After a bidding war with TBS and Comedy Central, FXX has acquired the rights to every episode of The Simpsons in a deal worth around $1.25 million per week,  resulting in a pay off of something close to $1 billion.  Fox executives are calling this one of the biggest television syndication deals ever, and the […]

Deadline has reported that Will Smith (Men in Black, I Am Legend) and Shawn Levy (Night at the Museum) are getting together for a fantasy film titled City That Sailed. The script is being written by Audrey Wells (The Game Plan, Under The Tuscan Sun) and the film will tell the story of a father […]

James Bond producers MGM and Danjaq have reached a settlement with the estate of writer Kevin McClory which gives them full rights to the iconic British spy and potentially opens the door for Daniel Craig’s 007 to go up against his arch nemesis Ernst Stavro Blofeld and the SPECTRE organisation. The case in question spans […]

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy has pretty much gone from a mild box office hit to a staple in pop culture, so it’s no surprise that writer-director Adam McKay has said in an interview with Collider that he’s going to have a G-rated Anchorman spin-off that follows Walter Burgundy, the son of Ron Burgundy, […]

Last month, it was rumoured that CBS was considering a spin-off for the hit comedy series How I Met Your Mother and now it’s been confirmed that the network has placed a pilot production commitment for How I Met Your Dad. The spin-off is being written and executive-produced by How I Met Your Mother creators […]

Director of The Heat, Paul Feig (Bridesmaids), is developing a spin-off that will focus on Beth and Gina, the trashy family members of Melissa McCarthy’s character, with Jessica Chaffin and Jamie Denbo both set to return. Feig had this to say about the as-yet-untitled spin-off: “They took small roles in The Heat and turned them […]

2001’s Jeepers Creepers and its sequel Jeepers Creepers 2 made $122 million worldwide, while the sequel ended with a tease for a third movie, Jeepers Creepers 3 never came to fruition. However, now writer-director Victor Salva says the movie could be in development very soon, citing a renewed interest in the Jeepers Creepers franchise as […]

HBO sure is busy these days, and the cable network has just signed Jack Black and Tim Robbins to co-star and produce a pilot for a black comedy TV series called The Brink, according to Variety. The show will be a dark comedy that focuses on the ways in which a geopolitical crisis affects three […]

According to The Hollywood Reporter’s Live Feed, George Lopez has a new project in development at The CW.  It’s reported that the show will be titled Star Crazy and will be a Latina-centric musical drama. Star Crazy is about a young singer who grows up in poverty but ends up becoming the nation’s darling.  Bob […]

Universal Pictures has made a deal with Keegan-Michael Key, Jordan Peele and Judd Apatow to write an as-yet-untitled comedy. Key and Peele have been around for years, starting off on MadTV and getting their own show called Key & Peele, which has just been picked up for a fourth season. They both had minor roles […]