‘Master Of Ceremonies’ Series Adaptation In The Works At Sony Pictures TV

With cinemas shut down or operating with reduced capacity during the coronavirus pandemic, Sony Pictures plans to host socially distant drive-in screenings of classic titles like Ghostbusters and The Karate Kid on its studio lot in Culver City. The makeshift drive-in will be erected in the Thalberg parking lot on the historic studio lot, and will start showcasing library titles on Aug.

Dino-Ray Ramos Associate Editor/ReporterEXCLUSIVE: The inclusive Bentonville Film Festival (BFF) was the perfect stage to launch Gemstone Studios’ inaugural Rising Storytellers Search, a competition seeking underrepresented female-led narratives. The competition was unveiled today during the fest which continues through August 16.Gemstone, a boutique production unit of Sony Pictures Television, is teaming with Ideas United and Geena Davis’ BFF for Rising Storytellers.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorMichael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko, co-creators of Netflix’s live-action series adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender, have exited the project.“Many of you have been asking me for updates about the Avatar live-action Netflix series,” DiMartino wrote in an open letter to fans on his website Wednesday. “I can finally tell you that I am no longer involved with the project.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVEXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures Television is expanding its relationship with Hank Steinberg in a big way. The studio has signed a big five-year overall deal with the creator of the praised — and timely — Sony TV legal drama series For Life, which has been renewed for a second season by ABC.Under the pact, Steinberg will continue as executive producer and showrunner on For Life.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorEXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures will be hosting a high-end dual big screen drive-in experience on the Culver City, CA lot starting this Friday, Aug. 14.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: HBO has closed a deal to develop a drama series from The Hater, the acclaimed Polish film directed by Jan Komasa and written by Mateusz Pacewicz, the team behind last year’s Best Foreign Language Oscar nominee Corpus Christi.The film won Best Feature in the International Narrative Competition at Tribeca’s 2020 Online Festival Program. Netflix bought world-wide streaming rights, and premiered it July 29th.

Dominic Patten Senior Editor, Legal & TV CriticEXCLUSIVE: John Legend’s Get Lifted Film Co and Nia Long are teaming up with Sony Pictures TV to bring the saga of on power, race  and political intrigue of Goldie Taylor’s 2018 best seller Paper Gods to ABC.Fatal Affair and Dear White People’s Long will star and executive produce the project in development with Get Lifted co-founder Mike Jackson and showrunner Tash Gray.Paper Gods spotlights the struggles and battles professionally and personally

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorNetflix has teamed with Ubisoft for an anime series based on the Splinter Cell video game franchise, with John Wick writer Derek Kostad set to write and executive produce, Deadline has confirmed.First released in 2002, the Splinter Cell video game revolves around protagonist, Sam Fisher, a highly trained agent of a fictional black-ops sub-division within the NSA, dubbed “Third Echelon”.

Also Read: 'John Wick' Creator Derek Kolstad Boards Marvel's 'Falcon and the Winter Soldier' Limited Series (Exclusive)Kolstad is also part of the writing team on the upcoming “Falcon & Winter Soldier” limited series for Marvel Studios, he also sold his pitch for the action movie “Booker” in a heated bidding war to Sony, and is also writing video game adaptation “Just Cause” for Constantin.

LOS ANGELES (Variety.com) – Unto most every TV-watching generation, a new Muppets show is born. The original “Muppet Show,” which ran from 1976 to 1981, had Jim Henson’s felt puppets take over a vaudeville theatre to perform songs, slapstick sketches and more unabashedly cheesy puns than its bewildered guests could count.

Naman Ramachandran Sony Pictures Television has announced an overall development deal with British historian Dan Jones, author of bestsellers such as “The Plantagenets,” “The Hollow Crown” and “The Templars.”The deal will see Jones develop adaptations of his works for option by Sony Pictures Television’s stable of international scripted production companies, including Left Bank Pictures and Eleven.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorNetflix announced “The Witcher: Blood Origin,” a limited series set in “The Witcher” universe, which will tell the backstory of the Elven civilization before its fall — and reveal the lost history of the very first Witcher.“Blood Origin,” to be shot in the U.K., will be a six part, live-action limited series, and a prequel to Netflix’s hit series “The Witcher.” No casting details were announced.Set in an Elven world — 1200 years before the world of “The Witcher” —

Andreas Wiseman International EditorEXCLUSIVE: London-based Ten10 Films and Amsterdam-based Le Boxeur Films have acquired exclusive life story rights to Frits Veerman, a whistleblower who claims to have been scapegoated and silenced for reporting one of the biggest thefts of nuclear secrets in history.In an interview in the Financial Times Magazine this weekend, Veerman will tell the story of how he worked for a British/German/Dutch uranium enrichment program in the 1970’s and was a colleague

Joe Otterson TV ReporterElisabeth Moss is attached to star in and executive produce a series adaptation of the 2013 Lauren Beukes novel “Shining Girls,” which has been ordered to series at Apple.Moss will star as a Chicago reporter who survived a brutal assault only to find her reality shifting as she hunts down her attacker.Silka Luisa will write the adaptation and serve as executive producer and showrunner.

Erik Pedersen Managing EditorNina Dobrev and Made Up Stories have acquired the rights to Greer Macallister’s novel Woman 99 to develop as a TV series starring the Vampire Diaries alum. Dobrev also will executive produce alongside Made Up Stories founder Bruna Papandrea.Historical thriller Woman 99 follows a young woman whose quest to free her sister from an infamous insane asylum risks her sanity, her safety and her life.

series commitment at Amazon last July. It comes as part of Vaughan’s multi-year overall deal with Legendary Entertainment.Here is the synopsis for “Paper Girls”: “Paper Girls follows four young girls who, while out delivering papers on the morning after Halloween in 1988, become unwittingly caught in a conflict between warring factions of time-travelers, sending them on an adventure through time that will save the world.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorThe CW has put in development Revelations (working title), a one-hour drama based on Stephen King’s short story The Revelations of ‘Becka Paulson, from writer Maisie Culver (Last Man Standing), Katie Lovejoy (Dead Inside) and Warner Bros.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorEXCLUSIVE: PBS’ Masterpiece is set to co-produce and broadcast murder mystery Magpie Murders, a six-part drama series based on Foyle’s War creator Anthony Horowitz’s bestselling novel.