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Disney+ has officially given a 12-episode series order to its “Turner & Hooch” series, which is now set to star “Drake & Josh” star Josh Peck.

The series is based on the 1989 film of the same name, which starred Tom Hanks.

The project, which comes from “Burn Notice” creator Matt Nix and 20th Century Fox TV — where Nix has an overall deal — was put into development in December. It will be a television adaptation of the original 1980s-era buddy cop movie.

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Peck will play Hanks’ original role of Us Marshall Scott Turner.

Here is the official logline from Disney+: “When an ambitious, buttoned-up Us Marshall inherits a big unruly dog, he soon realizes the pet he didn’t want may be the partner he needs.”

Post “Drake & Josh,” Peck has appeared in coming-of-age...

Disney Plus has ordered an hour-long series based on the Tom Hanks Disney comedy film “Turner & Hooch,” Variety has learned.

It was originally reported the show was in development in December. Josh Peck will star in the series as Scott Turner, described as an ambitious, buttoned-up U.S. Marshall who inherits a big unruly dog. He soon realizes the pet he didn’t want may be the partner he needs. The series has received a 12-episode order. Matt Nix is writing and executive producing the series, with Josh Levy co-executive producing.

“Turner & Hooch” was first released in 1989. Along with Hanks, the cast also included Mare Winningham, Craig T. Nelson, and Reginald VelJohnson. Roger Spottiswoode directed. It went on to gross over $70 million at the box office on a reported budget of $13 million.

Peck first broke out as one of the two stars of the Nickelodeon series “Drake & Josh.

Josh Peck has been cast as the lead of Turner & Hooch, Disney+’s adaptation of the classic 1989 buddy cop comedy feature, which has received a formal 12-episode series order.

Peck will play U.S. Marshal Scott Turner, a version of the character portrayed by Tom Hanks in the movie. The TV series reboot comes from Burn Notice creator Matt Nix and 20th Century Fox TV, where Nix is under an overall deal.

Like the movie, the hourlong series revolves around Scott Turner, who is now a U.S. marshal vs. a police detective in the movie, and his dog. When an ambitious, buttoned-up U.S. marshal (Peck) inherits a big unruly dog, he soon realizes the pet he didn’t want may be the partner he needs.

Nix is the Turner & Hooch series writer/executive producer. Josh Levy (Bones) is co-executive producer. 20th Century Fox TV, part of Disney TV Studios,...

Gabrielle Union is set to star in Screen Gems’ currently untitled romantic comedy which centers around a relationship between a newly single African-American woman and a recently divorced Asian-American man. Screen Gems acquired the spec written by Chester Tam with Union attached. The project is based on his real-life romantic account. Tam wrote, directed and starred in Take The 10 for Netflix.

Union will produce the rom-com partner with Holly Shakoor-Fleischer under their I’ll Have Another label along with Tam and Trevor Engelson of Underground.

Scott Strauss and Jolene Rodriguez will oversee the project on behalf of Screen Gems.

Union was last seen on the big screen in Universal’s Breaking In crime thriller and currently stars alongside Jessica Alba in the Spectrum series, L.A.’s Finest, which was just picked up for a second season.

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Happy anniversary to these two lovebirds!

Sarah Michelle Gellar took to Instagram on Friday to share a loving video montage commemorating her 15th wedding anniversary with husband Freddie Prinze Jr.

The video begins with a photo from their wedding day in 2002, and depicts photos of the couple throughout the years.

“My husband thinks I’m crazy, but I’m not the one who married me,” Gellar, 40, cheekily wrote in the caption. “#happyanniversary @realfreddieprinze 15 years!!”

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Netflix Original Films can be widely divergent in quality. For every high profile effort like “Beasts Of No Nation,” “War Machine,” and “Okja” there are tons of other projects you probably never heard of like “Deidra & Laney Rob A Train” (which debuted at Sundance to almost zero buzz) and “Take The 10” (a comedy atrocity released in January starring Josh Peck and Tony Revolori).

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Have you ever wondered what fake drugs and alcohol seen in movies are made of? Prop experts Jeff Butcher (“The Wrestler”) and Eric Cheripka (“American Gangster”) have revealed some tricks of the trade via Refinery29.

For cocaine, Butcher usually uses inositol, a vitamin found in plants and animals that is commonly used to cut the real drug. “It’ll give you a slight energy lift because it’s a Vitamin B,” he said. The vitamin gives people such a strong lift that, according to Butcher, while filming “The Wrestler,” Mickey Rourke asked him, “Are you sure there’s nothing in this, I feel like I’m getting a lift?”

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What happens when two friends steal concert tickets and drugs from a dealer? Tony Revolori and Josh Peck tell us the outcome in the new trailer for their upcoming Netflix comedy, “Take the 10.”

Written and directed by Chester Tam, the movie follows Chester (Revolori) and Chris (Peck), two buddies extremely prone to antics and hijinks who get tickets to a music festival by questionable means. Naturally, everything doesn’t go according to plan and the two fight to survive this wild ride that, per the film’s synopsis, involves “drugs, sex and Andy Samberg.”

The comedy also co-stars Fred Armisen, Stella Maeve, Cleopatra Coleman and Kevin Corrigan. Check out the trailer below.

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Revolori is best known for his breakout role in “The Grand Budapest Hotel.” He’s currently seen in “Son of Zorn” and will...