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Dan Feuerriegel revels in playing the ruthless and scheming Ej on Days of Our Lives. Soap fans may be surprised to learn that he also played Agron, Spartacus’s right-hand man, in the racy TV show of the same name. Feuerriegel was recently on a podcast where he talked about his career and a major health issue he had in his younger days.

He Had a Low Heart Rate

What’s Your Limp is a podcast that “Wants to help our listeners learn that they aren’t alone in their struggles. Not only that, but we want to help give them tools and healthy coping mechanisms to better deal with whatever it is they might be going through,” according to its website. Its host, Jordan Ross, posted a clip from his recent interview with Feuerriegel on Instagram.

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Ever since the Marvel Cinematic Universe kicked off with 2008's "Iron Man," fans around the world have delighted at seeing some of their favorite comic book characters share the screen with one another in an ever-expanding world. For the most part, Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige and the countless writers, directors, actors, and others who've helped shape the MCU have delivered wildly entertaining shows and movies while also staying true to what made the source material so captivating. From classic plotlines to iconic panels to lesser-known characters, the McU's creators have done a stellar job of transposing some of the most beloved elements from the comic books to both the big and small screen.

Still, because of how different comics are from television and film, numerous changes have been made to adapt these larger-than-life characters to a live action medium. Some of these decisions make sense; what may work on...

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Directed by Jordan Ross, The Tutor has some good moments when it tries to be a mystery thriller. Where it falters is when it uses silly plot devices that don’t seem entirely justified. I don’t blame the performances, because it is self-evident that the editing let them down. One emotional state jarringly changing to another doesn’t do justice to what Garrett Hedlund and Noah Schnapp, the two lead actors, were going for with their characters. The plot revolves around a tutor named Ethan. He often teaches wealthy kids and has apparently become famous because of his teaching skills. One fine day, he gets a tutoring gig, which would pay him a huge sum. He takes it, as his girlfriend is about to have a baby and he wants to be a provider, but soon he discovers that the boy he is tutoring has ulterior motives of his own,...

Conventional thrillers that depend on twist endings to captivate viewers generally leave a trail of breadcrumbs along the narrative progression, which plays with the audience’s negligence and later creates a cohesive roadmap, making sense of the causality. Unsatisfying thrillers tend to fall into the trap of taking an abrupt U-turn to suit the plot, which doesn’t only take away the conviction factor but also ruins all the build-up as well. Unfortunately, “The Tutor,” directed by Jordan Ross, falls into the second category. In addition to the poorly crafted twist that leaves a bad aftertaste, a character bluntly stating out loud the message the movie wants to convey really takes the cake. We would also like to add the fact that the title of the movie has little to no significance to the larger narrative, which is a bit surprising given how much literary terminology was tossed around in...

Judging from the marketing of The Tutor, you’d be forgiven for mistaking the film for a contemporary queer update of a film like The Crush (1993). While not exclusively the purview of the 90s, a film like The Crush – in which an underage “sexpot” with a malicious streak ensnares an older man in her web of sexual intrigue – prospered in the era of Erotic Thrillers, Dtv and Vcrs.

Films in which adults are tempted into sexual relationships with minors are considered taboo for mainstream contemporary audiences. This is why the marketing of The Tutor was intriguing: the trailer suggests that rich, privileged teen Jackson (Stranger Things’ Noah Schnapp) unfairly accuses his working class tutor Ethan (Garrett Hedlund) of improper behaviour. The young man then begins to stalk and effectively ruin the life of the older man, jeopardizing his reputation and the status of his relationship with pregnant girlfriend, Annie (Victoria Justice...

Directed by Jordan Ross and written by Ryan King, The Tutor hits theaters on Friday, March 24. The thriller follows a well-sought-after tutor named Ethan, who is asked to travel to New York and work with a billionaire's son. With a baby on the way and a family to provide for, Ethan jumps at the high-paying opportunity. However, the role turns out to be much more than he bargained for when the student-teacher relationship spirals into obsession.

The Tutor stars Garrett Hedlund as Ethan, Victoria Justice as Annie, and Noah Schnapp as Jackson. Hedlund has been featured in films such as Tron and Dreamland and recently portrayed Mitch Keller in the Paramount+ original series, Tulsa King. After getting her start on Nickelodeon, Justice has worked on several projects including A Perfect Pairing and Eye Candy. Meanwhile, Schnapp is most well-known for his role as Will Byers in Netflix's Stranger Things.

Screen Rant is thrilled to present a clip from the upcoming suspense thriller, The Tutor. The film follows highly in demand tutor to the children of the East Coast wealthy elite, Ethan (Garrett Hedlund), who recently learned that his partner, Annie (Victoria Justice), is pregnant. He takes a high paying job as a tutor at a remote New York waterfront mansion.

Ethan immediately senses there is something off about his new student Jackson (Noah Schnapp). Jackson's interest in Ethan seems obsessive, and he soon accuses Ethan of abuse. As Jackson threatens to reveal his teacher's secrets to the authorities and public opinion turns against him, it is up to Ethan to discover the truth and stop his disturbed student. The Tutor hits theaters March 24.

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In celebration of the 20th anniversary of the cult classic film Cruel Intentions, producers have announced the casting for the North American tour of the Off-Broadway smash hit Cruel Intentions The 90s Musical. Following sold-out runs in Los Angeles and a critically acclaimed, sold-out run in New York City, the new musical - a stage adaptation of Roger Kumble's 1999 cult-hit film, created by Jordan Ross, Lindsey Rosin amp Roger Kumble - will launch its first national tour at Proctors in Schenectady, NY on March 29, 2019. The production will play over 18 cities this Spring.

Sony Pictures will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the 1999 teen cult classic, Cruel Intentions with a theatrical re-release on March 22nd for an exclusive one-week engagement nationwide. Go back to Manchester Prep to relive the seduction and betrayal between rich & conniving Manhattan teens, played by iconic stars, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ryan Phillippe, Reese Witherspoon, and Selma Blair.

The film, which originally opened on March 5, 1999 from Columbia Pictures, has become a beloved cult classic with fans over the years. In 1999, it won two Teen Choice Awards, and in 2000, two MTV Movie Awards for Best Kiss (Sarah Michelle Gellar & Selma Blair) and Best Female Performance (Sarah Michelle Gellar).

The Cruel Intentions soundtrack album, featuring tracks from the film by Aimee Mann, Blur, Counting Crows, Fatboy Slim, Placebo, The Verve, and more, makes its vinyl debut on May 3 with a new, limited 20th Anniversary Edition pink vinyl LP. The collectible LP is available...

Refresh for updates A new Oscar category for “popular” films doesn’t seem very popular in Hollywood, at least judging by first reactions. “The film business passed away today,” began Rob Lowe’s tweet (read below for the whole thing).

Lowe, of course, had his own Oscar low moment, during his musical number with Snow White in the critically lambasted Allan Carr produced telecast.

“Finally,” wrote Andy Richter, “the Oscars will be giving a statue based on popularity so that those poor mountains of box office money won’t be lonely anymore.”

The new award category, announced today, will honor outstanding achievement in popular film, with eligibility requirements and other key details yet to be announced.

But Hollywood stars and pundits weren’t waiting. Here’s a sampling (we’ll update periodically):

Better than a sequel, now that the Academy has added the section for ‘Overlooked Nineties Cult Movies...

It was a clear victory for sci-fi sound editing Sunday night at the 65th annual Mpse Golden Reel Awards at the Westin Bonaventure. “War for the Planet of the Apes” was the surprise winner for Dialogue/Adr, splitting honors with “Blade Runner 2049,” which grabbed the Effects/Foley prize. The big loser was “Dunkirk” (which won the BAFTA sound award earlier Sunday). However, Christopher Nolan’s World War II survival epic took home the Music Score award and remains the sound editing Oscar favorite.

In addition, “The Greatest Showman,” “Coco,” “Loveless,” and “Jane” earned sound editing awards for Musical, Animation, Foreign Language, and Documentary. The big TV winner was “Game of Thrones” (“The Spoils of War”) for Dialogue/Adr and Effects/Foley. Other TV honorees included “Black Mirror” (“USS Callister”) for Episodic Long Form Dialogue/Adr; “Godless” (“Homecoming”) and “Ozark” (“The Toll”) for Episodic Long Form Effects/Foley; “The Get...

Sneak Peek new footage from the crime thriller "Thumper", now playing, written and directed by Jordan Ross, starring Eliza Taylor, Lena Headey ("Game of Thrones"), Pablo Schreiber, Ben Feldman, Daniel Webber and Grant Harvey:

"...new girl 'Kat Carter' (Taylor) befriends classmate 'Beaver (Webber) in a community where drugs and violence run rampant.

"Harbouring a dark secret of her own, she attracts the attention of the leader of 'Wyatt (Schreiber)...

"...the leader of a 'drug ring'..."

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"Do you trust her?" The Orchard has debuted an official trailer for an indie crime thriller titled Thumper, from writer/director Jordan Ross. This stars Eliza Taylor (seen on "The 100") as a new student at a drug-ridden high school in an impoverished California town. She befriends a local drug dealer, but ends up way too deep in the local drug ring. The cast includes Daniel Webber, Pablo Schreiber, Lena Headey, Ben Feldman, and Brigitte Kali. This premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival but didn't emerge with much buzz. There's some impressive cinematography in this trailer, but the rest of it seems like another typical small-town crime thriller, once again about teens caught up in the craziness unable to escape. Check it out. Here's the first official trailer (+ poster) for Jordan Ross' Thumper, direct from YouTube: Troubled new girl Kat Carter (Eliza Taylor) struggles to fit in with her...

Pablo Schreiber has played morally questionable characters on American Gods and Orange Is the New Black, but you've never seen him quite like this. In Thumper, he plays a ruthless drug dealer who rules over a low income neighborhood and Et has the movie's official poster, with Schreiber front and center.

"I'm really interested in the extremes of human behavior. Characters that behave in ways that I don't agree with or can't really get behind," he told Et of what drew him to the film. "The process for me is trying to understand what drives that...and, in doing so, it's practicing a form of empathy and trying to understand people from very different circumstances."

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The thriller, which also stars Eliza Taylor and Game of Thrones' Lena Headey, marks the directorial debut of writer-director Jordan Ross and is executive produced by Cary Joji Fukunaga (Beasts of No Nation and True Detective). Thumper premiered at the...

Keep up with the wild and wooly world of indie film acquisitions with our weekly Rundown of everything that’s been picked up around the globe. Check out last week’s Rundown here.

– The Orchard has acquired the North American rights to Jordan Ross’s directorial debut “Thumper,” starring “Orange is the New Black’s” Pablo Schreiber. The gritty crime thriller debuted at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival and was written and directed by Ross. The movie also stars Eliza Taylor, Lena Headey, Ben Feldman, Grant Harvey and Daniel Webber. Set in a town of low-income and fractured families, “Thumper” is centered around a group of teens that are lured into working for a dangerous drug dealer. A new girl arrives into town hiding a dangerous secret that will impact everybody and change their lives forever.

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Distributor plans 2017 release for Tribeca premiere.

The Orchard has picked up all North American rights to Jordan Ross’s directorial debut Thumper starring Pablo Schreiber from Orange Is The New Black.

The crime thriller debuted at Tribeca and also stars Eliza Taylor, Lena Headey, Ben Feldman, Grant Harvey and Daniel Webber.

Thumper takes place in an impoverished town where a group of teens are made to work for a drug dealer as a girl with a secret arrives.

Fernando Loureiro and Roberto Vasconcellos produced the film for Exhibit, and Cary Fukunaga served as executive producer with Brian Kavanaugh-Jones and Rian Cahill for Automatik.

The Orchard negotiated the deal with UTA Independent Film Group and plans to release Thumper later this year.

“Thumper is a movie so real, so authentic in its direction and performances, we were floored this was Jordan’s directorial debut,” Paul Davidson, The Orchard’s executive vice-president of film and television, said.

“There...

Exclusive: The Works Group comes to Cannes under new ownership.

The Works International has boarded international sales rights to Trudie Styler’s Berlin title Freak Show and Jordan Ross’s Tribeca title Thumper.

Alex Lawther (The Imitation Game), Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine), AnnaSophia Robb (The Way Way Back), Laverne Cox (Orange is the New Black), and Bette Midler star in Celine Rattray-produced (Still Alice) comedy-drama about teenager Billy Bloom who, despite attending an ultra conservative high school, makes the decision to run for homecoming queen.

Ross’s Thumper, which is executive-produced by Cary Fukunaga stars Eliza Taylor (The 100), Ben Feldman (Cloverfield), Pablo Schreiber (Orange is the New Black) and Lena Headey (Game of Thrones).

Set in a town of low-income and fractured families, Thumper follows a group of teens who are lured into working for a dangerous drug dealer. A new girl arrives who hides a dangerous secret that will impact everybody and change...

Exclusive: The Works Group comes to Cannes under new ownership.

The Works International has boarded international sales rights to Trudie Styler’s Berlin title Freak Show and Jordan Ross’s Tribeca title Thumper.

Alex Lawther (The Imitation Game), Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine), AnnaSophia Robb (The Way Way Back), Laverne Cox (Orange is the New Black), and Bette Midler star in Celine Rattray-produced (Still Alice) comedy-drama about teenager Billy Bloom who, despite attending an ultra conservative high school, makes the decision to run for homecoming queen.

Ross’s Thumper, which is executive-produced by Cary Fukunaga stars Eliza Taylor (The 100), Ben Feldman (Cloverfield), Pablo Schreiber (Orange is the New Black) and Lena Headey (Game of Thrones).

Set in a town of low-income and fractured families, Thumper follows a group of teens who are lured into working for a dangerous drug dealer. A new girl arrives who hides a dangerous secret that will impact everybody and change...

Jordan Ross inhabits some dilapidated and dark spaces with Thumper, his feature directorial debut, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival last Thursday. Executive produced by Cary Fukunaga, the crime drama depicts a community run over by drugs and violence, into which new girl Kat Carter (Eliza Taylor) enters, harboring a dark secret and ultimately coming face to face with Wyatt (Pablo Schreiber), the unpredictable and violent leader of a drug ring. “The story is…...

Jordan Ross’ debut feature Thumper proves timely in its depiction of an economically ravaged suburban California community whose young people have increasingly turned to drugs. Unfortunately, the film, receiving its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival, turns out to be a routine crime-driven tale featuring all-too familiar characters and situations. The hand of executive producer Cary Fukunaga (True Detective, Beasts of No Nation) is evident in the gritty, atmospheric tension permeating the proceedings, but Thumper fails to overcome its numerous clichés.

The storyline revolves around Kat (Eliza Taylor), a new student at a high school in a town that’s...

‘Thumper’ is an Unmissable and Taut Crime ThrillerBambi is nowhere to be found in this story riddled with poverty, meth and violence.

Thumper opens with a bit of misdirection. We’re drawn into the chaotic and clustered home life of Wyatt (Pablo Schreiber), a charismatic, larger than life figure whom we soon learn looms large in the poverty-stricken, unnamed California neighborhood. With a child on one hip, Wyatt scrambles through empty kitchen cabinets, trying to salvage together breakfast for his two children. The house is messy, littered with toys and mismatched furniture, but Wyatt is the perfect picture of a doting father, showering both children with genuine affection that belies his tattooed shaved head.

But once his children have shuffled off with their mother, we see a different side of Wyatt. When Troy (Grant Harvey) comes into the house, unexpectedly bringing along Beaver (Daniel Webber), Wyatt is outraged and starts menacing the two teenagers. Eventually...

"I ain't going to jail for your mistakes," says Pablo Schreiber as a menacing leader in The Hollywood Reporter’s exclusive clip of Thumper.

Written and directed by Jordan Ross, the crime drama sees Schreiber as Wyatt, the head of the local drug ring. The actor — best known for terrifying inmates on Orange Is the New Black — says he’s drawn to “characters who live on the extremes” and “people who have different live philosophies than I do,” but he’s never played an overtly racist character before.

“We shot this April 2016, long before the election,” he tells THR. “But...

This clip can be considered Nsfw. Directed by Jordan Ross from his own script, Thumper will have it’s world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in the spotlight narrative section April 20. Pablo Schreiber, Eliza Taylor, Lena Headey, Daniel Webber, and Grant Harvey star in the crime drama that follows Kat Carter (Taylor), the troubled new girl in a school harboring a deep secret. The exclusive clip centers on menacing gang leader Wyatt (Schreiber), who is taken by Kat…...

Over the past few years, Taylor Swift has meticulously built her empire around one notion: girl power. The "Bad Blood" singer has carefully maintained a large group of female friends (her "squad"), spoken at length about her feminist renaissance, and preached on a number of occasions about the importance of not tearing other women down, despite her highly-publicized feud with another female pop star suggesting otherwise. Everyone from Demi Lovato to Rowan Blanchard has called out Taylor for her "false feminism", saying that she's all talk when it comes to women's rights, criticisms that resurfaced this weekend. On Saturday, Taylor tweeted a heartfelt message about the Women's March, which was attended by over two million men and women (including fellow singers like Katy Perry, Rihanna, Miley Cyrus, Madonna, and Ariana Grande). It appears that Taylor did not march. So much love, pride, and respect for those who marched. I'm proud to be a woman today,...

Sarah Michelle Gellar will reprise her role of Kathryn Merteuil from the 1999 film "Cruel Intentions" for the upcoming sequel TV series of the same name on NBC.

Gellar has reportedly been in talks, but it was not a guarantee she would be back. Now it's set with the former "Buffy" actress making the announcement herself on Instagram.

The new series is set fifteen years on with Kathryn vying for control of Valmont International as well as the soul of Bash Casey (Taylor John Smith), the son of her brother the late Sebastian Valmont (Ryan Phillippe) and Annette Hargrove (Reese Witherspoon).

Upon discovering his late father's legacy in a hidden journal, Bash is introduced to a world of sex, money, power and corruption he never could have imagined. Witherspoon will not be reprising her role from the film, while Samantha Logan and Sophina Brown also star.

Roger Kumble, who wrote and directed the original film,...

Cruel Intentions‘ biggest, baddest bitch is officially back.

Sarah Michelle Gellar will be part of the NBC pilot that is a sequel to the 1999 movie in which she starred, the actress announced Wednesday via Instagram.

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Per Gellar’s social media post, she’ll reprise the role of Kathryn Merteuil, who in the movie was a vindictive, two-faced, cocaine-sniffing manipulator and stepsister to Ryan Phillippe’s Sebastian.

Picking up over 15 years after the end of the movie, the project follows the cunning Kathryn as she vies...

NBC’s Cruel Intentions pilot has cast Taylor John Smith as the offspring of Ryan Phillippe and Reese Witherspoon’s Sebastian and Annette.

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Picking up over 15 years after the end of the movie, the project follows the cunning Kathryn Merteuil (Sarah Michelle Gellar has been approached to reprise the role) as she vies for control of Valmont International as well as the soul of Bash Casey, the son of her late brother Sebastian Valmont and Annette Hargrove. Upon discovering his late father’s legacy in a hidden journal,...

Sarah Michelle Gellar has reportedly been approached to reprise the role of Kathryn Merteuil, which she played in 1999's "Cruel Intentions," in the upcoming NBC sequel series based on the film.

NBC ordered the TV pilot last week with the film's original director Roger Kumble coming back to direct and pen the script with Lindsey Rosin and Jordan Ross. Whether Gellar accepts the role is uncertain but she is reportedly reading the script now.

The story picks up fifteen years on and follows Bash Casey, the son of Seabstian Valmont (Ryan Phillippe) and Annette Hargrove (Reese Witherspoon) who leaves behind his small-town Kansas upbringing for a scholarship at the prestigious academy in modern-day San Francisco.

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17 years after the original Cruel Intentions debuted on the big screen, the story will continue with a new NBC series. The network recently gave a green light for the Cruel Intentions pilot episode, and now Deadline reports that the network is eyeing one of the original movie's stars, Sarah Michelle Gellar, to return. No offer is on the table yet, but the actress has been approached by the network, although it's unclear if she will come back.

The original Cruel Intentions movie, based on the novel of the same name by Choderlos de Laclos, centered on Sarah Michelle Gellar's Kathryn Merteuil, who seeks revenge after being dumped by her beau Court Reynolds (Charlie O'Connell) for the innocent Cecile (Selma Blair). Kathryn challenges her step-brother Sebastian Valmont (Ryan Phillippe) to seduce Cecile, while, at the same time, they have an ongoing bet about whether or not Sebastian can seduce Annette...

NBC has handed out a pilot order for a new TV series sequel to 1999's "Cruel Intentions" film.

That film, a modern re-imagining of "Dangerous Liasons," followed the beautiful and cunning Kathryn Merteuil (Sarah Michelle Gellar), her stepbrother Sebastian Valmont (Ryan Phillippe) and the sweet virgin Annette Hargrove (Reese Witherspoon) who becomes the subject of a wager between the two.

In the series, the now older Kathryn vies for control of Valmont International as well as the soul of Bash Casey, Sebastian and Annette's son. Upon discovering his late father's legacy in a journal, the son is introduced to a world of sex, money, power and corruption he never could have imagined.

The original film's writer-director Roger Kumble and producer Neal H. Moritz return for the series which is also being produced by Lindsey Rosin and Jordan Ross who are behind a recent musical parody of the film which saw...

NBC has ordered a pilot for a sequel series to the beloved Nineties teen romance, Cruel Intentions, Variety reports.

Roger Kumble, who wrote and directed the 1999 movie, is attached to helm the pilot, which was co-written by Lindsey Rosin and Jordan Ross. NBC secured a script commitment for the show in October.

The Cruel Intentions pilot will center around Bash Casey, the teenage son of Reese Witherspoon's Annette Hargrove and Ryan Phillippe's Sebastian Valmont, ostensibly conceived before the latter's untimely death. Bash discovers his late father's infamous journal...

Update, 2/2/16: It's official: NBC has ordered a pilot of the TV sequel to Cruel intentions, written by the original movie's writer-director Roger Kumble and Cruel Intentions The Musical creators Jordan Ross and Lindsey Rosin. It centers around Bash Casey, the teenage son of Sebastian Valmont (Ryan Philippe) and Annette Hargrove (Reese Witherspoon), and his aunt Kathryn Merteuil's (Sarah Michelle Gellar) quest to control Bash's soul and Valmont International. Gellar is not (yet) attached to the project. Earlier, 10/21/15: Finally! A TV show remake we can truly get behind: Cruel Intentions is getting a sequel, and it could be on NBC next fall. The network has ordered a new show from original movie...

Are you ready for the Tim Riggins kick line?

The team behind "Cruel Intentions: The Musical" and "The Unauthorized O.C. Musical" have announced plans for the same treatment to be given to beloved TV modern classic "Friday Night Lights".

"The Unauthorized 'Friday Night Lights' Musical" is set for a premiere next year and one of the show's original stars, Scott Porter, has signed on to play a role.

Porter played Jason Street in the series, but in the musical he'll take on the role of Coach Taylor whom Kyle Chandler played in the NBC & DirecTV series. Also onboard from two of the previous musicals is Molly McCook who plays high school student Tyra.

Lindsey Rosin, one of the co-creators of the musical, says she and her producing partner Jordan Ross recently got the legal go-ahead to proceed. Further details about the run have yet to be announced.

Friday Night Lights is one of my favorite TV dramas ever, and I’ve been hoping that we’d get a movie made. I seriously doubt that’s ever going to happen at this point. You know what is happening, though!? The Unauthorized Friday Night Lights Musical!

This is a stage musical that is being created by writers Jordan Ross and Lindsey Rosin, who also created The Unauthorized Musical Parody Of Cruel Intentions and The Unauthorized O.C. Musical.

They made the announcement on Twitter saying that it will be coming to Los Angeles in 2016. This will be a one-night affair and Scott Porter, who played Jason Street in the TV series, will be playing Coach Taylor in the musical, which I have to admit is pretty damn awesome.

I think I’ll actually make an effort to get tickets to this thing! It sounds like it will be fun.

Friday Night Lights — the book, turned movie, turned TV show about football in a small Texas town — will assume a new cultural form next year when it's staged as a musical in Los Angeles, E! reports.

The Unauthorized Friday Night Lights Musical will be based primarily on the beloved NBC series, which ran between 2006 and 2011. The show will even feature series star Scott Porter — who played golden boy quarterback Jason Street — as Coach Taylor (originally portrayed by Kyle Chandler).

Porter confirmed his involvement on Twitter with a Dubsmash video, in...

The Unauthorized Friday Night Lights Musical will be coming to a Los Angeles stage in 2016. Writers Jordan Ross and Lindsey Rosin (Sucker Punch Productions) – the duo behind The Unauthorized Musical Parody Of Cruel Intentions and The Unauthorized O.C. Musical – announced their latest project on Twitter. Every day counts. One night matters. The Unauthorized #FNLMusical is coming to La in 2016! pic.twitter.com/95ktAow41g — #Fnlmusical (@TheFNLMusical) November 24…...

Let's all sing it together: Clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose. Especially when someone is making a "Friday Night Lights" musical.

"The Unauthorized Friday Night Lights Musical" is set to premiere in late spring or early summer in Los Angeles, and comes from Jordan Ross and Lindsey Rosin, the same people behind musical versions of "The O.C." and "Cruel Intentions." The latter got so much buzz that Ross and Rosin landed a deal at NBC to develop a "Cruel Intentions" sequel for television.

The original "Friday Night Lights" ran for five seasons, first on NBC and then on DirecTV, and starred Kyle Chandler as Coach Eric Taylor and Connie Britton as his wife, Tami Taylor. While the show was lowly-rated on air, it's become a beloved classic thanks to streaming services. And it helped launch the careers of many of its young cast members.

But the best part of...

Friday Night Footlights?

Coach, Mrs. Coach, Saracen, Riggins and the rest of the Friday Night Lights crew are going to sing for their scrimmage when a musical version of the former NBC series takes the stage in Los Angeles in 2016.

The Unauthorized Friday Night Lights Musical, from the people behind this year’s Unauthorized O.C. Musical, will happen in California next year. The show tweeted the news Tuesday.

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Every day counts. One night matters. The Unauthorized #FNLMusical is coming to La in 2016! pic.

If the fate of Sebastian Valmont and Annette Hargrove's child was still bothering you sixteen years after the release of "Cruel Intentions," good news. There's going to be new TV show focused on just that very story. Deadline reports that the film's original writer Roger Kumble (who directed the straight to video "Cruel Intentions 2," and lots of TV) is teaming up with Lindsey Rosin and Jordan Ross ("The Unauthorized Musical Parody Of Cruel Intentions" stage show) are teaming up to bring a new series to NBC that picks up where the first movie left off. The drama will center around the teenage Bash Casey, who discovers his Dad's diary, and endeavors to learn more about the family legacy. And so, prep school beckons, and plays, sex, money, and power follow. I dunno, sounds like your average soap opera to me, with or without the name "Cruel Intentions." Is there...

Given that the 1999 original spawned two straight-to-video sequels, it’s almost surprising that Cruel Intentions has taken this long to attract a TV suitor. But with today’s telly landscape, in which any film has the potential to launch a small screen version, it was inevitable that someone would try, with NBC ordering a pilot script for a series.Unusually, this one actually features one of the original filmmakers – director Roger Kumble – working alongside Lindsey Rosin and Jordan Ross, who cooked up The Unauthorized Musical Parody Of Cruel Intentions. We suppose it makes sense to have people who obsessed over the film enough to write a spoof working on a new take. As appears to be another current trend for shows based on movies such as Minority Report, the film will not focus on two of the main characters Annette Hargrove and Sebastian Valmont (played in the film by Reese Witherspoon...

The final scene of Cruel Intentions was a touching one: It sent us off with the prep-school-uniform clad Annette Hargrove (Reese Witherspoon) driving down a highway in the vintage convertible previously owned by her now-deceased lover, Sebastian Valmont (Ryan Phillippe), with his proto–Burn Book journal right by her side. Well, it turns out Annette was pregnant with Sebastian's child at the time, and that son will now be serving as the lead character in an upcoming Cruel Intentions television revival, according to Variety. The script — which has been bought by NBC and backed by the original film's writer and director Roger Krumble, producer Neal H. Moritz, and Unauthorized Musical Parody of Cruel Intentions creators Jordan Ross and Lindsey Rosin — will tell the present-day story of the 16-year-old Bash Casey. Abruptly stumbling upon his late father's journal, Bash discovers his complicated family legacy that wasn't previously known to him and,...

16 years after it steamed up the big screen, Cruel Intentions is getting a TV sequel.

The new Cruel Intentions series will focus on Bash Casey, the son of Ryan Phillippe and Reese Witherspoon's characters from the original movie, according to Deadline.

Bash discovers his family's secret legacy after finding his late father's journal. In search of answers, he wins a scholarship at the prestigious Brighton Preparatory Academy in San Francisco, where he finds himself drawn into a world of sex, money, power and corruption.

The project is in the works at NBC, with the movie's writer/director Roger Kumble on board to script the pilot episode.

Kumble is collaborating with Lindsey Rosin and Jordan Ross, who staged spoof production The Unauthorized Musical Parody of Cruel Intentions in Los Angeles earlier this year.

A modern update of the French novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses, 1999's Cruel Intentions starred Phillippe and Sarah Michelle Gellar...

Ok, this whole movies-becoming-tv-shows thing is starting to get Cruel.

NBC has ordered a pilot script for a follow-up series based on the 1999 Ryan Phillippe/Reese Witherspoon classic Cruel Intentions, our sister site Deadline reports.

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The series would reportedly be set in San Francisco, where Bash Casey — the son of Sebastian Valmont (Phillippe) and Annette Hargrove (Witherspoon) — moves from Kansas to claim his previously unknown legacy after discovering Sebastian’s journals.

Ok, let’s start with the obvious questions: Did Sebastian somehow get Annette pregnant before he died?...

Cruel Intentions, the cult 1999 movie starring Ryan Phillippe, Reese Witherspoon and Sarah Michelle Gellar, is getting a TV update. NBC has given a script plus penalty commitment to Cruel Intentions, a drama series, which tells the story of Bash Casey, the son of the characters played in the film by Phillippe and Witherspoon. The project comes from the film’s writer-director Roger Kumble and producer Neal H. Moritz as well as Lindsey Rosin and Jordan Ross, the duo behind…...

Sex, money, power and corruption at an elite boarding school? That made for a great movie in 1999's "Cruel Intentions," and NBC is betting it'll make for a great TV show, too.

Variety reports that the network is developing a "Cruel Intentions" series with original writer and director Roger Kumble. The show would be a sequel - when Annette Hargrove (Reese Witherspoon) drove off in the car owned by her dead lover, Sebastian Valmont (Ryan Phillippe), apparently she was pregnant. The show would focus on their 16-year-old son named Bash. He discovers his father's journal and learns about his parents' dark past. Looking for more answers, he goes to a prestigious school in San Francisco, where he "finds himself in a world of sex, money, power and corruption he never could have imagined."

The script was written by Lindsey Rosin and Jordan Ross, who were behind this summer's "Cruel Intentions" musical in L.

NBC is planning a TV series continuation of the 1999 teen erotic sensation "Cruel Intentions". The network has reportedly bought a script with a significant commitment from the film's original director and writer Roger Kumble.

Upon finding his late father’s journal, Bash learns of the family legacy and trades his small-town Kansas upbringing for a scholarship to a prestigious San Francisco academy where he soon finds himself in a world of sex, money, power and corruption.

Sarah Michelle Gellar and Selma Blair also starred in the original film. Kumble is attached to direct the pilot, and co-write with scribes Lindsey Rosin and Jordan Ross who crafted this past summer's "Cruel Intentions Musical" in Los Angeles.

Rosin and Ross will serve as executive producers on the potential series alongside Neal Moritz and Pavun Shetty.

Source: Variety...

Seth, Summer, Ryan and Marissa belting it out!? A musical based on the "The O.C." TV series is about to debut and we're already singing, "Here we come!"

Access Hollywood sat down with the musical creators – Jordan Ross and Lindsey Rosin – and the cast – Greer Grammer (Summer Roberts), Brendan Robinson (Seth Cohen), Molly McCook (Marissa Cooper) and Tilky Jones (Ryan Atwood) – of "The Unauthorized O.C. Musical" to get details on what fans of the beloved series can expect when it leaps from the small screen to the stage.

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"Californiaaaaaaaa, here we cooooooooome."  Those had better be some of the lyrics to one of the songs performed in the musical version of The O.C. that is definitely, for real, being developed.  We're not even joking about that. The Cohens are back on August 30 when The O.C. Musical hits Los Angeles.  Produced by the same geniuses, Jordan Ross and Lindsey Rosin, that brought us the Cruel Intentions musical (attended by stars Sarah Michelle Gellar, Reese Witherspoon and Selma Blair), the O.C. musical will feature characters from the show performing songs from the early 2000's. Despite the fact that the musical is only a couple of months away, only the roles of...

Eight years after the popular teen drama ended its TV run, The O.C. is being revived for a musical version. Directed/adapted by Jordan Ross and produced by Lindsey Rosin, the one-night-only event will take place August 30th in Los Angeles, Variety reports. 

Casting information has not been announced, but the roles of Luke Ward and Kirsten Cohen have reportedly been secured. Adding a meta feel, O.C. creator Josh Schwartz will also be characterized for the production, albeit with a non-singing role. 

The O.C. debuted on Fox in 2003 and...