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UPDATED, 3:05 PM: Producer Adam Shankman took to Instagram on Friday to unveil a premiere date for the anticipated Hocus Pocus 2, announcing that the sequel to Kenny Ortega’s 1993 Disney classic will debut on Disney+ this Halloween. “SISTAAAAAHHHHSSS! Aaaaand that’s a WRAP!!! #hocuspocus2 Congratulations to the…

Adam Shankman, the director behind titles such as What Men Want and 2007’s Hairspray, has been tapped to helm Hocus Pocus 2, Disney+’s sequel to the 1993 cult classic that starred Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najimy. TV writer-producer Jen D'Angelo penned the screenplay for the film which is being…

A musical adaptation of Fuji Television’s hit Japanese series Train Man is in the works for the U.S. by Everybody Loves Raymond creator Phil Rosenthal and writer-executive producer Tucker Cawley, with Adam Shankman (Hairspray, Step Up) attached to direct and executive produce. The project, the first American remake by…

Refresh for updates Hollywood figures and celebrities took to Twitter to honor prolific producer Craig Zadan, who died Tuesday after complications following shoulder replacement surgery. Zadan is known for championing musical theater and produced Oscar telecasts as well as the Academy Award-winning film adaptation of…

Adam Shankman is attached to direct Paramount Player’s What Men Want, the Taraji P. Henson-starring comedy inspired by the 2000 Nancy Meyers romantic comedy, What Women Want, which was toplined by Mel Gibson. The revamp centers on a female sports agent (Henson) who has been constantly boxed out by her male colleagues…

Based on the Step Up film franchise that grossed $650 million at the global box office, YouTube’s drama, Step Up: High Water focuses on several ambitious young dancers in a contemporary performing arts school in Atlanta. Dance dramas are a cyclical thing, series EP/director Adam Shankman insisted at TCA on Saturday…

Global Road Entertainment has inked a first-look TV deal with Offspring Entertainment, the production company run by Adam Shankman and Jennifer Gibgot that’s ramping up its small-screen efforts. The first two projects under the pact are Wolfgang (formerly known as Coda), about the world’s first rock star Wolfgang…

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures has acquired the thriller pitch Gasp for Jennifer Gibgot and Adam Shankman’s Offspring Entertainment. The script will be written by Mario Celaya, and American Horror Story‘s Jessica Sharzer will supervise the scribe and co-produce, with Gibgot and Shankman producing. Paramount’s Vanessa…

Adam Shankman has been set to direct Kate Beckinsale in an adaptation of mother-daughter drama The Chocolate Money, based on Ashley Prentice Norton's popular novel. Cornerstone Films is handling international sales and will launch the title to buyers next month at the European Film Market in Berlin. UTA is repping…

UPDATE, 12:05 PM with Open Road statement: Bob and Harvey Weinstein have joined the CEOs of more than 80 major corporations – including Google, Apple, You Tube, Yahoo and Microsoft – who have signed a letter urging the governor of North Carolina to rescind an anti-gay bill he recently signed (see the letter in full…

Director-producer Adam Shankman is tapping into his background as a dancer and choreographer with The Nutcracker, a two-hour television movie based on the classic ballet by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. It is one of two projects Shakman and Jennifer Gibgot’s Offspring Entertainment has in the works at NBC, along with Love…

In a competitive situation, Warner Bros. TV has acquired the rights to Kresley Cole’s popular series of young adult novels The Arcana Chronicles for Adam Shankman and Jennifer Gibgot’s studio-based Offspring Entertainment. Writer Seamus Kevin Fahey (Battlestar Galactica, The Following) has been brought in to pen an…