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Did you think it had been cancelled? A&E has renewed the Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath TV show for a second season. Remini, Eli Holzman, Aaron Saidman, Devon Hammonds, Amy Savitsky, and Elaine Frontain Bryant executive produce. Check out the A&E press release, below, for more information.A docu-series hosted by the former King of Queens vet, Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath features former members of the Church of Scientology, discussing their experiences and what drove them to leave, as well as long-time outside critics. The first season featured interviews with Amy Scobee, Mike Rinder, Paulette Cooper, Mark Headley, Aaron Smith-Levin, Steve Hassan and Lawrence Wright.Read More…...

Along with the requisite comments on shooting in 70mm and Joaquin Phoenix's return to cinema screens, cast and crew from “The Master” have by and large counted the film's Scientology parallels as the main source of discussion. The concentration of questions has lessened somewhat as subsequent press showings of the film have revealed a different focus entirely, but just as the pressure subsides for PTA and co., leave it to Tom Cruise to stir up speculation on Scientology once more, this time regarding the process surrounding his past marital courting. “What do you think of Tom Cruise?” A question we've all been asked, but according to an upcoming Vanity Fair article, this was just one of the questions allegedly posed during “top secret” church "auditions" to be the actor's girlfriend in 2004. Utilizing accounts from former Scientologists including Mark Headley (who left the Church under police assistance in '05),...

Remake rights to the 1952 classic Western High Noon, starring Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly, were acquired Monday at AFM by producer Mark Headley, actor Christopher Mitchum and their business partner, Toni Covington.

Rights were secured from actress Karen Sharp Kramer, wife of the late Stanley Kramer, producer of the iconic original about a town marshal forced to face a gang of killers by himself.

The newly formed Los Angeles-based High Noon Prods. is seeking a director and a star to play the lead and hopes to begin shooting early next year with a target budget of about $20 million, Headley said.

Mitchum, son of actor Robert Mitchum, worked on the Westerns The Last Hard Men with Charlton Heston and James Coburn in 1976 and Rio Lobo with John Wayne in 1970. He noted that he had wanted to remake High Noon for years.

Kramer confirmed the deal but declined to reveal its terms.

The original High Noon was written by John Cunningham and Carl Foreman and directed by Fred Zinnemann; it was based on pulp short story, The Tin Star.