Nickelodeon Consolidates Animation & Live-Action Casting & Talent Under Liz Paulson

What would you do if your son gets kidnapped? Would you go on a “Taken”-style revenge mission, murdering anyone in your path? Or maybe you’ll do a “John Wick”-style revenge mission where you, once again, murder anyone in your path? Well, if you’re LeBron James, you avenge the kidnapping of your son by teaming up with cartoon characters to play a game of basketball against the criminal who has your child.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefThe Walt Disney Company has confirmed plans to launch the Disney Plus Hotstar streaming service in Thailand from the end of this month. It will be closely partnered with local telecoms provider AIS.The service will launch on June 30, 2021 and be offered at THB799 ($26.20) per year.

Pat Saperstein Deputy EditorYahya Abdul-Mateen II, Dwayne Johnson and Beau Flynn will team for action-thriller “Emergency Contact,” set against the Austin, Texas underground music scene, Variety has confirmed.Abdul-Mateen is attached to star in and executive produce the original project set up at Warner Bros., which is based on a pitch from busy writing team Rory Haines and Sohrab Noshirvani.It’s described as a high-concept, high-octane action film set in Austin, but no further plot details are

Variety first reported. “I want Sasha to see his own power as an actor and as a human,” actor Michael D. Cohen, who stars in the series, told the outlet.

Based on the Mark Millar comic book property, when the Netflix comic book series “Jupiter’s Legacy” debuted early last month, it received mostly negative reviews, and comic fans seemed irked by the adaptation.

pic.twitter.com/usEuwVNHeiNetflix bought Millarworld in 2017, the company from prolific comic book writer Mark Millar, who after his days with both DC and Marvel went on his own and created the likes of “Kick-Ass,” “Wanted” and “Kingsman,” all of which have been adapted into feature films.Netflix has had its eyes on comic book fare ever since it signed an expansive deal with Marvel Television to create its own shared universe inside the MCU.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterNetflix has released the cast of “Jupiter’s Legacy,” effectively bringing the show to an end after one season. At the same time, the streamer has ordered a live-action adaptation of Mark Millar’s “Supercrooks” to series.“Super Crooks” is set within the same world as “Jupiter’s Legacy” and will follow supervillains just as “Jupiter’s Legacy” followed superheroes, with Netflix positioning the new show as the next installment in an anthology series.

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is turning Mark Millar’s Jupiter’s Legacy from a series to a universe spanning an anthology franchise. The streamer has set a live-action adaptation of Supercrooks, which delves into the story of Millarworld’s super-villains, as the next installment of the Jupiter’s Legacy saga.

Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle EditorEighteen months after revealing publicly that he transitioned about two decades before, Nickelodeon star Michael D. Cohen launched the Trans Youth Acting Challenge in December to help trans and nonbinary youth break into the business.

EXCLUSIVE: Robert Rodriguez’s Ben Affleck thriller Hypnotic is gearing back up to start production in September, with Alice Braga (Queen Of The South) joining the cast.

Adrian Grenier might have lived the high life as Vincent Chase in "Entourage," but now the Hollywood actor is living a self-sufficient life in Texas. In an interview with Austin Life magazine, Grenier revealed he put Los Angeles and New York behind him so he could pursue farming.

Adrian Grenier is opening up on his decision to leave the bright lights of Hollywood behind in favour of a new life in Austin, Texas.

Part of … our world? Over the last few years, Disney has been working nonstop to bring their classic animated movies back to the screen via live-action adaptions. This is extremely exciting for Disney fanatics — as well as fans of certain celebs who have been lucky enough to take on the iconic characters.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterUniversal Pictures has preemptively nabbed a live action project from Phil Lord and Chris Miller, to be produced with Erik Feig’s Picturestart.Titled “Strays,” the film is an adult comedy and original pitch from writer Dan Perrault (“American Vandal”), about an abandoned dog who teams up with other strays to get revenge on his former owner.The project will be directed by Josh Greenbaum, who just made his narrative directorial debut with Kristen Wiig and Annie

Just a day after news of the Powerpuff Girls live action pilot being reworked and reshot surfaced, CW chairman and CEO Mark Pedowitz revealed the reason behind the change. Speaking to Variety, Pedowitz stated that the pilot did not feel "rooted in reality" which prompted the entire team to go back to the drawing board.  Elaborating on the big change, Pedowitz said, "The reason you do pilots is because sometimes things miss, and this was just a miss.

LOS ANGELES -- Two stolen hand-carved religious artifacts, sandstone lintels dating back to the 9th and 10th centuries, were returned to the Thai government on Tuesday in a ceremony more than 50 years overdue.The 1,500-pound (680-kilogram) antiquities had been stolen and exported from Thailand — a violation of Thai law — roughly a half-century ago, authorities said, and donated to the city of San Francisco.

While some new titles are set to premiere on The CW as part of its 2021-2022 fall slate, the anticipated Powerpuff live-action reboot did not make the cut and will be reworked and repiloted. The CW’s Mark Pedowitz expanded on the decision, noting that holding the series back will provide an opportunity to do right by it.

In April 2021, several photos from the sets of CW's Powerpuff Girls live action went viral on social media. The photos featured lead actors Chloe Bennet, Dove Cameron and Yana Perrault as the superhero girls Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup.