Syfy’s TZGZ Orders ‘The Summoner’ Animated Series From Charlie Hankin & Stoopid Buddy Stoodios

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorBREAKING: Don’t count on Sony Animation’s Lord & Miller movie Connected for this fall. The feature joins a number of other features fleeing the immediate fall calendar or delaying until later in the year, or even in 2021.

columnist for the Village Voice and the New York Daily News, a guest on NPR and Charlie Rose’s show, a jazz drummer, a founder of what became Jazz at Lincoln Center and mentor to Wynton Marsalis and many younger writers and musicians, an aficionado of baseball and American folklore and scourge of Toni Morrison, Spike Lee and Amira Baraka among others.At home, he read, wrote and listened to music.

NEW YORK -- Most directors insist on having final edit approval of their films. Not the creators of “Wireless.”The series on the mobile-platform Quibi employs an ingenious way to tell a story on a smartphone: You see different things on the screen depending on whether you hold your phone vertically or horizontally.Horizontally, a traditional cinematic film follows a college student navigating the snowy Colorado mountains.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorNew York City venue (Le) Poisson Rouge is launching LPR.tv, a subscription-based service through which they will livestream concerts held in their downtown venue (without an audience) in high-definition video with full production and soundboard audio.The venue has booked an impressive array of indie-leaning artists for LPR.tv’s inaugural lineup, including Cults, Kimbra, Sunflower Bean, !!! (Chk Chk Chk), San Fermin,  Kevin Devine, Son Little, Laraaji, Too Many

NEW YORK -- The best-selling team behind the “Princess in Black” children's series is looking to an even younger audience for its latest project.Starting next March, writer Shannon Hale and illustrator LeUyen Pham are launching a “kitty and unicorn” picture book series, Abrams Books for Young Readers announced Wednesday.

Dave McNary Film ReporterDreamWorks Animation has launched development on the adventure-fantasy “Ronan Boyle and the Book of Riddles” as a movie with Irish director Fergal Reilly signed to direct as part of an overall deal with the studio.Tom Lennon’s “Ronan Boyle and the Book of Riddles” was a New York Times bestseller that was published last year and is a high-adventure fantasy tale set in a magical world of law-breaking leprechauns and deadly monsters.

Also Read: 'Good Times' Star Ja'net Dubois Remembered by Norman Lear, Viola Davis and MoreCarl Jones serves as creator, showrunner, and executive producer. Brent Miller also executive produces via Act III, with Erick Peyton and Jeron Smith for Unanimous and Erica Huggins for Fuzzy Door.“We can’t think of anything better, at this time in our culture, than a reimagining of Good Times animated,” Lear and Miller said.

Andreas Wiseman International EditorEXCLUSIVE: LA-based Film Bridge International has boarded international sales rights to crime series Big Dogs, which it will begin selling during the Toronto virtual market.The eight-part series premiered domestically on Amazon Prime in July and stars Brett Cullen (Joker), Manny Perez (The Night Of), Michael Rabe (Homeland), and Lance Henriksen (Falling).Filmed in New York, the series charts intersecting stories of organized crime, white collar felonies, and

Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman are ready to take viewers on another amazing trip.The adventurous friends previously chronicled their epic motorcycle expeditions from London to New York in 2004's, and from Scotland to South Africa in 2007's.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterPeter Sarsgaard has joined the upcoming Hulu drama series “Dopesick” in a series regular role.The series looks into the epicenter of America’s struggle with Opioid addiction, taking viewers from a distressed Virginia mining community, to the hallways of the DEA, and to the opulence of “one percenter” Big Pharma Manhattan.

Jennifer Lopez slides her hand into Alex Rodriguez‘s while heading out to dinner in Tribeca on Tuesday (September 8) in New York City.

Will Thorne Staff WriterAn anthology series on the history of the NFL is in the works.Game1, the sports content studio founded by Greg Economou, Basil Iwanyk and Michael Smith, is teaming with Gifford Media Group to adapt Frank Gifford’s bestselling memoir “The Glory Game: How the 1958 NFL Championship Changed Football Forever” into a series.Gifford, the late New York Giants Hall of Famer and “Monday Night Football” broadcaster, published the book in 2008, alongside Peter Richmond.The project

another film with a knotty plot out this week, this one was fun to untangle.Kaufman started taking on directing duties with 2008’s “Synecdoche, New York,” and his relative simplicity here compared to the stylings of his previous collaborators Spike Jonze and Michel Gondry allows magic moments to pop out of nowhere.He makes “Ending Things” into a screen version of the immersive off-Broadway play “Sleep No More,” whisking us into seemingly normal rooms in which otherworldly scenes hazily play

Tom Grater International Film ReporterJess Ryder’s psychological thriller novel The Ex-Wife is getting the series treatment, with Euro outfits BlackBox Multimedia and Night Train Media teaming for an international co-production.New York Times bestselling author and actress Catherine Steadman, known for roles in Downton Abbey and her novels including Something In The Water, has been drafted in to pen the screenplay, her screenwriting debut.The Ex-Wife follows newlywed Tasha, who has the perfect

three new “Power” spinoffs back in February, titled “Power Book III: Raising Kanan,” “Power Book IV: Influence,”  and “Power Book V: Force.” The spinoffs have since been reordered, with “Influence” now set as “Power Book V.”“Force” will center on Egan after he “cuts ties and puts New York in his rearview mirror for good,” according to Starz.Also Read: Riley Gale, Power Trip Lead Singer, Dies at 34Produced by Lionsgate Television, the “Power” universe comes from creator, writer and executive

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorStarz has given a series order to a third series from the Power universe, from Courtney Kemp and Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson. Power Book IV: Force will focus on Power’s Tommy Egan, with Joseph Sikora set to reprise his role.Robert Munic will serve as showrunner and executive producer on the series, with the order coming ahead of the September 6 premiere of Power Book II: Ghost, starring Michael Rainey Jr., Naturi Naughton, Mary J.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentElizabeth Debicki, the rising Australian actor who headlines “Tenet,” is set to star in and executive produce “Code Name Hélène,” an international limited series from France’s Vendôme Group and Anonymous Content, based on New York Times bestselling author Ariel Lawhon’s World War II spy thriller.Philippe Rousselet’s Vendôme Group and Anonymous Content, the company behind “True Detective” and “The Revenant,” have acquired TV rights to the novel, which was