Silk Live-Action Marvel Series in the Works at Sony Pictures Television

Manori Ravindran International EditorSony Pictures Television is the latest company to roll out a bespoke virtual event in October.SPT, which pulled out of Cannes TV market Mipcom in July, is set to debut a month-long showcase of its latest format offerings, beginning Oct. 1.

Jake Kanter International TV EditorSony Pictures Television has announced plans to host a Virtual October Formats Fest to showcase its offerings following the disruption to Mipcom caused by coronavirus.Sony is the lastest studio to launch its own formats festival after ITV Studios held a similar event for international buyers last week.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterNatasha Lyonne and Alia Shawkat are developing a half-hour series at Amazon, Variety has learned exclusively.Titled “Desert People,” the series follows a family of Iraqi immigrants who run a gentleman’s club in Palm Springs. Shawkat will star as the parents’ adult daughter in LA who is coming to terms with her sexuality and identity as a first generation American.Shawkat and Lyonne co-created the series.

Even though 2020 seems to be very light on MCU products thanks to the pandemic (sorry, but “Agents of SHIELD” doesn’t count because Kevin Feige clearly doesn’t think it does), Marvel Studios has quite a few things in development, with news coming relatively quickly over the past week regarding the various Disney+ series. Just recently, we learned that Tatiana Maslany is going to hulk out as the star of “She-Hulk” and we learned that Cat Koiro is going to direct the series.

Orphan Black star Tatiana Maslany has been cast as the lead role in Marvel‘s new series She-Hulk at Disney+.The actress, who played the main character in the sci-fi series between 2013 and 2017, will take on the role of Jennifer Walters, cousin of Bruce Banner, in the upcoming Disney series.Walters inherits Banner’s Hulk powers via a blood transfusion, and is said to keep her “personality, intelligence and emotional control” according to Variety.The still untitled series will be directed by Kat

Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterEXCLUSIVE: After tapping Kat Coiro as director, Marvel Studios looks to have found its star to take over the title role in its She-Hulk series. Sources tell Deadline that Orphan Black star Tatiana Maslany is the choice to play the title character in Marvel’s She-Hulk series for Disney+.

Mike Fleming Jr Co-Editor-in-Chief, FilmEXCLUSIVE: In a dazzling double deal, Simon & Schuster Children’s UK and Simon & Schuster US have made a seven-figure worldwide rights deal — a precedent for a debut fantasy novel — and Sony Pictures in turn has made a preemptive seven-figure screen rights deal for Skandar and the Unicorn Thief, the first of a much anticipated fantasy adventure novel series by A. F.

Could Park So Dam or Suzy make a Marvel debut? Only time would tell that but it seems like fans are in favour of their MCU debuts. The discussion about the Parasite star and the Start-Up actress appearing in a Marvel project stemmed from a feature report done by a US publication.

Disney’s live-action Mulan was released last year, shortly after Hong Kong’s draconian national security law was passed without consultation or vote in June. The ongoing assault on democracy in Hong Kong has dominated international headlines, with the arrests of pro-democracy activists, newspaper editors and government legislators.

last year, which was supposed to include a suite of new TV series based on Sony’s Marvel Universe. Silk is set to be part of a larger roster of characters, similar to Netflix’s “Defenders” franchise that included Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist.

Peter White Television EditorEXCLUSIVE: Marisol Nichols, over the last few years, has been juggling the demands of being an actor on series including Riverdale with a side gig as an undercover agent in the fight against sex trafficking.The latter is now being turned into a television series after Sony Pictures Television optioned rights to her story.Nichols, who plays Hermione Lodge on the CW series, revealed her unusual side hustle in a long-form story in May’s Marie Claire.In the article,

Ed Meza @edmezavarSony Pictures Television Latin America is developing a new Colombian drama series inspired by popular hip hop band ChocQuibTown that will examine racism in Latin America and what it means to be Afro-Latino.Announced Sunday during the American Black Film Festival, series “Somos Los Prietos” (“We Are the Black Ones”) marks the first cross-company collaboration – referred to internally as “One Sony” – between SPT’s international production arm and Sony Music Latin, which counts

Mulan is finally arriving on Disney+. And that's not the only movie or TV show worth noting.

Brian Austin Green is opening up about possibly working things out with estranged wife Megan Fox.

Nicolas Cage has played a number of strange characters over the decades. Who can forget Castor Troy in “Face/Off?” Or Ghost Rider pissing fire in the superhero sequel ‘Spirit of Vengeance?’ Then, of course, there’s whatever the hell he was doing in “Season of the Witch.” But we can safely say that his upcoming role in the Amazon series “Highfire” might be his weirdest yet.

Netflix has revealed that it will be releasing its live-action Resident Evil TV series and shared some behind-the-scenes details.After much speculation, the streaming platform has agreed to a series of eight hour-long episodes based on the popular survival horror video game franchise.Andrew Dabb (Supernatural) will serve as showrunner, and Bronwen Hughes (The Walking Dead) will executive-produce and direct the first two episodes.The series is described as a brand-new story spread across two

Joe Otterson TV ReporterA live-action “Resident Evil” series has been picked up at Netflix.The streamer has given an eight episode order to the one-hour series, which is based on the Capcom video game franchise of the same name. Constantin Films, which produced the six-film franchise based on the games, will serve as the studio behind the series.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterThe Kate McKinnon-led series about Carole Baskin and the “Tiger King” Joe Exotic has received a multi-platform series order at NBCUniversal Television, Variety has learned.The limited series, currently titled “Joe Exotic,” is now set to air on NBC, Peacock, and USA Network. In addition, Etan Frankel has boarded the project as writer and executive producer under his overall deal with series producer Universal Content Productions (UCP).