Drew Barrymore
Jennifer Hudson, Derek Hough, and Martin Short have signed on for NBC’s Hairspray Live!. The TV event takes place in 1962 Baltimore and follows Tracy Turnblad, who wins a role on TV and becomes a celebrity overnight and meets a colorful array of characters.
Eight years after Superbad won over comedy fans everywhere, Jonah Hill and Emma Stone are re-teaming for a new dark comedy series entitled Maniac, based on the Norwegian format, with True Detective helmer Cary Fukunaga set to direct. That and more in our daily TV casting round-up!
Follows the story of a teenager who, despite attending an ultra conservative high school makes the decision to run for homecoming queen. Adaptation of James St. James’ bestselling novel of the same name.
Follows a pair of lifelong best friends whose relationship is torn to bits when one becomes pregnant and the other extremely sick.
Barrymore will star with Toni Collette as two life-long friends whose relationship hits a rough patch.
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After a terrible blind date at a resort, a man and woman find themselves trapped together with their respective families on Safari in Africa.
After a terrible blind date at a resort, a couple becomes stuck their with their children from previous marriages.
Logline: A group of friends trapped in an isolated cabin are hunted down by a predator.
Logline: Four filmmaker friends visit the Northern California town of Happy Camp where hundreds of people have gone missing from the surrounding mountains, including one of the pals’ younger siblings decades ago, to film a documentary.
“Big Miracle” star joins romantic comedy.
Logline: After a terrible blind date at a resort, a couple becomes stuck their with their children from previous marriages.
Actress returns to directing with apocalyptic drama!
Logline: Follows a pair of lifelong best friends whose relationship is torn to bits when one becomes pregnant and the other extremely sick.
Barrymore sinks her teeth into a coming-of-age murder mystery with Ron Howard and Brian Grazer!
Logline: Story follows the lives of three interconnected individuals as they attempt to make peace with their lives before an interstellar event ends the world in six hours.
Barrymore attaches to direct and produce teenage crime thriller.
Follows “Whip It” with an adaptation of Liz Tuccillo’s romantic comedy!
ABC looks back at the Angels, TNT finds a Bird Dog, CBS and SyFy kill a few shows, HBO promises more of a few others, and guess what Martin Scorsese and Nicholas Pileggi are doing next?
Logline: A modernized take of “The Wizard of Oz” in which Dorothy’s great-great-grandaughter battles the spawn of the Wicked Witch of the West.
Logline: Three young women–one seeking a way out of her small town, one returning to the moneyed enclave she visited when her family had money, and one looking for love–agree to oversee the four indulged, unsupervised children of a family vacationing in the Hamptons.
Logline: Centers on Katrina Bishop, a young woman who hails from an extended family of master thieves, has left her criminal life behind. But when her father is the prime suspect in an art collection robbery, she assembles a crew to track down the art and steal it back.
Logline: Based on the true story of three California gray whales that were trapped under the ice of the Arctic Circle in 1988. The rescue attempt became a global event with the U.S. and Soviet governments enjoying a rare moment of collaboration.
Logline: Story follows the dating lives of five single New York women, one of whom is writing a book about how bachelorettes across the world manage.