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UPDATED with Women of the Movement: ABC has released the first teaser trailers for its fall drama series Queens and comedy reboot The Wonder Years, as well as midseason drama limited series Women of the Movement and midseason comedies Abbott Elementary and Maggie. You can watch all below. Women of the Movement – Drama…

Four days before ABC’s upfront presentation, the network has made its first new scripted series pickups for the 2021-22 season, with nods to music-themed drama Queens and comedies The Wonder Years, Maggie and Abbott Elementary. Queens, headlined by Brandy, Eve, Naturi Naughton, Nadine Velazquez and Pepi Sonuga, and…

EXCLUSIVE UPDATED: Superstore‘s Nichole Sakura, Angelique Cabral (Life in Pieces), Chloe Bridges (The Carrie Diaries) and Kerri Kenney (Reno 911) are set as series regulars opposite Rebecca Rittenhouse in ABC comedy pilot Maggie, based on Tim Curcio's short film. The project hails from Family Guy and Life in Pieces…

EXCLUSIVE: David Del Rio (The Baker and the Beauty), Chris Elliott (Schitt’s Creek), Ray Ford (Don’t Trust the B—- in Apt. 23) and Leonardo Nam (Westworld) are set as series regulars opposite Rebecca Rittenhouse in ABC comedy pilot Maggie, based on Tim Curcio's short film. The project hails from Family Guy and Life in…

Rebecca Rittenhouse (Hulu’s Four Weddings and a Funeral) has landed the title role in ABC comedy pilot Maggie, based on Tim Curcio’s short film, from Family Guy and Life in Pieces writer Maggie Mull, daughter of Clue actor Martin Mull, and Life in Pieces creator Justin Adler. 20th Television produces. Written by Mull…

The Wonder Years reboot has been picked up to pilot by ABC alongside two other comedy projects. The reboot of the classic 1980s family comedy drama was handed a pilot production commitment last summer and is now set to shoot its pilot this spring. It will be set in the same era as the original, looking at how a black…

Final update, Monday, 2:50 PM: In its second weekend, Disney/Marvel’s Avengers: Age of Ultron hauled in another $77.7M, which ended up being a 59% drop in its second frame. That is actually a strong hold considering that 15% of its first weekend gross came from the action hero cluster flick’s $27.5M Thursday preview…

The good news for Specialty Box Office is that the dollar is strong, so as execs head to France this week for the Cannes Film Festival, they can toss back a few (or more) rosés and try and forget this weekend — or just blame it on Avengers: Age Of Ultron. There are a couple of somewhat silver linings. Tribeca Film’s…

The road to bringing the Arnold Schwarzenegger, Abigal Breslin movie Maggie to the screen was a tortured, yet persistent five-year push that involved a NASA worker, a first-time director, the backwoods of Louisiana, some interesting local characters and an art department budget of only $8,000. At one point, the…

Avengers: Age Of Ultron will continue to dominate the box office this weekend, but it can’t be said there aren’t plenty of other options for audiences who aren’t easy prey for the studios. Still, some blockbuster stars will tempt the specialty crowd this weekend: Arnold Schwarzenegger and Abigail Breslin star in…

I didn’t find the fact that Arnold Schwarzenegger was starring in a zombie-themed movie very surprising, but as I say in my video review above, what’s really an eye opener is that the movie is honest, emotional and understated. And so is Arnold. This may be the most subtle work he has ever done in movies, pre or post…

Here’s the first trailer for Maggie, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger in a quite un-Ahneld-like role. So the zombie virus has landed, and the erstwhile Governator’s daughter gets it. But she isn’t a full-blown undeadster yet. The doctor lets him take her from the hospital, but with a warning: When she starts showing…