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EXCLUSIVE: Meet Joss Whedon’s next leading lady. Laura Donnelly (Outlander) is set as the lead in The Nevers, HBO’s straight-to-series drama from the Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator and The Avengers writer/director. Co-written by Whedon and Buffy alums Jane Espenson and Doug Petrie and directed by Whedon, The Nevers…

The scoobies are back! Well, most of them are. The cast of Buffy the Vampire Slayer had a mini-reunion at Wizard World Portland on Sunday and it brought back fond memories of their days at Sunnydale High School and the Hellmouth. The titular slayer was not on hand, unfortunately, but her fellow supernatural-hunting…

“It’s not on an incredibly, fast track, but we’re hopeful,” said Fox Television Group Chairman and CEO Gary Newman to the TCA press corps about the recent move to reboot Buffy the Vampire Slayer.  It was announced last month that Midnight, Texas creator Monica Owusu-Breen had been tapped as writer, executive producer…

One of the most beloved TV series of the past two decades, Joss Whedon’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer, is making a comeback. A reboot of the supernatural drama is in development at Fox 21 TV Studios, the cable/streaming division of 20th Century Fox TV, the studios behind the original series, which ran for seven seasons…

HBO has given a series pickup to The Nevers, a new series from The Avengers and Buffy the Vampire Slayer‘s Joss Whedon. The pay cable network landed the project in a competitive situation, with Netflix said to be among those pursuing it. Whedon is the writer, director, executive producer and showrunner of The…

UPDATED with executive comment. Freeform has given a pilot order to a show with the working title Motherland, an hour-long military fantasy drama from Claws creator Eliot Laurence and Gary Sanchez Productions. The news came during an event in New York today, when the network also said it has put in development a dark…

Deadline has confirmed that Transformers spinoff Bumblebee screenwriter Christina Hodson is now working on Warner Bros./DC’s Batgirl feature, a project last year that Joss Whedon was attached to write, but then stepped away from. The story will revolve around Barbara Gordon, who is the daughter of Gotham Police…

Buffy The Vampire Slayer “is probably the most ripe show we have for bringing back,” Fox Chairman and CEO Gary Newman said this morning at the INTV conference in Jerusalem. He refrained from confirming such a move for fear of not being able “to get out of the building alive.” But he did allow, “It’s something we talk…

Joss Whedon has exited the Warner Bros’ Batgirl, a DC stand-alone movie that he came aboard last year to write, direct and produce. The deal was first made public last March, and would have seen the writer and director of Disney/Marvel’s tentpole blockbuster The Avengers join a rival comics universe of movies. He said…

Filmmakers and actors took to Twitter to remember actor Martin Landau. From his early days of Mission: Impossible  to his Academy Award-winning performance in Tim Burton’s Ed Wood, the flood of praise from Hollywood was abundant. Alec Baldwin and Joss Whedon gave love to his role Crimes and Misdemeanors while Ed Wood…

Zack Snyder and his producer-wife Deborah Snyder have stepped aside from Warner Bros’ Justice League tentpole to deal with a family tragedy, and The Avengers writer-director Joss Whedon has stepped in to wrap up some reshoots and postproduction, a source close to the movie has confirmed to Deadline. Whedon and Snyder…

Is Avengers filmmaker Joss Whedon a turncoat to the Marvel universe, walking across the street to Warner Bros. where he’s in talks to helm its DC pic Batgirl?  There’s no hard feelings as far as Marvel president Kevin Feige is concerned. “He called a couple months ago, which he didn’t have to do and was super cool of…