Jimmy Fallon To Host Golden Globes 2017
The 74th Annual Golden Globes is going to have a fresh host next year. The Tonight Show’s Jimmy Fallon will take over the ceremony for 2017. (EW)
Imax Strikes Biggest Ever Theater Deal With China’s Wanda
Imax has signed the biggest deal in the company’s history, hammering out a pact to create 150 additional theaters with Wanda Cinema Line, the cinema exhibition arm of Chinese property to entertainment giant Wanda. (VAR)
Japanese Novel And Anime Franchise Sword Art Online Being Adapted As Live-Action TV Series
Laeta Kalogridis will pen the pilot and executive produce the series for Skydance Television. A network is not yet attached. (THR)
NBC Nabs Warren Leight-Paul Haggis Drama ‘Salvation’ With Big Commitment, Buys Gideon Raff’s ‘Waking Lions’
NBC has kicked off the drama buying season with Salvation, from Law & Order veteran Warren Leight, Paul Haggis (Crash) and Sony TV, which has received a pilot production commitment, and Walking Lions, from Homeland co-creator Gideon Raff, Keshet and Universal TV. (DH)
Mel Gibson, Sean Penn Set To Star In ‘Professor And The Madman’
Mel Gibson and Sean Penn will star in a new film entitled Professor and the Madman. Farhad Safinia, co-writer of Gibson’s Apocalypto, is set to direct the film. (IW)
Cinemax Sets ‘Micronesian Blues’ Drama From ‘Banshee’ EPs & Patrick Dempsey
Banshee co-creator executive producer Jonathan Tropper and executive producer/director Greg Yaitanes are partnering with Patrick Dempsey for a new crime thriller drama project at Cinemax. (DH)
Fox, Sony Circling Remake Rights To Korean Zombie Hit ‘Train To Busan’
Rights to South Korea’s first zombie blockbuster, which continues to smash box-office records, is also being pursued by Gaumont, Canal Plus and EuropaCorp. (THR)
‘Hairspray Live’ Recruits Disney Channel Stars To Play Amber And Link
Dove Cameron (Liv and Maddie) and Garrett Clayton (Teen Beach Movie) will sing and dance in NBC’s upcoming Hairspray Live. (TVL)
Trailer Buzz: ‘Mascots’
Netflix has unveiled a first look at the brand new comedy from filmmaker Christopher Guest. Mascots is Guest’s first original feature since 2006’s For Your Consideration, and it’s another mockumentary. (COLL)