At Amazon's Television Critics Association panel today, we learned some more details about the Russo Brothers spy show – and its planned spin-offs.
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The influential, futuristic, genre-bending 1998 anime series Cowboy Bebop is getting a new live-action TV adaptation. This ought to be interesting.
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After a huge opening weekend, Paramount has greenlight a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Sequel for June 3, 2016 release. Michael Bay will one again produce.
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Paramount is making an Explorers remake with the writers of Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol. Joe Dante directed the original.
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People under the age of 25 might be too young to remember what the names "Simpson/Bruckheimer" meant when appearing in front of a movie. With films like Top Gun, Beverly Hills Cop, Days of Thunder, Bad Boys, The Rock, odds were if Jerry Bruckheimer and the late Don Simpson produced a movie in the Eighties or Nineties, it…
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Briefly: Hollywood is the sort of place where a TV series that fails before it even hits the air can lead to a new movie. Paramount spent years developing a fourth Beverly Hills Cop movie -- the series starring Eddie Murphy last hit screens with a third film in 1994 -- but that effort eventually…
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At the start of this week, Michael Bay pissed off Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles lovers everywhere by revealing that the new Turtles film, which he's producing, will see the central characters reimagined as aliens rather than mutants. Predictably, a firestorm ensued, and even more predictably, Bay responded to the the outrage by stating that "fans…
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As far as Paramount is concerned, Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol seems to have come off well and should be a promising lead-in to a new phase of the series in which Jeremy Renner can take over from Tom Cruise. So the architects of that fourth M:I film, screenwriters Josh Appelbaum and Andre Nemec, have…
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Earlier this week the rather promising story cropped up that J.J. Abrams and collaborators Josh Appelbaum and Andre Nemec were pitching networks on a new show with comedy elements that would star Michael Emerson and Terry O'Quinn from Lost? Well, NBC has gone for the show. There's no season order yet (way too early for…
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Briefly: I'm convinced that J.J. Abrams has a closet packed with Abrams clones, as that is the only possible explanation for the steady stream of news we've had lately about new projects from the guy. The latest is a report of an Abrams pitch for a new TV show that would reunite Lost's Terry O'Quinn…
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