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After a three-decades-long career, John Ortiz will finally take on the leading role in the upcoming ABC family drama Promised Land, premiering January 24. With credits in major films like Carlito’s Way, Amistad, American Gangster, and Silver Linings Playbook, and the small screen in Medium, The Handmaid’s Tale, Mayans…

EXCLUSIVE: Matt Lopez, creator/executive producer of ABC’s Promised Land, has signed a multi-year overall deal with ABC Signature, the studio behind the upcoming multigenerational Latinx family drama. ABC Signature is part of Disney TV Studios. Lopez’s Promised Land is an epic, generation-spanning drama about the…

Tony-nominated The Inheritance playwright Matthew López is writing the remake of Warner Bros’ 1992 blockbuster The Bodyguard. That pic starred Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston (who died in 2012), grossing $411M WW. The new movie is reportedly inspired by the 1992 romantic drama which followed a former Secret Service…

EXCLUSIVE: Mariel Molino has been cast as a lead alongside Christina Ochoa in ABC's drama pilot Promised Land. Written by Matt Lopez, the project is an epic, generation-spanning drama about two Latinx families vying for wealth and power in California's Sonoma Valley. Molino will play Camila Sandoval, the youngest…

Matt Lopez's Latinx family drama Promised Land is the latest hourlong project to secure a pilot order at ABC. Previously known as American Heritage, the project is an epic, generation-spanning drama about two Latinx families vying for wealth and power in California's Sonoma Valley. ABC bought the project pre-emptively…

EXCLUSIVE: The Disney live action team is in early development on a reboot of Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day with Matt Lopez writing. 21 Laps and Jim Henson Company, who produced the first film, will return as producers. The film will be developed for Disney+. The original film is based on…

EXCLUSIVE: ABC is developing American Heritage, a drama from writer Matt Lopez (Bedtime Stories). The network bought the project preemptively with a put pilot commitment. Written by Lopez, American Heritage is an epic drama about two Latinx immigrant families vying for wealth, power, and the American Dream in…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has acquired the rights to the Matt Lopez spec script Wraith with Sebastian Hofmann attached to direct and Lopez on board to write. The spec is based on the bestselling novel Cyberstorm with Emile Gladstone on board to produce. Based on the self-published novel by Matthew Mather, the novel follows…

Warner Bros is putting the wheels in motion on new Father of the Bride movie, with Matt Lopez penning the script. This latest reboot will revolve around a Latinx family, a first for the franchise. This marks the third retelling of the story that began with the Spencer Tracy original in 1950 and was most recently…

EXCLUSIVE: NBCUniversal International Studios, Germany’s RTL and France’s TF1 have given the green light to Gone, a 12-episode procedural drama series starring The Good Wife and Sex and the City alum Chris Noth. The series, which eyes a launch in winter 2017-2018, was created by Matt Lopez (The Sorcerer's Apprentice)…

NBC is putting a twist on the hot procedural drama genre this season with Dreamer, from Matt Lopez (The Sorcerer’s Apprentice) and John Glenn (Allegiance). The network has given a script plus penalty commitment to the project, a high-concept procedural from Universal TV, where Lopez and Glenn are under overall…

In a highly competitive situation, Caesar, a sprawling contemporary drama from Matt Lopez and John Glenn, has landed at ABC with a put pilot commitment. The project, which reimagines Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar in modern-day Los Angeles, is described as a tale of power, sex and revenge — themes right in ABC’s…