Cartoon Network’s ‘Adventure Time’ Heads To Big Screen At Warner Bros.
Posted on Friday February 27, 2015

EXCLUSIVE: Adventure Time, one of the most popular shows on Cartoon Network, is being developed at Warner Bros. for the big screen as an animated feature. Created by Pendleton Ward at Cartoon Networks Studios, Adventure Time follows the escapades of 12 year-old boy Finn and best friend dog Jake who fight fiercely in a quest to protect their beloved Land of Ooo, usually from the Ice King who is searching high and low for his Princess Bubblegum. The project will be produced…

Elliott Gould Cast In CBS’ Pilot ‘Doubt'; Lacey Chabert In ABC’s ‘Family Fortune’
Posted on Friday February 27, 2015

Ray Donovan‘s Elliott Gould has booked a regular role on CBS hourlong pilot Doubt. From longtime Grey's Anatomy executive producers Tony Phelan and Joan Rater, Timberman/Beverly and CBS TV Studios, Doubt centers on Sadie, a smart, chic, successful defense lawyer at a boutique firm who shockingly gets involved romantically with one of her clients who may or may not be guilty of a brutal crime. APA-repped Gould will play Isaiah, the head of the boutique go-to criminal…

Sarah Chalke To Star In Fox’s ’48 Hours’
Posted on Friday February 27, 2015

Sarah Chalke is set as the female lead opposite Rob Riggle in Fox's single-camera comedy pilot 48 Hours 'Til Monday, written/exec produced by Charlie Grandy. 48Hours, from Universal TV, chronicles husband and father of three Charlie's (Riggle) desperate struggle not to let every weekend go completely to hell. Chalke, repped by UTA, manager John Carrabino and attorney PJ Shapiro, plays Kelly Bishop who is happily married to Charlie and the mother of their three kids, Kelly…

‘Focus’ Still Staring At $21M-23.6M Weekend – Friday Afternoon Box Office Update
Posted on Friday February 27, 2015

UPDATE, 3:24 PM: Industry sources see Will Smith’s R-rated romance noir Focus doing between $7.5M-$8M tonight, putting the Warner Bros. film with a FSS between $21M-23.6M at 3,323 venues in the top spot.  This is according to mid-day estimates. Focus’ Friday includes Thursday previews of $839K (updated). Relativity/Blumhouse/Mosaic’s The Lazarus Effect is showing $3.8M for today, inclusive of $344K Thursday previews, which would put the horror title on a course to do…

Lily Bedrossian Is New DGA Spokeswoman
Posted on Friday February 27, 2015

EXCLUSIVE: The Directors Guild of America has a new spokeswoman. Lily Bedrossian, who spent nearly nine years in the corporate and interactive media relations divisions at the Walt Disney Company, has been named the DGA's Director of Media Relations. She will report to Morgan Rumpf, the guild's Associate Executive Director of Communications. Bedrossian replaces Sahar Moridani as the guild's spokesperson. Moridani, who is well known for promptly returning reporters' phone…