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SPOILER ALERT: The CW’s Arrow had a major departure from the original cast on this evening’s show. The superhero show, based on the DC Comics character Green Arrow, follows playboy Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) who returns home after five years of being stranded on an island and decides to fight crime as a vigilante…

Sony has closed a deal for Infinitum, a spec by Marc Guggenheim that will be produced by Michael De Luca Productions. The pitch drew interest from Paramount, but Sony closed the deal. Studio is keeping the logline under wraps, but sources brought up the film Memento in describing the high-concept sci-fi action love…

Fox has given a put pilot commitment to Classified, an hourlong drama from Marc Guggenheim (Arrow) and Howard Gordon (Homeland). The project hails from Gordon’s Teakwood Lane and 20th Century Fox TV where the company is based. Written and executive produced by Guggenheim, Classified is set in the high stakes world of…

True Lies, James Cameron’s hit 1994 action comedy movie, is headed to television. Fox has given a put pilot commitment to an hourlong reboot of the film, which comes from McG, Arrow co-creator Marc Guggenheim, Cameron’s Lightstorm Entertainment and 20th Century Fox TV. Guggenheim is writing the adaptation, with McG…

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of tonight's crossover “Invasion” episode of Arrow, the series’ 100th show. "The world around Oliver Queen has grown and so has the show," Arrow executive producer Marc Guggenheim asserts of the significance of tonight's 100th episode of the CW series. Kicking off the…

The CW’s family of superhero shows is getting a blast from the comic book past and a hint toward the official title and plot, with alien invaders the Dominators set as the villains in the upcoming four-way crossover among Arrow, The Flash, Legends of Tomorrow and Supergirl. Created in 1967 by Jim Shooter for DC’s…

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains details of tonight's episode of Arrow EXCLUSIVE: An old friend of Oliver Queen's showed up tonight in Star City to help bring a deceased soul back from beyond. With that mix of the mystical and the bow, the introduction of John Constantine to Arrow is yet another reach into the…

EXCLUSIVE: Fox 2000 and The Donners Company’s Lauren Shuler Donner have set up the D.J. MacHale novel trilogy Sylo. Shuler Donner and Donners’ production president Jack Leslie brought in a package that has Thor Freudenthal to direct and Marc Guggenheim to adapt. Shuler Donner and Leslie will produce. The series follow…

EXCLUSIVE: In a symbolic move, on the day Chuck, whose pilot McG directed, is ending its 5-season run on NBC, McG has closed a deal to direct his first pilot since Chuck, Fox’s Guilty. The legal drama, from Greg Berlanti and Marc Guggenheim, centers on a brilliant, morally questionable defense attorney who, after…

The CW is finalizing a deal for a pilot order to Arrow, an hourlong superhero drama based on DC Comics’ Green Arrow. It is written and executive produced by The Green Lantern co-writers Greg Berlanti and Marc Guggenheim and Fringe and Vampire Diaries alum Andrew Kreisberg. I hear that David Nutter will likely direct…

Fox has picked up two more pilots, both dramas that had put pilot commitments — a serial killer project from Kevin Williamson and a legal drama from Greg Berlanti and Marc Guggenheim. Both projects are produced by Warner Bros. TV where Williamson and Berlanti are based. The untitled Williamson project is described as…

EXCLUSIVE: Greg Berlanti has sold his first project under his rich new overall deal with Warner Bros Television — a legal drama to be written by his frequent collaborator Marc Guggenheim. The project, entitled Guilty, has landed at Fox with a script commitment with penalty said to be in the put pilot range. It centers…