Netflix Lands ‘Elf On The Shelf’ Brand For Film, TV Live Action & Animated Projects

No one seems to have cracked the code of the video game movie. Take “Assassin’s Creed,” from Ubisoft.

If you were to ask an average film or TV fan who should be the director to bring back a live-action series remake of “The Addams Family,” you’d likely hear the name Tim Burton from just about everyone. Burton is a filmmaker that not only has been hugely influenced by “The Addams Family,” but his projects feel like they could very well exist in the same universe with Gomez and Morticia.

Netflix has unveiled the trailer for Chadwick Boseman's final film role.The Black Panther actor tragically passed away from colon cancer in August this year at the age of 43.He will appear posthumously in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, alongside Oscar winner Viola Davis and Fear the Walking Dead star Colman Domingo, and you can now watch the first promo above.

Chadwick Boseman stars as an ambitious trumpeter in the trailer for his final film Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.

Bruce Haring pmc-editorial-managerA 30-year-old man was arrested Friday by Atlanta police in connection with the killing of film actor Thomas Jefferson Byrd.Suspect Antonio Demetrice Rhynes was arrested in an early-morning raid at an apartment complex, police said. He was booked into the Fulton County Jail.

After nearly a century since his first appearance in 1920s pulp magazines, the famed hero Buck Rogers will finally make his return to the big screen. The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that, despite multiple years of legal disputes, veteran producer Don Murphy and his creative partner Susan Montford have obtained the screen rights for the iconic character, and under their Angry Films production banner, the two are developing a live-action “Buck Rogers” film for Legendary.

Angelique Jackson Ava DuVernay’s ARRAY Alliance stepped outside the box to unveil the next phase of its Law Enforcement Accountability Project (LEAP).This week, LEAP debuted call-to-action messages on billboards, kiosks and atop taxicabs in South Los Angeles, Atlanta and New York City. The messaging on the outdoor media campaign, titled “Flowers,” reads: “Flowers are beautiful.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterNeon has snatched the domestic theatrical rights to Justin Simien’s new horror film “Bad Hair.”The Oscar-winning distributor behind “Parasite” will take the film out to drive-in theaters nationwide before it debuts October 23 on Hulu in October, Variety has learned.Markets will include New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia, Atlanta, New Orleans, Detroit, Austin, Sacramento and Las Vegas.

For years now, we’ve been awaiting word on when we might see the next “Tintin” film from director Steven Spielberg. Every occasion, we’ll hear an update from the filmmaker or producer Peter Jackson about how they’re still working on it and they hope that it will get done soon.

Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Netflix has acquired the rights to the Matt Lopez spec script Wraith with Sebastian Hofmann attached to direct and Lopez on board to write. The spec is based on the bestselling novel Cyberstorm with Emile Gladstone on board to produce.Based on the self-published novel by Matthew Mather, the novel follows resident of New York City, who is trying to keep his family together when he is thrust into new problems of staying alive.

Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: Netflix has acquired the rights to the Matt Lopez spec script Wraith with Sebastian Hoffman attached to direct and Lopez on board to write. The spec is based on the bestselling novel Cyberstorm with Emile Gladstone on board to produce.Based on the self-published novel by Matthew Mather, the novel follows resident of New York City, who is trying to keep his family together when he is thrust into new problems of staying alive.

Matt Grobar Assistant Editor, AwardslineIn the year of the coronavirus pandemic, many TV producers have had to get creative, to figure out how to keep their shows on the air, even as production across the world was shut down.During the last seven months of lockdown, the visionaries behind two-live action sitcoms—ABC’s Black-ish and Sony Pictures Television’s One Day at a Time—wound up taking the same tack to do just that, presenting animated episodes of their beloved shows for the first time.For