Film Adaptation Of Timely YA Novel ‘I’m Not Dying With You Tonight’ In The Works From Prominent Productions & ‘Jumanji’ Producer

Justin Kroll Film ReporterMattel Films and Universal Pictures are developing a live-action movie based on the hit ’90s TV series “Wishbone,” about a Jack Russell Terrier.“Wishbone” is the first theatrical film collaboration between Mattel and Universal Pictures, and the ninth Mattel Films project in the works.Mattel Films will produce “Wishbone” alongside Academy Award winner Peter Farrelly. Roy Parker will write the script.

After the widespread ongoing Coronavirus pandemic, Jimmy Fallon, like many late-night hosts, had been filming his show remotely. But on Monday night, Fallon and band The Roots returned back to filming at Rockefeller Center for the first time in months, along with the rest of the show's crew.

Jimmy Fallon is back under his own studio lights. The late-night host returned to the "Tonight Show" set at NBC's Rockefeller Center headquarters in New York City on Monday along with his band, The Roots.

Peter White Television EditorChris Grabenstein, author of children’s books including the Mr. Lemoncello series, and a frequent collaborator of The President Is Missing author James Patterson has signed with talent agency APA.The move will see the agency help secure adaptations of the New York Times bestselling author’s books for film and TV.Grabenstein has written over forty books in the last 15 years including Escape From Mr.

Peter White Television EditorThe Tonight Show returned to the studio tonight with Jimmy Fallon kicking off with an emotional message to viewers.Fallon, sitting on a stool in the middle of the studio, rather than behind the traditional desk, and dressed in a sweater and sneakers rather that his usual suit, said that “any type of normalcy feels great” during the COVID-19 pandemic.“As a New Yorker, I wanted to say thank you to everyone who helped get us back to where we are now,” he opened.

“The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” has returned to the studio, minus the audience, after filming from Fallon’s home during the COVID-19 shutdown.

Stephen King is an incredibly prolific author, but he is also very effective at getting movie deals. King’s latest book, a collection of four novellas titled “If It Bleeds,” already produced three movie deals since it got published in May.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmStephen King’s latest bestselling four novella collection If It Bleeds has quickly garnered three option deals, with a fourth in the offing because it involves a preexisting character who just starred in an HBO series adaptation.

HBO Max, under its WarnerMax movie label, will develop a film adaptation of romantic comedy novel When Katie Met Cassidy by Camille Perri. Perri will adapt her novel into a screenplay.

Earl Cameron, one of the first black actors to break through in British cinema, has died at the age of 102.The man “with the voice of God and the heart of a kindly prince” passed away at his home in Warwickshire on Thursday.Cameron’s six-decade career began with a breakthrough role in 1951 starring in Pool of London, which was credited as being the first British film to feature an interracial relationship.He would later appear as James Bond’s assistant, Pinder in Thunderball, in Sidney Poitier’s

Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-managerEarl Cameron, who was among the first Black actors to break into significant roles in British film, died on Friday at age 102. His agent confirmed his death and said he “passed away peacefully at home surrounded by his wife and family” in Kenilworth in Warwickshire.Born in Bermuda in 1917, Cameron came to the U.K.

Will Ferrell and Kristen Wiig made a virtual return to “The Tonight Show” on Friday to join Jimmy Fallon for another edition of their Zoom soap opera spoof “The Longest Days of Our Lives”.

With Hollywood still under lockdown, projects that are being postponed now are going to clash with projects planned for the near future, leading to countless complications for the industry at large. One such filmmaker feeling the ramifications of the lockdown is Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larraín, who was supposed to be filming “Lisey’s Story” with Julianne Moore for AppleTV+, but that was all before the lockdown hit.

Through the Glass Darkly producer Autumn Bailey-Ford has secured the film rights to the YA novel I'm Not Dying With You Tonight from writers Kimberly Jones and Gilly Segal ahead of a planned movie adaptation. The timely novel, released in 2019, follows two teen girls — one black and one white — who have to confront their own assumptions about racial inequality as they rely on each other to get through a riot that has set their city on fire.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterNorwegian filmmaker Erik Poppe has set cast for his upcoming feature adaptation of Vilhelm Moberg’s classic Swedish tale The Emigrants, which is aiming to shoot in Sweden from September.Lisa Carlehed, who was nominated for a prestigious Bodil Award this year for her role in Until We Fall, will star alongside Gustav Skarsgård (438 Days, Vikings).

English novelist Lawrence Osborne, acclaimed for his enigmatic thrillers set in exotic locales around the world, is set to write a big-screen adaptation of Jon Swain's cult Khmer Rouge memoir River of Time. Osborne will executive produce the project alongside Nicholas Simon, CEO of Bangkok-based film company Indochina Productions.

LOS ANGELES -- Movie producer, film financier, real estate heir and major Democratic political donor Steve Bing has died. He was 55.

Barry Jenkins is one of the most in-demand filmmakers working today.

Amanda N'Duka pmc-editorial-managerEXCLUSIVE: Netflix and Leonardo DiCaprio are reteaming for a feature adaptation to the documentary Virunga, which will be written by Oscar-winning Moonlight helmer Barry Jenkins.