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Molly Ringwald is “so happy” about the Sixteen Candles-inspired series in development from UCP for Peacock, executive produced by Selena Gomez, Tanya Saracho, and Gabriela Lugo. 15 Candles tells the story of four young Latinas starting high school as they overcome their feelings of invisibility while exploring what it…

EXCLUSIVE: Tanya Saracho (Vida), Gabriela Revilla Lugo (Whiplash, Palm Springs), and Selena Gomez (Only Murders in the Building, 13 Reasons Why) are developing the single-camera comedy 15 Candles, a reconfiguration of the world of John Hughes‘ 16 Candles.  The half-hour series—from UCP for Peacock—follows four young…

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures has set a remake of the classic John Hughes 1987 road trip comedy Planes, Trains & Automobiles as a star vehicle for Will Smith and Kevin Hart. Hart’s Hartbeat Productions and Smith’s Westbrook Studios will produce. In her feature debut, Aeysha Carr will write the script. Her TV credits…

EXCLUSIVE: Fox has found an inspired way to tap back into the spirit of one of the studio’s all time grossing comedies, Home Alone. In fact, the new take sounds like a blend of that John Hughes-scripted family film, with the irreverence, hard R rating, and star of Deadpool. Ryan Reynolds is attached to produce Stoned A…

UPDATE with video Bill Maher had something he wanted to say on Real Time to those who have blasted old TV shows and movies for their “un-woke” standards.  Shove a sock in it. Enough with revisiting things,” Maher demanded, as his final New Rules entry on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher. “Stop being surprised every…

A friend who likes to share war stories from the writers' room had this news to impart this week: According to a network mandate, female characters must now be depicted as seizing the initiative wherever possible; passivity is passe. While most writers support this point of view in theory, he pointed out, its…

The Harvey Weinstein scandal and the advent of the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements has forever changed Hollywood going forward. Should older films be reevaluated under the new rules, and is there a place for subversive comedy anymore? Molly Ringwald, teen star of John Hughes' classic '80s coming of age trilogy Sixteen Ca…

PHD, a one-stop shop “collective” founded by visual effects industry veterans John Hughes, Helena Packer and Kevin Donovan, has been launched in Los Angeles. Hughes is best known to the industry as one of the co-founders of VFX company Rhythm & Hues — he led that studio for 26 years. The company, which won three…

EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures has attached Kevin Hart to star in The Great Outdoors, a reboot the studio is developing based on the 1988 John Hughes-scripted comedy. Randall Green is writing the new version. Michael De Luca is producing for Michael De Luca Productions with Hart through his Hartbeat Productions banner…

Neither the writer-director of  the 1989 comedy feature Uncle Buck, John Hughes, nor its star, John Candy, are still with us. But, speaking for their loved ones, the families of Hughes and Candy have voiced their disapproval over a planned Uncle Buck TV series in a statement to Deadline. The multi-camera project from…

EXCLUSIVE: Universal Pictures and Silver Pictures will remake Weird Science, the 1985 ultimate nerd wish fulfillment comedy that was written and directed by John Hughes. The film will be produced by Joel Silver, who made the original with Hughes at Universal. Michael Bacall will write the script. He scripted the…

EXCLUSIVE: Jim Hecht, the Ice Age: The Meltdown scribe who recently signed on to write The Big Cigar (about Bert Schneider’s attempt to smuggle Black Panthers leader Huey Newton to Cuba by faking a movie) has signed on to rewrite The Grigsbys Go Broke for Paramount and producers Joe Roth and Palak Patel at Revolution…