‘Harold And The Purple Crayon’: Zooey Deschanel Boards Sony’s Live-Action Adaptation Of Beloved Children’s Book

EXCLUSIVE: Louise Lombard (After franchise) has signed on to a role in Christopher Nolan’s Universal Pictures thriller Oppenheimer.

Peacock has handed a series order to Twisted Metal, a comedic half-hour live-action adaptation of the popular video game, from Sony Pictures TV, Playstation Productions and Universal Television. Anthony Mackie (The Falcon and the Winter Soldier) stars and executive produces the project, first announced in September, which is written and executive produced by Cobra Kai writer Michael Jonathan Smith, who will serve as showrunner. Will Arnett and Marc Forman, who secured the rights to the material and helped put the adaptation together, also executive produce via their Electric Avenue production company.

Everyone’s favourite aardvark could be coming to the big screen.

live-action Fairly OddParents series set to be released next month.Titled The FairlyOdd Parents: Fairly Odder, the series sees Caleb Pierce play a grown-up Timmy Turner alongside Audrey Grace Marshall as his cousin Viv and Tyler Wladis as her new step-brother Roy Raskin.Susanne Blakeslee and Daran Norris also return as animated characters Wanda and Cosmo from the original series.After the trailer was released, many viewers criticised the show – comparing it negatively to a Saturday Night Live skit.“The new live action fairly oddparents show is genuinely one of the worst things I have ever seen,” one Twitter user wrote.“This is either an elaborate SNL skit or I’m being pranked,” another wrote.My reaction to the Fairly OddParents reboot trailer: pic.twitter.com/dYAsQm2l5u— JW Cartoonist (Commissions open! 2 slots!) (@JWCartoonist) February 23, 2022I REFUSE to believe these are REAL IMAGES for the Paramount+ Fairly OddParents sequel series. This is either an elaborate SNL skit or im being pranked.

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EXCLUSIVE: Ravi Patel is set to join Sony Pictures’ live-action adaptation of Harold and the Purple Crayon, starring Zachary Levi. Academy Award nominee Carlos Saldanha is on board to direct with Lil Rel Howery and Zooey Deschanel also starring in the film.

Los AngelesThe 42-year-old New Girl star looked stunning in a black maxi dress that was adorned with embroidered roses during an appearance at popular local restaurant Craig's.  She carried her leopard print coat over her arm, and toted a red and black striped handbag, completing her outfit with black flats. Her brunette locks were left down to tumble over her shoulders and she sported her signature fringe.

2022 Oscar nominee Will Smith (King Richard) and two-time Emmy nominee David Oyelowo (The Girl Before) have come aboard Netflix’s film adaptation of Tọlá Okogwu’s upcoming book Onyeka and the Academy of the Sun as producers, Deadline has confirmed.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorAfter three years in the works, Critical Role’s animated “The Legend of Vox Machina” finally lit up streaming screens on Prime Video last month — delighting fans with a raucous, foul-mouthed spree of action and adventure.The show, based on Critical Role’s first Dungeons & Dragons campaign, is currently No. 3 on Prime Video’s Top 10 ranking in the U.S.

Last year, director Ridley Scott shocked “Blade Runner” fans with the announcement that a live-action series was in the works at rights holders Alcon. Scott stopped short of giving concrete details about the series’ setting or where it would air.

EXCLUSIVE: The replicants are heading to the small-screen as Amazon Studios has put a live-action series set in the Blade Runner universe into development.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterThe new “Goosebumps” TV series has been picked up by Disney Plus, Variety has learned exclusively.The new series version of the beloved R.L. Stine books was first reported as being in the works in April 2020. Disney Plus has given the show a 10-episode order.The series follows a group of five high schoolers who unleash supernatural forces upon their town and must all work together – thanks to and in spite of their friendships, rivalries, and pasts with each other – in order to save it, learning much about their own parents’ teenage secrets in the process.Nick Stoller and Rob Letterman serve as writers and executive producers on the show, with Stoller executive producing via Stoller Global Solutions.

Former Fox Entertainment Head of Drama Charlie Andrews has joined Disney Branded Television as EVP, Live-Action and Alternative Television. He will be the No.2 on the creative side to Ayo Davis, President, Disney Branded Television, to whom he will report.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterDisney Branded Television has brought on Charlie Andrews to serve as executive vice president of live-action and alternative series, Variety has learned.Andrews joins Disney Branded TV from Fox Entertainment, where he most recently worked as head of drama development for the broadcaster before exiting in December. Andrews will begin in his new role on Feb.

Zooey Deschanel is spilling one of the biggest secrets from .  During episode 2 of the podcast, hosted by Deschanel and her co-stars, Lamorne Morris and Hannah Simone, the actress revealed what the show’s writers thought about her and Jake Johnson — who played her on-screen love interest, Nick Miller -- at the start of the series. When asked by Morris (who played Winston Bishop), if it was true that the writers felt that she and Johnson had too much chemistry at the start of show and wanted to keep them apart, Deschanel confirmed, sharing, «I remember them saying that.

Too much for TV! Zooey Deschanel revealed that she wasn’t allowed to have too many scenes with Jake Johnson on the first season of New Girl — even though their characters would eventually end up together.

KDMG secured an exclusive agreement to represent comic book series The Unearthians. Omar Mora, owner of Moras Productions, is the creator and writer of the 2019 original comic. The Unearthians was launched in 2019 at San Diego Comic-Con as a comic book maxi-series under the umbrella of Moras Productions. In 2019 it was named one of the 10 Best Indie Titles You Can Find by CBR.

Zooey Deschanel is opening up about one behind the scenes secret from New Girl.

Showrunners and writers want the actors to have chemistry but Zooey Deschanel and Jake Johnson’s on-screen chemistry was a bit too much.

Mattel’s live-action Masters of the Universe based on its iconic 1980s muscular action figure toy line is determined to live on.