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HBO Max has given a pilot order to Dead Boy Detectives, a series based on the DC Comics characters created by Neil Gaiman, from The Flight Attendant creator Steve Yockey, Doom Patrol creator Jeremy Carver, Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. TV where Berlanti Prods is based, Deadline has confirmed. Written by…

The Girls On The Bus, Greg Berlanti and Julie Plec’s drama series adaptation of Amy Chozick’s best-seller Chasing Hilary: Ten Years, Two Presidential Campaigns and One Intact Glass Ceiling, is now in the works at The CW after being dropped by Netflix, Deadline confirmed. In August 2019, Netflix ordered the drama…

EXCLUSIVE: Dannah Shinder, SVP of Television at Elizabeth Banks and Max Handelman's Brownstone Productions, has joined Berlanti Productions as EVP, Television. The hire of Shinder follows the recent promotion of SVP Television Jonathan Gabay to EVP Television at Berlanti Prods., run by partners Greg Berlanti and Sarah…

"When I started Arrow, if you are thinking of things like a pie chart, it was 90% about the creativity, and it was 10% about being able to eventually buy a house and pay a mortgage," says Stephen Amell on today’s Hero Nation podcast of his thinking behind exiting the long running CW series a few years ago. "By the…

EXCLUSIVE: Michael McGrath has been promoted to EVP Film at Greg Berlanti and Sarah Schechter’s production company Berlanti/Schechter Films. “We are so pleased to be announcing Mike McGrath's well deserved promotion,” said Berlanti and Schechter. “Sarah and Mike have worked together for nearly a decade and Greg and…

EXCLUSIVE: Prolific duo Greg Berlanti & Sarah Schechter have set their Berlanti/Schechter Films banner to an exclusive first-look feature film deal at Netflix. The film pact with Netflix comes two and a half years before Berlanti's mega overall deal with Warner Bros. Television — valued at as much as $400 million — is…

Greg Berlanti and Chandra Wilson joined The Actors Fund Board of Trustees during the organization’s annual meeting yesterday, with Brian Stokes Mitchell reelected as Chairman. "I could not be prouder to join the Board of The Actors Fund," said Berlanti, the writer, director and producer behind The Flash, DC's Legends o…

When composer Blake Neely boarded The Flight Attendant, he helped clarify an approach to telling a story, which was "very difficult, tonally, to find." HBO Max's series, based on the 2018 novel of the same name by Chris Bohjalian, centers on Cassie (Kaley Cuoco), a flight attendant and reckless alcoholic who one day…

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros has set a remake The Hunger, the 1983 steamy vampire film that started the rise of the late Top Gun director Tony Scott. Angela Robinson is in final talks to direct, with Jessica Sharzer writing the script. The film will be produced by Berlanti Schechter’s Greg Berlanti and Sarah Schechter. Mike…

"What attracted me is I don't understand why we are still talking about it,' says Helter Skelter: An American Myth director Lesley Chilcott of why she wanted to make a docuseries on Charles Manson. Looking at the backstory behind the frustrated musician, and new perspectives on his Family, the Sixties counterculture…

Channing Dungey, the new Chairman of Warner Bros. Television Group, is to sit down with The Flight Attendant's Kaley Cuoco and Greg Berlanti at this year's Banff World Media Festival. It marks one of the first major public appearances since Dungey took over running television at the Hollywood studio. She will sit down…

Titans has found its new Robin in I May Destroy You actor Jay Lycurgo. Lycurgo will recur on the HBO Max series as Tim Drake, who is described as a streetwise kid who’s managed to grow up on the toughest streets without losing his indelible belief in heroism. His easy-going demeanor is backed up by a near-genius mind…