“Empire” co-creator Lee Daniels denied a report Tuesday that Jussie Smollett is in talks to return for the final season of the Fox drama.“This is not factual. Jussie will Not be returning to Empire,” Daniels tweeted in response to a Variety story, which first reported the news of Smollett’s potentia...
“Sneaky Pete” is coming to an end.The crime drama, which was co-created by Bryan Cranston and starred Giovanni Ribisi, has been canceled after three seasons on Amazon.“Sneaky Pete” centered around the titular criminal (Ribisi), who stole his cellmate’s identity and started living with and working fo...
Josie Totah has joined the cast of “Good People,” the Amazon comedy pilot from Lee Daniels and Whitney Cummings.Adding to a cast that also includes Greg Kinnear and Martin Short, Totah will star opposite Cummings and Lisa Kudrow as Tallulah, who is described as “a confident, perhaps ‘overly woke’ Ge...
Nickelodeon has ordered a prequel series to its longrunning cartoon, “SpongeBob SquarePants” that will follow a young Spongebob during sleepaway camp.The series, titled “Kamp Koral” will see a 10-year-old SpongeBob during his summer the eponymous camp. In the series, SpongeBob and his pals spend the...
Exclusive: Another classic sitcom is eying a return with its original star. UCP is developing Punky Brewster, a sequel to the 1984 NBC sitcom, with Soleil Moon Frye set to reprise her role as the titular character that became a pop culture icon of the 1980s.The multi-camera original series, created ...
Netflix has ordered the animated series “Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous,” inspired by the multi-billion dollar “Jurassic Park” film franchise.The series is set within the timeline of the 2015 film “Jurassic World” and hails from DreamWorks Animation. It follows a group of six teenagers chosen for a...
Syfy has opted to cancel “Deadly Class” and “Happy!”, Variety has learned.The former, an adaptation of Rick Remender’s comic book series, starred Lana Condor, Benjamin Wadsworth and Benedict Wong. Produced by the Russo brothers, the series revolved around an orphan who becomes a student assassin at ...
Two-time Academy Award winner Mahershala Ali is executive producing and plans to star in prison drama “Solitary” for Fox Searchlight.The specialty label has bought the movie rights to Albert Woodfox’s 2019 memoir about the 43 years he spent in solitary confinement in Louisiana’s Angola Prison. The b...
A “controlled explosion” on the set of “Bond 25” damaged the 007 stage at Pinewood Studios and caused a “minor injury” to a crew member off stage, according to a tweet posted Tuesday from the official James Bond account.No injuries were reported on set. The production has been plagued with multiple ...
Jennifer Kent’s “The Babadook” has been a regular title on lists of the best horror movies ever made since it made its debut at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, but, in the years, since the film has unexpectedly become a queer classic. It all started when the eponymous boogeyman started popping up a...
