Law & Order: Organized Crime
Mariska Hargitay and Christopher Meloni have posed together teasing their reunion in “Law & Order: Organized Crime,” the upcoming spinoff to “Law & Order: SVU” where the pair previously worked together throughout the early 2000s.
Meloni reprises his Elliot Stabler role for the new show which follows him returning to the NYPD to battle organized crime after a devastating personal loss – he last played it in 2011. Production on the spinoff is expected to begin next month. [Source: Instagram]
Roman Holiday
Paramount Home Entertainment have announced a September 15th Blu-ray release date for William Wyler’s 1953 Oscar-winning film “Roman Holiday,” the famed Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck rom-com which makes its HD debut. This also marks the first physical home entertainment release to correctly credit Dalton Trumbo with both the screenplay and story by credits both on packaging and the film itself. [Source: Coming Soon]
81 Words
“Pose” creator Steven Canals has lined up his next project, a limited series titled “81 Words” at FX. The series explores the historic effort by a group of medical professionals to change the definition homosexuality from being classified as a mental illness in the mid-1970s. Canals will write the script based on Alix Spiegel’s award-winning “This American Life” episode. [Source: The Live Feed]
The Broken Hearts Gallery
In the wake of the news of “Tenet” being pulled from the release calendar, Sony has also indefinitely delayed the Selena Gomez-produced rom-com “The Broken Hearts Gallery” from its planned August 7th debut. The studio has not announced new plans to launch the film which follows Geraldine Viswanathan as a lovesick New Yorker who overcomes heartbreak by opening a museum dedicated to keepsakes from past relationships. [Source: Variety]
Sweet Paprika
Comic writer Mirka Andolfo (“Unnatural,” “Mercy”) will make her first animated feature with the erotic urban fairy tale comedy “Sweet Paprika” at Arancia Studio. Tomasso Triolo will write the screenplay
The story centers around the relationship between the career-driven Paprika – the chief creative officer at a New York-based publisher – and Dill, a delivery boy whose casual naivete makes him charming and confounding in equal measure to Paprika. To make matters more complicated, she’s a devil and he’s an angel. [Source: Heat Vision]
Hoops
Netflix has released the first teaser trailer for their ten-episode adult-animated series “Hoops” with the voice of Jake Johnson (“Jurassic World,” “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse”) as a hot-headed and foul-mouthed high school basketball coach desperate to prove himself.
Rob Riggle, Natasha Leggero, Ron Funches, Cleo King and A.D. Miles co-star while Ben Hoffman (“New Girl”) serves as showrunner on the series which will be available from Friday, August 21st.
