‘Hägar the Horrible’: King Features & The Jim Henson Company Developing Animated TV Series Based On Comic Strip, Eric Ziobrowski To Write

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefHong Kong has picked youth drama “Better Days” as the territory’s contender for the Academy Awards’ best international feature film race. The announcement was made on Friday by the Hong Kong Film Producers Association.Directed by Derek Tsang, and adapted from the novel “Young and Beautiful,” the China-Hong Kong co-production tells the story of a girl who is harassed at school and becomes embroiled in a murder.

Naman Ramachandran Indian arthouse filmmaker Pushpendra Singh’s latest effort, feminist fable “The Shepherdess and the Seven Songs” (Laila Aur Satt Geet) is bowing at the Singapore International Film Festival after plaudits at Berlin, Hong Kong and Jeonju.The film, based on renowned Rajasthani writer Vidaydan Detha’s story of a woman discarding all identities society wants to impose on her, and making her own choices, uses the narrative device of seven local folk songs to describe the

Will Thorne Staff WriterGabrielle Union is getting into business with Showtime.The actor and her I’ll Have Another Productions banner are developing a comedy series called “New Money” at the premium cabler, Variety has learned. The show hails from Sony Pictures Television where I’ll Have Another has a first look deal.“New Money” was brought to Union by journalists Jemele Hill and Kelley Carter of Lodge Freeway Media, and it represents their company’s first foray into the scripted market.

Peter White Television EditorFormer ESPN star Jemele Hill is moving into scripted television and has teamed with Gabrielle Union to develop a half-hour comedy series about Black women with financial independence.New Money, which is based on a story from Hill and The Undefeated journalist Kelley Carter, who run Lodge Freeway Media, is in development at Showtime.The series is produced by Union’s I’ll Have Another Productions and Sony Pictures TV, where Union’s firm is under a first look deal.Being

Peggy Jo, the upcoming true-crime love story starring Lily James, has sold out internationally for HanWay Films.

David Hemblen was an actor known for live-action roles as well as voice roles including Magneto in “X-Men: The Animated Series.”The British-born Hemblen had an early voice role as the tiger Shere Khan in the late-1980s animated series “The Jungle Book: The Adventures of Mowgli.” Around the same time, he was appearing on live-action TV as Detective Dick Hargrove in the Mr. T series “T and T.” Hemblen began voicing Magneto in “X-Men: The Animated Series” in 1992, bringing gravitas to the role.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorNetflix reports that its limited series The Queen’s Gambit has scored 62M households, becoming their most watched limited series to date in its first 28 days. The series starring Anya Taylor-Joy has been consumed Russia and Hong Kong, to France, Taiwan and Australia.

In a live online webinar broadcast from Hong Kong on Nov. 12, organizers of the 11th quadrennial Gay Games celebrated the start of a two-year countdown for the Nov. 12, 2022 opening ceremony at the Hong Kong Stadium for the world’s largest LGBTQ sports competition and arts andcultural event.

East Kilbride News, said: “We had always based Rose on Mrs Emma Peel from The Avengers — the legendary Diana Rigg. “I think Lily, with her theatrical background, really brings that kind of style to the role.

Also Read: Barack and Michelle Obama's Production Company Signs Exclusive Podcast Deal With SpotifyTonia Davis and Priya Swaminathan of Higher Ground Productions, and Jon Cohen and Jon Wolf of Conover’s Fair Point will also executive produce.The project is the latest to arise from Higher Ground’s deal with Netflix, which has spawned a range of scripted, unscripted and documentary-style series currently in development, as well as feature-length narrative and documentary films like “American

Peter White Television EditorAdam Conover, creator and host of truTV’s Adam Ruins Everything, has teamed with Barack and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground Productions to pull back the curtain on government in a new sketch comedy series for Netflix.The streamer has ordered The G Word with Adam Conover, which will go inside the machine of government and introduce viewers to the civil servants who make it work.

Peter White Television EditorEXCLUSIVE: Rapper Snoop Dogg is to voice and exec produce an animated comedy for Amazon with Vince Vaughn also exec producing.The streamer is developing Oaklandia, which is written by Daniel Dominguez (right), a writer for season two of HBO Max’s Michael B.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVEXCLUSIVE: Downton Abbey alum Dan Stevens has been added the voice cast of HBO Max animated series The Prince as both Prince Charles and Price Philip.The Prince, written and executive produced by Gary Janetti, is a biting, satirical look at the life of Prince George of Cambridge as he navigates the trials and tribulations of being a royal child.

Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Mexican pop superstar and member of the Latin music group OV7 Oscar Schwebel is teaming with marketing exec and producer Andrés Rodríguez and producing partners Gina Castellanos & Iván Gómez to launch the TV and Film venture GAIO Media.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefHBO Asia is to begin screening its first original romantic comedy series “Adventure of the Ring” from mid-December.Joining other internationally-targeted shows made in Taiwan, “Adventure of the Ring” is directed by Helmed by Nelson Yeh (“Far And Away,” “Mad King Of Taipei”) and Kitamura Tayoharu (“Running Man,” “Q Series – Love Of Sandstorm”).The eight-part show is adapted from mathematician and author Lai I-Wei’s romance novel “Ring of the Day,” which tells the

Joe Otterson TV Reporter“Bob’s Burgers” will soon cross the 200-episode threshold, a milestone that a miniscule percentage of television shows ever achieve.

Disney+ is celebrating Mickey Mouse’s birthday in a big way.

Hong Kong’s first socially distanced outdoor entertainment park opened its doors to the public on Tuesday in an attempt by the entertainment industry to adjust to the coronavirus pandemic. The park, called The Grounds, has a hundred socially distanced enclosed areas spaced 1.5 meters (about 5 feet) apart that seat two to four people.

coronavirus pandemic.The park, called The Grounds, has a hundred socially distanced enclosed areas spaced 1.5 meters (about 5 feet) apart that seat two to four people.Visitors can enjoy a variety of entertainment programs, including live performances and an outdoor cinema.On Tuesday, groups of viewers gathered for an outdoor screening of the Steven Spielberg movie “Jaws,” a 1975 classic about a great white shark terrifying a beach community.“It’s been a long hard year locked inside for the

The mother of an Illinois 17-year-old charged in the fatal shooting of two men during a protest in Wisconsin said neither her son nor the protesters should have been on the street that night and put much of the blame for what happened on police and the governor. Kyle Rittenhouse, of Antioch, Illinois, is also charged in the wounding of a third person on Aug.