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Fox is heading to Fantasy Island for the summer. The network has given a straight-to-series order to a contemporary version of the classic drama series. The project, from writer-producers Liz Craft and Sarah Fain (The 100), Sony Pictures TV and Gemstone Studios, will air next summer. This marks the first green light…

UPDATED, Monday AM: Paramount’s Sonic the Hedgehog will hit $70 million in four days, according to the studio, after a $16.5M Sunday that is down 20% from Saturday. The pic based on the Sega character remains the best domestic opening for a video game property on the big screen on both a three-day and four-day basis…

The first Disney release of 2020, Pixar’s Onward, arrived on tracking today with a $44 million projection. Some believe that the forecast for the March 6 release is low and could go higher. The movie directed by Dan Scanlon and featuring the voices of Tom Holland, Chris Pratt, Octavia Spencer and Julia Louis-Dreyfus…

Paramount’s feature adaptation of classic Sega videogame Sonic the Hedgehog will definitely open according to tracking this morning with a 4-day opening range of $41M-$47M. Males under 25 are all in for this. Paramount pushed the estimated $95M production from Nov. 8 last year to the Valentine’s Day/Presidents Day…

It’s been 35 years since the final episode of the ABC supernatural drama Fantasy Island — does the show still have a foothold in the public imagination? The trailer for the new Blumhouse Productions/Columbia Pictures revival of the brand name suggests that it doesn’t much matter. That’s because this new interpretation…

EXCLUSIVE: Maggie Q has inked with ICM Partners. The Hawaiian-born actor burst onto the Hong Kong movie scene and went on to become a star in Asia. She made the jump to Hollywood starring opposite Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker in Rush Hour 2, Tom Cruise in J.J. Abrams' Mission: Impossible III, and Bruce Willis in Live F…

UPDATED, 11:03 AM: The plane will be arriving two weeks earlier. Sony said today that Blumhouse’s Fantasy Island has moved to a February 14 release date, vacating its slated February 28 bow. The creepshow is arriving on the busy Valentine’s Day frame and now is set to face four wid wide openers: Fox’s The King’s…

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Rooker (Guardians of the Galaxy 1 & 2, The Walking Dead, HBO’s True Detective Season 3), Charlotte McKinney (Flatliners, Baywatch remake), Parisa Fitz-Henley (Luke Cage, Jessica Jones), and Austin Stowell (Catch 22, Battle of the Sexes) are headed to Fantasy Island. The Sony Pictures/ Blumhouse film…

The Pretty Little Liars star has officially boarded the feature take on the  ’70s/’80s ABC TV series which Blumhouse and Sony are co-financing and co-producing. Hale reteams with Truth or Dare director Jeff Wadlow who is helming Fantasy Island. Lucy Hale joins Michael Pena, who’ll play Mr. Roarke, the host of the…

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Peña has been tapped to play the iconic Mr. Roarke in the Sony Pictures and Blumhouse-produced Fantasy Island film adaptation from director Jeff Wadlow (Truth Or Dare). Peña is taking on a role that was originated by Ricardo Montalban when the TV series, from Aaron Spelling, launched in 1978 on ABC…

EXCLUSIVE: The long running ABC series Fantasy Island is being reconstituted as a feature film by Blumhouse and Sony Pictures, the latter of which controls the rights to the Aaron Spelling series which ran from 1977-84. Jeff Wadlow is directing. He just teamed with Blumhouse on Truth Or Dare, the genre film that…

Following the Hart To Hart remake with a gay couple, which was set up at NBC, Sony TV is rebooting another classic 1970s drama series from the Spelling-Goldberg catalog, Fantasy Island, with a major twist (or two). The project has landed at ABC with penalty. Written by Sheldon Turner (Up In The Air), the new take goes…