Spanning five decades, this book explores how a chance encounter reverberates through the lives of the four parents and six children involved and how the children forge a lasting bond that is based on a shared disillusionment with their parents and the strange and genuine affection that grows up between them.
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Reese Witherspoon-starrer Home Again has added Candice Bergen to the cast. He joins previously cast Michael Sheen, Nat Wolff, and Lake Bell in the film from Hallie Meyers-Shyer.
Cable network HBO is re-teaming with In Treatment creator Hagai Levi to develop a new series based on the Israeli kidnappings of 2014. The series has a 10-episode commitment with Noah Stollman as co-creator.
The forthcoming comedy The War with Grandpa has tapped acting legends Robert De Niro and Christopher Walken to star. The movie will be the first time the actors have worked together since the 1978 Academy Award-winning drama The Deer Hunter.
Under their production banner Fazekas & Butters, showrunners Michele Fazekas and Tara Butters have been busy selling several projects, including two hourlong series to ABC, and one each at Freeform and Amazon, as well as developing a series based on the Tao trilogy by Wesley Chu.
Two Brothers Pictures’ Liar has tapped Joanne Froggatt and Ioan Gruffudd to star in six-part thriller set to bow on Sundance TV and ITV in the UK.
A father has a son that is convinced he’s a CIA spy with cool missions under his belt but in actuality, he works in the agency’s IT department. However, on a father-son trip in Paris, the two find themselves in a life-threatening adventure in which secrets are spilled.
Director-writer David Mamet is set to direct a feature film adaptation of his 1988 play Speed-the-Plow. The original, brutal story about Hollywood was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Play and Best Direction of a Play.
Veteran actor Danny Glover is joining the likes of Robert Redford and Chiwetel Ejiofor in Come Sunday, a new film for Netflix. Joshua Marston is set to direct, based on a script by Marcus Hinchey.
Cable drama pilot The Sinner has landed Bill Pullman. He joins previously cast Jessica Biel in the USA Network project.
Golden Globe-nominated actor Sam Neill is set to reunite with Hunt for the Wilderpeople director Taika Waititi for the upcoming Marvel pic Thor: Ragnarok in a hush-hush role.
Over the past several days, two networks, ABC and CBS, as well as the cable channels TNT and MTV, have picked up four brand-new drama series, continuing the Peak TV trend that’s gotten bigger and bigger in the last couple of years.
Vice Principals star Walton Goggins has landed the starring role in Keeping It Real, a new dark comedy currently in development at Showtime with a commitment from the network. CBS TV Studios and Timberman/Beverly are also working on the show
It’s been nearly 20 years since the lukewarm live-action adaptation of Spawn starring Michael Jai White, John Leguizamo, and Martin Sheen. But now, Image Comics co-founder and creator of the series Todd McFarlane is looking to make a reboot the movie to match the adult-oriented nature of the original comic book.
In a city on the brink of racial conflagration an NYPD detective struggles between his idealistic views the corrupt cop he’s become.
Fox drama series Pitch has booked Rita Wilson and Lyndsy Fonseca for guest starring roles. The series was created by Dan Fogelman and follows the first female to play in the major leagues.
Spike Lee’s 1986 indie classic She’s Gotta Have It is getting the Netflix treatment. The streaming giant has given a 10-episode order to a TV adaptation of Lee’s groundbreaking debut film that paved the way for independent film movement as well as other black filmmakers.
Logline: Based on a true story set in 1960s New York, a journalist finds and investigates a woman whom he believes is married to a Nazi in hiding. Their relationship results in the first ever extradition of an American citizen for war crimes.
The forthcoming adaptation of Agatha Christie’s Crooked House has tapped Mad Men alum Christina Hendricks and X-Files star Gillian Anderson. The two will join Max Irons and Glenn Close for the big screen version of the whodunit.
Emmy-winner Tony Shalhoub has been cast in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, the Amazon drama pilot starring House of Cards actor Rachel Brosnahan. The series is written and created by Gilmore Girls scribe Amy Sherman-Palladino.
NBC’s iconic sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live has added three new featured players to its ensemble ahead of the 42nd season premiere: Alex Moffat, Melissa Villaseñor, and Mikey Day.
Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan is re-teaming with one of the show’s most lauded directors, Michelle MacLaren, for a limited series Raven based on the nonfiction book Raven: The Untold Story of Jim Jones and His People by Tim Reiterman.
Jonathan Baker-directed thriller Inconceivable has tapped Nicolas Cage, Faye Dunaway, Nicky Whelan, and Natalie Eva Marie to star. The project hails from Emmett/Furla/Oasis and Baker Entertainment.
Comedian and actor Marlon Wayans is developing Naked, a new project with Rick Alvarez, whom he often collaborates with, and Todd Garner. All three are set to produce the American remake, which is currently in pre-production and slated to start production this fall. Wayans will also star as the lead character.
Last week, we reported that Greg Berlanti and the husband and wife team of Salim Akil and Mara Brock Akil had teamed up to develop a drama series based on the DC superhero Black Lightning at Warner Bros. TV. Now the series has landed at Fox with a pilot production commitment.
Based on the Japanese embassy hostage crisis (also called the Lima Crisis) of 1996–1997 in Lima, Peru, the novel follows the relationships among a group of young terrorists and their hostages, who are mostly high-profile executives and politicians, over several months. Many of the characters form unbreakable bonds of friendship, while some fall in love.
Aaron Sorkin’s directorial debut Molly’s Game continues to fill out its cast as Michael Cera is in talks for a role. He would join previously cast Jessica Chastain and Idris Elba.
Best-selling author Emma Forrest has lined up a star-studded cast for her directorial debut Untogether including Rogue One villain Ben Mendelsohn, Jamie Dornan, and real-life sisters Jemima Kirke and Lola Kirke. This will be the first major feature film the Kirke sisters star in together.
Sanaa Lathan has joined the cast of American Assassin, the upcoming adaptation of Vince Flynn’s novel from Lionsgate and CBS Films. Lathan joins Dylan O’Brien, Michael Keaton, and Taylor Kitsch in the political thriller that aims to trigger a new franchise based on Flynn’s best-selling series.
Fox’s P.T. Barnum musical biopic The Greatest Showman continues to fill out its cast with the addition of Rebecca Ferguson. She joins previously cast Zac Efron, Zendaya and Michelle Williams.
