In recent years, we’ve seen more and more miniseries and anthologies on TV and many of them have been incredibly successful. Neil Turitz takes a look at the efficacy of these eight or six-hour stories and all their exploits that give them a leg up on the traditional 22 episode, season-to-season model.
Freeform has handed their second straight-to-series order to a Marvel show, this time for the half-hour live-action comedy New Warriors, continuing the network’s trend of focusing on stories about “becomers.”
The Tracking Board has confirmed that Oscar-winning writer Eric Roth has been hired to adapt the classic sci-fi novel Dune by Frank Herbert for Denis Villeneuve’s upcoming film.
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The Walking Dead‘s Jeffrey Dean Morgan has signed on to join Dwayne Johnson in Rampage, New Line’s adaptation of the 1980s Midway arcade game featuring giant monsters destroying cities. (Deadline)
The Big Short’s Adam McKay has found his cast for his untitled film about Dick Cheney at Paramount Pictures. Christian Bale is his choice for Dick Cheney, Steve Carell is the choice for Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and Amy Adams is the choice for Cheney’s wife Lynne. (Deadline)
Empire star Terrence Howard has signed on to join Jaden Smith and Cara Delevingne in the YA romantic drama Life in a Year, directed by Mitja Okorn for Overbrook Entertainment. (Deadline)
Tom Wilkinson, Connie Nielsen and Shea Whigham have joined the Ben Lewin-directed war drama Catcher Was A Spy based on Nicholas Dawidoff’s bestselling book that follows the true story of Moe Berg, a professional baseball player turned top-secret spy for the OSS. (Deadline)
Teen Wolf star Tyler Poser is set for a recurring role on the CW’s dramedy Jane The Virgin. Posey will play someone from Jane’s past. His first appearance will be in the Season 3 finale. (Deadline)
Battlestar Galactica alumna Katee Sackhoff, Lance Henriksen, and Jaeden Bettencourt have joined the voice cast of Syfy’s artificial intelligence drama pilot The Machine. (Deadline)
Garrett Clayton, Jordan Doww, and Joey Bragg have been set to star in Reach, a high school dramedy directed by Jarret Tarnol and written by Maria Capp, Johnny James Fiore, and Grant Harling. (Deadline)
Ian Shultis, Taylor Clift, Samuel Kay Forrest and Rich Dally III have been cast in Street Survivors: The True Story of the Lynyrd Skynyrd Plane Crash, a biopic about the iconic Southern rockers. (Deadline)
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