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On Halloween of 2022, it was announced that original Friday the 13th screenwriter Victor Miller – fresh off winning the U.S. copyright to the 1980 film after a lawsuit that stretched on for years – was teaming up with his lawyer Marc Toberoff, franchise rights holder Rob Barsamian, production company A24, the Peacock streaming service, and showrunner Bryan Fuller (whose credits include Hannibal and Pushing Daisies) to develop a new Friday the 13th streaming series called Crystal Lake. Things were moving ahead at a good pace, filming was expected to begin last July, but then the project hit a speed bump at the end of April with the firing of Fuller and his frequent collaborator Jim Danger Gray. Things got back on track in late August with the hiring of a new showrunner – and that person is Brad Caleb Kane, who also serves as co-showrunner and executive producer of It: Welcome to Derry,...

On Halloween of 2022, it was announced that original Friday the 13th screenwriter Victor Miller – fresh off winning the U.S. copyright to the 1980 film after a lawsuit that stretched on for years – was teaming up with his lawyer Marc Toberoff, franchise rights holder Rob Barsamian, production company A24, the Peacock streaming service, and showrunner Bryan Fuller (whose credits include Hannibal and Pushing Daisies) to develop a new Friday the 13th streaming series called Crystal Lake. Things were moving ahead at a good pace, filming was expected to begin last July, but then the project hit a speed bump at the end of April with the firing of Fuller and his frequent collaborator Jim Danger Gray. Things got back on track in late August with the hiring of a new showrunner – and that person is Brad Caleb Kane, who also serves as co-showrunner and executive producer of It: Welcome to Derry,...

On Halloween of 2022, it was announced that original Friday the 13th screenwriter Victor Miller – fresh off winning the U.S. copyright to the 1980 film after a lawsuit that stretched on for years – was teaming up with his lawyer Marc Toberoff, franchise rights holder Rob Barsamian, production company A24, the Peacock streaming service, and showrunner Bryan Fuller (whose credits include Hannibal and Pushing Daisies) to develop a new Friday the 13th streaming series called Crystal Lake. Things were moving ahead at a good pace, filming was expected to begin last July, but then the project hit a speed bump at the end of April with the firing of Fuller and his frequent collaborator Jim Danger Gray. Things got back on track in late August with the hiring of a new showrunner – and that person is Brad Caleb Kane, who also serves as co-showrunner and executive producer of It: Welcome to Derry,...

On Halloween of 2022, it was announced that original Friday the 13th screenwriter Victor Miller – fresh off winning the U.S. copyright to the 1980 film after a lawsuit that stretched on for years – was teaming up with his lawyer Marc Toberoff, franchise rights holder Rob Barsamian, production company A24, the Peacock streaming service, and showrunner Bryan Fuller (whose credits include Hannibal and Pushing Daisies) to develop a new Friday the 13th streaming series called Crystal Lake. Things were moving ahead at a good pace, filming was expected to begin last July, but then the project hit a speed bump at the end of April with the firing of Fuller and his frequent collaborator Jim Danger Gray. Things got back on track in late August with the hiring of a new showrunner – and that person is Brad Caleb Kane, who also serves as co-showrunner and executive producer of It: Welcome to Derry,...

On Halloween of 2022, it was announced that original Friday the 13th screenwriter Victor Miller – fresh off winning the U.S. copyright to the 1980 film after a lawsuit that stretched on for years – was teaming up with his lawyer Marc Toberoff, franchise rights holder Rob Barsamian, production company A24, the Peacock streaming service, and showrunner Bryan Fuller (whose credits include Hannibal and Pushing Daisies) to develop a new Friday the 13th streaming series called Crystal Lake. Things were moving ahead at a good pace, filming was expected to begin last July, but then the project hit a speed bump at the end of April with the firing of Fuller and his frequent collaborator Jim Danger Gray. Things got back on track in late August with the hiring of a new showrunner – and that person is Brad Caleb Kane, who also serves as co-showrunner and executive producer of It: Welcome to Derry,...

On Halloween of 2022, it was announced that original Friday the 13th screenwriter Victor Miller – fresh off winning the U.S. copyright to the 1980 film after a lawsuit that stretched on for years – was teaming up with his lawyer Marc Toberoff, franchise rights holder Rob Barsamian, production company A24, the Peacock streaming service, and showrunner Bryan Fuller (whose credits include Hannibal and Pushing Daisies) to develop a new Friday the 13th streaming series called Crystal Lake. Things were moving ahead at a good pace, filming was expected to begin last July, but then the project hit a speed bump at the end of April with the firing of Fuller and his frequent collaborator Jim Danger Gray. Things got back on track in late August with the hiring of a new showrunner – and that person is Brad Caleb Kane, who also serves as co-showrunner and executive producer of It: Welcome to Derry,...

As the son of Hollywood royalty, Wyatt Russell has lived his entire life in the spotlight.

But the 38-year-old actor progeny of Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell — and Kate Hudson’s brother (“we were half-siblings, but we were full,” he says) — is used to not being recognized, or at least not being identified as the single person behind an impressively varied and critically acclaimed body of work.

“I get a lot of people who are like, ‘Wait — you were the surfer dude from Lodge 49 and also the Mormon baby killer from Under the Banner of Heaven?’ Or, ‘Shit — the guy who was in the Black Mirror episode is also John Walker?'” Russell says.

But since the April release of Thunderbolts*, all of that appears to be changing, and quickly. The Disney/Marvel release has earned $372 million worldwide and credit for spicing up the moribund superhero genre.

Russell’s...

On Halloween of 2022, it was announced that original Friday the 13th screenwriter Victor Miller – fresh off winning the U.S. copyright to the 1980 film after a lawsuit that stretched on for years – was teaming up with his lawyer Marc Toberoff, franchise rights holder Rob Barsamian, production company A24, the Peacock streaming service, and showrunner Bryan Fuller (whose credits include Hannibal and Pushing Daisies) to develop a new Friday the 13th streaming series called Crystal Lake. Things were moving ahead at a good pace, filming was expected to begin last July, but then the project hit a speed bump at the end of April with the firing of Fuller and his frequent collaborator Jim Danger Gray. Things got back on track in late August with the hiring of a new showrunner – and that person is Brad Caleb Kane, who also serves as co-showrunner and executive producer of It: Welcome to Derry,...

On Halloween of 2022, it was announced that original Friday the 13th screenwriter Victor Miller – fresh off winning the U.S. copyright to the 1980 film after a lawsuit that stretched on for years – was teaming up with his lawyer Marc Toberoff, franchise rights holder Rob Barsamian, production company A24, the Peacock streaming service, and showrunner Bryan Fuller (whose credits include Hannibal and Pushing Daisies) to develop a new Friday the 13th streaming series called Crystal Lake. Things were moving ahead at a good pace, filming was expected to begin last July, but then the project hit a speed bump at the end of April with the firing of Fuller and his frequent collaborator Jim Danger Gray. Things got back on track in late August with the hiring of a new showrunner – and that person is Brad Caleb Kane, who also serves as co-showrunner and executive producer of It: Welcome to Derry,...

The big spoiler around “Thunderbolts” is finally out of the bag. Marvel has officially revealed what that haunting asterisk means on the advertising for its latest film.

A newly revised billboard off of Sunset Plaza Drive in Los Angeles has completely removed the word “Thunderbolts*” and replaced it with “The New Avengers.” The new text – and apparently, new film title – appears above the photo of a cereal box featuring the seven leading ensemble characters.

Marvel’s marketing campaign around “Thunderbolts” has been one of the most experimental ones the studio has tried in years. In addition to the asterisk, which prompted months of speculation after it first appeared in March of 2024, the movie also released an A24-style trailer as well as a limited edition collaboration with Wheaties. Star David Harbour even dressed as his character Red Guardian during a panel for the movie that took place at San Diego Comic-Con.

Jake Schreier’s winding path to Thunderbolts* feels oddly preordained considering his two roommates at NYU, Jon Watts and Christopher Ford, are also MCU alums.

In 2012, the Berkeley native kicked off his feature directorial career with the Ford-written Sundance darling, Robot & Frank, before making the jump to the low-key studio hit, Paper Towns (2015). In between it all, he became a prolific television and music video director, helming idiosyncratic series like Kidding and Lodge 49, as well as inventive videos for artists such as Haim, Kendrick Lamar and Benny Blanco.

In 2023, he served as an EP and in-house director on Lee Sung Jin’s (aka Sonny Lee) Beef, which would later win them both an Emmy for outstanding limited or anthology series. The Steven Yeun and Ali Wong-led feud narrative brilliantly balanced dark drama and comedy, while poignantly tracking the internal struggle of each main character. Schreier starting...

On Halloween of 2022, it was announced that original Friday the 13th screenwriter Victor Miller – fresh off winning the U.S. copyright to the 1980 film after a lawsuit that stretched on for years – was teaming up with his lawyer Marc Toberoff, franchise rights holder Rob Barsamian, production company A24, the Peacock streaming service, and showrunner Bryan Fuller (whose credits include Hannibal and Pushing Daisies) to develop a new Friday the 13th streaming series called Crystal Lake. Things were moving ahead at a good pace, filming was expected to begin last July, but then the project hit a speed bump at the end of April with the firing of Fuller and his frequent collaborator Jim Danger Gray. Things got back on track in late August with the hiring of a new showrunner – and that person is Brad Caleb Kane, who also serves as co-showrunner and executive producer of It: Welcome to Derry,...

Even at the peak of Peak TV, the medium’s gatekeepers were resistant to making full-fledged commitments to surrealism and absurdity. But that hasn’t stopped some weird curios from sneaking through.

There have been long-running favorites like Fargo, critical hits like I’m a Virgo, cult treasures like Lodge 49 and Baskets, plus a bunch of quickly forgotten oddities like Apple TV+’s Hello Tomorrow! and The Big Door Prize and Sunny or Amazon’s Mammals. These misfit outliers in a medium generally designed to reach the widest audience possible mostly haven’t been breakouts, but there’s a good chance that each show I mentioned found some small audience that felt blessed to have been granted a series that spoke to them plus maybe a dozen other people. There’s no point in having art if everything is a Law & Order or medical procedural and nothing features a...

On Halloween of 2022, it was announced that original Friday the 13th screenwriter Victor Miller – fresh off winning the U.S. copyright to the 1980 film after a lawsuit that stretched on for years – was teaming up with his lawyer Marc Toberoff, franchise rights holder Rob Barsamian, production company A24, the Peacock streaming service, and showrunner Bryan Fuller (whose credits include Hannibal and Pushing Daisies) to develop a new Friday the 13th streaming series called Crystal Lake. Things were moving ahead at a good pace, filming was expected to begin this July, but then the project hit a speed bump at the end of April with the firing of Fuller and his frequent collaborator Jim Danger Gray. Things got back on track in late August with the hiring of a new showrunner – and that person is Brad Caleb Kane, who also serves as co-showrunner and executive producer of It: Welcome to Derry,...

Amazon MGM Studios is working on a TV adaptation of Iain M. Banks’ science fiction novel Consider Phlebas. The book is part of Banks’ Culture series, which explores a post-scarcity society set in space.

The show will follow the story of two characters caught in a galactic war: Horza, a mercenary, and Balveda, a special agent from the utopian Culture. They both chase after a sentient AI, with the fate of the galaxy hanging in the balance.

Charles Yu, known for Interior Chinatown, is the writer and executive producer of the series. He’ll work alongside Chloé Zhao, who is also executive producing through her company Books of Shadows. Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner from Plan B Entertainment, along with Adele Banks, are also on board as executive producers.

Amazon first started developing the show six years ago, and at around the same time, it was investing heavily in sci-fi...

Exclusive: Amazon MGM Studios is developing science fiction TV series Consider Phlebas. It is an adaptation of the novel by Iain M Banks, the first in the late Scottish author’s classic 10-book Culture book series about an interstellar post-scarcity society.

Interior Chinatown creator Charles Yu is writing and executive producing. The potential series also is executive produced by Nomadland Oscar winner Chloé Zhao through her production company Books of Shadows, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner for Plan B Entertainment as well as Adele Banks.

In Consider Phlebas, while war rages between the utopian Culture and the Idiran Empire, a Culture Ship AI “Mind” takes refuge on a forbidden planet. Both Horza, a shape-shifting mercenary working for the Idirans, and Balveda, a “Special Circumstances” Culture agent, have been tasked with retrieving it to tip the balance in a galaxy-spanning conflict. Consider Phlebas pits sentience against AI in an epic and bloody quest across the cosmos.

The third season of Reacher recently arrived on Prime Video, and once again trouble has found the show’s titular character. This season follows Reacher as he infiltrates the nefarious rug business of a man named Zachary Beck. Acting undercover as a man on the run, Reacher is tasked with locating a missing DEA informant while he works to uncover how his old foe Quinn is mixed up with Beck’s business.

As is the case with every season of Reacher, its cast of characters always changes. While a few characters have made various appearances here and there throughout the series, the show’s core characters each season are always different. Given Reacher prefers to travel from city to city with nothing but a toothbrush in his pocket, he always encounters a brand-new set of allies and enemies. Below is the cast of Season 3 and where viewers have seen them before.

“Reacher” is back.

Based on the book series by Lee Child, the Prime Video series once again finds our titular hero (Alan Ritchson) getting off the bus and getting into trouble. This time he is in Maine, recruited by local DEA agents looking to bust a bad guy – and get back an informant who has gone missing. And wouldn’t you know it, this seemingly random encounter ties back to a case from Reacher’s past?

If you want to know more about this season, we will happily delve deep into the colorful cast of Season 3 characters.

Alan Ritchson as Jack Reacher in “Reacher” Season 3 (Credit: Amazon Studios) Alan Ritchson as Jack Reacher

Jack Reacher, or, as he insists everyone calls him, just Reacher, is a former military police major. These days, though, he’s what you would call a drifter – all he carries is his Atm card, the clothes...

This article contains spoilers for "Reacher" Season 3.

"Reacher" Season 3 is finally here, and with it, the towering Jack Reacher (Alan Ritchson) attains yet another colorful supporting cast. This time, the military police extraordinaire-turned-voluntary vagrant finds himself in Maine, where he rescues a strange young man (Johnny Berchtold) from a kidnapping attempt and ends up accidentally killing a plainclothes police officer as a result. Fortunately, the kid's father, Zachary Beck (Anthony Michael Hall), happens to be a wealthy big shot who's willing to help. Soon, Reacher finds himself semi-forcefully recruited into a strange group that seems to be doing something far shadier than its stated raison d'être of selling rugs ... or does he?

In reality, both the kidnapping and the cop's death were a ruse. Reacher and the people who set them up are in cahoots, with the protagonist working as an undercover agent for the hard-as-nails Susan Duffy. Both Reacher...

Scatena & Rosner Films is rolling out Grammy and Tony winner Jhett Tolentino’s film directorial debut “Asian Persuasion” across North American theaters, with a digital/VOD bow to follow. The romantic comedy, penned by Mike Ang, toplines “Hook” alum Dante Basco and Filipino star Kc Concepcion (“Boy Golden: Shoot to Kill”).

The film, which snagged the Audience Award at the 2023 Soho International Film Festival, follows an underachiever who concocts an elaborate scheme to dodge alimony payments to his fashion-exec ex-wife. The ensemble cast features “Bling Empire” breakout Kevin Kreider, Paolo Montalban (“Cinderella”), Geneva Carr (“It’s Complicated”), Scarlet Sherr (“Hustlers”), Celia Au (“Lodge 49”), and newcomer Jax Bacani.

The R-rated comedy drama will hit major markets including Los Angeles, Seattle, Houston, Dallas, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Chicago, Toronto, Honolulu, and Washington D.C. through Seismic Releasing’s theatrical partnership.

Behind the camera, Tolentino assembled a crew including cinematographer Andrea Walter...

Jack Reacher is about to meet his mass.

And no, that wasn’t a typo.

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Season 3 of Prime Video’s adaptation of the Lee Child novels (premiering this Thursday with the first three episodes) is based on 2003’s Persuader, throwing...

Exclusive: Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey for Universal Pictures is growing by three more as Nick Tarabay, Jimmy Gonzales and Maurice Compte have joined the cast in unspecified roles, sources tell Deadline.

Nolan’s mythic action epic, shot with new Imax cameras, is based on the ancient Greek poem by Homer which follows Odysseus, King of Ithaca, and his perilous journey home after the Trojan War. The classic explores themes of heroism, loyalty, cunning and the struggle against divine will. The tale includes iconic stories like Odysseus’ encounters with the Cyclops Polyphemus, the Sirens and the witch-goddess Circe, culminating in a reunion with his wife Penelope.

The cast is led by Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, Zendaya, Robert Pattinson, Lupita Nyong’o, Benny Safdie and Charlize Theron. The ensemble also includes Himesh Patel, Elliot Page,...

On Halloween of 2022, it was announced that original Friday the 13th screenwriter Victor Miller – fresh off winning the U.S. copyright to the 1980 film after a lawsuit that stretched on for years – was teaming up with his lawyer Marc Toberoff, franchise rights holder Rob Barsamian, production company A24, the Peacock streaming service, and showrunner Bryan Fuller (whose credits include Hannibal and Pushing Daisies) to develop a new Friday the 13th streaming series called Crystal Lake. Things were moving ahead at a good pace, filming was expected to begin this July, but then the project hit a speed bump at the end of April with the firing of Fuller and his frequent collaborator Jim Danger Gray. Things got back on track in late August with the hiring of a new showrunner – and that person is Brad Caleb Kane, who also serves as co-showrunner and executive producer of It: Welcome to Derry,...

Disney+ has ordered to pilot a series based on the acclaimed book from Louis Sachar, “Holes,” an individual with knowledge of the project told IndieWire. The project will be a new take on the story, this time gender-swapping the characters to make it about a teen girl sent to the desert to toil away in the dirt.

The Disney+ series will be a project of 20th Century Television’s and will be executive produced by Drew Goddard via his Goddard Textiles banner, with Alina Mankin serving as writer and EP and Liz Phang serving as showrunner and EP.

No cast was announced.

Sachar’s “Holes” from 1998 was previously adapted into a 2003 Disney film starring Shia Labeouf, which made $71 million worldwide against a $20 million budget. The novel too sold millions of copies and won the Newbery Medal for children’s literature as well as the National Book Award. It tells the...

A “Holes” TV series has been ordered to pilot at Disney+, Variety has learned exclusively.

The potential show would be based on the book of the same name by Louis Sachar, which was previously adapted into a 2003 feature film by Walt Disney Pictures.

Alina Mankin serves as writer and executive producer, while Liz Phang will serve as showrunner and executive producer. Drew Goddard will executive produce via Goddard Textiles along with Sarah Esberg. Walden Media, which produced the film, is also producing the pilot and has been attempting to get a series version of the book off the ground for some time, according to sources. Mike Medavoy will executive produce with rights holder Shamrock executive producing. Andrea Massaro of Goddard Textiles is a co-executive producer. 20th Television, where Goddard is based, is the studio.

Related: Drew Goddard on How ‘High Potential’ Brought Him Back to Broadcast, Adapting ‘Holes’ for TV...

On Halloween of 2022, it was announced that original Friday the 13th screenwriter Victor Miller – fresh off winning the U.S. copyright to the 1980 film after a lawsuit that stretched on for years – was teaming up with his lawyer Marc Toberoff, franchise rights holder Rob Barsamian, production company A24, the Peacock streaming service, and showrunner Bryan Fuller (whose credits include Hannibal and Pushing Daisies) to develop a new Friday the 13th streaming series called Crystal Lake. Things were moving ahead at a good pace, filming was expected to begin this July, but then the project hit a speed bump at the end of April with the firing of Fuller and his frequent collaborator Jim Danger Gray. Things got back on track in late August with the hiring of a new showrunner – and that person is Brad Caleb Kane, who also serves as co-showrunner and executive producer of It: Welcome to Derry,...

The TV production industry continues to rebound after previous delays, although many series with great hopes, continue to disappear after only one season:

ABC

$100,000 Pyramid, The (renewed)

20/20 (renewed)

American Housewife (canceled; five seasons)

American Idol (renewed)

America's Funniest Home Videos (renewed)A Million Little Things (canceled; after Season 5)Bachelor, The (renewed)

Bachelorette, The (renewed)

Bachelor in Paradise (renewed)

Baker and the Beauty (canceled; one season)

Big Sky (renewed)Black-ish (canceled; after Season 8) Bless This Mess (canceled; two seasons)Call Your Mother (canceled; one season)Card SharksCelebrity Family Feud (renewed)

Conners, The (renewed)

Dancing With The Stars (renewed)

Don't (canceled; one season)Emergence (canceled; one season)

For Life (canceled; after Season 2)

Fresh Off The Boat (canceled; six seasons)

Good Doctor, The (canceled; seven seasons) Grand Hotel (canceled; one season)

Goldbergs, The (canceled; ten seasons) Grey's Anatomy (Season 21)

Great Christmas Light Fight (renewed)

Holey Moley (canceled; after Season 4)

How To Get Away With Murder...

It makes sense that Charles Yu’s acclaimed 2020 novel “Interior Chinatown” would eventually be adapted into a TV series. After all, its title is taken from a screenplay’s slugline, and the entire novel is written in a screenplay format. Further, Yu’s writing on “Westworld,” “Lodge 49,” and “Legion” suggests a writer interested in heady concepts and maximalist execution.

Continue reading ‘Interior Chinatown’ Review: Charles Yu’s Adaptation of His Own Novel Overwhelms With Its Meta-Ness at The Playlist.

Given how Jack Reacher bids farewell to Dixon in Reacher season 2's ending moments, the Amazon show's third installment will likely introduce a new romantic interest for the character who will be Roscoe's next replacement. Adapted from Lee Child's Jack Reacher books, Amazon's Reacher closely follows the stories presented in its source material. Owing to this, since Jack Reacher avoids committing to long-term relationships in the books, the show introduces a new love interest for him in every new season.

Since this approach allows the series to be loyal to the original books, it perfectly captures how Lee Child intends to portray Jack Reacher's transient lifestyle. However, it has a minor drawback: beloved characters like Roscoe Conklin are often written out only after one season. Despite the downside, it seems unlikely that Reacher season 3 will mark Roscoe's return. But, as Lee Child's Persuader suggests, season 3 will feature her new replacement.

The TV production industry continues to rebound after previous union strike delays, although many series with great hopes, continue to disappear after only one season:

ABC

$100,000 Pyramid, The (renewed)

20/20 (renewed)

American Housewife (canceled; five seasons)

American Idol (renewed)

America's Funniest Home Videos (renewed)A Million Little Things (canceled; after Season 5)Bachelor, The (renewed)

Bachelorette, The (renewed)

Bachelor in Paradise (renewed)

Baker and the Beauty (canceled; one season)

Big Sky (renewed)Black-ish (canceled; after Season 8) Bless This Mess (canceled; two seasons)Call Your Mother (canceled; one season)Card SharksCelebrity Family Feud (renewed)

Conners, The (renewed)

Dancing With The Stars (renewed)

Don't (canceled; one season)Emergence (canceled; one season)

For Life (canceled; after Season 2)

Fresh Off The Boat (canceled; six seasons)

Good Doctor, The (canceled; seven seasons) Grand Hotel (canceled; one season)

Goldbergs, The (canceled; ten seasons) Grey's Anatomy (Season 21)

Great Christmas Light Fight (renewed)

Holey Moley (canceled; after Season 4)

How To Get Away With Murder...

The TV production industry continues to rebound after previous Covid setbacks and union strike delays, although many series with great hopes, continue to disappear after only one season:

ABC

$100,000 Pyramid, The (renewed)

20/20 (renewed)

American Housewife (canceled; five seasons)

American Idol (renewed)

America's Funniest Home Videos (renewed)A Million Little Things (canceled; after Season 5)Bachelor, The (renewed)

Bachelorette, The (renewed)

Bachelor in Paradise (renewed)

Baker and the Beauty (canceled; one season)

Big Sky (renewed)Black-ish (canceled; after Season 8) Bless This Mess (canceled; two seasons)Call Your Mother (canceled; one season)Card SharksCelebrity Family Feud (renewed)

Conners, The (renewed)

Dancing With The Stars (renewed)

Don't (canceled; one season)Emergence (canceled; one season)

For Life (canceled; after Season 2)

Fresh Off The Boat (canceled; six seasons)

Good Doctor, The (canceled; seven seasons) Grand Hotel (canceled; one season)

Goldbergs, The (canceled; ten seasons) Grey's Anatomy (Season 21)

Great Christmas Light Fight (renewed)

Holey Moley (canceled...

The original RoboCop movie, directed by Paul Verhoeven in 1987, is about a super-powerful corporation called Omni Consumer Product (Ocp) in charge of privitizing the police force in Detroit, to disastrous results. It's an acidic takedown of pro-corporate Reagan-era policies, together with lots of the exaggerated violence and winking crudeness that Verhoeven is known for.

Since then, RoboCop has become something of a corporate playing piece itself, with two sequels, a 2014 remake I'd completely forgotten about starring Joel Kinnaman as the titular felled police officer resurrected as robotic law enforcer, and four different TV series coming out over the subsequent 30+ years. And let's not forget RoboCop hawking KFC, instant noodles, and wrestling in the WCW. Whoever controls the rights isn't that picky about what happens with the character.

Those people are at it again with a new TV series with Peter Ocko — who worked on the charming AMC series Lodge 49 — as showrunner.

The “Robocop” reboot series has assembled quite the crew.

The Amazon MGM Studios production now has James Wan attached to executive produce alongside showrunner/writer/EP Peter Ocko, TheWrap has learned. They will be joined by fellow EPs Michael Clear and Rob Hackett for Atomic Monster, with Danielle Bozzone overseeing for Atomic Monster.

The official logline reads: “A giant tech conglomerate collaborates with the local police department to introduce a technologically advanced enforcer to combat rising crime — a police officer who’s part man, part machine.”

The original “RoboCop” movie premiered in 1987 from Orion Pictures (now a subsidiary of Amazon MGM Studios). It was directed by Paul Verhoeven, written by co-creators Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner and starred Peter Weller in the titular role.

That was followed by “RoboCop 2” in 1990, “RoboCop 3” in 1993 and an official remake also called “RoboCop” in 2014 starring Joel Kinnaman. In addition to the films,...

Amazon Studios plans to reimagine the “RoboCop” franchise in a new television series. The company has hired key creative talent including showrunner Peter Ocko and executive producer James Wan. They will bring the classic sci-fi story about a part-man, part-machine police officer to a TV format.

Ocko will lead the series as showrunner, head writer, and executive producer. He has extensive experience writing for shows like “The Office,” “Black Sails,” and “Lodge 49.” This gives him a strong background to handle the action and social commentary in “RoboCop.” Horror director James Wan also joins as executive producer. Known for movies like “The Conjuring,” he will help create a compelling visual style.

The show will follow the original plot of a police officer who is rebuilt as a cyborg after traumatic injuries. A technology company partners with the police department to introduce this advanced robotic law enforcement officer against rising crime.

A live-action RoboCop TV series in development at Amazon MGM Studios has armed itself with two key creatives.

Peter Ocko, whose credits include Lodge 49, Elementary and Pushing Daises, has been tapped to serve as a writing executive producer and showrunner, while horror film vet James Wan, who helped shepherd Peacock’s upcoming Teacup thriller, has come on board as another EP.

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The “Robocop” TV series in development at Amazon is starting to take shape.

Variety has learned that Peter Ocko has boarded the project to serve as writer, executive producer and showrunner. In addition, James Wan is set to executive produce under his Atomic Monster banner.

The official logline for the series states, “A giant tech conglomerate collaborates with the local police department to introduce a technologically advanced enforcer to combat rising crime — a police officer who’s part man, part machine.”

Along with Ocko and Wan, Michael Clear and Rob Hackett of Atomic Monster will also executive produce. Danielle Bozzone is overseeing the project for Atomic Monster. The series is produced by Amazon MGM Studios.

The “Robocop” series has been in the early development stages since Amazon acquired MGM, with Amazon looking to capitalize on their access to MGM’s deep IP library for both film and television projects. Amazon...

The TV production industry continues to rebound after previous Covid setbacks and union strike delays, although many series with great hopes, continue to disappear after only one season:

ABC

$100,000 Pyramid, The (renewed)

20/20 (renewed)

American Housewife (canceled; five seasons)

American Idol (renewed)

America's Funniest Home Videos (renewed)A Million Little Things (canceled; after Season 5)Bachelor, The (renewed)

Bachelorette, The (renewed)

Bachelor in Paradise (renewed)

Baker and the Beauty (canceled; one season)

Big Sky (renewed)Black-ish (canceled; after Season 8) Bless This Mess (canceled; two seasons)Call Your Mother (canceled; one season)Card SharksCelebrity Family Feud (renewed)

Conners, The (renewed)

Dancing With The Stars (renewed)

Don't (canceled; one season)Emergence (canceled; one season)

For Life (canceled; after Season 2)

Fresh Off The Boat (canceled; six seasons)

Good Doctor, The (canceled; seven seasons) Grand Hotel (canceled; one season)

Goldbergs, The (canceled; ten seasons) Grey's Anatomy (Season 21)

Great Christmas Light Fight (renewed)

Holey Moley (canceled...

Bruce Campbell has played supporting roles in so many films and TV shows, he once wrote a fictionalized autobiography -- "Make Love! The Bruce Campbell Way" -- about how his biggest possible break would be playing a sage-like doorman in a high-profile Hollywood drama starring Richard Gere and Renée Zellweger. In the fake Hollywood movie, Campbell would be the character to dole out advice to the lead characters and get their lives on track. It's telling that Campbell, even in a fictional version of Hollywood, didn't cast himself as the leading man.

Of course, Campbell has rarely been romantic about acting. He takes his craft seriously, but sees it more as a blue-collar profession than a heady art that requires years of study. Given that Campbell started his career getting splashed with fake blood in a series of zero-budget monster movies, this attitude is understandable. The ironic twist in "Make Love!

The TV production industry continues to rebound after previous Covid setbacks and union strike delays, although many series with great hopes, continue to disappear after only one season:

ABC

$100,000 Pyramid, The (renewed)

20/20 (renewed)

American Housewife (canceled; five seasons)

American Idol (renewed)

America's Funniest Home Videos (renewed)A Million Little Things (canceled; after Season 5)Bachelor, The (renewed)

Bachelorette, The (renewed)

Bachelor in Paradise (renewed)

Baker and the Beauty (canceled; one season)

Big Sky (renewed)Black-ish (canceled; after Season 8) Bless This Mess (canceled; two seasons)Call Your Mother (canceled; one season)Card SharksCelebrity Family Feud (renewed)

Conners, The (renewed)

Dancing With The Stars (renewed)

Don't (canceled; one season)Emergence (canceled; one season)

For Life (canceled; after Season 2)

Fresh Off The Boat (canceled; six seasons)

Good Doctor, The (canceled; seven seasons) Grand Hotel (canceled; one season)

Goldbergs, The (canceled; ten seasons) Grey's Anatomy (Season 21)

Great Christmas Light Fight (renewed)

Holey Moley (canceled...

For many years, A24 has been attempting to adapt the long-running slasher film series "Friday the 13th" into a prequel TV series called "Crystal Lake." For a few promising moments, Bryan Fuller was set to be the showrunner, but like so many Fuller projects, he eventually parted ways with the project over creative differences. This was in addition to the continued legal woes surrounding the "Friday the 13th" movies, leaving director/producer Sean Cunningham butting heads with original "Friday the 13th" screenwriter Victor Miller as to who owns the rights to the 1980 hit.

Charlize Theron was once eyed to star in "Crystal Lake" as Jason Voorhees' mom, Pamela Voorhees, but that may no longer be the case now that the series has undergone some reworking in the wake of Fuller's departure. That reworking may finally be in full swing once again, as, according to a new report from Variety, Brad Caleb Kane...

On Halloween of 2022, it was announced that original Friday the 13th screenwriter Victor Miller – fresh off winning the U.S. copyright to the 1980 film after a lawsuit that stretched on for years – was teaming up with his lawyer Marc Toberoff, franchise rights holder Rob Barsamian, production company A24, the Peacock streaming service, and showrunner Bryan Fuller (whose credits include Hannibal and Pushing Daisies) to develop a new Friday the 13th streaming series called Crystal Lake. Things were moving ahead at a good pace, filming was expected to begin this July, but then the project hit a speed bump at the end of April with the firing of Fuller and his frequent collaborator Jim Danger Gray. Now, Deadline reports that Crystal Lake is getting back on track with the hiring of a new showrunner – and that person is Brad Caleb Kane, who also serves as co-showrunner and executive producer of It: Welcome to Derry,...

Brad Caleb Kane, welcome to Camp Crystal Lake.

The “It: Welcome to Derry” co-showrunner is now taking over A24’s “Friday the 13th” prequel series for Peacock. Kane was announced as the new showrunner after Bryan Fuller parted ways with the project.

Kane will serve as the series creator, writer, and executive producer, along with original 1980 “Friday the 13th” screenwriter Victor Miller. Other EPs are Miller’s copyright attorney Marc Toberoff, as well as a pair of Robert Barsamians: Robert M. Barsamian, and Robert P. Barsamian.

“From the moment I watched Jason Voorhees squeeze a guy’s eyeball out of its socket (in glorious 3D!) at the tender age of 8 years old, I knew my creative path was someday destined to converge with The Man Behind The Mask,” Kane said in a press statement. “Nothing defined my childhood more than growing up in the golden age of the slasher flick,...

Crystal Lake, Peacock’s upcoming Friday the 13th prequel series from studio A24, has found its new showrunner in Brad Caleb Kane (It: Welcome to Derry), Deadline has learned.

In addition to showrunning, Kane will serve as the series’ creator, writer and executive producer. He assumes the reins from Bryan Fuller, who confirmed his exit from the project in May, noting that “A24 has elected to go a different way with the material.”

First announced in October 2022, Crystal Lake‘s plot specifics are being kept under wraps. In addition to Kane, exec producers on the series include A24; Victor Miller, who wrote the screenplay for the franchise’s original 1980 film; Miller’s copyright attorney, Marc Toberoff; Robert M. Barsamian and Robert P. Barsamian. The project will mark A24’s first major IP-driven project amid a recent effort to expand in a more commercial direction.

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The TV production industry continues to rebound after previous Covid setbacks and union strike delays, although many series with great hopes, continue to disappear after only one season:

ABC

$100,000 Pyramid, The (renewed)

20/20 (renewed)

American Housewife (canceled; five seasons)

American Idol (renewed)

America's Funniest Home Videos (renewed)A Million Little Things (canceled; after Season 5)Bachelor, The (renewed)

Bachelorette, The (renewed)

Bachelor in Paradise (renewed)

Baker and the Beauty (canceled; one season)

Big Sky (renewed)Black-ish (canceled; after Season 8) Bless This Mess (canceled; two seasons)Call Your Mother (canceled; one season)Card SharksCelebrity Family Feud (renewed)

Conners, The (renewed)

Dancing With The Stars (renewed)

Don't (canceled; one season)Emergence (canceled; one season)

For Life (canceled; after Season 2)

Fresh Off The Boat (canceled; six seasons)

Good Doctor, The (canceled; seven seasons) Grand Hotel (canceled; one season)

Goldbergs, The (canceled; ten seasons) Grey's Anatomy (Season 21)

Great Christmas Light Fight (renewed)

Holey Moley (canceled...

AMC is sitting on a treasure trove of television that deserves more attention. Everyone knows the house responsible for three of the finest entries in the age of the TV antihero -- "Mad Men," "Breaking Bad," and "Better Call Saul" -- is home to "The Walking Dead" and its many sequels and spinoffs. But it's also the network that's given us "Orphan Black," "Halt and Catch Fire," "Dark Winds," "Lodge 49," "Into the Badlands," and all the other best shows you've heard of but never gotten around the watching because there's just too much damn interesting TV to check out as is. Thankfully, though, one of the more underseen jewels in AMC's crown -- not to mention the greatest vampire show on television -- is about to become available to a much larger audience.

Thanks to a newly-minted deal between AMC and Netflix (via Variety), the latter company will begin...

Though AMC has had some popular scripted series that have run for years, many others have been cancelled after just one season. How is the current crop of shows doing? Which will be cancelled or renewed? We'll have to wait and see.

Scripted AMC Network shows listed: 61st Street, Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice's Mayfair Witches, The Beast Must Die, Better Call Saul, Breaking Bad, Dark Winds, Dietland, A Discovery of Witches, Dispatches from Elsewhere, Fear the Walking Dead, Feed the Beast, Halt and Catch Fire, Hell on Wheels, Humans, Into the Badlands, Kevin Can F**k Himself, Killing Eve, Lodge 49, Low Winter Sun, Lucky Hank, Mad Men, McMafia, The Night Manager, NOS4A2, Parish, Preacher, The Son, Soulmates, Tales of the Walking Dead, The Terror, Turn: Washington's Spies, The Walking Dead, The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, The Walking Dead: Dead City,...

Who will Anthony Michael Hall play in Reacher Season 3? “Ok, so I don’t want to get in trouble here,” Hall jokes in the video above, shot when when he visited the TV Insider office to promote Trigger Warning. “The character is Zachary Beck,” Hall shares. “And on the surface he’s like a wholesale rug dealer, but this guy’s living like The Great Gatsby or a mobster like no other.” And how dos Reacher get involved with Beck? Says Hall, “Reacher kind of saves his ass in the opening of Season 3, and that leads to them kind of striking up a friendship.” Hall was announced to be joining the series in February, alongside Sonya Cassidy (Lodge 49). Cassidy will play Susan Duffy, a DEA agent from Boston. The third season of Reacher is based on the book Persuader. Hall informs that the title refers to a type of gun.

Seeing one of your favorite shows canceled much too soon is such a common occurrence that we at Primetimer dedicated a whole feature type to exploring short-lived series that cast long shadows over the medium — shows like Undeclared, Todd McFarlane’s Spawn, Ultraviolet, and Wonderfalls. The latest — and, as it turns out, final — edition revisited the sublime Lodge 49, which presented this world for what it is (mired in capitalism and war) while also envisioning what it could be.

Jake Gyllenhaal is an attorney accused of murder in the Apple TV+ limited series “Presumed Innocent,” which is based on the Scott Turow novel.

Here’s who plays who in the rest of the cast and where you might have seen the cast before. Where appropriate, we’ve also listed who played the character in the 1990 movie that starred Harrison Ford, but not all the characters in the series line up with those in the movie.

The first two episodes premiered on June 12 and subsequent episodes debut on Wednesdays through July 24.

Jake Gyllenhaal as Rusty Sabich Jake Gyllenhaal as Rusty Sabich in “Presumed Innocent” (Credit: Apple)

The “Zodiac” star plays Chicago prosecutor Rusty Sabich, who is accused of the brutal murder of his mistress Carolyn Polhemus who was also his colleague. Gyllenhaal recently starred in the “Road House” remake and will return for its sequel. In the 1990 movie, Harrison Ford played this role.

The TV production industry continues to rebound after previous Covid setbacks and union strike delays, although many series with great hopes, continue to disappear after only one season:

ABC

$100,000 Pyramid, The (renewed)

20/20 (renewed)

American Housewife (canceled; five seasons)

American Idol (renewed)

America's Funniest Home Videos (renewed)A Million Little Things (canceled; after Season 5)Bachelor, The (renewed)

Bachelorette, The (renewed)

Bachelor in Paradise (renewed)

Baker and the Beauty (canceled; one season)

Big Sky (renewed)Black-ish (canceled; after Season 8) Bless This Mess (canceled; two seasons)Call Your Mother (canceled; one season)Card SharksCelebrity Family Feud (renewed)

Conners, The (renewed)

Dancing With The Stars (renewed)

Don't (canceled; one season)Emergence (canceled; one season)

For Life (canceled; after Season 2)

Fresh Off The Boat (canceled; six seasons)

Good Doctor, The (canceled; seven seasons) Grand Hotel (canceled; one season)

Goldbergs, The (canceled; ten seasons) Grey's Anatomy (Season 21)

Great Christmas Light Fight (renewed)

Holey Moley (canceled...