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Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterNetflix has optioned the rights to Annie Barrows’ illustrated children’s book series “Ivy & Bean” and plans to make them into movies.The hour-long live-action films will geared toward family audiences.

coronavirus pandemic, it's easy to look at the new TV adaptation of Stephen King's and see how the show might mine its own central story of an apocalyptic virus for deeply unsettling chills.

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Prime Video has secured the rights to AMC’s futuristic anthology series, Soulmates, across Europe (excluding Spain, Portugal, Gibraltar, and Andorra), Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America.

Kay Burley has jetted off to South Africa to stay in an exclusive resort after being taken off air for six months for breaking COVID-19 regulations.The TV star issued an apology after she was caught hosting a party to celebrate her 60th birthday in Soho last Saturday.MORE: BBC Breakfast star Louise Minchin forced to take 'break' after painful injuryIn photos obtained by MailOnline, Kay can be seen marching through the first class lounge at Heathrow Airport as she awaited her flight out of the

Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaUniversal Filmed Entertainment Group has renewed its first-look deal with Working Title Films, the producer of many of the studio’s most beloved movies.

It was announced that presenter Kay Burley had been reportedly taken off Sky News after she broke the rules of COVID-19 in the UK.

While this year’s batch of I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here contestants seemed to get on pretty well, it wasn’t always harmony in the castle, it seems.

The meal requests of the three final I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here campmates were revealed on Friday and they are nothing short of bizarre. Vernon Kay, Jordan North and Giovanna Fletcher have made it to the last hurdle of the hit reality show which means they will be treated to a meal of their choice ahead of the final.

Tess Daly "can't believe" her husband Vernon Kay has made it to the final of I'm A Celebrity. .

Jamie Lang Italian producer Manuel Tedesco of Baires Produzioni has boarded Rispo Films’ “The Night Belongs to the Monsters,” the companies’ second feature from filmmaker Sebastian Perillo, and one of this year’s hottest titles in the Blood Window Works in Progress section at Ventana Sur.Tedesco joins as a minority co-producer, partnering once again with regular associate and fellow co-producer on the film Javier Krause of Kafilms in Argentina and the newly-formed Kaf Suisse.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterAllison Baver, a three-time Olympic athlete, is expanding her footprint in the world of entertainment.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentLate Chilean author Luis Sepulveda‘s short novel “Diary of a Sentimental Killer,” about a globetrotting hitman with a broken heart, is being developed into a TV series that will be sold by Latin America’s EO Media Distribution, the company that recently handled multi-window distribution of high-profile titles such as “Narcos” and Amazon’s “El Presidente.”London and Rome-based production company BlackBox Multimedia, EO Media and Italy’s Leader Produzioni

Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorYoung Rock, the upcoming NBC series inspired by the life of Dwayne Johnson, has started in on production in Queensland, Australia, Universal Television said Monday. The division of Universal Studio Group is producing the series, which will chronicle Johnson’s formative years.

Shawn Mendes, along with his longtime manager Andrew Gertler, have announced their entry into original content with Permanent Content, a new film and television production company that will develop scripted and documentary projects “focused on issues that impact or are important to today’s youth.”Among its first projects is the Netflix Original documentary, “In Wonder,” which chronicles Mendes’ rise to the top strata of pop music.

Pablo Sandoval Producer-director Kristina Konrad’s Berlin-based Weltfilm has boarded “Amateur,” the feature debut of Spaniard Martin Gutiérrez which won the top Malaga Festival Prize for best Spanish film at this Spring’s Malaga WIP pix in post competition.Konrad, one of the jury members for Spanish titles at Malaga WIP, along with Berlin Panorama director Paz Lázaro and Gijón Film Festival programer Ricardo Apilánez, signed up to co-produce “Amateur” after the Malaga WIP showcase.Written by