What’s sometimes lost in the discussion of John Hughes‘ extraordinary reinvention of the teen film is just how brief his time in the subgenre was. Beginning with the release of Sixteen Candles in 1984, Hughes began a writing and directing streak that remains tough to top in any genre. By 1986 he had produced four of the most celebrated teen films ever made – Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Pretty In Pink, and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off – while also managing to deliver Weird Science (less celebrated and less timeless than the others, but still fun) and the sequel European Vacation. It’s the kind of creative potency and legacy building that storytellers dream about, and he did it in a flash. Continue here

ABC has expanded its series pick ups for the 2019-2020 season with orders for a half-hour comedy, “United We Fall,” and an hour-long drama, “For Life.”

The show will also seek to examine the flaws and challenges in our penal and legal systems. It stars Nicholas Pinnock, Indira Varma, Joy Bryant, Glenn Fleshler, Dorian Missick, Tyla Harris, Mary Stuart Masterson, and Boris McGiver.

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The revival of the Arthur Kopit-Maury Yeston musical, directed by David Leveaux, opened on Broadway April 10, 2003. Read More here

Mary Stuart Masterson has signed on for a lead role in the ABC legal drama pilot that hails from Hank Steinberg and Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, Variety has learned. The project follows Aaron (Nicholas Pinnock), a prisoner who becomes a lawyer, litigating cases for other inmates while fighting to overturn his own life sentence for a crime he didn’t commit. His quest for freedom is driven by his desperate desire to get back to the family he loves and reclaim the life that was stolen from him. Read More here