Ed Helms and Amanda Seyfriend-starring comedy The Clapper has added comedian Russell Peters to the cast. The project hails from Helm and Mike Falbo’s Pacific Electric banner.
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President and general manager of BBC America, Sarah Barnett, announces several new series in the works from Amy Poehler, the Orphan Black team, and more.
Harry Potter still lives as he moves to the stage in London’s West End in Harry Potter And The Cursed Child, and today Pottermore gave us the first glimpse of the trio tasked with continuing the story.
Rupert Grint is set to headline Sick Note for European pay TV operator Sky, alongside Shaun Of The Dead‘s Nick Frost and Miami Vice‘s Don Johnson.
Fox Searchlight has tapped Melissa McCarthy to star in Can You Ever Forgive Me? based on Lee Israel’s memoir. Marielle Heller is attached to direct.
Dwayne Johnson is set to play the “Man Of Bronze” in Shane Black’s Doc Savage adaptation from Sony Pictures. Johnson confirmed the casting via his Instagram account.
2015 Launch Pad Pilot Competition winner David Hoffman has joined the writers’ room on the upcoming Shawn Ryan and Eric Kripke series Timeless premiering this fall on NBC.
Having lost the key to unlock their biology and best hope to save themselves when the original was killed, our most beloved Leda clones battle their demons in order to regain the will to live. Will new answers come from their increasingly apparent psychic connections most creepily expressed in the baby-faced Kira?
Broad Green Pictures announced today a title change for their sorority comedy Ain’t No Half Steppin’ and revealed its cast. Now called Step Sisters will star Megalyn Echikunwoke.
Zack Whedon’s feature debut Come And Find Me has been acquired by Saban Films. The film stars Aaron Paul and Annabelle Wallis.
Jake Gyllenhaal’s Nine Stories is teaming up again with Bold Films on a feature adaptation of Jo Nesbo’s The Son. Denis Villeneuve is set to direct.
After the positive response to the costume images, Lionsgate was happy to show their optimism for the the new Power Rangers films during a conference call with analysts.
Kingsman star Colin Firth is in negotiations to join Matthias Schoenaerts in Kursk. The submarine disaster movie is based on Robert Moore’s books A Time To Die.
Best-selling mystery series The Boxcar Children are getting the film treatment in the form of three animated films from Shout! Factory and Legacy Classics.
Henry, Jessie, Violet and Benny, are four orphaned siblings who take up residence in an abandoned boxcar.
Amazon Studios has announced its latest batch of pilots for viewers to rate when they bow on June 17 in the U.S., U.K., German, Austria, and Japan.
Nicole Kidman’s banner Blossom Films has landed the rights to Joseph Wilde’s Cuddles. The play premiered in the UK in 2013 before having a run in New York as part of Brits Off Broadway.
Morgan is about a corporate risk-management consultant who has to decide and determine whether or not to terminate an artificial being’s life that was made in a laboratory environment.
Galileo and Pope Urban VIII are set to battle it out on the big screen as Gulfstream Pictures has announced they are adapting Richard N. Goodwin’s play The Hinge Of The World.
The Leone Film Group are developing a series centered around the firearm carried by Clint Eastwood in A Fistful Of Dollars.
A documentary is in the works at Primary Wave Entertainment centered on Ronald Reagan and the Super 8 film footage he shot from the mid-1950s to 1960s.
Producer Gordon Bijelonic has put into development Crossed, a police thriller written by the late rapper and actor Dwight “Heavy D” Myers. The announcement was made on what would have been the rapper’s 49th birthday.
STX is teaming up with Adam Sandler’s Happy Madison Productions to see the comedian write, produce, and star in an untitled animated feature.
Pop Media Holdings and Artention Films are bringing martial arts comedy Knockout Girls to the big screen. Arthur Anderson will helm the feature with a script from Olivia Briggs.
Master of horror, John Carpenter, has signed on to executive produce the latest installment of the classic Halloween franchise.
The Barreto family, known as “Brazil’s first family of cinema”, has closed a deal for the worldwide representation rights of their cinematic slate with Cisneros Media Distribution.
Rebel Wilson has been tapped to star in an untitled romantic comedy for New Line. The project is currently searching for a director.
Lori Evans Taylor has sold an untitled micro-budget thriller pitch to Sony Pictures. Akiva Goldsman has signed on to produce.
Fox 2000 is in talks to acquire the life rights to Dare Divas, a group of women inspiring the internet by living life to the fullest. Shonda Rhimes and Betsy Beers are in talks to produce through their banner Shondaland.
Whoopi Goldberg’s executive produced Strut has been picked up to series by Oxygen Media. The series follows fashion models working with Slay Model Management, the world’s first exclusive transgender modeling agency.
