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 […]

David O. Russell (The Fighter, Silver Linings Playbook and the upcoming American Hustle)  has announced that to support himself he’s been writing several unproduced scripts, and that one of those is a horror movie to be directed by Eli Roth. “I had to write to support myself,” said Russell during THR’s Directors Roundtable. “So I […]

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 […]

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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 […]

Gloria, 2013. Directed by Sebastián Lelio.Starring Paulina Garcia, Sergio Hernández, Diego Fontecilla and Fabiola Zamora. SYNOPSIS: A story set in Santiago and centered on Gloria, a free-spirited older woman, and the realities of her whirlwind relationship with a former naval officer whom she meets out in the clubs. A lot of geriatricomedies – so-called ‘comedies’ […]

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 […]