EXCLUSIVE: Orion Pictures has acquired the horror pitch Svalta from Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Miles Ketley's Stolen Picture banner. The story follows a family on their summer vacation to a remote Swedish island where they discover a serial killer is on the loose, but the locals have no interest in helping the…

On paper, the martial-arts epic Into the Badlands is a show so unconventional that its creators were shocked that AMC wanted to make it. “We would have bet against it, for sure,” co-creator Miles Millar said Monday, still sounding a bit surprised that the show actually made it to air in November 2015. “The show ended…

EXCLUSIVE: Stolen Picture, the production company set up by Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, is to adapt Ben Aaronovitch's epic fantasy drama Rivers of London. Pegg, Frost, Aaronovitch and Stolen Picture Miles Ketley tell Deadline how the deal came about, outlined their long-term plans for the adaptation and how it fits…

Sony Pictures Television has taken a minority stake in UK-based Stolen Picture, the film, TV and digital banner launched by Simon Pegg and Nick Frost last May. The companies have also entered into an exclusive TV distribution deal. Miles Ketley has been appointed CEO of Stolen Picture, joining from Bad Wolf. The deal…

EXCLUSIVE: Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, who co-starred in hit British comedies Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and Paul, have formed the film and TV production banner Stolen Picture. The duo will kick open its doors with Slaughterhouse Rulez, marking their return to the comedy-horror genre. The film, which Frost and Pegg…

Hot off his turn in Best Picture nominee Hacksaw Ridge, Vince Vaughn will next co-star with Dwayne Johnson, Game of Thrones' Lena Headey and Nick Frost in Fighting With My Family. This comes days after the whopping Berlin market deal where MGM agreed to pay as high as $17.5 million for world rights. Johnson developed…

EXCLUSIVE: In a whopping Berlin market deal that could be worth as high as $17.5 million, MGM is stepping up big to put a choke hold on world rights for Fighting With My Family.  This is the film that Dwayne Johnson developed with Film4. He’ll produce under his Seven Bucks Productions banner, as well as play a role…

Game of Thrones star Lena Headey and Nick Frost will join Dwayne Johnson in Fighting With My Family. The comedy-drama is set to be written and directed by Stephen Merchant (The Office) based on the true story of WWE star Paige and her family of professional wrestlers. The pic is produced by Seven Bucks Productions…

Nick Frost (The Cornetto Trilogy, Paul) has joined the second season cast of AMC's martial arts drama Into The Badlands as a series regular. Loosely based on the Chinese tale Journey to the West and set in a land controlled by feudal barons, Into The Badlands tells the story of a ruthless, well-trained warrior named…

Created and written by Nat Saunders (Trollied) and James Serafinowicz (The Mark Steel Lectures), Sky Atlantic’s Sick Note is a six-part comedy about how desperate a person's actions can become when a lie starts to spiral out of control. Harry Potter‘s Rupert Grint, Nick Frost (Shaun Of The Dead) and Don Johnson are…

BBC America dropped its teaser to the Doctor Who Christmas special, which will air after tonight’s episode at 9 pm EST.  This year, Nick Frost, the actor and scribe behind Shaun of the Dead, will co-star as the jolly, white-bearded man in the red suit. Also starring alongside Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman will…

In a competitive situation, ABC has bought The Finger, a single-camera comedy written by Ben Karlin (Modern Family) and starring British writer-actor Nick Frost (Hot Fuzz, Shaun Of The Dead). The project, from ABC Studios and 3 Arts, will have Frost star as Nick Ferguson aka The Finger, the world's most famous jewel…