Hulu's The Act launched in March with a focus on true crime, a format like True Detective and a star from True Romance. On Sunday at Deadline's The Contenders Emmys, that star, Patricia Arquette, told moderator Pete Hammond that the show's allure is a reminder that fact is often stranger (and more messed-up) than…

Netflix said it is making a sequel to The Kissing Booth, the original film it released last year on the streaming service based on Beth Reekles’ smash self-published YA book. The Kissing Booth 2 is now in production with stars Joey King, Joel Courtney and Jacob Elordi all back. Netflix said in December The Kissing Boot…

Patricia Arquette recognizes that playing a mother suffering from Munchausen Syndrome By Proxy in the first season of Hulu's The Act so soon after playing a prison employee/inmate lover in Showtime's Escape At Dannemora has left her "a little exhausted at playing crazy women." She acknowledged people have treated her…

EXCLUSIVE: Joey King (The Kissing Booth) is set as the co-lead opposite Patricia Arquette in the first season of The Act, Hulu's character-based anthology series from writers Nick Antosca and Michelle Dean and Universal Cable Productions. Written by Dean and Antosca and directed by Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre, The Act…

EXCLUSIVE: Wish Upon and Summer 03 star Joey King is joining Oscar winner Gary Oldman and Maze Runner star Dylan O'Brien in crime-thriller The Bayou, I can reveal. Shoot is due to get underway in New Orleans in June on the project, which we revealed this week. It will be Oldman’s first movie since his Oscar win for The…

EXCLUSIVE: Blue Fox Entertainment has boarded world rights to writer-director Becca Gleason's SXSW debut Summer 03, starring Joey King (Independence Day: Resurgence). Todd Slater brokered the deal on behalf of U.S. sales firm Blue Fox while ICM and UTA's Grace Royer negotiated on behalf of the filmmakers. Blue Fox’s…

“You’ll come of age when you see this. Everybody’s going to come of age!” Summer ’03 star Joey King said during her stop at Deadline’s Studio at SXSW along with writer-director Becca Gleason and co-star Paul Scheer, who called the pic “the Transformers of coming-of-age movies.” Inspired by true events, the story…

Lyndon Smith (Parenthood) has been tapped as the lead Emmy in the CW supernatural cop drama pilot Dead Inside, from writer Katie Lovejoy and producer Bill Lawrence. She replaces Joey King who had been originally cast in the role opposite male lead Freddie Stroma. The casting change was made after the table read. At…

EXCLUSIVE: Summer 03 is having its world premiere at SXSW on Saturday afternoon at the Stateside Theatre in the Narrative Feature Competition section. The pic serves as the the debut feature film from writer-director Becca Gleason. Her comedy’s plot revolves around Jamie (Joey King), whose grandmother on her deathbed…

EXCLUSIVE Joey King (Fargo) and Freddie Stroma (UnReal) and  have been tapped as the leads in the CW supernatural cop drama pilot Dead Inside. Also cast in the project, from writer Katie Lovejoy and producer Bill Lawrence, is Hayley Marie Norman (Adam Ruins Everything). In Dead Inside, penned by Lovejoy and directed…

EXCLUSIVE: Blumhouse is in production in Toronto on the family drama Between the Earth and Sky, written and directed by The Killing creator Veena Sud.  The pic reunites Sud with former Killing stars Mireille Enos and Peter Sarsgaard, who star in the movie with Joey King. The logline is being kept under wraps, with Betw…

EXCLUSIVE: Joey King and The Affair‘s Julia Goldani-Telles have been tapped to co-star the Sylvain White-directed horror thriller Slender Man, along with Captain Fantastic actress Annalise Basso, Jaz Sinclair (When The Bough Breaks) Talitha Bateman (upcoming Annabelle: Creation) and Alex Fitzalan. Screen Gems will…