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Exclusive: Jake Coburn and Julie Plec, whose bank heist drama series The Endgame was picked up to series at NBC in September, have sold another project to the network with Arrow and Supergirl writer Emilio Ortega Aldrich.

The trio are developing Sky On Fire for NBC, which comes from Plec’s My So-Called Company and Universal Television.

The drama centers around President Eva Ortiz, a decorated war veteran and the nation’s first Latina president, who, after surviving an assassination attempt, embarks on an undercover mission to expose the people responsible.

It comes after Quantico exec producer Coburn struck a first-look deal with Universal Television in September, the same week that The Endgame, which he’s writing with Chuck exec producer Nicholas Wootton, was picked up to series.

Coburn, who is writing with Ortega Aldrich, is also exec producer on Netflix’s Biohackers and Barbarians.

It marks the first series development for Ortega Aldrich,...

Josh O’Connor and Paul Mescal cast in The History of Sound — Josh O’Connor as Lionel and Paul Mescal as David, team up for filming The History of Sound, Ben Shattuck‘s story of two music students recording traditional Appalachian folk songs around the time of [...]

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The Lost, All Cheerleaders Die and I Know Who Killed Me‘s Chris Sivertson is back and this time he’s joined by Christina Ricci, best known to us horror fans as Wednesday Addams in The Addams Family films from the 1990s. ScreenDaily shared the above first look at Ricci, who of course also appeared in Tim Burton’s Sleepy Hollow movie and more recently […]...

Here’s another interview in Nerdly’s socially distanced series of chats with filmmakers and performers as part of the Nerdly Out Loud podcast for Nerdly.co.uk. This time Kevin sits down with writer/director Peter Stylianou to discuss his film The Lost, aka Bloodhound (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11428546​)

Check out our review of The Lost here: http://www.nerdly.co.uk/2020/12/07/the-lost-review/

Detectives investigate the disappearance of a young girl who goes missing from her home during a family birthday party. As the detectives piece together the events of that fateful night they soon discover there’s more to the story than they first realized. A complex matrix of child trafficking, abuse and even murder begins to materialize, and one of the detectives finds himself dangerously entangled. In the United Kingdom, an estimated 112,853 children are reported missing every year and around 3% of those missing disappear from their homes.

Stars: Kris Johnson, Terri Dwyer, David Partridge, Dana Rogoz, Farah Ahmed, Rebecca Calienda | Written and Directed by Peter Stylianou

“In the United Kingdom, an estimated 112,853 children are reported missing every year and around 3% of those missing disappear from their homes. This is a story about one of those children”

The story of Madeline McCann is one that has held the attention of the world since her disappearance. Everyone has an opinion on what happened, some believe the narrative given by the family and friends while others believe the countless conspiracies. There has been and undoubtedly will continue to be countless documentaries and mini-series on the case and well… it’s not going anywhere soon (rightly so by the way). One thing I think we can all agree on and I mean everyone, is that it is absolutely every parents worst nightmare.

Having three daughters of my own I find it...

Jonathan Burns of Burns Reviews recently created a video covering the new horror-comedy Freaky which pays homage to a lot of horror slashers and John Hughes films, such as: -Scream -Halloween -Nightmare on Elm Street -The Shinning -Urban Legend -Sorority Row -Prom Night -Friday the 13 -The Evil Dead -Cabin in the Woods -The Lost …

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Exclusive: We hear that Amazon Studios and Hillman Grad are developing a series based on Neil Paik’s Six by Eight Press short story Reawakening, following a competitive situation for the property. Paik is adapting his story for the screen and will serve as co-executive producer, with executive producers Lena Waithe and Rishi Rajani for Hillman Grad. The project falls under Waithe’s overall deal with Amazon Studios.

Reawakening follows a brother and sister who are torn apart by violence. They find themselves on opposite sides of a large-scale conflict between refugees from Earth and the native inhabitants of an utopian planet.

This Paik’s second Six by Eight short story to go into development in recent weeks, his Rainbowfish in the works at Warner Bros. and Macro, which he is also adapting and executive producing for film. Deadline first told you about that project. Paik is set to make...