‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’: Amazon Orders YA Horror Series Based On Movie

A biopic of boundary-breaking comedian Richard Pryor is in the works with Kenya Baris set to write and direct. Pryor's work spanned television, film and stand-up with credits that include Blazing Saddles, The Richard Pryor Showand Pryor's Place.

After a lackluster box office performance, despite fairly solid reviews from fans and critics alike, Saban/Lionsgates’ “Power Rangers” reboot film from 2017 marked the beginning and end of what was a planned revival for the franchise. Since then, the rights have been sold to Hasbro, who then purchased the eOne production company.

Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterOscar-winning filmmaker Barry Jenkins took to social media to share a hauntingly beautiful look at his upcoming Amazon limited series The Underground Railroad based on based on Colson Whitehead’s 2017 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel for fiction.Jenkins posted the video on Twitter with the caption “We the People…” The stunning teaser trailer pans across a sea of gorgeous Black people in a train station staring into the camera with dignity, quiet passion and a

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorEXCLUSIVE: Kenyan filmmaker Wanuri Kahiu has come aboard to direct Paramount Player’s feature adaptation of New York Times bestselling author Angie Thomas’ second novel, On The Come Up. The director behind the 2018 Cannes Film Festival premiere Rafiki is stepping in for George Tillman Jr. who was originally attached to On The Come Up.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentAmazon has announced a new Italian original series titled “Everybody Loves Diamonds” during Rome’s MIA market. The heist series with comedic overtones is inspired by the 2003 “Heist of Antwerp,” dubbed by international media as “the biggest diamond theft in the world.”The new Amazon show being produced by Mario Gianani and Lorenzo Gangarossa for Wildside, which is a Fremantle unit, follows a group of thieves led by Sicilian mastermind Leonardo

Amazon Prime Day. Amazon Prime Day is helping the struggling fashion world amid the coronavirus pandemic.

One of the hottest horror hits of the late 1990s is being revived for television.

I Know What You Did Last Summer is becoming a series!

Amazon has given a series order to its adaptation of the 1997 horror movie “I Know What You Did Last Summer.”Described as a “modern take” on the hit film, the YA series is described as follows: “In a town full of secrets, a group of teenagers are stalked by a mysterious killer a year after a fatal accident on their graduation night.”The Amazon series, like the film, is based on the 1973 novel by Lois Duncan.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterAmazon has given a series order to their planned adaptation of the horror film “I Know What You Did Last Summer,” Variety has learned.Development of the series was first reported last year. The YA series is described as a modern take on the hit 1997 horror film.

Jake Kanter International TV EditorBilly Leroy, the star of Travel Channel’s Baggage Battles, is to front a global series for Discovery in which he opens a vintage, antiques, and collectibles store in Brooklyn, New York.Billy Buys Brooklyn (working title) is produced by MY Entertainment and will stream on dplay, as well as play on linear channels including DMAX UK, Italy, Spain and Germany, and Discovery Channel US and Europe.The show follows Leroy as he opens Billy’s Antiques & Props and uses

Joe Otterson TV ReporterNetflix has signed an overall deal with writer and producer Michael Green.The first project under that deal will be the animated series “Blue Eye Samurai,” which has been ordered to series at the streamer. Geeen co-created the series along with Amber Noizumi.

Leading up to Cynthia Bailey’s wedding to Mike Hill on Oct. 10, some pre-nuptials drama has befallen the cast of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. Cynthia threw a bachelorette party and it allegedly “took a wild turn,” because Page Six reported on Oct. 7 that two RHOA stars allegedly got frisky with a “male stripper” late in the morning, according to a source who claimed to be a witness at the party.

Matt Grobar Assistant Editor, AwardslineSPOILER ALERT: This article contains details from tonight’s episode of The CW’s Supernatural.Following a six-month hiatus brought on by the coronavirus pandemic, Supernatural returned to The CW tonight to begin wrapping up its 15th and final season.Kicking off an upcoming run of seven episodes is “Last Holiday,” which sees hunters of the supernatural Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) plotting to kill a vengeful God (Rob Benedict), as their de

Also Read: Chloe Grace Moretz to Star in 'Westworld' Creators' Amazon Drama 'The Peripheral'Scott B. Smith (“A Simple Plan”) created the series and will executive produce and serve as co-showrunner with Greg Plageman.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVAn animated series adaptation of BOOM! Studios Eisner Award-winning Lumberjanes comic books and graphic novels is headed to HBO Max.

Peter White Television EditorNetflix has ordered its latest family series – a live-action series based on William Joyce’s book Ollie’s Odyssey.The series will be adapted by Shannon Tindle, who worked as a designer on Coraline and wrote stop-motion fantasy film Kubo and the Two Strings, and directed by Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse director Peter Ramsey.Lost Ollie has been handed a four-part order with episodes of 45 minutes.The show follows a lost toy, searching across the countryside for

Erik Pedersen Managing EditorEpix has greenlighted Fiasco, a docuseries from Leon Neyfakh based on his podcast about America’s most pivotal historical events.