Hide the bunnies! Fatal Attraction is coming back to screens as a TV adaptation — but it’s a very different beast than the 1987 movie starring Glenn Close and Michael Douglas.
12.04.2023 - 17:15 / deadline.com
The trend of turning movies into reality series continues to gain steam.
Buddy Games, the 2019 comedy directed by and starring Josh Duhamel, has been adapted into a reality competition series for CBS.
The series, which comes from Real World and The Challenge producer Bunim Murray and CBS Studios, has been shot with Duhamel as host and the actor will executive produce via his Dakota Kid Productions banner.
The film centers on a group of six friends that reunite after a five-year hiatus to engage in a challenging set of dares and games and help lift one of their own out of depression and also have a chance of winning $150,000 while doing so.
Directed by Duhamel, it also starred Olivia Munn, Dax Shepard, Kevin Dillon and Neal McDonough. It was produced by WWE Studios and distributed by Saban Films. A sequel to the film is currently in the works.
It was originally ordered under the previous administration, led by Kelly Kahl, before Amy Reisenbach took over in November. The series is also exec produced by Michael J. Luisi, Julie Pizzi, Rupert Dobson, Jacob Lane and Emer Harkin
It is the latest movie adapted into a reality show following HBO Max’s Finding Magic Mike, while Sony was also looking at its feature library for unscripted adaptations.
“Being able to bring Buddy Games to CBS is truly a dream come true for me,” said Duhamel. “This is something my buddies and I have wanted to share with the world for a long time as we knew there was a relatability to it with other people doing similar things to strengthen their friendships. For me, getting to executive produce and host Buddy Games while observing these groups of friends let loose and become part of this big family has been an honor and will be a lot of fun for
Hide the bunnies! Fatal Attraction is coming back to screens as a TV adaptation — but it’s a very different beast than the 1987 movie starring Glenn Close and Michael Douglas.
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his divorce and the birth of his son with Olivia Munn — as well as the pandemic.He burst into song about the weird years, singing, “We all went to rehab, and we all got divorced, and now our reputation is different. No one knows what to think.
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Lise Pedersen Toronto-based outfit Syndicado has acquired world rights for Daniel Kötter’s “Landshaft,” which is competing in the Burning Lights sidebar of Swiss international documentary film festival Visions du Réel. In Germany, the film will be distributed by Arsenal Filmverleih. Shot in the form of a road movie as the director travels across Eastern Armenia in an old Lada, the film offers a striking contrast between the region’s peaceful-looking mountains and the voice of his passengers, its inhabitants, who live in the shadow of the threat of war. They speak about the six-week conflict waged in 2020 by neighbouring Azerbaijan over control of the Nagorno-Karabakh region. Although this disputed region is located further to the south, the conflict has now moved further up the border, and runs through the Sotk gold mine, whose concession has been granted to a Russian company by the Armenians.
Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Trinity CineAsia has acquired rights to Chinese tentpole action movie “Born to Fly,” and will release the film in cinemas in the U.K. and Ireland.
Olivia Attwood and her fiancé Bradley Dack will return to our TV screens for a new series of Olivia Meets Her Match, this time titled Olivia Marries Her Match, as the couple prepare for their big day.The former Love Island star, 31, announced the new series on Instagram, as she revealed that filming kicked off yesterday. In a video posted to her Instagram Story, Olivia began: "So it has been a year, two years...
The Wicked movie is coming to life!
Emily Longeretta “Buddy Games,” a reality competition inspired by Josh Duhamel’s real-life tradition with his friends, has been given a series order at CBS. “Being able to bring ‘Buddy Games’ to CBS is truly a dream come true for me,” Dakota Kid Productions founder Duhamel, who will host and executive produce the series, said. “This is something my buddies and I have wanted to share with the world for a long time as we knew there was a relatability to it with other people doing similar things to strengthen their friendships. For me, getting to executive produce and host ‘Buddy Games’ while observing these groups of friends let loose and become part of this big family has been an honor and will be a lot of fun for viewers to watch.”
Sylvester Stallone, his wife Jenn and daughters Sophie, Sistine and Scarlet seem quite comfortable being on camera in the first trailer for the reality series “The Family Stallone,” which premieres May 17 on Paramount+ in the U.S., Canada, Latin America and Brazil and on Thursday, May 18 in the U.K., Australia and Italy.“I can’t believe you guys are doing a reality show,” the “Tulsa King” star tells his family in in the first trailer, which was released on Tuesday. “It’s quite ironic that he’s the last person who wanted to do this show, but he sees a camera and he’s like, ‘Am I in frame?'” teases daughter Sistine, while Stallone laughingly admits, “That’s the truth.” Al Pacino and Dolph Lundgren also hang out with the action star and share a few laughs.
EXCLUSIVE: Former CBS Entertainment President Kelly Kahl and Cannonball Productions principals Sean Hanish and Paul Jaconi-Biery have completed principal photography on a documentary series about the famed 1982 Milwaukee Brewers.
Emily Longeretta Sylvester Stallone is taking a swing at something new. Paramount+’s upcoming reality show, “The Family Stallone,” which follows follow the actor, his wife and their three daughters, will premiere on the service on May 17 in the U.S., Canada, Latin America and Brazil. The show will debut the following day in the U.K., Australia and Italy, with further international markets to follow. The unscripted series will give viewers a chance to get to know Stallone’s wife, Jennifer Flavin Stallone, who is a businesswoman and the co-owner of the Serious Skin Care wellness brand. Additionally, viewers will meet the pair’s three daughters, who are all on different paths; the oldest, Sophia, is still finding her focus and co-hosts the “Unwaxed” podcast with Sistine; Sistine, whose an actress and model, is developing her first feature film; and Scarlet is working on her acting career while at college. She appeared in Season 1 of “Tulsa King.”
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EXCLUSIVE: Fox has given a straight-to-series order to medical procedural drama Doc, a U.S. adaptation of the popular Italian series Doc — Nelle tue mani, to premiere during the 2023-24 season. The project, which landed at the network in February in competitive situation with a script-to-series commitment, hails from writer, executive producer and showrunner Barbie Kligman (Magnum P.I.), executive producers Hank Steinberg (For Life) and 3 Arts’ Erwin Stoff, Sony Pictures Television, which acquired the international rights to the format in 2020, and Fox Entertainment Studios.