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An updated take on the cult 1999 movie Cruel Intentions, which has been in development at Amazon Freevee since 2021, has been picked up to series, Deadline has confirmed with sources. The series adaptation, set in Washington D.C., hails from writers Phoebe Fisher and Sara Goodman, Sony Pictures…

Sarah Michelle Gellar is opening up about the Cruel Intentions reboot NBC passed on and why she’s grateful the pilot was not picked up to series. The peacock network gave it a pilot order in February 2016 but announced in October of that same year that it was not moving forward with the show. Gellar had signed on to re…

IMDb TV, Amazon's premium free streaming service, is developing an updated take on the cult 1999 movie Cruel Intentions, set in Washington D.C. It hails from writers Phoebe Fisher and Sara Goodman, Sony Pictures Television, Amazon Studios and Original Film. In this new incarnation of the premise, which is rooted in…

The reboot of cult 1999 movie Cruel Intentions is officially not going forward. The options on the cast in the pilot, toplined by Sarah Michelle Gellar, are up next week and won’t be renewed. While the current incarnation of Cruel Intentions is dead, I hear producing studio Sony TV might redevelop the idea. Originally…

NBC has made a decision on its Cruel Intentions reboot, opting not to pick up the pilot starring Sarah Michelle Gellar to series. The studio behind it, Sony Pictures TV, now is planning to shop it elsewhere. NBC in May left the project in contention for a summer run. Over the summer, the network considered it as a…

The May 2015 staging of Lindsey Rosin and Jordan Ross’ Unauthorized Musical Parody Of Cruel Intentions at Los Angeles' Rockwell Table & Stage was the impetus for a series reboot of the cult 1999 movie that was ordered to pilot at NBC and remains in contention for a series pickup. While its fate at the network remains…

There is encouraging news for Cruel Intentions fans — the options on the entire cast of NBC’s drama pilot have been extended. While the pilot — a sequel to the cult movie toplined by original star Sarah Michelle Gellar — was not picked up to series by NBC in May, it remained in consideration, possibly for a summer…

During NBC’s upfront press call today, NBC chairman Bob Greenblatt confirmed that the network is keeping its pilot Cruel Intentions alive. The project, a sequel to the cult movie which has original star Sarah Michelle Gellar reprising her role, was not picked up to series, but not passed on either. "It goes under the…

Red Reddington, meet Scottie Halsted. On the heels of the embedded pilot episode of The Blacklist spinoff airing on Thursday, NBC has picked up the project starring Famke Janssen to series. It will be titled The Blacklist: Redemption. This is the second spinoff series greenlighted by NBC for next season, which also is…

The first pilot cuts have started to come in as the last pilots are finishing production (except for ABC drama Still Star-Crossed, which starts filming next week, and Fox comedy Chad, which will shoot in late May). Next week, we should start to get a clearer picture of where the different pilots stand, but until then…

Jeimy Osorio (Celia) is set as a series regular in ABC's drama pilot The Death of Eva Sofia Valdez. Written by Cuban-American playwright Charise Castro Smith, The Death of Eva Sofia Valdez is described as a sexy revenge drama with a supernatural twist. It centers on Eva Sofia Valdez (Gina Torres), a Cuban immigrant…

Burn Notice alum Coby Bell is set to co-star opposite Sarah Michelle Gellar in Cruel Intentions, NBC’s drama pilot based on the cult 1999 feature that starred Gellar, Ryan Phillippe and Reese Witherspoon. Set in present day, Cruel Intentions picks up more than 15 years after the movie left off. It follows the…