Daniel Dae Kim (The Hot Zone: Anthrax, Hawaii Five-0) is set to star in Avatar: The Last Airbender, Netflix’s live-action adaptation of the beloved Nickelodeon animated series. Kim will play Fire Lord Ozai, the ruthlessly driven leader of the Fire Nation who demands that everyone live up to his impossible standards, especially his teenage son,…
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Danny DeVito has joined the luminous cast of Haunted Mansion, Disney’s ghostly family adventure based on one of the company’s signature theme park rides. DeVito, whose last big-screen studio appearance was in 2019’s Jumanji: The Next Level, boards a project that already has LaKeith Stanfield, Tiffany Haddish, Owen Wilson and Rosario Dawson on the call…
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Owen Wilson has joined the cast of Haunted Mansion, Disney’s family adventure spookfest based on one of the company’s signature theme park rides. Wilson joins LaKeith Stanfield and Tiffany Haddish in a roll call for a production that is described as an ensemble in nature. Justin Simien, who previously helmed Dear White People and Bad…
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Rosario Dawson has been set to join LaKeith Stanfield and Tiffany Haddish in Haunted Mansion, Disney’s latest live-action film based on one of its theme park attractions. Justin Simien is directing a script from Katie Dippold, and the pic, which also recently added Owen Wilson to the cast, is now gearing up to begin shooting…
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Nearly three years after being picked up straight-to-series, Netflix’s live-action adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender is coming into focus. A year to the day after original series creators Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko parted ways with the streaming giant following creative differences (and for a lucrative overall deal with ViacomCBS), Albert Kim (Sleepy…
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Disney is spelling “m-u-s-i-c-a-l,” closing a deal to pick up the rights to hit Broadway show The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, with the intent of mounting a live-action adaptation. Dan Lin and Jonathan Eirich, who produced the billion-dollar-grossing live-action Aladdin remake for the studio, are producing Spelling Bee via their Rideback banner. The…
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Rideback, the production house run by Dan Lin and Jonathan Eirich that was behind Netflix’s Oscar-nominated drama The Two Popes, will produce. Ripley, who wrote the Jake Gyllenhaal time travel thriller Source Code, returns to similar genre ground with what is described as a sci-fi heist story that takes place across parallel universes. It involves…
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Universal Pictures has signed a first-look production deal with Dan Lin and Rideback, the production company behind the billion dollar-grossing live-action remake of Aladdin and Oscar-nominated drama The Two Popes. Additional trade coverage from Deadline, Variety, and The Wrap. Details of the deal were not disclosed but it is understood that Lin, who runs Rideback’s…
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CBS has put in development Burn In, an AI drama based on P.W. Singer and August Cole’s novel Burn In: A Novel of the Real Robotic Revolution, from Elementary creator Rob Doherty, Dan Lin’s Rideback and CBS Studios, where Doherty is under an overall deal. Burn In is described as a gripping techno-thriller and fact-based…
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MGM is looking to bring back the classic animated character Pink Panther in a big way as it has set Jeff Fowler direct a new live-action/CGI hybrid feature film centered on the iconic cat. Chris Bremner will write MGM’s modern reimagining, with Lawrence Mirisch, Julie Andrews Edwards of Geoffrey Productions, Rideback’s Dan Lin and Jonathan…
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