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EXCLUSIVE: Keith Powers (The Tomorrow War), Brianne Tju (I Know What You Did Last Summer) and Chase Stokes (Outer Banks) have signed on to star opposite Joey King in Uglies, a dystopian fantasy film based on Scott Westerfeld's international bestseller of the same name, which McG is directing for Netflix. Uglies is set…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has landed the comedy spec The Tradition with McG producing through his Wonderland Sound and Vision banner. Nico Godinez Miller and Grant Mellon penned the script, which pulls from their different cultural backgrounds. Mary Viola will join McG as a producer. The film is a romantic comedy that…

EXCLUSIVE: Tiffany Haddish is set to star in Mystery Girl, the Netflix feature adaptation based on the Dark Horse comic of the same name that was created by Paul Tobin and Alberto Alburquerque. Haddish, under her She Ready Productions label, will produce the film, which is being directed by McG (The Babysitter). Mike…

True Lies, a TV series adaptation of James Cameron's hit 1994 action comedy movie, has taken a major step toward becoming a reality. CBS has given a pilot order to the project, from Burn Notice creator Matt Nix, McG and Cameron. 20th Television is the studio. The True Lies pilot was written by Nix and will be directed…

McG has officially signed up to direct the pilot episode of Turner & Hooch, Disney+'s reboot of the classic 1989 buddy-cop comedy feature. The TV series, which has a 12-episode order, comes from Matt Nix and 20th TV. McG also will serve as an executive producer on the series, which is now in production. Like the…

EXCLUSIVE: Following the success of the romantic comedy The Kissing Booth, Netflix and Joey King have found their next project to collaborate on as King has signed to star in and exec produce an adaptation of Scott Westerfeld's international bestseller dystopian fantasy novel Uglies. McG, whose recent films all have…

Kendall Jenner is to exec produce a series about her “fraternal twin brother Kirby Jenner – aka an Instagram parody account – for Quibi. Kendall and her mother Kris Jenner are behind the series, titled Kirby Jenner, for the short-form series along with The Babysitter director McG, Howie Mandel and Ryan Seacrest . The…

EXCLUSIVE: Fox has given a script commitment with penalty to The Two Dolls, a one-hour drama from writer Katie Wech (BH90210), McG’S Wonderland Sound & Vision and 20th Century Fox TV, where Wonderland is under a deal. Written by Wech, The Two Dolls revolves around the "Two Dolls," who dominate the cutthroat world of…

ABC has given a put pilot commitment to Plastics, a drama from The Fix co-creators Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain, McG’s Wonderland Sound and Vision and 20th Century Fox TV. Written by Craft and Fain, Plastics is set in the competitive and male-dominated world of plastic surgery, where three women band together to…

USA Network has ordered limited series Evel, based on the story of larger-than-life ’70s daredevil Evel Knievel. Starring and executive produced by This Is Us‘ Milo Ventimiglia, it hails from from McG’s Wonderland Sound & Vision, UCP and Atlas Entertainment. Written by Etan Frankel (Animal Kingdom), Evel falls into…

EXCLUSIVE: Wonderland Sound and Vision, the company founded by director-producer McG,  has promoted Corey Marsh to executive vice president of the film and television production label. Marsh joined the company as a producer last year. He brought in and produced the upcoming Nzingha Stewart-directed Netflix movie, Tall…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has made a preemptive acquisition of Love Hard, a romantic comedy spec written by Danny Mackey and literary agent-turned screenwriter Rebecca Ewing. The film will be produced by Wonderland’s McG and Mary Viola. The spec is described as When Harry Met Sally meets Roxanne, but specific are being kept…