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar. Gonzalez also is recurring on the seventh season of Freeform’s Pretty Little Liars as Detective Vic Furey, and is reprising his role of Dante Ramon, the older brother of Cisco Ramon, in The CW’s The Flash.
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23:40 - SMILF - Rosie O'Donnell Joins Showtime Comedy Pilot; Alex Brightman, Graham Rogers & Kyle Vincent Terry to Guest
Rosie O’Donnell has joined the cast of Showtime’s comedy pilot SMILF. Frankie Shaw writes, directs and stars in the project, which is based on her film that won the Short Film Jury Award at Sundance last year. Alex Brightman (School of Rock), newcomer Kyle Vincent Terry and Graham Rogers (Quantico) also have signed on as guest stars.
Set in Boston, SMILF takes a raw look at Bridgette, a single twentysomething (Shaw), whose desires for relationships, sex and a career collide with the realities of being a young single mother. O’Donnell will play Tutu, Bridgette’s mother, who is unapologetically herself and completely oblivious to social convention. Despite her troubled upbringing in the projects of Southie, she shows up for her daughter and grandson as best as she possibly can — which isn’t always up to Bridgette’s standards. O’Donnell will have a regular role if the project is picked up to series.
Brightman will guest star as Jesse, who went to high school with Bridgette and always has carried a torch for her. He reconnects with her and jumps at having a second chance with her. Terry is Ben, who flirts with Bridgette at a public basketball court — and there’s some genuine chemistry between them. Rogers plays David, an eager film student who won a competition to direct a PSA. They all join previously announced cast Samara Weaving and Ismael Cruz Cordova.
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23:40 - Something To Celebrate - Elizabeth Banks Developing Family Comedy at CBS
Elizabeth Banks is adding yet another project to her production slate.
The multi-hyphenate actress, producer and director is on board to exec produce “Something To Celebrate,” a family comedy series in development at CBS.
Vera Santamaria is writer on the project, which based on the original series created for Secuoya Distribution and Antena 3. She will serve as executive producer with Banks and Max Handelman. Warner Bros., where Banks and Handelman’s Brownstone Productions is based, is the studio.
The single-camera comedy follows four adult siblings work in their family’s popular bakery and enjoy the fun of being in a second-generation American family that loves a celebration.
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23:40 - Major Crimes - Season 5 - Leonard Roberts to Recur
Leonard Roberts (American Crime Story: The People Vs O.J. Simpson) has joined the fifth season cast of TNT’s drama series Major Crimes. The key role is recurring for Season 5 with an option to become a series regular if the series is picked up for a sixth season.
Roberts will play Commander Leo Mason. Handsome, intelligent and charismatic, Mason heads up the Criminal Intelligence Division of the LAPD, and, along with Sharon Raydor (Mary McDonnell), is being considered for the job of New Assistant Chief.
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05:20 - MOVIES: Now You See Me 3 - Neil Widener and Gavin James to Pen Script
EXCLUSIVE: Neil Widener and Gavin James have been set to write the script for Now You See Me 3 for Lionsgate. The two up-and-coming writers are proving to be hot property amongst the Hollywood community, having recently been hired to write San Andreas 2 for New Line, the follow-up to the earthquake epic starring Dwayne Johnson.
Widener and James just wrote Battle Of Alcatraz, after Paramount bought the project at the pitch stage in a competitive situation last year. Pic, which is set in California’s infamous prison and based on the 1946 escape attempt by six inmates, is out to directors and marks Bridge of Spies writer Matt Charman’s first step into producing (he pitched the story and exec produces).
I’m hearing that Now You See Me 3 should see most of the cast reprise their role and Jon M. Chu is currently attached to direct, with Bobby Cohen producing with Alex Kurtzman and Jeb Brody. Story continues to center on a band of criminal magicians known as The Four Horsemen who pull off astounding performances in order to steal huge amounts of money from either a bank or a wealthy individual.
The format has been so popular for Lionsgate it’s even making a Chinese spinoff of the thriller which it is set to produce with Beijing-based Leomus Pictures. It will be shot in China with a mostly Chinese cast.
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05:20 - Car Wash - ABC Developing Workplace Comedy Based on 1976 Movie
ABC is looking to clean up.
The network is teaming with Will Packer to develop a single-camera comedy based on the 1976 feature film Car Wash, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
The ABC take is described as a workplace comedy that explores the family we build in order to survive — as seen through one kid's determination to create his own destiny, one man's struggle to accept who he has become and the bonds they form at an iconic Hollywood destination: Deluxe Car Wash.
Rob Horn (Partners, Living Single) and Matt Claybrooks (Single Ladies, The Game, Everybody Hates Chris) will pen the script for the project, which landed at ABC with a script plus penalty commitment. Kenny Leon (Hairspray Live, The Wiz Live, She's All That) is on board to direct the pilot, should Car Wash move forward, and also would co-executive produce.
Packer and his Will Packer Productions topper Korin D. Huggins will executive produce via their Universal Television-based banner. Kelly Meyer, Eric Carlson and Susan Carlson also will exec produce, reuniting the trio with Universal Television after their short-lived NBC medical drama Heartbeat.
Initially conceived as a movie, Car Wash explored a multiracial group of employees at an Los Angeles car wash. The screenplay was written by Joel Schumacher, and the film was distributed by Universal Pictures. The Art Linson and Gary Stromberg production, directed by Michael Schultz, featured a cast that included George Carlin, Richard Pryor, Garrett Morris and the Pointer Sisters.
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05:20 - That's So Raven Spinoff - Casting Details for Raven's Son & Daughter
Thanks to A for the heads up.
TVLine has learned that casting is currently underway for Raven’s daughter Nia, a tween described as “bold, confident and driven,” although those positive qualities “often get her in over her head.” Despite taking things too far, Nia always has the best intentions; she “believes in helping people and doing what’s right, even if it gets her into trouble.” (Gee, does that sound like anyone else we know?)
When the series begins, Nia is just starting middle school, a difficult transition made even more complicated by the fact that — wait for it — she’s suddenly having psychic visions.
Nia’s younger brother Booker is described as being a sweet, naïve mama’s boy — a “true innocent who is in no rush to grow up.” That said, once he’s aware of a situation, “he’s surprisingly adept at turning the tables and standing up for himself.” Casting directors are specifically looking for a “young Donald Glover” type.
Feels good to be back! :) #Disney #ThatsSoRaven pic.twitter.com/rsQ2Qsurc1
— Raven-Symonè (@ravensymone) November 7, 2016
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20:00 - Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg Producing Superhero Themed & Illuminati Comedies for FOX & ABC
Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s Point Grey Pictures has set up two single-camera comedies through Sony Pictures TV, a superhero sidekick-themed project written by Mike Rosolio (Lemmings) at Fox and a project at ABC about the elusive Illuminati society that has been the subject of numerous conspiracy theories, written by Brad Copeland (Life In Pieces). Both have received script commitment plus penalty and stem from Point Grey’s deal at CBS TV. Point Grey’s Rogen, Goldberg and James Weaver executive produce.
Written/executive produced by Mike Rosolio, the Fox project centers on an ambitious MIT graduate who gets a job working for a Steve Jobs-esque tech genius, only to learn he’s also a vigilante superhero by night forcing her to become the unwitting Alfred to his Batman.
The ABC project, written/executive produced by Brad Copeland, centers on a young couple struggles to balance marriage and suburban life with the fact that one of them is in the Illuminati. Copeland also developed and executive produced the MTV version of the British comedy The Inbetweeners. He is repped by UTA.
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20:00 - How May We Hate You - New York City Hotel Comedy in Development at CBS
Former The Office co-executive producer Warren Lieberstein is returning to the workplace comedy genre with the multi-camera How May We Hate You, set at CBS. It hails from Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment and CBS TV Studios.
Written by Lieberstein, How May We Hate You is an ensemble comedy based on the book of the same name by Anna Drezen and Todd Dakotah Briscoe. It revolves around the employees at a trendy New York City hotel.
Lieberstein executive produces with Kaplan, Dana Honor and Wendi Trilling.
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15:50 - Salem - Marilyn Manson Behind The Scenes [VIDEO]
Thanks to Bazooka for the heads up.
09:00 - Teen Wolf - Episode 6.14 - Linden Ashby to Direct
Thanks to Pierre for the heads up.
03:35 - American Crime - Season 3 - Dallas Roberts to Recur
The Good Wife and The Walking Dead alum Dallas Roberts has been cast opposite Felicity Huffman on the upcoming third installment of John Ridley’s ABC anthology drama series American Crime. Roberts will recur as Carson Hesby, the husband of Jeanette Hesby (Huffman).
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03:35 - Open Arms - Hotel Comedy from the Creators of HIMYM in Development at FOX
Fox is ready to check in to Open Arms.
The network is teaming with How I Met Your Mother creators Carter Bays and Craig Thomas for hotel comedy Open Arms, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
The single-camera comedy, which landed at Fox with a script commitment, revolves around Howie and Joy, who realize that they can't have a baby and instead take their nest egg and buy the Vermont inn they visit annually — only they quickly realize they're in over their heads.
Peter Warren (Happyland, The History of Us) will pen the script and exec produce alongside Bays and Thomas. The comedy hails from Sony Pictures Television, where Bays and Thomas are under a rich overall deal. Open Arms also marks a key outside studio buy for Fox. This season, 10 of its 11 new series are produced in-house by 20th Century Fox TV; only Lethal Weapon hails from outside studio Warner Bros. Television.
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03:35 - Royalties - Glee's Darren Criss Developing Musical Workplace Comedy at FOX
Darren Criss is returning to Fox.
The network is developing a musical workplace comedy from the Glee grad, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
The project, titled Royalties, centers on the unseen, unsung and unglamorous heroes behind the pop stars – the producers and songwriters whose day job is it to produce hits. Sometimes it's sexy, but most of the time, it's just like every other workplace with office politics, clashing personalities and day-to-day minutiae. The comedy specifically centers on a publishing company, Royalty Music, and the one-hit wonder who returns to the fold in the hopes of making it big again.
Royalties hails from Criss and writers Allyn Rachel and Patrick Carlyle. The latter two will exec produce with The Jackal Group's Gail Berman and Joe Earley. Criss is attached as a co-executive producer. (He will not star in the project should it move forward.)
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03:35 - Code Black - Season 2 - Jay Harrington to Recur
Thanks to 90sbaby for the heads up.
Benched and Better Off Ted alum Jay Harrington has booked a key recurring role on the second season of CBS’ medical drama series Code Black. He will play the brilliant Dr. Leo Fields, the most respected neurosurgeon in Los Angeles who’s forced to operate on one of the show’s major characters.
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03:35 - MOVIES: An American Werewolf in London - Remake from The Walking Dead Producers in Development
Thanks to 90sbaby for the heads up.
EXCLUSIVE: An American Werewolf in London is officially getting a remake with The Walking Dead‘s David Albert and Robert Kirkman producing through their Skybound Entertainment for Universal Pictures. Filmmaker John Landis’ classic 1981 comedic horror film will be written by his son Max Landis, who also is attached to direct. The news comes after the elder Landis and filmmaker Anthony Waller (An American Werewolf in Paris) sealed a deal with the studio on the rights. The younger Landis’ deal is being negotiated. Skybound has a first-look production deal with Universal.
Also producing will be Todd Garner and Matt Smith, and John Landis will executive produce along with Circle of Confusion’s Matt Smith, Broken Road’s Sean Robins and producer Andy Trapani who told Deadline that he’s been working on putting this together for nearly 10 years.
The original film, which came from the mind of writer-director John Landis, starred David Naughton — popular at the time for his Dr. Pepper commercials — Jenny Agutter and Griffin Dunne and followed two kids on a hiking vacation in England who are attacked by a werewolf. Dunne’s character is killed off early on, and Naughton’s character starts to transform into a werewolf. The film’s makeup artist Rick Baker won his first Oscar on it.
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03:35 - Young Justice - Season 3 - Officially Confirmed by Warner Brothers Animation
Thanks to Sonofgod87, Folie-lex and wahyu for the heads up.
The rumors are true. Three years after Young Justice was cancelled by Cartoon Network, the cult action-animated series is coming back. Warner Bros. Animation just announced that it has begun production on a third season of all-new episodes of the series based on the characters from DC Entertainment.
There is no network for the revival yet. There had been a lot of chatter over the past 10 months about a new season of Young Justice, possibly on Netflix, fueled in large part by comments made by the show’s creators Brandon Vietti and Greg Weisman. The streaming service carries the existing two seasons of Young Justice and is considered a suitable home as it has successfully revived several cult series already, though sources note that the animated show is in the marketplace and no decision has been made on a network partner yet. The new season hails from the same creative team, led by Vietti (Batman: Under the Red Hood, Superman: Doomsday) and Weisman (Star Wars Rebels, Gargoyles).
Praised by critics and DC fans for its impressive visuals and rich storytelling, Young Justice aired for two seasons on Cartoon Network, from 2010-2013, before it was cancelled, triggering a crowdfunding effort to bring it back. The series won a primetime Emmy for Individual Achievement in Animation for Phillip Bousassa for the “Independence Day” episode in 2011.
“The affection that fans have had for Young Justice, and their rallying cry for more episodes, has always resonated with us,” said Sam Register, President, Warner Bros. Animation and Warner Digital Series. “We are excited to bring the show back for this loyal fanbase and to provide an opportunity for new viewers to discover this excellent series.”
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03:35 - Glitch - Season 2 - Netflix Boards Australian Drama as Co-Producer
Developed by the ABC and Film Victoria, the first season of the show was awarded Australian television’s two highest accolades for best drama — a Logie and Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Award.
While production for the second season is under way, the ABC recently struck a deal with Netflix to offset costs as part of the ABC’s new managing director Michelle Guthrie’s efficiency drive.
In exchange for global subscription video-on-demand rights and the ability to brand Glitch as a “Netflix Original” in some markets, the streaming giant is expected to fund around 15 per cent of the total cost.
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