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Peter White Television EditorEXCLUSIVE: Jonathan Parks-Ramage’s upcoming novel Yes, Daddy, set in a nightmarish scenario in the Hamptons, has landed at Amazon Studios for development.The streamer is working on an adaptation of the book, which is set to be published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in June 2021, with Patrick Moran’s PKM Productions and Little America director Stephen Dunn writing and directing.The book follows an ambitious young man who is lured by an older, successful playwright
.Cyber Monday. It's holiday shopping season, and these are the rules.As the winter holidays inch closer, so do the deals on everything from wellness and beauty products and designer shoes to home decor, kitchen tools and electronics.
PMC administratorIn early 2016 veteran entertainment executive Patrick Moran — the former ABC Studios president signed an overall deal with Amazon Studios last year to develop TV series — shelled out $5.75 million for an undeniably palatial though pitifully neglected neoclassical villa in the high-fallutin’ heart of L.A.’s tony Hancock Park neighborhood that now, after a dazzling and no-doubt extraordinarily costly restoration and update, is back on the market with a princely price of $13.65
Naman Ramachandran “Jurassic World: Dominion,” “War of the Worlds,” “First Day: On Set” and “The Pursuit of Love” were among the productions commended at the 2020 Production Guild of Great Britain (PGGB) Innovation Awards on Thursday.Presented in association with Warner Bros.
Isn’t pregnancy supposed to tire a person out? Not in the case of Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes‘ fiancée, Brittany Matthews. The first time mother to be just powering right through her rigorous workout routines despite her growing baby bump. The 25-year-old certified personal trainer showed off a series of glute and hamstring workouts in a Nov. 25 Instagram video that looked challenging for any normal person, let alone an expectant mom with a prominent baby belly.
Arthouse darling Xavier Dolan is shifting to the small screen with a TV drama for Quebecor Content.
For months now, Xavier Dolan has teased the idea of making a TV miniseries as his next big writing-directing gig.
James McClain More than three years after it first hit the market, one of the Los Angeles market’s most notorious spec-mansions — the real estate white elephant formerly known as Opus — has finally found a buyer.
Election workers and observers gathered Friday as presidential-election recounts got underway in two counties in Wisconsin, according to a report. The recounts in Milwaukee and Dane counties – the state’s most populous counties with mostly liberal voters – were requested by the Trump 2020 Campaign aspart of an effort to overturn statewide results that favored Democrat Joe Biden.
Naman Ramachandran Amazon Studios has confirmed that it has acquired worldwide rights to keenly anticipated sequel “Coming 2 America” from Paramount Pictures, and has set a March 5, 2021 date to launch on Amazon Prime Video.Variety reported that the deal was being hammered out last month.The film is a sequel to John Landis’ 1988 comedy “Coming to America,” which grossed more than $288 million worldwide.
Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterAMC dropped a bunch of news for the upcoming extended 10th season of The Walking Dead on Thursday. First off, the six new episodes are set to debut on February 28 while AMC+ will have them earlier starting on February 25 before their linear debut.In addition, Robert Patrick (Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Perry Mason, Scorpion) will join the series as “Mays” while Okea Eme-Akwari (Greenland, Cobra Kai) will step into the role of “Elijah”.
Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterAmazon Studios’ espionage thriller “All The Old Knives” has added actors Jonathan Pryce and Laurence Fishburne.Directed by Janus Metz, the stage and screen stars join the previously-announced Chris Pine and Thandie Newton in the project.Based on the acclaimed novel of the same name by Olen Steinhauer, who also adapted the screenplay, “Knives” is produced by Chockstone Pictures, Nick Wechsler Productions and Jackson Pictures in association with eOne.The film
Andreas Wiseman, Jake Kanter Stephen Garrett’s Character 7 Options Thriller NovelsCharacter 7, whose founder Stephen Garrett (pictured) executive-produced thrillers The Night Manager and Spooks, and is one of the producers behind current HBO drama The Undoing, has won rights to adapt Holly Watt’s thriller novels To The Lions and The Dead Line, which follow the life and adventures of globetrotting investigative journalist Casey Benedict.
The Phantom Menace would “destroy” Star Wars.Lucas’ first prequel to the original Star Wars story was released back in 1999.In new book The Star Wars Archives: 1999-2005, Lucas spoke of the enthusiasm executives at studio 20th Century Fox showed when he initially brought forward the idea for the prequels.However, as Polygon report, executives didn’t like the idea of a 10-year-old Anakin Skywalker, aka Darth Vader in his younger years, appearing in the films.“You’re going to destroy the
Star Wars creator George Lucas has revealed some fascinating new details about his vision for the franchise in new book The Star Wars Archives 1999-2005, dropping hints about what he would have done differently with the sequel trilogy and explaining decisions he made in the earlier movies.Arguably the biggest draw of the prequel movies – Episodes I, II and III, released in 1999, 2002 and 2005 respectively – is that they provide fans with a real insight into exactly how a gifted young Jedi named
Dave McNary Film ReporterJamie Foxx will produce and star in Amazon Studios’ “The Burial,” centered on the legal battle over a funeral home chain during the 1990s.“The Burial” is based on Jonathan Harr’s 1999 article in the New Yorker about the contractual dispute case brought against funeral home executive Ray Loewen by Mississippi businessman Jeremiah O’Keefe, who hired the flamboyant attorney Willie Gary.
Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Oscar-winner Jamie Foxx is set to produce and star in Amazon’s The Burial with Maggie Betts on board to direct, in this two-handed drama where Foxx will star opposite a legendary role currently being casted. Pulitzer Prize-winner Doug Wright penned the screenplay.Amazon Studios, Bobby Shriver Inc.
Jeff Nichols will write and direct a third installment in Paramount Pictures’ “A Quiet Place” franchise, the studio announced on Monday.The film, based on an original idea by John Krasinski, will. be released in 2022.