‘9-1-1’s Angela Bassett Brings The Heat In First Cop Role Angela Bassett was recently thrown onto the force with regular collaborator Ryan Murphy’s idiosyncratic, thrilling procedural series 9-1-1 on Fox. Having never played a cop before, Bassett — a Golden Globe winner, Oscar nominee and four-t..

Warner Bros To Make Film On Bard Prison Initiative Debate Team That Beat Harvard EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros will develop a film about the Bard Prison Initiative debate team and its founder, Max Kenner. Kenner, who hatched the BPI program while an undergraduate at Bard, put together a debate team com..

Bravo Bolsters Development Slate With Eight Reality Projects From Ravi Patel, Jenny Daly, More Bravo is expanding its development slate with eight new reality projects. The announcement comes on the heels of the greenlight of 11 new and 20 returning series as the network gears up for seven night..

‘Mowgli’ Trailer: Andy Serkis’ Dark ‘Jungle Book’ Tale With Big-Name Cast “Witness the darkest telling of the beloved masterpiece,” Warner Bros notes at the start of the first full trailer for Mowgli (fka Jungle Book: Origins). Solid take. “I bit and I scratched and I spent my entire life fighti..

Orion Classics Relaunches At MGM With Kate Bosworth Film ‘The Domestics’ As First Release MGM is re-launching Orion Classics and has named Mike P. Nelson’s thriller The Domestics starring Kate Bosworth as its first release as the studio says it will focus on multiplatform and specialized release..

Lena Waithe Joins Kay Cannon, Nico Santos For GLAAD Forum Discussion On LGBTQ Representation In Film Emmy-winning writer Lena Waithe is set to join Blockers director Kay Cannon and Superstore actor Nico Santos at GLAAD, WME and Endeavor Content’s first forum on LGBTQ inclusion in film which will..

Amazon Studios Names Vernon Sanders As Co-Head Of Television Former veteran NBC executive Vernon Sanders has joined Amazon Studios as Co-Head of Television. He will work alongside Co-Head of Television, Albert Cheng, overseeing the creative and production units of the television operation for Am..

Marty Adelstein’s Tomorrow Studios To Adapt J. Randy Taraborrelli’s ‘Jackie, Janet & Lee’ Biography For TV Marty Adelstein’s Tomorrow Studios (Snowpiercer, Good Behavior), a partnership between Adelstein and ITV Studios, will adapt J. Randy Taraborrelli’s bestselling biography Jackie, Janet & Le..

‘Descendants 3’: Disney Channel Pic Adds Cheyenne Jackson As Hades From ‘Hercules’ Disney Channel’s Descendants 3 just got more villainous. The cable net said today that Cheyenne Jackson is set to play Hades, the underworld ruler from Disney’s 1997 toon Hercules, rounding out the cast of the tel..