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Hey, "Blood & Treasure" fans. We hope you guys enjoyed tonight's episode 9. Now that it's officially over and done with, It's time to see what the producers will throw at us in the next, new episode 10, which is due to air next week. Thankfully, CBS did serve up a new press release for it. So, we have a few teaser descriptions to share with you guys. So, let's just jump right in into it. We'll go ahead and get things started with the usual title reveal. Episode 10 is officially labeled, "The Wages Of Vengeance." That sounds like pretty vicious title. Episode 10 sounds like it will feature some pretty intense, interesting and dramatic scenes as Danny and Lexi resort to underworld resources to take down Farouk. Gwen butts into Dani and Lexi's operation yet again and more. We'll go ahead and start off this spoiler session with the Danny and Lexi underworld resources situation.

Hey, "Blood & Treasure" fans. We hope you guys enjoyed tonight's episode 7. Now that it's officially aired and done with, it's time see what other adventures Danny and Lexi will get into in the next, new episode 8. Thanks to the lovely CBS folks, we do have a couple of teaser descriptions for episode 8 via their press release. So, that's definitely what we'll be using for this spoiler session. To get things started, we'll do the usual by revealing the title. Episode 8 is officially titled, "The Lunchbox Of Destiny." You know? I kinda like that. Anyways, it sounds like episode 8 will feature some very interesting, possible dramatic and action-filled scenes as Danny and Lexi try to cut another deal with the FBI. Farouk gets closer to fulfilling his big plan and more! We'll go ahead and start off this spoiler session with the Danny, Lexi and FBI situation. It turns out...

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Today we have our first look at the latest brick-built CG animated film with the release of the The Lego Ninjago Movie trailer. The enormous success of Phil Lord and Chris Miller’s Lego Movie, and another certain box office bonanza courtesy of Chris McKay’s The Lego Batman Movie, made this new film an obvious choice.

The toy range on which this new movie is based was originally released in 2011. Quickly adding engaging characters and a cohesive world, blending modern and ancient elements, to Lego’s previous ninja set, Ninjago has spawned dozens of sets and figures. There are whole libraries of books as well as six series of animated TV adventures. A feature film based on the toy range will have a huge audience eager to catch the Masters of Spinjitzu on the big screen.

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Over the past few years, some of the biggest movie spoilers have come not from hard-working journalists breaking the story, but rather from toys, action figures and other merchandise. It seems our first details about the cast and plot of the highly-anticipated Lego spinoff, Ninjago, which is set for release on September 22, 2017, has come from a similiar source. Thanks to a Warner Bros. catalog on display at the Licensing Expo, we now have the first few cast members along with the official synopsis.

Brickset came across a photo taken at the Licensing Expo, which reveals that the Lego Ninjago voice cast includes Jackie Chan as Master Wu, Dave Franco as Lloyd, Michael Pe&#241a as Kai, Abbi Jacobson as Nya, Kumail Ninjiani as Jay, Zach Woods as Zane and Fred Armisen as Cole. No details were given about these specific characters, but we do have the first plot details. Take...

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Following the huge success of The Lego Movie and the DVD/Blu-ray release this week, Warner Bros. Pictures has released the first teaser for Ninjago.

Ninjago is The Lego Group’s hugely popular ninja-inspired line of building sets and minifigures that have gained their own legion of fans.

The film will be directed by Charlie Bean (TV’s “Tron: Uprising”), marking his feature directorial debut.

It is being produced by Dan Lin, Roy Lee, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller. Lord and Miller wrote and directed the smash hit The Lego Movie, which was produced by Lin and Lee. Jill Wilfert, Seth Grahame-Smith, John Powers Middleton, James Packer and Steve Mnuchin are serving as executive producers. The screenplay is written by Bryan Shukoff and Kevin Chesley.

Warner Bros. Pictures has slated the animated 3D action adventure Ninjago for release on September 23, 2016.

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Warner Bros is definitely in the Lego business these days. With a worldwide gross of $452.4 million since its February release, The Lego Movie proved itself to be the start of a viable franchise for the studio. So now, like everybody else, the studio wants to build a "universe" around the series. Conventional sequels are out. An approach of sequels combined with spinoff films is the new model. Just ask Marvel Studios, LucasFilm, Fox, and Sony- who are all trying, with varying degrees of success, to turn their geek properties into multi-tiered "cinematic universes."

We all ready knew a straight-up sequel to The Lego Movie was coming. But now comes word that a spinoff, based around Lego's Ninjago line, has been greenlit. Deadline is reporting that Ninjago will be directed by Charlie Bean, and it will serve as his directorial debut. Until now, Bean has worked in the art department for several projects over the years,...

Warner Bros. Pictures is putting together the pieces for the next installment in the Lego franchise.

Ninjago, a spinoff of the hit The Lego Movie, has been given a Sept. 23, 2016 release date. Warner Bros. previously announced that The Lego Movie 2 will hit theaters May 26, 2017.

The animated 3-D action-adventure is inspired by the popular ninja line of Lego building sets and minifigures. The characters previously starred in Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu, an animated series on Cartoon Network, and the first Lego film.

Ninjago will be directed by Charlie Bean, who was behind the animated series Tron: Uprising, and produced by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller,...

Call it franchise building. Warner Bros. has set its forthcoming "Lego Movie" spinoff "Ninjago" (based on Hasbro's popular ninja-themed line) for release on September 23, 2016, with "Tron: Uprising" director Charlie Bean at the helm. Bryan Shukoff and Kevin Chesley ("The Hard Times of Rj Berger") wrote the script for the project, which was bullishly announced several months prior to "The Lego Movie's" February release. “Following the huge success of 'The Lego Movie,' we are very excited to build on the Lego franchise," said Warner Bros. domestic distribution president Dan Fellman in a statement. "We know there are already Ninjago collectors who can’t wait to see their favorite characters on the big screen. This promises to be a terrifically fun and thrilling entry into our Fall 2016 slate, with broad audience appeal.” In addition to "Ninjago," the studio has slated "Lego Movie 2" for release on May 26, 2017, with "Robot Chicken...

Expanding the Lego brand's cinema universe, Warner Bros. Pictures has slated the animated 3D action adventure Ninjago for release on September 23, 2016, it was announced today by Dan Fellman, President, Domestic Distribution, and Veronika Kwan Vandenberg, President, International Distribution, Warner Bros. Pictures.

Ninjago is The Lego Group's hugely popular ninja-inspired line of building sets and minifigures that have gained their own legion of fans.

The film will be directed by Charlie Bean (TV's Tron Uprising), marking his feature directorial debut. It is being produced by Dan Lin, Roy Lee, Phil Lord and Chris Miller. Lord and Miller wrote and directed the smash hit The Lego Movie, which was produced by Lin and Lee. Jill Wilfert, Seth Grahame-Smith, John Powers Middleton, James Packer and Steve Mnuchin are serving as executive producers. The screenplay is written by Bryan Shukoff and Kevin Chesley.

In making the announcement, Dan Fellman had this to say in a statement.

It was announced earlier today that Warner Bros. has set a release date for its planned Ninjago adaptation for September 23, 2016 (in 3D, of course). That means the Lego spin-off will smoke-bomb its way into theaters more than six months before The Lego Movie 2, which opens May 26, 2017. Chris McKay, who co-directed the nearly half-a-billion-dollar-earning first installment, will be at the helm of the sequel, while the studio has set first-time feature director Charlie Bean (Tron: Uprising) to handle the Ninjago film. With everyone else under the sun building toward a cinematic universe, it's no surprise that WB and Lego are doing the same, which will make fans (and collectors) around the world happy for quite some time. Hit the jump for more. As Deadline reports, Ninjago will debut in 3D on September 23, 2016. Here's what the studio's domestic distribution president Dan Fellman had to say about the announcement: “Following the huge success of The Lego Movie,...

Michael Stahl-David (My Generation, The Black Donnellys) is in final negotiations to play the co-lead opposite Christine Woods in NBC’s single-camera comedy pilot Two To Go, from Universal TV and studio-based David Janollari Entertainment and Jason Bateman‘s Aggregate. Written by Bryan Shukoff & Kevin Chesley and directed by Craig Zisk, the project centers on longtime best friends Kurt (Stahl-David) and Laura (Woods), who grapple with the challenges of modern-day dating while their group of friends try and prove that they are destined to be together. Stahl-David is with ICM Partners and Management 360.

Christine Woods has been tapped as the female lead in NBC’s single-camera comedy pilot Two To Go, from Universal TV and studio-based David Janollari Entertainment and Jason Bateman‘s Aggregate. Written by Bryan Shukoff & Kevin Chesley and directed by Craig Zisk, the project centers on longtime best friends Kurt and Laura (Woods), who grapple with the challenges of modern-day dating while their group of friends try and prove that they are destined to be together. Woods, coming off a breakout starring turn on the HBO comedy Hello Ladies, fielded multiple pilot offers. Her choice, Two To Go, brings her back to NBC where she recurred on comedy Go On last season and previously played a lead on Perfect Couples. Woods, repped by Gersh, Emery Entertainment, and Melissa Rogal, is set to reprise her role as Jessica on the upcoming hourlong Hello Ladies special, which is set to wrap up...

Sean Saves the World co-star Echo Kellum is staying at NBC with a co-starring role in the single-camera comedy pilot Two To Go, from Universal TV and studio-based David Janollari Entertainment and Jason Bateman‘s Aggregate. Written/co-exec produced by Bryan Shukoff and Kevin Chesley, the project centers on longtime best friends Kurt and Laura, who grapple with the challenges of modern-day dating while their group of friends try and prove that they are destined to be together. Kellum, repped by TalentWorks, Odenkirk Provissiero, and Melissa Fox, plays one of the friends, a stay-at-home dad. He previously co-starred on the Fox comedy series Ben and Kate. Former Common Law co-lead Warren Kole has booked a role in Janollari’s other NBC pilot, drama Salvation, from writer Liz Heldens. The family saga is set against the backdrop of a Texas mega church where faith, family and corruption are explored in equal measure.

NBC has ordered a comedy pilot executive produced by Jason Bateman, along with Aggregate and David Janollari Entertainment. “Two to Go” is described as a single-camera comedy focusing on long-time best friends grappling with the challenges of modern-day dating, while their group of friends try to convince them they are meant for each other. Also read: NBC Orders Ellen DeGeneres Gay-Straight Buddy Comedy Pilot The project is co-executive produced by Bryan Shukoff and Kevin Chesley. Bateman is joined as a non-writing Ep by Jim Garavent and David Janollari. Universal Television is the studio. Bateman, who recently reprised his role as Michael Bluth in “Arrested.

NBC is doubling down on Jason Bateman. A month before the network will premiere the Bateman-produced comedy Growing Up Fisher, NBC has handed out a pilot order to Two to Go. The single-camera ensemble comedy, which hails from exec producers Bateman, David Janollari and Jim Garavente, centers on longtime best friends Kurt and Laura as they grapple with the challenges of modern-day dating while their group of friends try and prove that they are destined to be together. Story: TV Pilots 2014: The Complete Guide The comedy, written on spec by Bryan Shukoff and Kevin Chesley (The

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Update, 12 Pm: NBC has added another comedy pilot to the mix, the single-camera Two To Go, from Universal TV and studio-based David Janollari Entertainment and Jason Bateman‘s Aggregate. Written/co-exec produced by Bryan Shukoff and Kevin Chesley (The Hard Times Of Rj Berger, which Janollari developed and launched at MTV), Two To Go centers on longtime best friends Kurt and Laura, who grapple with the challenges of modern-day dating while their group of friends try and prove that they are destined to be together. Janollari, Bateman and Jim Garavente executive produce. This is Janollari’s second pilot at NBC, joining drama Salvation. Aggregate has upcoming NBC comedy series Growing Up Fisher. Previous, 9:40 Am: Sixteen years after Ellen DeGeneres came out on her ABC sitcom, another broadcast comedy with a lesbian lead is inching closer to primetime. NBC has given a pilot order to a multi-camera comedy executive produced by DeGeneres.

NBC has bought the script for “Two to Go,” a comedy about two single guys surrounded by their friends’ kids, from executive producer Jason Bateman and two writers of MTV’s “The Hard Times of R.J. Berger.” Writers Bryan Shukoff and Kevin Chesley will executive produce with the “Arrested Development” star and James Garavente through Bateman’s Aggregate Films. The Universal Television project follows the last two singles in a group of friends moving into marriage and parenthood. They barhop Friday nights, and moon bounce with their friends’ children on Saturday mornings. Also read: Mitch Hurwitz’s Alternate ‘Arrested Development’ Stars: Robert De Niro?...

NBC has bought Two To Go, a half-hour comedy spec by writers Bryan Shukoff and Kevin Chesley (The Hard Times Of Rj Berger). The project, from Universal TV where Jason Bateman’s Aggregate Films has a first-look deal, centers on the last two singles in a group of friends moving into marriage and parenthood, navigating life and love as they Friday night barhop then Saturday morning moon bounce surrounded by kids — none of whom are their own. Aggregate Films’ Bateman and James Garavente executive produce with Shukoff and Chesley. Shukoff and Chesley, repped by CAA, Mosaic and attorney Gregg Gellman, are writing the Summer School remake at Paramount for Happy Madison. CAA-repped Aggregate Films also has comedy Wife Nanny with Spike Feresten in development at Fox and midseason NBC series Growing Up Fisher.

Adam Sandler and his Happy Madison production company are signing up for Summer School. Sandler plans to remake the 1987 Mark Harmon-starrer about a gym teacher who has to cancel his summer vacation to teach summer school to a bunch of misfit high schoolers. Kirstie Alley ("Dancing with the Stars") and a very young Courtney Thorne-Smith ("Two and a Half Men") also starred in the original. Bryan Shukoff and Kevin Chesley, who together wrote three episodes of MTV's "The Hard Times of Rj Berger," will write the script. It's not clear yet if Sandler will star in the movie or not. 

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The first photos from Ken Watanabe in the remake of Unforgiven, a partly Alexa Vega in Machete Kills, an even more naked David Arquette in Orion, Dakota Fanning and Emile Hirsch in The Motel Life, and the first still from Ben Wheatley's A Field in England.

First photo from the set of Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson in Saving Mr. Banks, Matt Damon filming The Zero Theorem, and photos from a sequence being filmed involving Daniel Radcliffe being arrested in Horns.

Posters for Jurassic Park 3D, In Their Skin, Any Day Now, World War Z, Zero Dark Thirty, KIlling Them Softly, and character posters for Rise of the Guardians

An infographic has been cooked up to explain Hfr 3D - high frame rate 3D - for the upcoming select screenings of "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey".

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Adam Sandler's remake of the the 1987 comedy Summer School is moving forward as Bryan Shukoff and Kevin Chesley have been hired to write it. 

The original film was great! It starred Mark Harmon as a gym teacher who was forced to cancel his summer plans to teach a remedial English class full of lazy, troublemaker students.

As of right now, Sandler is only attached as a producer, but there's a chance he could end up starring in the film. I could easily see him in the lead role -- it can't be any worse than anything else he's done recently. This is one of those films I figured would get remade one day. I guess it will be interesting to see how things turn out with it. Paramount has been trying to do this one since 2005. Star Trek writers and producers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci were actually developing the movie at one point.

Bryan Shukoff and Kevin Chesley have signed on to write the comedy remake Summer School for Paramount Pictures and Adam Sandler's Happy Madison production company.

We reported back in April that Adam Sandler will produce, although he does not plan on starring. The original Summer School, which was released in 1987, starred Mark Harmon as a teacher whose summer plans are dashed when he is forced to teach an English class full of misfits. It is currently available for your queue on Netflix.

Jack Giarraputo and Heather Parry are also producing for Happy Madison. No production schedule has been revealed yet.

Bryan Shukoff and Kevin Chesley are best known for writing episodes of the short-lived MTV series The Hard Times of Rj Berger.

Summer School is in development .

Paramount, Happy Madison's Summer School reboot lands scribes Bryan Shukoff and Kevin Chesley The remake of the 1987 film which starred Mark Harmon, is being produced by Happy Madison's Adam Sandler. Variety reports that it's unknown at this time whether Sandler will star in the comedy which told of a gym teacher who's forced to cancel his plans for the summer and teach remedial English to kids. Shukoff and Chesley wrote three episodes of MTV's The Hard Times of Rj Berger comedy, MANswers and Atom TV, as well as Paramount's From Mia With Love project, currently in development.

Paramount, Happy Madison's Summer School reboot lands scribes Bryan Shukoff and Kevin Chesley The remake of the 1987 film which starred Mark Harmon, is being produced by Happy Madison's Adam Sandler. Variety reports that it's unknown at this time whether Sandler will star in the comedy which told of a gym teacher who's forced to cancel his plans for the summer and teach remedial English to kids. Shukoff and Chesley wrote three episodes of MTV's The Hard Times of Rj Berger comedy, MANswers and Atom TV, as well as Paramount's From Mia With Love project, currently in development.

Beetlejuice is coming back from the dead some twenty years after one of the most infamous sequel attempts in Hollywood history when, and this is no word of a lie, Warner Bros paid a screenwriter to scribe a follow-up to the 1988 classic that would send the pale faced ghoul for hire to Hawaii. The movie was even to be called ‘Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian‘ and was director Tim Burton’s mischievous idea for a sequel he never really wanted to make, screenwriter Jonathan Gems musing after the fact;

“Tim thought it would be funny to match the surfing backdrop of a beach movie with some sort of German Expressionism, because they’re totally wrong together”

The movie announced in 1990 would have been a direct sequel (with all the actors back) following the Deetz family moving to Hawaii where Charles is developing a holiday resort only to find it was being built...

David Katzenberg and Seth Grahame-Smith and their KatzSmith production company have signed a two-year first-look deal with Warner Brothers.  One of the first projects under that deal is a Beetlejuice reboot because of course it is.  For those who haven't seen the original: stop making me feel old.  Tim Burton's 1988 comedy starred Michael Keaton as the eponymous character, a mischievous ghoul who teams with a young woman (Winona Ryder) to get her parents out of their new home so it can be restored to its dead owners (Geena Davis and Alec Baldwin).  Deadline reports that the deal grew out of Grahame-Smith's screenwriting work on Tim Burton's next film, Dark Shadows, an adaptation of the 1960s horror TV series.  Grahame-Smith, who came to popularity out of his gimmick novels Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (film adaptations are in the works for both), is contracted...

David Katzenberg ("The Hard Times of Rj Berger") is set to direct the coming-of-age comedy "From Mia with Love" for 20th Century Fox says Deadline.

The story revolves around three high school friends who send away for a Russian mail-order bride to help them lose their virginity. The bride arrives with no intention of sleeping with the teenagers, or ever going home due to some excess baggage she has been carrying.

Katzenberg, Seth Grahame-Smith, Bryan Shukoff, and Kevin Chesley co-wrote the script. Shooting aims to kick off before year's end for release in 2012.

Certain genres may go out of style, but the John Hughes model is forever viable. The deceased director put his stamp on the 1980s and early 1990s with loveable, endearing stories of good-hearted and confused adolescents looking to find their place, and now scribe Seth Grahame-Smith is looking to continue the tradition. He.s just sold a pitch to 20th Century Fox entitled From Mia With Love. Co-written by David Katzenberg, who will also direct, Bryan Shukoff and Kevin Chesley, it follows three desperate high school students who mail off for a Russian bride hoping she.ll make men out of all three. She.s unwilling to sleep with any of them, but she upholds her end of the bargain by teaching them how to behave and attract ladies a little closer in age. She.s far from a saint and covered in emotional scars, but together the four find...

20th Century Fox has acquired a comedy spec script written by Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter scribe Seth Grahame-Smith alongside David Katzenberg, Bryan Shukoff and Kevin Chesley. Titled From Mia With Love, the John Hughes-style coming of age comedy is described as a mix of Weird Science and Risky Business and centers on three guys who decide to lose their virginity by ordering a Russian mail-order bride, who then refuses to leave (as most Russian mail-order brides tend to do). Deadline reports that Katzenberg will direct, with he and Grahame-Smith producing. Katzenberg and Grahame-Smith are executive producers on MTV’s The Hard Times of R.J. Berger, on which Shukoff and Chesley are scribes. Katzenberg and Grahame-Smith were contenders to direct the film version of Grahame-Smith’s Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, but the job ended up going to Timur Bekmambetov.

David Katzenberg will direct the coming-of-age comedy From Mia with Love for 20th Century Fox.

Katzenberg co-wrote the script, which is said to be in the vein of early John Hughes, with Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter scribe Seth Grahame-Smith, Bryan Shukoff, and Kevin Chesley.

The story of From Mia with Love revolves around three high school buddies who are so anxious to lose their virginity that they send away for a Russian mail-order bride. The bride arrives with no intentions of sleeping with the teenagers, or ever going home due to some excess baggage she has been carrying.

From Mia with Love will go into production before the end of the year for a proposed 2012 release date.

From Mia with Love is in development .

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter scribe Seth Grahame-Smith has sold a spec script to Fox that he wrote with David Katzenberg, Bryan Shukoff and Kevin Chesley. The film is called From Mia With Love, it's described as a John Hughe's style comedy, and Katzenberg will direct the film, but he doesn't have much directing experience.  

According to Deadline, "the coming-of-age comedy is a mix of Risky Business and Weird Science. Some plot elements could change, but the pitched premise had three guys so desperate to lose their virginity that they order up a Russian mail-order bride, figuring they can send her back. She is smoking hot but arrives with baggage and no plans to bed the lads, though she helps the trio become more suitable mating material."

This sounds like it could be a fun comedy. It will be cool to see if they can actually harness the true energy of John Hughes for this one.

Exclusive: 20th Century Fox has acquired the spec From Mia With Love, a John Hughes-style comedy written by Seth Grahame-Smith, David Katzenberg, Bryan Shukoff and Kevin Chesley. Katzenberg will direct, and he and Grahame-Smith will produce under their Katsmith Productions banner. Grahame-Smith adapted his novel Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter, which is being directed for the studio by Timur Bekmambetov and produced by Tim Burton. The coming-of-age comedy is a mix of Risky Business and Weird Science. Some plot elements could change, but the pitched premise had three guys so desperate to lose their virginity that they order up a Russian mail-order bride, figuring they can send her back. She is smoking hot but arrives with baggage and no plans to bed the lads, though she helps the trio become more suitable mating material. Katzenberg's directing experience includes episodes of The Hard Times Of R.J. Berger, the MTV show the duo exec produce.