Hollywood's Nazi Hunter; Kimmel's Plea to Congress; Fifth 'Thrones' Series; 'Orient Express' Trailer; 'Kingsman' vs. 'Ninjago'

What's news: Get Out filmmaker Jordan Peele is developing a Nazi-hunting TV drama. Plus: Hulu lands Will & Grace original seasons in a big deal, the Kingsman sequel squares off against a Lego Movie spinoff at the box office, and a fifth Game of Thrones spinoff is in the works. — Matthew Belloni, Erik Hayden and Jennifer Konerman [The Hollywood Reporter - Today In Entertainment]( September 21, 2017 What's news: Get Out filmmaker Jordan Peele is developing a Nazi-hunting TV drama. Plus: Hulu lands Will & Grace original seasons in a big deal, the Kingsman sequel squares off against a Lego Movie spinoff at the box office, and a fifth Game of Thrones spinoff is in the works. — Matthew Belloni, Erik Hayden and Jennifer Konerman Box Office: 'Kingsman' vs. 'Lego' Matthew Vaughn's Kingsman: The Golden Circle should have no trouble dethroning horror sensation It in its box-office debut this weekend, or lording over fellow new entry The Lego Ninjago Movie, Pamela McClintock forecasts: Tracking suggests the cheeky action-comedy, from 20th Century Fox, [will debut in the $40M-$45M range](, ahead of the $36.2M domestic debut of Kingsman: The Secret Service in February 2015. The sequel, which currently sports a 59 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes, also makes a major push overseas. Warner Bros. Animation's Ninjago, a spinoff of The Lego Movie, is tracking to open in the $30M range. There's plenty of room for upside since it's the first family offering of fall. [At the specialty box office:]( Awards season kicks off in earnest as Battle of the Sexes (Fox Searchlight), Stronger (Roadside Attractions) and Victoria and Abdul (Focus Features) open in select theaters following a tour of the fall festival circuit. Elsewhere in film... ► Mark Wahlberg to star in Paramount comedy. Instant Family [reteams]( Wahlberg and Daddy's Home filmmaker Sean Anders, who wrote the comedy with Brian Burns. The studio is fast-tracking the project and aims to start shooting next year. ► Gal Gadot in talks to join Bradley Cooper in thriller. MGM’s Deeper was a hot Max Landis spec package when the studio picked it up in 2016. Kornel Mundruczo is directing the project, which is [described]( as having a tone similar to recent hits Gravity and The Martian. ► Sylvester Stallone's Escape Plan 3 adds to cast. Jaime King is [joining]( Stallone and Dave Bautista in the thriller, which is co-written and being directed by John Herzfeld. Production began earlier this week. ^Goodbye Christopher Robin, reviewed. Starring alongside Margot Robbie and Kelly Macdonald, Domhnall Gleeson plays Winnie-the-Pooh creator A. A. Milne in a drama that focuses on the British author’s relationship with his son. [The takeaway:]( "A compelling, if not always subtle, child’s-eye-view of literary history." + Early takes: [Screen Daily:]( "loses a genuinely moving story in cinematic contrivances." [The Telegraph:]( "the whole thing reads as an indictment of the sort of upper class upbringing that Milne's children's books idealised." ► Warner Bros., It producer to adapt sci-fi epic Ma.K. Roy Lee [has teamed]( with Scott Bernstein, the Universal executive turned producer, and Warner Bros. to adapt the epic sci-fi property out of Japan. ► Fox unveils Murder on the Orient Express footage. The star-studded ensemble film, hitting theaters Nov. 10, has high hopes at the fall box office. The new promo teases "Make sure to look for a NEW clue hidden in this latest trailer." [Watch.]( ► Sony drops new Jumanji reboot trailer. It includes a jumpy moment with a large cobra, showing the film may have the same hair-raising animal moments as the Robin Williams' original. [Watch.]( ► R.I.P., Jake LaMotta. The tough-as-nails middleweight champion who was immortalized by Robert De Niro in the revered Martin Scorsese drama Raging Bull, has died at 95. [Full obit](. ► R.I.P., Bernie Casey. The actor who appeared in such films as Boxcar Bertha, Never Say Never Again and Revenge of the Nerds after a career as a standout NFL wide receiver, has died at 78. [Full obit](. Oscars: Kobe Bryant brings star power to animated short race. Scott Feinberg writes: With animation and a score by two legends, the five-minute-and-22-second-long film about the L.A. Laker great's relationship with basketball looks like[a formidable contender.]( HBO's Fifth 'Thrones' Spinoff What does the future look like for Westeros? If one of the potential successor shows moves past development and into reality, it could look a whole lot like the present, Josh Wigler writes: Bryan Cogman, a co-executive producer and writer on Game of Thrones since season one, is currently working alongside author George R.R. Martin on developing a new series set within the world of the Seven Kingdoms. Details on the story are under wraps, though it's been said that all of the potential follow-up series in development will take place before the events of Game of Thrones. Perhaps most tellingly, Cogman wrote the season-four episode "Oathkeeper," which featured one of the most jarring moments of the series for fans of the books. [Prequel plans]( I [Podcast chat.]( Elsewhere in TV... ► Jordan Peele developing Nazi hunting TV drama. Peele is set to exec produce '70s-set The Hunt from Sonar Entertainment. David Weil is on board to pen the script and exec produce. A network is [not yet attached](. ► CBS lands Dick Wolf FBI drama. The prolific producer behind NBC's Law & Order and Chicago franchises has [landed]( a 13-episode series order at CBS for F.B.I. (working title), set to launch in the 2018-19 TV season. Craig Turk will pen the pilot and will serve as showrunner. ► The CW plans Riverdale companion series. The network is looking to [expand the Archie universe]( following the success of Riverdale, with a companion series titled The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina as an hourlong dark coming-of-age drama. ► Hulu lands Will & Grace library in big SVOD deal. Hulu has secured [all 194 episodes]( of the show and will air new episodes of the revival each week following their initial broadcast this fall. ^Column: "the real cost of Hollywood whitewashing." Gavin Polone writes: "when a Hellboy actor gives up a role that had been reconceived for him, it sets a dangerous creative precedent that impacts Hollywood and could even stunt efforts toward inclusion." [Full story.]( ► Profile: Hollywood's hidden alt-media firebrands. Your News Wire, a website of murky facts and slippery spin, is published by Sean Adl-Tabatabai and Sinclair Treadway - a Bernie Sanders supporter in 2016 - out of an apartment in L.A.'s historic El Royale, Gary Baum [reports](. ► HBO moves forward with Watchmen series. The network has handed out a[pilot order]( and commissioned additional scripts for Damon Lindelof's take on Alan Moore's beloved graphic novel. Lindelof has also revealed that the writers room has been opened. ► Comedy Central to launch podcast network. The network network will feature brand extensions of existing franchises as well as new original content. The Jim Jefferies Show will be the [inaugural offering](, with more coming from Trevor Noah and others. ► Warner Bros. TV inks overall deal with Diablo Cody. The Juno Oscar winner [has signed]( a multiple-year overall deal with Warner Bros. Television, extending Cody's relationship with Peter Roth's WBTV following the studio's ABC comedy pilot Raised by Wolves. ► Netflix's Amy Poehler comedy casts Natasha Lyonne. The streaming giant handed out a [straight-to-series order]( for an untitled comedy following a young woman on her journey as the guest of honor at a seemingly inescapable party one night in N.Y. ► CBS, Rob Thomas adapting web series I Mom So Hard. The project landed at the network with a sizable [pilot production commitment](. Kristin Hensley and Jen Smedley will star and co-write the script alongside Michelle Nader. ► YouTube enlists Craig Ferguson to host show. Couple Thinkers, sponsored by fashion label Gant, [features]( the former Late Late Show host and his wife asking guests like Neil deGrasse Tyson and Arianna Huffington life's bigger questions. MSNBC footage leaked showing frustrated Lawrence O’Donnell on-set. In the video [clip](, which was seemingly leaked to Mediaite by someone with access to the network's production process, O'Donnell expresses frustration with the actions of the control room and with a hammering sound that distracts him: "[Stop the hammering!](" Flashback: Nazis In Hollywood New book excerpt: Decades before today's white nationalist movement, "the most dangerous Jew in Los Angeles" fought a plan to assassinate film stars and studio heads by hanging them in the streets, USC professor of history Steven J. Ross writes. [Full feature.]( What else we're reading... — "Silence is golden?" Steven Zeitchik writes: "In several of the biggest upcoming fall releases, directors have crafted memorable characters out of a mute janitor, a deaf young girl and a near-silent victim of a Cambodian genocide." [[The Los Angeles Times](] — "A franchise boldly goes into the serial TV era." Dave Itzkoff writes: "The first new Star Trek series in more than a decade deals with the demands of long-form storytelling and confronts earthbound production problems." [[The New York Times](] — "How Jeremy Irons rescued and restored a 15th-century Irish castle." David Kamp writes: "In the midst of a creative crisis, the British actor impulsively purchased Kilcoe Castle, a long-abandoned fortress near the water." [[Vanity Fair](] — "How this year's Oscar contenders are tackling Trump." David Sims notes: "Some of the biggest hits - and one notable flop - at the Toronto International Film Festival played as blunt allegories for the current political moment." [[The Atlantic](] — "Who’s laughing now?" Tom Bissell on SNL: "each time Trump has done the show, the ratings have been boffo. But who used whom, exactly, and for what?" [[Harper's](] — "London Fashion Week: Sparkly crocs, red carpet-ready gowns." Stephanie Chan, in London, has "the biggest takeaways from spring 2018 on the British runways." [[Pret-a-Reporter](] What else we're seeing... + "Jimmy Kimmel fights back against Bill Cassidy." [[Jimmy Kimmel Live!](] + "Ben Stiller's inner monologue during his interview." [[The Tonight Show](] + "Obama told Billie Jean King the Battle of the Sexes 'changed his life.'" [[Late Night](] + "The worst campaign ad of the 2018 mid-terms has arrived." [[The Late Show](] Today in 1998... + NBC premieres Will & Grace. Original [review](: "The scenario ... is absolutely guaranteed to drive the Moral Majority types crazy." Today's birthdays: Luke Wilson, 46, Cheryl Hines, 52, Ethan Coen, 60, Bill Murray, 67, Stephen King, 70, Jerry Bruckheimer, 74. 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