Headlines

Action

• Image Entertainment to bring TV series based on Digital Fortress by Dan Brown

Children

• Shigeru Miyamoto to create short films based on Pikmin

Comedy

• Steve Carell signed on to star in Looney Tunes movie

• Halle Berry working on medical comedy coming to CBS

• Lionsgate to release ‘Now You See Me 2’ and ‘Dirty Grandpa’ in 2015

• Deal or No Deal to return in 2015

• John Mulaney to get special starting October 5

• Vince Vaughn to star in political comedy called The Politician

• Adam Levine to produce comedy about his life as musician - Kids in America

• Darrell Hammond to be next announcer for Saturday Night Live

Drama

• Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe to star in The Nice Guys - to release in 2016

• Morgan Freeman to star as Ildarin in Ben Hur remake

• BBC One to release 6 part mini-series based on Partners in Crime by Agatha Christie

Sci-Fi / Horror

• Saw to return to theaters October 31 for 10th anniversary

• Content Films acquired rights to 400 Days - a film about a simulated space trip that may not be simulated

• Ridley Scott to produce Philip K Dick novel ‘The Man In The High Castle’

• The Walking Dead companion show coming to AMC

• X-Men Apocalypse to film in Montreal

• Michael Bay to direct film based on Cosmic Motors

• Amazon working on pilot for The Tick

• Tom Hiddleston to star in next King Kong film

• Deadpool film to release in 2016

• J.J. Abrams to direct Hulu series based on Stephen King novel 11/22/63

• Max Borenstein to script Godzilla sequel

• Screen Gems buys Pride and Prejudice and Zombies for US distribution (adds Lena Headey and Charles Dance to the cast)

• SyFy renews Dominion for 2nd season and Defiance for 3rd season

• Jupiter Ascending with Channing Tatum and Mila Kunis to release February 6, 2015

Rumors

• Underworld franchise may get rebooted with Lakeshore Entertainment

• Martin Scorsese to make biopic about the Ramones

• Pirates of the Caribbean 5 may start filming in 2015 in Australia

• Terminator Genisys to get sequels in 2017 and 2018

• Stan Lee confirms movie for Black Panther

• James McAvoy to go as bald Professor X in X-Men Apocalypse

• Sylvester Stallone to direct new Rambo movie

• Teen Titans to release as live action show on TNT

• Next James Bond film to start filming December 2014