According to TV Line, Warner Bros. is in development on a live-action version of the classic Hanna-Barbera cartoon series The Jetsons. The site reports that Family Guy executive producer Gary Janetti has been brought in to shepherd the project, described as a multi-camera comedy, and will also serve as an executive producer alongside Robert Zemeckis […]
Lizzy Caplan, Rick Okon, August Wittgenstein and more join Das Boot TV series
Variety is reporting that Lizzy Caplan (Masters of Sex), Rick Okon (Tatort) and August Wittgenstein (The Crown) are set to lead the cast of Sky’s €25 million drama series Das Boot, based upon the classic war film from director Wolfgang Petersen. The series “will pick up the World War II story in the fall of 1942 and […]
Ryan Kwanten and Cory Hardrict join Sean Bean in The Oath
Last month it was announced that Sean Bean is set to headline The Oath, a new drama series from Crackle and creator Joe Halpin (Hawaii Five-O), and now Deadline is reporting that Bean will be joined in the cast by Ryan Kwanten (True Blood) and Cory Hardrict (American Sniper). The ten-episode series is being produced […]
Ralph Macchio returning for Psych: The Movie
Entertainment Weekly has revealed that Ralph Macchio will be reprising the role of police academy officer Nick Conforth in the upcoming TV special Psych: The Movie. “He’s actually a big catalyst to get our investigation going. He holds one of the key pieces of information,” creator Steve Franks told the outlet. “He actually functioned perfectly within the framework […]
James Van Der Beek and Lauren Graham join Disney Junior’s Vampirina
Disney Junior has announced that James Van Der Beek (Dawson’s Creek), Lauren Graham (Gilmore Girls) and Isabella Crovetti (Colony) will lend their voices to a vampire family in the upcoming animated series Vampirina. Van Der Beek and Graham will voice the roles of Vampirina’s parents Boris and Oxana Hauntley, while Crovetti is Vampirina (a.k.a. Vee), a […]
William Gibson’s sci-fi Hinterlands heading to the screen
Hand drawn animation company Last Studio Standing has announced that it has picked up the rights to William Gibson’s sci-fi masterpiece Hinterlands and is developing a theatrical film and subsequent 100 episode TV series based upon the property. In Hinterlands, a Russian space mission vanishes in mid-flight to Mars and reappears two years later. When a rescue […]
UPDATE: Marvel’s Avengers: Infinity War runtime revealed
Following on from today’s new images [check them out here], it seems we now have confirmation on the running time for Avengers: Infinity War, and as you might expect given that it will have a “payoff for every narrative thread” of the Marvel Cinematic Universe so far, the superhero blockbuster is going to clock in […]
Universal options Holly Black’s fantasy novel The Cruel Prince
Deadline is reporting that Universal Pictures has snapped up the rights to The Cruel Prince, the upcoming fantasy novel from Holly Black, author of The Spiderwick Chronicles. The book, which will be published in January, will mark the first instalment of a new series called Folk of the Air, and follows the journey of a human […]
Creative team for Kurt Sutter’s “nuns with guns” revenge series Sisters of Sorrow revealed
Back in November it was announced that Sons of Anarchy creator Kurt Sutter has teamed with BOOM! Studios for the new comic book series Sisters of Sorrow, and now the publisher has announced that Bram Stoker Award-nominated novelist Courtney Alameda (Shutter) and artist Hyeonjin Kim will be serving as the creative team on the “nuns with […]
Aidan Turner joins The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot
Deadline is reporting that Poldark star Aidan Turner has signed on to the cast of The Man Who Killer Hitler and Then the Bigfoot, which is being directed by Robert D. Krzykowski and also stars Sam Elliott. The film will follow the story of an American soldier called Calvin Barr (Turner), who leaves his true love […]
