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London Thor (Shameless) has joined the cast of Prime Video’s upcoming spinoff of The Boys as a lead, replacing Reina Hardesty weeks after the actress’ exit, which Deadline exclusively revealed.

EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate has extended Emmy Award-winning writer and producer Ben Karlin and his Superego Industries’ first-look deal.

Anna Tingley If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. As cannabis becomes legalized in more states across the country, brands have found increasingly innovative and stylish ways to help people incorporate weed into their everyday lifestyles.

The star of “Pineapple Express” isn’t selling milkshakes.

EXCLUSIVE: Chilling Adventures of Sabrina alum Chance Perdomo is set as a lead in Prime Video’s college-set spinoff of The Boys. He will play a young superhero alongside previously announced Jaz Sinclair, Lizze Broadway, Reina Hardesty and Maddie Phillips.

Matt Donnelly Senior Film Writer Karl Urban, who plays Billy Butcher on the series, hinted that production will rev up in the fourth quarter of 2022.“I’m shooting ‘The Boys’ through the end of the year,” he said, sitting for an interview at Variety‘s SXSW Studio at Austin’s J.W. Marriott hotel.The series does not yet have an official greenlight for season four.

Jennifer Maas TV Business WriterSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not watched “Laser Baby’s Day Out,” the first episode of Amazon Prime Video’s “The Boys Presents: Diabolical.”Longtime buddies and producing partners Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg have been “obsessed” with Buster Keaton and Jackie Chan for the past few years, and the idea of “doing something that had no words, no dialogue and purely physical humor.” Enter the offshoot of “The Boys,” which they executive produce, Amazon’s animated shorts anthology series, “The Boys Presents: Diabolical,” which launched Friday with all eight-episodes: the first being the Rogen and Goldberg-written “Laser Baby’s Day Out.”“We’d been messing around with some live-action movie ideas,” Goldberg told Variety. “And then when the idea to make the ‘Diabolical’ show came around, we were like, this is perfect.

Jennifer Maas TV Business WriterTurning a comic book into a live-action TV series is not a revolutionary idea in the current TV landscape — but turning a comic book into a live-action TV series that is then itself turned into an animated series set in the same universe is not a pitch studio and network execs get every day.That’s what “The Boys” executive producers Seth Rogen, Eric Kripke and Evan Goldberg set out to do when they came up with the idea for the very adult cartoon shorts “The Boys Presents: Diabolical,” while they were simultaneously working on the upcoming third season of the mothership Amazon Prime Video series and its recently ordered untitled superhero-college spinoff.“We were deep in the pandemic and we were looking to get something from what we’re calling the VCU on the air go before Season 3,” “The Boys” showrunner Eric Kripke told Variety, citing the show’s Vought Cinematic Universe. “And with all the shooting restrictions, it was just impossible to even do a small live-action thing.

Does anyone remember “The Animatrix?” Released in 2003, it is an anthology film of nine animated shorts that expanded the universe of the Wachowskis’ “The Matrix” with new characters, varying styles, and unique visions. Almost two decades later, something similar has been produced for Prime Video’s smash hit “The Boys,” Eric Kripke’s critically acclaimed adaptation of the graphic novels by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson.

The world of “The Boys” is expanding.

The Boys universe gets eight distinct new looks in the latest glimpse at Prime Video’s spinoff animated series The Boys Presents: Diabolical.

Paramount+, the ViacomCBS streaming service, has unveiled a new slate of original kids and family programming, including a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles CG-animated movie series, and a Transformers: Earthspark animated series, among others. The announcements were made Tuesday by Brian Robbins, Chief Content Officer, Movies and Kids & Family for Paramount+, during the ViacomCBS’ Investors Event.

EXCLUSIVE: Following the box-office success of the most recent installment, Scream star Jack Quaid looks to have found his next big project as sources tell Deadline he is the latest top tier addition to Christopher Nolan’s next film Oppenheimer. The A-list ensemble already includes Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Robert Downey Jr., Florence Pugh, Rami Malek and Cillian Murphy, who is set to star in the title role as J. Robert Oppenheimer, the scientist who ran the Manhattan Project that led to the invention of the atomic bomb. The film will bow on July 21, 2023, a slot typically saved for Nolan films in the past. It’s also roughly two weeks before the anniversary of the dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima. Details behind who Hartnett will be playing are unknown at this time.

J. Kim Murphy Amazon Prime Video has pulled the curtain back on the voice cast for “The Boys Presents: Diabolical,” its upcoming animated spinoff of its hit superhero show “The Boys,” releasing a teaser for the anthology series.Along with a reveal of various characters animated in different styles, the teaser also caps with a list of the surplus of talent providing their voices to the production.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterBoth “Black Monday” and “Work in Progress” have been canceled at Showtime.“Black Monday” aired its third season on Showtime from May to August 2021. The dark comedy series followed a group of Wall Street traders in the late 1980s into the early 1990s.

much better people now; we are not, say, as ignorant of sexism or racism or economic disparity as those rubes from a past decade were. We might not come out forgiving O.J.

The Boys won’t return for Season 3 unti the summer but this spring fans can sink their teeth into The Boys Presents: Diabolical an animated offshoot of the Emmy-nominated supe series.

Jennifer Maas TV Business WriterWhile “The Boys” Season 3 is still a few months away, fans will get a hit of the show’s bloody universe soon with the debut of its animated anthology series, “The Boys Presents: Diabolical.”On Tuesday, Amazon’s Prime Video revealed a first look at the adult cartoon, which will launch all eight episodes of its first season on March 4.In the clip, we meet “Laser Baby,” a little girl who has similar powers to the infants hooked on Compound V and Becca (Shantel VanSanten) and Homelander’s (Antony Starr) supe son, Ryan, in “The Boys.” She makes a bloody mess of some Vought guards who are trying to get a handle on her, and then crawls off after a balloon.Per Prime Video, “Diabolical” will be made up of eight “fun-size episodes, running 12-14 minutes and each with its own animation style.” Set within “The Boys” universe, the “Diabolical” episodes hail from writers including Awkwafina, Garth Ennis (who wrote the original “The Boys” comic books), Eliot Glazer, Ilana Glazer, Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen (who executive produce “The Boys” for Amazon), Simon Racioppa, Justin Roiland, Ben Bayouth, Andy Samberg and Aisha Tyler.“The Boys” is based on The New York Times best-selling comic by Ennis and Darick Robertson and was developed by executive producer and showrunner Eric Kripke. The third season of the series will debut June 3.“Diabolical” is executive produced by Racioppa, Kripke, Rogen, Goldberg, James Weaver, Neal H.

Prime Video has unveiled the premiere date for the highly-anticipated third season of The Boys.

The Boys has announced an animated spin-off series called Diabolical, set to air in 2022.The news was shared by Amazon Prime Video yesterday (December 5), via a recorded messaged from the hit show’s star Karl Urban during the CCXP Worlds 2021 panels.Check out the announcement here:Awkwafina, Garth Ennis, Eliot Glazer, Ilana Glazer, Evan Goldberg, Seth Rogen, Simon Racioppa, Justin Roiland, Ben Bayouth, Andy Samberg and Aisha Tyler are all said to be involved in the forthcoming project.“Surprise!

The Boys is receiving a wicked treatment.

Pam & Tommy – check it out below.Lily James and Sebastian Stan will star as Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee in the new original limited series for Hulu, which is set to come out on February 2 next year.Also included in the cast are Nick Offerman, Taylor Schilling and Andrew Dice Clay, while Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg executive produced the eight-episode series.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterSam Catlin has signed an overall deal at Apple, Variety has learned.Under the deal, Catlin will develop and produce scripted television projects for Apple under his Short Drive Entertainment banner along with his producing partner, Tiffany Prasifka.Catlin most recently served as showrunner, and executive producer, and co-creator of AMC series “Preacher.” He developed the show alongside Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg.

Adele Lim will make her directorial debut with an untitled comedy starring “Emily in Paris” actress Ashley Park.The R-rating intended comedy will follow four Asian American women as they set off on a journey to Asia to find their birth mothers. Lionsgate and Point Grey Pictures will produce the film together, with Point Grey’s Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, James Weaver, and Josh Fagen producing the film.

Seth Rogen is celebrating McLovin’s birthday.

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UPDATED with release date: The CG movie reboot of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, which Deadline scooped last year (see the story below) was coming from Nickelodeon and Point Grey Pictures, now has a release date. The pic being directed by Gravity Falls‘ Jeff Rowe will hit theaters August 11, 2023.

Jordan Moreau Grab a slice of pizza because the heroes in a half shell are coming back in 2023.The CG-animated reboot of “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” from producer Seth Rogen and Nickelodeon is heading to theaters on August 11, 2023, Rogen announced on Twitter.Also producing from Rogen’s Point Grey Pictures production banner are co-founder Evan Goldberg and president James Weaver. Brendan O’Brien will write the CG-animated reboot.

whole lot of things to say about the upcoming Hulu series Pam & Tommy, and none of it is good. Produced by Seth Rogen and his partner Evan Goldberg, Pam & Tommy will tell the tale of Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee, actress Pamela Anderson, their marriage, and what happened when the sex tape they made on their honeymoon was stolen and leaked.

Nicolas Cage once had an awkward pitch to Seth Rogen go so horribly wrong Cage exited stage left when the comedian shot it down. Rogen, 39, revealed the tidbit which allegedly occurred in 2011 as he and his creative partner Evan Goldberg were in the midst of casting their film, "The Green Hornet," and said Cage wanted to play a "white Bahamian man" in the comedy flick.

Seth Rogen can’t stop thinking about his chance encounter with George Lucas in 2011, so much so, that it’s even in his new book.

By most accounts, George Lucas seems like a really creative, smart, kind person. This is the guy who created “Star Wars” and kickstarted the imaginations of millions around the world, right? Well, according to Seth Rogen, Lucas might also be a bit of a survivalist prepper fearful for the coming apocalypse.

In the event of an apocalypse, Seth Rogen can’t count on getting a seat on George Lucas’s spaceship.

Christopher Mintz-Plasse is getting candid about the effects of fame following his role as McLovin in “Superbad”.

Seth Rogen on Monday night issued a statement in which he said recent comments he made during an interview about Emma Watson and their time working on This Is The End had spiraled out of control. In an interview with British GQ that was published earlier in the day, Rogen seemed to confirm a rumor that Watson stormed off the set of the 2013 comedy he directed with partner Evan Goldberg over a scene she did not like.

UPDATED: Seth Rogen took to Twitter on Monday to clarify comments he’d made in a recent interview for British GQ’s May issue, regarding Emma Watson’s experience on the set of his debut feature, This Is The End.