‘Heroes’ Reboot in Development From Creator Tim Kring

EXCLUSIVE: Horror film Stream, from the producers of the breakout Terrifier franchise, has secured an August 21 U.S., Canada and Mexico theatrical release via Iconic Events Releasing.

Huw Edwards has resigned from the BBC, almost a year after reports claimed that the newsreader had paid a young person for sexually explicit images.

In a competitive situation, Apple has acquired the rights to Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s upcoming novel Long Island Compromise to develop as a series.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Wall Street is betting that Netflix‘s stream machine continued to fire on all cylinders coming into 2024. After netting a whopping 13.1 million new subs in Q4, Netflix is riding a wave of momentum that continues to be buoyed by the paid-sharing strategy, as it converts password borrowers into paying members, according to analysts.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter The upcoming video game “Spine” is already being eyed for film and TV adaptations. Variety learned exclusively that “Spine” developer Nekki has teamed with Story Kitchen to develop potential adaptations of the game. “We’re pleased to begin our journey with Story Kitchen,” said Nekki CEO Dmitry Terekhin.

EXCLUSIVE: USA Network is encouraging a group of contestants to stay anonymous with its latest unscripted competition series.

Two years after it premiered, one of our favorite shows of 2022, “The Outer Range” returns this summer (read our review). Something of an unusual but welcome mix of “Yellowstone” family drama and existential “X-Files” sci-fi, “Outer Range” star Josh Brolin as a rancher in Wyoming fighting for his land and his family, who discovers something unfathomable on its outskirts.

Lexi Carson Ron Weiner, a television director at WGN Chicago for 25 years and three-time Daytime Emmy-winning director for talkshow “Donahue,” died on March 18 in Baltimore, Md. He was 93. Weiner directed shows including “Donahue,” “An Evening With B.B.

EXCLUSIVE: After bringing back CSI: Crime Scene Investigation with CSI: Vegas, CBS is looking to revive another Jerry Bruckheimer Television-produced crime procedural from the 2000s. The network is in negotiations with Warner Bros. TV for a reboot of Cold Case, which aired on CBS for seven seasons from 2003-2010, Deadline has learned. The followup comes from the series’ creator/executive producer Meredith Stiehm.

Heroes is reportedly set for a new reboot series, Heroes: Eclipsed.The new incarnation of the show will be written by original Heroes creator Tim Kring, and will be set years after the events of the original series, according to Deadline.Heroes originally ran for four seasons on NBC from 2006 to 2010, and told the stories of ordinary people who discover that they have supernatural abilities and who are required to work together to prevent catastrophic dangers.It starred actors including Hayden Panettiere, Santiago Cabrera, Jack Coleman, Milo Ventimiglia, Kristen Bell and Zachary Quinto, and picked up Golden Globe, Emmy and BAFTA awards.Heroes: Eclipsed, meanwhile, is set to feature a new set of characters who represent the latest step of human evolution and is set to also include familiar villains alongside new enemies.A limited sequel series Heroes Reborn was aired in 2015, which was also helmed by Kring. Like Eclipsed, Reborn was also set years after the original show and introduced a host of new characters.Deadline report that Heroes: Eclipsed is currently being pitched to buyers now, including original platform NBC, as well as the leading streaming services.

Heroes is one of the most beloved TV shows of the ’00s.

Heroes is the latest TV series to develop a reboot!

EXCLUSIVE: Tim Kring‘s Heroes is eyeing a second encore with Heroes: Eclipsed, a new incarnation of the popular 2006 superhero drama series, sources tell Deadline. Appropriately, the project is being pitched to buyers now, the week of the solar eclipse. (The original series started off with a solar eclipse in the pilot, which became a recurring element throughout the series, also reflected in its logo.)

Brent Lang Executive Editor Michael Keaton was blunt about what audiences can expect when “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” hits screens, more than 36 years after the first film opened. “It’s really fucking good,” the actor told theater owners at CinemaCon. And based on the zany look at “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” that Keaton and Tim Burton shared, the collaborators have come up with something that could be out of this Netherworld.

Missy Elliott has announced details of her first ever headline tour for North America later this summer.Today (April 8), the history-making musical polymath unveiled the dates for the ‘Out Of This World’ tour, which will start in Canada this July. She also revealed that she will joined by longtime friends and frequent collaborators Ciara, Timbaland and Busta Rhymes.“This is an incredible time in my life as I am experiencing so many milestone ‘firsts,’” Elliott said in a statement.

Today’s Hollywood stars are more “sophisticated” and “aware of the business” than in the days Kyle MacLachlan was starting out, the Sex and the City star said today as he gave his thoughts on another Twin Peaks reboot.

Everyone is going to be talking about THAT kiss from the latest episode of 9-1-1, which happened to be the show’s milestone 100th episode.

Andrew Buchan, who has starred in hit TV series such as The Crown and Better, has encountered a rocky few years. He was hit with drama when it was reported he had cheated on his Downton Abbey star wife Amy Nuttall and was said to have broken their seven marriage rules.The actor, 45, hails from Stockport, Cheshire, and began his acting career in theatre before securing his first TV role in 2006 when he appeared as St. John Rivers in the mini-series Jane Eyre.

Michael Keaton recalls the initial reaction that comic book fans had when he was chosen to portray Batman in the 1989 Tim Burton-directed film.

EXCLUSIVE: HBO has given the green light to The Chair Company, a half-hour comedy pilot starring Tim Robinson. The project, from Robinson and his writing partner Zach Kanin, is also executive produced by Adam McKay and Todd Schulman for Hyperobject Industries.