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EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios has signed on to finance and distribute the Hannah Marks-directed father-daughter adventure dramedy Don't Make Me Go starring John Cho (Harold & Kumar, Star Trek). The script for Don’t Make Me Go was written by Vera Herbert (This Is Us) and originated as a spec script that landed on the 2012…

Netflix’s live-action take on the anime classic Cowboy Bebop finally has wrapped production on its first season after a long injury layoff and the coronavirus shutdown. The streamer confirmed the news to Deadline tonight after series regular Daniella Pineda posted about it on social media. <a…

EXCLUSIVE: Sony's Stage 6 Films has closed a deal for Will Merrick & Nick Johnson to make their directing debut on the sequel to the Screenlife hit film Searching, a sequel that will tell a different story from the original that starred John Cho and Debra Messing. The filmmakers served as the editorial team on Aneesh…

Glen Keane is a Disney animation legend whose work on such classics as The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast has been widely praised, as was his Oscar-winning animated short Dear Basketball which he directed, as well as produced, with the late Kobe Bryant. It is no wonder I was expecting big things from his…

Netflix and Pearl Studio have released the first trailer for family feature Over The Moon, the animated musical retelling of the classic Chinese myth. The film's voice cast has also been revealed, including Phillipa Soo, Ken Jeong, John Cho, Ruthie Ann Miles, Margaret Cho, Kimiko Glenn, Artt Butler, Sandra Oh and…

Netflix’s upcoming live-action series Cowboy Bebop is going on a lengthy hiatus following a knee injury sustained by lead John Cho on the set of the show in New Zealand. Sources describe the injury as a freak accident that happened on the last take of a routine and well-rehearsed scene almost two weeks ago. It…

EXCLUSIVE: We hear that Elliott San has sold an untitled spec competitively to New Line with Mary Lee of A-Major Media and John Cho producing. The logline is being kept under wraps but we hear it’s a mind-bending genre tale that centers around an Asian-American protagonist. San is a native of Libertyville, Illinois…

EXCLUSIVE: You don’t see that many films acquired at Sundance getting sequels, but Sony’s Stage 6 Films is working on a second installment of Searching, the thriller about a father’s desperate search for his missing daughter that Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions bought for $5 million in a world rights deal and…

John Cho (Star Trek, Searching), Mustafa Shakir (Marvel's Luke Cage), Daniella Pineda (Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom; What/If) and Alex Hassell (The Miniaturist; Suburbicon) are set as leads in Cowboy Bebop, a live-action adaptation of the cult Japanese animated series. The space Western hails from Tomorrow Studios…

John Cho (Searching), Allison Tolman (Fargo) and Jacob Tremblay (Room) have been tapped to star in “The Wunderkind” episode of The Twilight Zone reboot on CBS All Access. Erica Tremblay will also appear in the episode.  They join previously announced host and narrator Jordan Peele and cast members Sanaa Lathan, Adam…

Since 1997, Searching star John Cho has appeared in a diverse array of film and television (remember when he had the knife-wielding roommate in Felicity?). When he appeared in American Pie as the “MILF guy” he not only popularized the term but gained a reputation for his comedic chops. This paved the road for Harold…

The new trailer for Aneesh Chaganty’s innovative, award-winning Sundance thriller Searching is filled with Internet hysteria as a man tries desperately to find his missing daughter via social media channels and websites. And from the looks of the trailer above, things go off the rails. Written by Chaganty and Sev Ohani…