Adam Riff™

Let's check in on creative at Paramount/CBS/Showtime:

TRANSFORMERS ONE (PARAMOUNT)
Premieres Friday, September 20

The origin story explores the friendship — and eventual animosity — between Optimus Prime and Megatron.

APARTMENT 7A (PARAMOUNT+)
Premieres Friday, September 27

The film tells the story prior to Rosemary's Baby, exploring what happened in the infamous Bramford building before Rosemary moved in.

NCIS: ORIGINS (CBS)
Premieres Monday, October 14

Follows a young Leroy Jethro Gibbs in 1991, years prior to the events of NCIS, and is narrated by Mark Harmon.

DEXTER: ORIGINAL SIN (SHOWTIME)
Premieres Sunday, December 15

Set in 1991, follows Dexter as he transitions from student to avenging serial killer.

Includes Michael C. Hall as the inner voice of the young serial killer in training.

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  Adrian Martinez, Braxton Paul and Finn Maloney have joined the series set in the same world as CBS' The Neighborhood

The Neighborhood sitcom universe.

• Millimages Will Bring Animated Comedy Series Bin Buddies to Market This Fall

Bin Buddies is noted as being "the first upper preschool CG animated series to place bin men in a starring role" – a rather refreshing change of pace for children's shows surrounding a fantastical depiction of blue-collar work.

Bin Buddies is aimed at children between the ages of five and seven; its adventures set in "Nicelittletown," a place where trash collectors are celebrated by children in the same way that a fireman might be. [source]

Idea: An animated children's series about gig workers.

Task the Rabbit. Uber Cheets (cheetah). Fiverr Mousekewitz (Mousekumar?).

Firebuds is an animated comedy series produced by Disney.

A group of kids and their rescue vehicle buddies…

Bo Bayani is a Jewish Filipino-American boy who is an aspiring firefighter. He is the leader of the Firebuds.

What?

Halo is a helicopter who's in a lot of clubs.

Cory is Halo's vroom-mate. Cory is non-binary.

The British pop star Robbie Williams has always felt like a performing monkey.

In the coming musical biopic Better Man, the character of Robbie Williams is a computer-generated chimp, though everyone else around him is human.

For the chimp's face, the eyes of the actual pop star were used.

And so from the first frame of the film to the last, Williams is portrayed by a monkey, first as a young childlike one with furry paws and outsized ears who doesn't fit in at school and is desperate for the approval of his showman father; then as a rebellious boy-band monkey with dyed blond hair (just on his head) and a penchant for copious amounts of cocaine and alcohol; and finally as an adult monkey desperately trying to fight off his demons. [source]

"So, as I said, Robbie's Home! began airing in the fall of '96 and it was an immediate hit. Ratings were huge. Pretty good reviews, and then one day, we're shooting an episode in season two entitled 'Robbie's Birthday.' And, boom. Robbie just hit his limit. It was six minutes and 13 seconds of havoc. The network tried to bury it, but it was a spectacle. People are just obsessed."

Robbie Williams as Bubbles in next year's Michael Jackson biopic.

Godzilla × Robbie Williams.

"Ape not kill ape."
"You are not ape."

Tonia Haddix loves Robbie Williams.

• Inside Call of Duty: Next 2024['s] Washington, D.C. Takeover

"The planning for it started six to nine months ago, when we were figuring out where we wanted to have it this year and it really came down to the storyline of the game," senior vice president and head of marketing at Activision Tyler Bahl told Variety. "Looking at this new level, 'Most Wanted,' it takes place in D.C. at Governor Bill Clinton's fundraiser. And we were asking, how can we bring this to life in a much bigger way?"

The Next event was created to drive social media engagement and sales surrounding the Call of Duty franchise by giving top gaming-focused creators a chance to get hands-on multiplayer experience with new titles ahead of release.

Bahl notes so much of the focus this year is on the themed activities that will give the influencers the content they need to increase hype among their followers for Black Ops 6.

"There's going to be a motorcade that is going to drive through D.C. So it'll be five busses, 16 motorcycles driving through D.C., fully branded for Black Ops 6."

"We have one of these characters that we're bringing to life called the Mega Abomination. That'll actually be greeting all the creators as they arrive – this three-story monster that breathes fire lasers as they enter. It's going to be the largest marionette for a video game and we will have Guinness Book of World Records there to verify that."

"And at the Spy Museum, we're gonna have our first Call of Duty wedding. We have two creators that met through Call of Duty and we'll have a third creator who's going to officiate. It's tricked out with all kinds of stuff, like Call of Duty cufflinks, orange-and-black bouquets, and robes and cakes."

"Based on the Has Fallen movies."

Wikipedia » Has Fallen »

Has Fallen is an American action thriller film series starring Gerard Butler as United States Secret Service agent Mike Banning.

Butler has signed on for three more feature films.

The fourth film [is] titled Night Has Fallen.

Angel, night… What else falls?

Apple Has Fallen: Mike Banning must save Tim Cook after South Korean terrorists kidnap him inside Apple's "spaceship" headquarters.

Each Has Fallen film has been released by a different distributor. Direct to Apple TV+?

With plans to expand into a franchise, producers have various foreign, local-language, TV spin-offs in development.

London Has Fallen: Gordon Tremblay must protect the Canadian Prime Minister from militant Quebec separatists in southwestern Ontario.

The intent for TV show installments would be to add additional characters to appear in future films.

Oh, they're both Citadel-ing Has Fallen and Marvel Television-ing it.

• Robert Downey Jr. Emailed Gerard Butler Asking for More Olympus Has Fallen Movies

Avengers Have Fallen: Secret service agents from around the world assemble to vanquish Doctor Doom. Distributed by Disney.