Jill Halfpenny, Jonas Armstrong and Rupert Penry-Jones are to star in an identity thriller for British broadcaster Channel 5 from Noel Clarke and Jason Maza’s Unstoppable Film & Television. The Drowning is the latest drama order for the ViacomCBS network, which has been aggressively ramping up its scripted slate with…

Christoph Waltz, Guy Pearce and Patrick Gibson are attached to star in comedy-fantasy The Portable Door, which Arclight is launching at the EFM. In the family pic, a young man lands a job at a magical firm, only to find that its leaders are hiding darker motives. Muppets creator Jim Henson Company is…

Ja’Net DuBois is being remembered by her former co-workers for bringing “light” to the set of Good Times. DuBois, who played Willona Woods on the 1970s sitcom, passed away Tuesday at her home in Glendale, California. She was 74. As news of the actress and singer’s death spread, members of the Good Times family…

Ben Affleck has finally revealed the real reasons he decided to leave The Batman. In an interview published Tuesday by The New York Times, the two-time Oscar winner…

EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate has just taken the upcoming YA novel All This Time by Mikki Daughtry and Rachael Lippincott off the table for six figures after multiple studios were circling. The novel from Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers hits store shelves on Oct. 6. This is the much anticipated follow-up book from the…

EXCLUSIVE: Tony winner Norbert Leo Butz is set to co-star opposite Jonathan Tucker and Riann Steele in Debris, NBC's sci-fi drama pilot from Almost Human creator J.H. Wyman and Legendary Television. NBC Written by Wyman, Debris is said to be in the vein of The X-Files and Men in Black. In it, two agents from two…

EXCLUSIVE: Good Deed Entertainment has ac today that they have acquired the North American distribution rights tthe World War II drama Enemy Lines starring Ed Westwick, John Hannah, Tom Wisdom, Corey Johnson, Pawel Delag, Vladimir Epifantsev and Kirill Pletnyov. The deal came out of AFM and the film is set to open in…

Zoe Caldwell, a veteran stage, TV and film actress who won four Tony Awards and originated the Broadway roles of Maria Callas in Master Class and the title character in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, has died. She was 86. Her son, Charlie Whitehead, said she died Sunday of Parkinson’s disease complications at her home…

EXCLUSIVE: Castle alumna Tamala Jones is returning to ABC with a series regular opposite Katey Sagal in Rebel, ABC's drama pilot inspired by the life of activist Erin Brockovich. Additionally, Jones just booked a recurring role on the new Fox series 911: Lone Star, playing Det. Washington, a detective investigating an…

Michael Bloomberg will sell his media and financial data company if he is elected president, an adviser told the Associated Press on Tuesday. Tim O’Brien, who took a leave from his post at Bloomberg Opinion to serve as senior adviser to the campaign, told the AP that “we want to be 180 degrees apart from Donald Trump…