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Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefBandai Namco-owned Japanese animation series “Tiger & Bunny” has been optioned for adaptation as an English-language, live-action production for the third time.Independent U.S. production entity SK Global (“Crazy Rich Asians,” “Hell or High Water”) announced that it will develop the property as a series in partnership with Bandai Namco Pictures and with M.

Tom Holland is looking worried!

Tom Holland wears a retro Pink Floyd tee while arriving on the set of his Apple TV+ series, The Crowded Room, in New York on Monday afternoon (April 4).

Photos have emerged from the set of Tom Holland‘s upcoming Apple TV+ series The Crowded Room!

MGM and producer Akiva Goldsman are working with “The Da Vinci Code” author Dan Brown to adapt his children’s picture book “Wild Symphony” as an animated feature. “Wild Symphony” will be envisioned as a “Fantasia”-esque musical experience and will have a script adapted by Brown, as well as music that he also wrote. No director has been set.

Wild Symphony, the children’s book by No. 1 New York Times best-selling author Dan Brown, is getting a big screen animated feature adaptation from Oscar winner Akiva Goldsman and MGM.

Angelique Jackson Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM) and Academy Award-winning writer Akiva Goldsman are developing an animated movie based on Dan Brown’s bestselling children’s picture book, “Wild Symphony.Written by Brown and with illustrations by Susan Batori, “Wild Symphony” follows the adventures of Maestro Mouse as he traverses the globe, recruiting an orchestra like no other. The animated feature is described as a “‘Fantasia’-esque musical experience,” featuring music penned by Brown.Best-known as the writer of such blockbuster books as “The Da Vinci Code,” the new project marks Brown’s first time adapting one of his books for the big screen.

EXCLUSIVE: MGM has signed a first-look feature film production deal with Oscar-winning writer Akiva Goldsman and his production company, Weed Road Pictures.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter“Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” has cast Paul Wesley in the iconic role of James T. Kirk for the Paramount Plus show’s upcoming second season.“Strange New Worlds” is due to premiere on Paramount Plus on May 5. It was renewed for a second season back in January, with that season already in production.The show follows the adventures of Captain Christopher Pike prior to Kirk becoming captain of the Enterprise.

Michael B. Jordan to thank for the movie's upcoming sequel. Last week,ET confirmed that Will Smith, who played scientist Robert Neville in the original film, will star opposite the actor in a follow-up flick.“The idea came up,” Smith told ET’s Denny Directo at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival on Monday about his discussion with Jordan.

Will Smith's set to star opposite Michael B. Jordan in the sequel, ET can confirm.Smith, who starred in the original 2007 film, and Jon Mone, co-president of Westbrook Studios, will produce and James Lassiter will serve as the executive producer.

Will Smith will be revisiting one of his most successful big-screen hits, and he’s bringing Michael B. Jordan along for the ride.

A sequel to the 2007 movie I Am Legend is in the works and Will Smith will be returning alongside new franchise star Michael B. Jordan.

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros. is really upping the stakes to its I Am Legend franchise to a stratospheric level and bringing back for the next chapter, not just original star Will Smith, but he’ll be joined by Black Panther actor Michael B. Jordan in what will rep the duo’s first big movie together as stars and producers. Talk about two big stars getting together, between Smith and Jordan combined, their movies have grossed a massive $12.3 billion at the box office.

Emmy Rossum is taking on a new role!

Selome Hailu Apple TV Plus announced that Amanda Seyfried has been cast opposite Tom Holland in upcoming anthology series “The Crowded Room” from writer and executive producer Akiva Goldsman. She will play Rya, a clinical psychologist faced with the most challenging case of her career.

Ethan Shanfeld A remake of Stephen King’s “Firestarter” starring Zac Efron debuted its official trailer and announced a day-and-date premiere on Peacock and in theaters on May 13.The film, based on King’s 1980 novel and the 1984 original movie, follows Charlie (Ryan Kiera Armstrong), a young girl who develops pyrokinetic superpowers and is captured by a government agency who wishes to use her gift as a weapon. Sydney Lemmon will play Charlie’s mother, while Efron plays her father. Michael Greyeyes, Gloria Reuben, Kurtwood Smith and John Beasley also star.The explosive trailer sees Armstrong’s Charlie taking on bad guys with fire as her parents try to protect her.

Screenwriter Akiva Goldsman took to Twitter on Monday to quash a conspiracy theory, centered on his 2007 Warner Bros. film, I Am Legend.

Typically, The Playlist doesn’t like to mix movie news with politics, but sometimes, that’s just impossible. Sometimes, you have a social media trend that is so ridiculous and tied to a movie plot that can’t ignore it.

Tom Holland is about to star in a TV show!

Tom Holland is definitely best known for his role as Peter Parker, aka Spider-Man, in the various Marvel Studios productions.

Tom Holland is to tackle Multiple Personality Disorder in a new anthology series for Apple TV+.

Amanda N'Duka pmc-editorial-managerParamount Pictures has optioned the film rights to magic-themed YA book, Caster, which will be adapted as a live-action feature with Scholastic Entertainment, Oscar winner Akiva Goldsman’s Weed Road Pictures, and Josephson Entertainment developing and producing.Written by author Elsie Chapman, the book was first released in 2019 via Scholastic Press and is now a two-book series.

If you’ve been waiting 15 years to hear Keanu Reeves wax poetic about the mise en scène in “Constantine,” have we got a panel for you: On Saturday, “Constantine”‘s star, director Francis Lawrence and producer Akiva Goldsman virtually reunited during Comic-Con@Home to look back at their 2005 comic book pic.

Keanu Reeves wax poetic about the mise en scène in, have we got a panel for you: On Saturday, 's star, director Francis Lawrence and producer Akiva Goldsman virtually reunited during Comic-Con@Home to look back at their 2005 comic book pic.Reeves played DC Comics antihero John Constantine, an occult detective navigating a world of angels and demons while seeking salvation from eternal damnation.

You might have been expecting an announcement on a new “Constantine” movie or TV show, as reports have been pouring in on plans to continue telling stories of DC’s Hellblazer either with original actor Keanu Reeves or with a new actor (maybe Matt Ryan, who is playing the character on the Arrowverse shows). Though no new announcement was made, we did get a cool and fittingly weird idea about a “Constantine” sequel that never was, and it could have literally included Jesus Christ.

Amazon is circling Paramount's Tom Clancy adaptation Without Remorse, starring Michael B. Jordan.