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Helen Hunt is to star in Mammoth Screen's BBC One WWII drama World on Fire. The As Good As It Gets and Mad About You star will lead the cast alongside Phantom Thread's Lesley Manville and rising British stars Jonah Hauer-King (Little Women) and Julia Brown (The Last Kingdom). The epic drama is written by The A Word's…

Not good news for fans who have been hoping for a revival of hit ’90s sitcom Mad About You. Original series co-creator and star Paul Reiser says he’s not optimistic it will happen. “It's kind of stuck in the business end of it now,” Reiser told the Tampa Bay Times. “Sony is trying to figure out from their end; that's…

Oscar winner Helen Hunt, Ana de Armas, and John Leguizamo are set to join Tye Sheridan in The Night Clerk, which Sheridan is also producing. Michael Cristofer wrote the screenplay and is directing the film as production began this week. Sheridan stars as Hotel night clerk Bart Bromley, a highly intelligent young man…

Sony Pictures TV has tapped one of the top comedy showrunners on its roster, Peter Tolan, to write and showrun the revival of Mad About You, which reunites original stars Paul Reiser and Helen Hunt. The project is currently being shopped to networks. With the hire of Tolan, whose deal for Mad About You is currently…

Looks like we’re closer to a Mad About You revival. Helen Hunt and Paul Reiser have closed their deals with Sony Pictures TV to reprise their roles as married New York couple Paul and Jamie Buchman, sources have confirmed. Talks had been ongoing for several months. Mad About You, co-created by Reiser and Danny…

Helen Hunt has left CAA after being repped there for around 25 years and has signed with UTA. The change of representation is a surprise. Hunt has been working both in front of and behind the cameras since winning an Oscar for As Good as It Gets. She writes, produces and directs and works on stage as well as in film…

Oscar-winner Helen Hunt (As Good As It Gets), Olivia Munn (X-Men: Apocalypse), Kaya Scodelario (The Maze Runner franchise), and Josh Hutcherson (Hunger Game films) have been tapped the star in action romance film Die In A Gunfight from The Mark Gordon Company. Marvel’s Ant-Man And The Wasp scribes Andrew Barrer and…

Helen Hunt has been set to star in I See You, a Zodiac Picures horror thriller to be directed by Adam Randall (Netflix’s iBoy). Shooting on the pic will begin this summer in Cleveland. The plot: Infidelity has put great strain on the Harper household as Greg, the lead investigator in a child abduction case which has…

Gordon Hunt, a TV helmer, animation recording director, acting coach, voice actor and father of Oscar-winning actress Helen Hunt, has died. He was 87. He died Saturday of Parkinson’s complication at his Sherman Oaks home. “Gordon was a master of reinvention — a journeyman artist,” Helen Hunt said in a statement. “He…

EXCLUSIVE: William Hurt has been set to star opposite Helen Hunt in Live Like Line, the inspirational sports movie about a girls volleyball team trying to win against all odds. The film rejoins the actor with director Sean McNamara as they just completed The King’s Daughter (aka The Moon & The Sun) together…

EXCLUSIVE: Erin Moriarty, who played Woody Harrelson's troubled teenage daughter on the award-winning HBO drama True Detective, and Danika Yarosh, who next will be seen opposite Tom Cruise in Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, have been cast in LD Entertainment’s inspirational true story Live Like Line. The film chronicles…

EXCLUSIVE: Helen Hunt has been tapped to star in Live Like Line, an inspirational sports movie to be directed by Sean McNamara, her director on 2011’s Soul Surfer. LD Entertainment is producing the pic, which chronicles Iowa City's West High girls volleyball team and its improbable run to the state championship under…