‘Miss Peregrine’ And ‘Deepwater Horizon’ Top Weekend Box Office
Finishing #1, Tim Burton’s Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children delivered an estimated $28.5 million in its opening weekend from 3,522 theaters. (BOM)
ABC Greenlights Revival Of ‘The Gong Show’ From Exec Producer Will Arnett
The network has greenlit a remake of The Gong Show from executive producer Will Arnett and his Electric Avenue Productions, plus Den of Thieves and Principato Young Entertainment, along with Sony TV. (VAR)
Emma Thompson, Stanley Tucci, Fionn Whitehead Board ‘The Children Act’
FilmNation and BBC Films are co-financing the Duncan Kenworthy production, which has sold out worldwide. (SD)
NBC Scraps Plans For ‘Mail Order Family’ Series After Protests
NBC has cancelled plans for its upcoming show Mail Order Family, in response to criticism against the program’s potential stereotyping of Asian-Americans and Filipino women. (VF)
NBC Buys ‘A Year To Remember’ Drama From Telefe USA & Kapital Entertainment
NBC has given a script plus penalty commitment to A Year to Remember, a drama based on the Telefe telenovela Un Año Para Recordar, from Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment and Telefe USA. (DH)
Hot Short Story From ‘Children of the New World’ Lands At POW! Productions
The Cartographers, a story in Alexander Weinstein’s well-reviewed debut collection, Children of the New World, has been optioned by POW! Productions. (THR)
Sony Classics Picks Up Maud Lewis Biopic ‘Maudie’ With Sally Hawkins, Ethan Hawke
Sony Pictures Classics has acquired all U.S. rights and multiple foreign territories to Maudie, Aisling Walsh’s biopic of folk artist Maud Lewis. (WRAP)
Tracking Board Announces It’s 2016 Young & Hungry Writers List
Voted on by Hollywood’s most influential players, each list spotlights a fresh slate of up-and-coming creatives preparing to take the next step in their careers. (TB)
Trailer Buzz: ‘Pirates Of The Carribean: Dead Men Tell No Tales’
Walt Disney has released the first trailer for Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, the fifth installment in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. (COLL)