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Briefs : Denali, Splash! reunion, Don’t Tell Mom remake & more!

Photographer Ben Moon’s short film and memoir “Denali : A Man, a Dog, and the Friendship of a Lifetime” is coming to the short screen courtesy Spyglass Media Group, writer-director Max Winkler and actor Charlie Hunnam, who will headline the film. [More…]

The Peacock network is prepping a “Little Mermaid” sequel titled “Washed Up”. In it, “fifteen years after giving up her tail to marry a prince at age 17, our princess is now miserable, unmotivated and in a loveless marriage. In other words, just a basic bitch human. But when her father suddenly dies, she suspects foul play and embarks on an epic adventure to save not only her underwater kingdom but all of humankind!” [More…]

A remake of ’90s comedy “Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitter’s Dead” is in the works at Treehouse Pictures. The “diverse” redo by Chuck Hayward with Bille Woodruff attached to direct is said to be a “present-day retelling centered on a black family”. [More..]

“Avatar” producer Jon Landau told Instagram followers today that production resumes on the sequel next week in New Zealand.

New Regency have won a bid to the screen rights for the true story of a group of boys who survived for more than a year on a deserted Pacific island. ”Dubbed ‘the real Lord Of The Flies‘, the story exploded after being published by the Guardian last week in their preview of historian and author Rutger Bregman’s new book Humankind.” [More…]

For his next ‘Reunited Apart’ special, host Josh Gad will reunite the cast and crew of 1984’s “Splash” – likely, Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, Tom Hanks and Daryl Hannah. There’s also a chance Eugene Levy might pop up. See a teaser below!

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