Jennifer Lopez confronts her complicated feelings about artificial intelligence when disaster strikes in the teaser trailer for Netflix’s sci-fi movie Atlas.
Launching on the streaming service May 24, fimmkaer Brad Peyton’s feature also stars Simu Liu, Sterling K. Brown, Gregory James Cohan, Abraham Popoola, Lana Parrilla and Mark Strong. Atlas centers on Atlas Shepherd (Lopez), a data analyst who must set aside her mistrust of AI when she faces problems during a voyage to apprehend a renegade robot with which she has shared history.
“Fire thrusters now!” Lopez shouts in the dramatic footage that shows her vessel going down. “Mission control, this is Atlas Shepherd. Do you hear me?”
Peyton (Rampage) directs from a script by Leo Sardarian and Aron Eli Coleite. Producers include Peyton, Lopez, Jeff Fierson, Joby Harold, Tory Tunnell, Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas, Benny Medina, Greg Berlanti and Sarah Schechter.
Lopez starred in Netflix’s 2023 film The Mother,...
Launching on the streaming service May 24, fimmkaer Brad Peyton’s feature also stars Simu Liu, Sterling K. Brown, Gregory James Cohan, Abraham Popoola, Lana Parrilla and Mark Strong. Atlas centers on Atlas Shepherd (Lopez), a data analyst who must set aside her mistrust of AI when she faces problems during a voyage to apprehend a renegade robot with which she has shared history.
“Fire thrusters now!” Lopez shouts in the dramatic footage that shows her vessel going down. “Mission control, this is Atlas Shepherd. Do you hear me?”
Peyton (Rampage) directs from a script by Leo Sardarian and Aron Eli Coleite. Producers include Peyton, Lopez, Jeff Fierson, Joby Harold, Tory Tunnell, Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas, Benny Medina, Greg Berlanti and Sarah Schechter.
Lopez starred in Netflix’s 2023 film The Mother,...
- 3/13/2024
- by Ryan Gajewski
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
After the 96th Academy Awards honors were handed out on Sunday night, here’s a look at the next projects the Oscar nominees in the acting categories (supporting and lead) are planning to tackle:
Annette Bening
Nyad
The five-time Oscar nominee stars with Alison Brie and Sam Neill on Peacock series Apples Never Fall (March 14), an adaptation of a Liane Moriarty novel. Also this year, Bening stars in Poolman opposite Chris Pine in his feature directorial debut.
Emily Blunt
Oppenheimer
She stars opposite fellow Oscar nominee Ryan Gosling in David Leitch’s movie The Fall Guy, premiering at SXSW before Universal releases it May 3. Two weeks after that, Blunt can be heard voicing a unicorn in husband John Krasinski’s Paramount feature If.
Danielle Brooks
The Color Purple
The actress has been filming Jared Hess’ video game adaptation Minecraft with Jack Black, set for release from Warner Bros. in 2025. She...
Annette Bening
Nyad
The five-time Oscar nominee stars with Alison Brie and Sam Neill on Peacock series Apples Never Fall (March 14), an adaptation of a Liane Moriarty novel. Also this year, Bening stars in Poolman opposite Chris Pine in his feature directorial debut.
Emily Blunt
Oppenheimer
She stars opposite fellow Oscar nominee Ryan Gosling in David Leitch’s movie The Fall Guy, premiering at SXSW before Universal releases it May 3. Two weeks after that, Blunt can be heard voicing a unicorn in husband John Krasinski’s Paramount feature If.
Danielle Brooks
The Color Purple
The actress has been filming Jared Hess’ video game adaptation Minecraft with Jack Black, set for release from Warner Bros. in 2025. She...
- 3/11/2024
- by Ryan Gajewski
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Two of This Is Us‘ key figures are getting ready to take you down to Paradise City.
Dan Fogelman, who created the Emmy-winning NBC series, announced Wednesday on social media that production had begun on his new Hulu series. And the subject of his first behind-the-scenes photo? Star Sterling K. Brown, aka The Artist Formerly Known as Randall Pearson.
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“Day one.
Dan Fogelman, who created the Emmy-winning NBC series, announced Wednesday on social media that production had begun on his new Hulu series. And the subject of his first behind-the-scenes photo? Star Sterling K. Brown, aka The Artist Formerly Known as Randall Pearson.
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“Day one.
- 2/28/2024
- by Kimberly Roots
- TVLine.com
Lucifer actor Tom Ellis will join Hulu‘s second season of Tell Me Lies as a series regular. Ellis will debut in Season 2 as Oliver, a Baird College professor with a tough attitude and intimidating presence that many students won’t come to appreciate, according to Deadline. Oliver is married to Lucy’s (Grace Van Patten) Professor Marianne (played by Gabriella Pession), but as one main character begins looking for his approval, Oliver’s influence will result in chaotic repercussions. It was recently announced that Ells will star and executive produce Second Wife with Emma Roberts from showrunner Meaghan Oppenheimer for Hulu. He’s also slated to play a leading role in a romantic comedy from Netflix called Players alongside Gina Rodriguez and Damon Wayans Jr. Also coming up on Hulu, he has the limited adventure series Washington Black, based on Esi Edugyan’s novel of ...
- 1/24/2024
- TV Insider
Exclusive: Tom Ellis (Lucifer) is joining season 2 of the Hulu Original series Tell Me Lies.
Ellis has been cast in the series regular role of Oliver, a professor at Baird College whose tough love attitude makes him an intimidating presence that isn’t appreciated by all students. He is married to Lucy’s professor Marianne (Gabriella Pession), but as one of the main characters begins seeking his approval, his influence will have chaotic repercussions.
Most recently, it was announced that Ellis will star in and executive produce Second Wife with Emma Roberts, for Hulu and 20th TV, from showrunner Meaghan Oppenheimer. He will next be seen in a leading role in Players, a romantic comedy from Netflix co-starring Gina Rodriguez (Jane The Virgin) and Damon Wayans Jr (Happing Endings). He will follow that with Hulu’s limited adventure series Washington Black, based on Esi Edugyan’s novel of the same name,...
Ellis has been cast in the series regular role of Oliver, a professor at Baird College whose tough love attitude makes him an intimidating presence that isn’t appreciated by all students. He is married to Lucy’s professor Marianne (Gabriella Pession), but as one of the main characters begins seeking his approval, his influence will have chaotic repercussions.
Most recently, it was announced that Ellis will star in and executive produce Second Wife with Emma Roberts, for Hulu and 20th TV, from showrunner Meaghan Oppenheimer. He will next be seen in a leading role in Players, a romantic comedy from Netflix co-starring Gina Rodriguez (Jane The Virgin) and Damon Wayans Jr (Happing Endings). He will follow that with Hulu’s limited adventure series Washington Black, based on Esi Edugyan’s novel of the same name,...
- 1/24/2024
- by Lynette Rice
- Deadline Film + TV
Dystopian novel Prophet Song by Irish author Paul Lynch has won the 2023 Booker Prize.
Set in Dublin, the story follows a family dealing with a terrifying new world in which democracy falls away.
The prestigious book award has previously been won by novels including The English Patient, The Remains Of The Day, Life Of Pi, The White Tiger, and Wolf Hall, all of which have been adapted into successful movies or TV series.
Chair of Judges, Esi Edugyan, described Prophet Song, which was the bookmakers’ favorite to win the prize, as “soul-shattering and true,” adding that readers “will not soon forget its warnings.”
The subject matter rings especially true given the scenes of violence that have erupted in Dublin in recent days. Ireland’s police chief Drew Harris this weekend blamed the rioting and violence, which saw multiple people stabbed, on a “lunatic, hooligan faction driven by a far-right ideology...
Set in Dublin, the story follows a family dealing with a terrifying new world in which democracy falls away.
The prestigious book award has previously been won by novels including The English Patient, The Remains Of The Day, Life Of Pi, The White Tiger, and Wolf Hall, all of which have been adapted into successful movies or TV series.
Chair of Judges, Esi Edugyan, described Prophet Song, which was the bookmakers’ favorite to win the prize, as “soul-shattering and true,” adding that readers “will not soon forget its warnings.”
The subject matter rings especially true given the scenes of violence that have erupted in Dublin in recent days. Ireland’s police chief Drew Harris this weekend blamed the rioting and violence, which saw multiple people stabbed, on a “lunatic, hooligan faction driven by a far-right ideology...
- 11/27/2023
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
London, Nov 27 (Ians) ‘Prophet Song’ by the celebrated Irish novelist Paul Lynch has been named the winner of the Booker Prize 2023, according to an official announcement by the organisers of the prestigious literary award.
The author received 50,000 pounds and was presented with his trophy by Sri Lankan writer Shehan Karunatilaka, the 2022 winner, at a ceremony held at Old Billingsgate, London, on Sunday, November 26.
Nairobi-born accountant-turned-debutant novelist Chetna Maroo, who is of Indian origin and a resident of London, was one of the six writers shortlisted for the prize, which, since 1969, has been awarded to the top writers of our times. Six of the awardees have been writers of Indian descent.
The glitterting award event on Sunday was hosted by British journalist and writer Samira Ahmed and broadcast live as a special episode of BBC Radio 4 Front Row.
It was also livestreamed in an hour-long YouTube presentation, hosted by Jack Edwards...
The author received 50,000 pounds and was presented with his trophy by Sri Lankan writer Shehan Karunatilaka, the 2022 winner, at a ceremony held at Old Billingsgate, London, on Sunday, November 26.
Nairobi-born accountant-turned-debutant novelist Chetna Maroo, who is of Indian origin and a resident of London, was one of the six writers shortlisted for the prize, which, since 1969, has been awarded to the top writers of our times. Six of the awardees have been writers of Indian descent.
The glitterting award event on Sunday was hosted by British journalist and writer Samira Ahmed and broadcast live as a special episode of BBC Radio 4 Front Row.
It was also livestreamed in an hour-long YouTube presentation, hosted by Jack Edwards...
- 11/27/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
London, Nov 27 (Ians) ‘Prophet Song’ by the celebrated Irish novelist Paul Lynch has been named the winner of the Booker Prize 2023, according to an official announcement by the organisers of the prestigious literary award.
The author received 50,000 pounds and was presented with his trophy by Sri Lankan writer Shehan Karunatilaka, the 2022 winner, at a ceremony held at Old Billingsgate, London, on Sunday, November 26.
Nairobi-born accountant-turned-debutant novelist Chetna Maroo, who is of Indian origin and a resident of London, was one of the six writers shortlisted for the prize, which, since 1969, has been awarded to the top writers of our times. Six of the awardees have been writers of Indian descent.
The glitterting award event on Sunday was hosted by British journalist and writer Samira Ahmed and broadcast live as a special episode of BBC Radio 4 Front Row.
It was also livestreamed in an hour-long YouTube presentation, hosted by Jack Edwards...
The author received 50,000 pounds and was presented with his trophy by Sri Lankan writer Shehan Karunatilaka, the 2022 winner, at a ceremony held at Old Billingsgate, London, on Sunday, November 26.
Nairobi-born accountant-turned-debutant novelist Chetna Maroo, who is of Indian origin and a resident of London, was one of the six writers shortlisted for the prize, which, since 1969, has been awarded to the top writers of our times. Six of the awardees have been writers of Indian descent.
The glitterting award event on Sunday was hosted by British journalist and writer Samira Ahmed and broadcast live as a special episode of BBC Radio 4 Front Row.
It was also livestreamed in an hour-long YouTube presentation, hosted by Jack Edwards...
- 11/27/2023
- by Agency News Desk
Exclusive: The Gotham Group has signed Nigerian filmmaker C.J. Obasi, whose latest feature Mami Wata is Nigeria’s entry for Best International Feature Oscar in the 96th Academy Awards.
Mami Wata world premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in its World Cinema – Dramatic section, where it won the cinematography prize.
Award-winning filmmaker Obasi’s previous credits include Ojuju (2014) and O-Town (2015), which screened at various festivals, including Gothenburg and Fantasia.
His short film, Hello, Rain (2018) premiered at Oberhausen and over 40 festivals, winning a Jury Prize at Fantasia, and the BFI Short Film Award nomination. Juju Stories (2021), an anthology film directed by the Surreal1 Collective, won the Boccalino D’oro Award for Best Film at Locarno.
Set in a remote West African village, Mami Wata follows the villagers who worship the Mermaid-deity Mami Wata and look for guidance from their healer Mama Efe (Rita Edochie), her daughter Zinwe (Uzoamaka Aniunoh) and protégé...
Mami Wata world premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in its World Cinema – Dramatic section, where it won the cinematography prize.
Award-winning filmmaker Obasi’s previous credits include Ojuju (2014) and O-Town (2015), which screened at various festivals, including Gothenburg and Fantasia.
His short film, Hello, Rain (2018) premiered at Oberhausen and over 40 festivals, winning a Jury Prize at Fantasia, and the BFI Short Film Award nomination. Juju Stories (2021), an anthology film directed by the Surreal1 Collective, won the Boccalino D’oro Award for Best Film at Locarno.
Set in a remote West African village, Mami Wata follows the villagers who worship the Mermaid-deity Mami Wata and look for guidance from their healer Mama Efe (Rita Edochie), her daughter Zinwe (Uzoamaka Aniunoh) and protégé...
- 11/14/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
No more Mr. Nice Guy?
This Is Us fans knew Sterling K. Brown as the kind, smart and highly emotional Randall Pearson for six seasons of the NBC drama. And yes, the multi-Emmy-winning actor is reuniting with his former boss, This Is Us creator/executive producer Dan Fogelman, for a new series on Hulu. But something Brown recently told our sister site Variety has us thinking that that’s where the similarities in the projects stop.
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This Is Us fans knew Sterling K. Brown as the kind, smart and highly emotional Randall Pearson for six seasons of the NBC drama. And yes, the multi-Emmy-winning actor is reuniting with his former boss, This Is Us creator/executive producer Dan Fogelman, for a new series on Hulu. But something Brown recently told our sister site Variety has us thinking that that’s where the similarities in the projects stop.
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- 6/29/2023
- by Kimberly Roots
- TVLine.com
This Is Us just ended in 2022, but Sterling K. Brown and series creator Dan Fogelman are already planning their next project together. The Emmy-winning actor will star in Fogelman’s new drama, to which Hulu has just given a series order, per Variety. While the title and a detailed plot description have not yet been shared, the series will reportedly be a thriller in which Brown will play the head of security for a former president. Fogelman will write and executive produce the series for Rhode Island Ave. Productions, along with the banner’s head, Jess Rosenthal. Brown will also executive produce in addition to starring, with John Hoberg also set to executive produce. The series is part of Fogelman’s overall deal with 20th Century Studios. Fogelman and Hoberg previously joined forces on ABC‘s Galavant and The Neighbors. Brown will soon star in, and executive produces the upcoming Hulu series Washington Black,...
- 4/6/2023
- TV Insider
This Is Us star Sterling K. Brown and series creator Dan Fogelman are reuniting on a new drama series at Hulu, TVLine has confirmed.
Details remain sketchy, but the untitled thriller — written by Fogelman — would find Brown playing the head of security for a former president, per Variety.
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Fogelman and Brown would both serve as EPs alongside Jess Rosenthal and John Hoberg.
Details remain sketchy, but the untitled thriller — written by Fogelman — would find Brown playing the head of security for a former president, per Variety.
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Fogelman and Brown would both serve as EPs alongside Jess Rosenthal and John Hoberg.
- 4/6/2023
- by Michael Ausiello
- TVLine.com
Three-time Emmy Award winner Sterling K. Brown is set to reunite with “This is Us” creator Dan Fogelman to executive produce and star in a new untitled drama series for Hulu Originals.
The highly secretive spec script from Fogelman quietly went to senior level executives at 20th Television and Hulu and was picked up to series.
In addition to Fogelman and Brown, Jess Rosenthal and John Hoberg serve as executive producers. The series is produced by 20th Television.
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Brown, who earned two Primetime Emmy Awards for his performance as Randall Pearson in “This is Us,” most recently starred in Focus Features’ “Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul,” which earned him an NAACP Image Award nomination for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture.
He will be seen this July in the IFC feature film “Biosphere,” which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.
The highly secretive spec script from Fogelman quietly went to senior level executives at 20th Television and Hulu and was picked up to series.
In addition to Fogelman and Brown, Jess Rosenthal and John Hoberg serve as executive producers. The series is produced by 20th Television.
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Brown, who earned two Primetime Emmy Awards for his performance as Randall Pearson in “This is Us,” most recently starred in Focus Features’ “Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul,” which earned him an NAACP Image Award nomination for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture.
He will be seen this July in the IFC feature film “Biosphere,” which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.
- 4/6/2023
- by Lucas Manfredi
- The Wrap
Big get for Hulu: The streamer has given a series order to Dan Fogelman’s next drama that will star Sterling K. Brown.
The spec script from Fogelman was apparently reviewed by senior level executives at 20th TV and Hulu under a shroud of secrecy before it was picked up to series. Brown, the three-time Emmy winner who first teamed with Fogelman on This Is Us, will also exec produce.
The untitled series will be produced by 20th Television. In addition to Fogelman and Brown, Jess Rosenthal and John Hoberg are Executive Producers.
And that’s all we know for now. Hulu Originals did not release a logline.
Besides creating NBC’s This is Us, which was the No. 1 broadcast drama for six consecutive seasons, Fogelman is an EP on Only Murders in the Building. He also co-created and executive produced Fox’s drama Pitch, and created and executive...
The spec script from Fogelman was apparently reviewed by senior level executives at 20th TV and Hulu under a shroud of secrecy before it was picked up to series. Brown, the three-time Emmy winner who first teamed with Fogelman on This Is Us, will also exec produce.
The untitled series will be produced by 20th Television. In addition to Fogelman and Brown, Jess Rosenthal and John Hoberg are Executive Producers.
And that’s all we know for now. Hulu Originals did not release a logline.
Besides creating NBC’s This is Us, which was the No. 1 broadcast drama for six consecutive seasons, Fogelman is an EP on Only Murders in the Building. He also co-created and executive produced Fox’s drama Pitch, and created and executive...
- 4/6/2023
- by Lynette Rice
- Deadline Film + TV
Stoked by raves and strong receptions to their world-premiering Toronto festival films, “Brother” producers Damon D’Oliveira and Clement Virgo, “Black Ice” producer Vinay Virmani, and “Alice, Darling” producer Noah Segal are warming up a new basketball-themed crime series, “The Count,” for this fall’s marketplace, Variety has learned.
A modern spin on French author Alexandre Dumas’ classic 19th-century novel of wrongful imprisonment “The Count of Monte Cristo,” the TV drama will bounce between Toronto’s basketball milieu and Haiti’s cultural mélange as it follows the transformation of a Haitian basketball player facing a life sentence for murder into to justice-seeking saboteur.
D’Oliveira and Virgo under their Conquering Lion Pictures company, The Good Karma Company’s chief content officer Virmani, and Elevation Pictures co-president Segal have signed on as executive producers on the series.
Virgo, who wrote and directed the Lamar Johnson-starring “Brother,” and Hubert Davis, director of...
A modern spin on French author Alexandre Dumas’ classic 19th-century novel of wrongful imprisonment “The Count of Monte Cristo,” the TV drama will bounce between Toronto’s basketball milieu and Haiti’s cultural mélange as it follows the transformation of a Haitian basketball player facing a life sentence for murder into to justice-seeking saboteur.
D’Oliveira and Virgo under their Conquering Lion Pictures company, The Good Karma Company’s chief content officer Virmani, and Elevation Pictures co-president Segal have signed on as executive producers on the series.
Virgo, who wrote and directed the Lamar Johnson-starring “Brother,” and Hubert Davis, director of...
- 9/15/2022
- by Jennie Punter
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Toronto’s Elevation Pictures has picked up North American rights to Warren Pereira’s feature documentary Tiger 24, executive produced by The Gotham Group. The film has begun a limited theatrical release which includes a week’s run at the Laemmle’s Monica Film Center (Los Angeles), starting September 30. It will subsequently release on all transactional VOD platforms in North America on November 15.
In Tiger 24, a wild tiger kills men who enter his territory, then being declared a man-eater and locked up in a zoo. This galvanizes massive social uproar and activists to take their cause to the streets, online, on billboards and all the way to the Supreme Court.
World premiering at this year’s Cleveland Film Festival, Tiger 24 is a finalist at the Jackson Wild Media Awards and has two nominations at Wildscreen Festival, where previous winners include My Octopus Teacher. Pic also claimed Best Documentary at last week’s Burbank Film Festival.
In Tiger 24, a wild tiger kills men who enter his territory, then being declared a man-eater and locked up in a zoo. This galvanizes massive social uproar and activists to take their cause to the streets, online, on billboards and all the way to the Supreme Court.
World premiering at this year’s Cleveland Film Festival, Tiger 24 is a finalist at the Jackson Wild Media Awards and has two nominations at Wildscreen Festival, where previous winners include My Octopus Teacher. Pic also claimed Best Documentary at last week’s Burbank Film Festival.
- 9/14/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: The Gotham Group has optioned Stephen G. Bloom’s acclaimed nonfiction book The Audacity of Inez Burns, for development as a television/streaming series.
Published by Regan Arts in 2018, The Audacity of Inez Burns tells the story of Burns, an underground abortion provider and socialite in San Francisco in the early 20th century.
Per the description: Inez Burns was deemed a hero by the desperate women who sought her out — and loathed by some power-hungry men who plotted to destroy her. During a time when women risked their lives with predatory practitioners lurking in back alleys, Inez and her team worked night and day in her clinic, performing thousands of safe and hygienic abortions available during a time when even the richest wives, Hollywood stars and mistresses had few options. She eventually became the target of politicians’ ire.
The project is timely as the U.S. Supreme Court appears...
Published by Regan Arts in 2018, The Audacity of Inez Burns tells the story of Burns, an underground abortion provider and socialite in San Francisco in the early 20th century.
Per the description: Inez Burns was deemed a hero by the desperate women who sought her out — and loathed by some power-hungry men who plotted to destroy her. During a time when women risked their lives with predatory practitioners lurking in back alleys, Inez and her team worked night and day in her clinic, performing thousands of safe and hygienic abortions available during a time when even the richest wives, Hollywood stars and mistresses had few options. She eventually became the target of politicians’ ire.
The project is timely as the U.S. Supreme Court appears...
- 5/27/2022
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
The “Washington Black” series at Hulu has cast Billy Boyd, Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, and Julian Rhind-Tutt in recurring roles, Variety has learned exclusively.
“Washington Black” is adapted from Esi Edugyan’s novel of the same name. The nine-episode series is set in the 19th century and follows Washington “Wash” Black (Ernest Kingsley Jr.) as he flees from a Barbados sugar plantation after a shocking death threatens to upend his life. He becomes the protégé of Medwin Harris (Sterling K. Brown), a Black refugee from Nova Scotia who serves as the de facto major of Black Halifax. While trying to outrun his past and the hunters on his tail, he meets Tanna (Lola Evans), a young wealthy British woman who passed as white but was secretly born of a Melanesian mother on the Solomon Islands, forcing her and her father to flee London for Nova Scotia. Tanna’s father pushes...
“Washington Black” is adapted from Esi Edugyan’s novel of the same name. The nine-episode series is set in the 19th century and follows Washington “Wash” Black (Ernest Kingsley Jr.) as he flees from a Barbados sugar plantation after a shocking death threatens to upend his life. He becomes the protégé of Medwin Harris (Sterling K. Brown), a Black refugee from Nova Scotia who serves as the de facto major of Black Halifax. While trying to outrun his past and the hunters on his tail, he meets Tanna (Lola Evans), a young wealthy British woman who passed as white but was secretly born of a Melanesian mother on the Solomon Islands, forcing her and her father to flee London for Nova Scotia. Tanna’s father pushes...
- 5/17/2022
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Selwyn Seyfu Hinds Signs Overall Deal With UCP, Will Adapt Graphic Novel ‘The Sixth Gun’ (Exclusive)
Selwyn Seyfu Hinds has signed an overall deal with UCP, which will see him adapt the Civil War graphic novel series “The Sixth Gun” into a TV series for the Universal Studio Group-owned studio.
Under the pact, Hinds will produce projects across various platforms through his production company Mad Massive Entertainment. First up is “The Sixth Gun,” based on the graphic novels from Oni Press by Cullen Bunn and Brian Hurtt.
Per UCP’s description for the potential show, “During the darkest days of the Civil War, vile men unearthed six pistols of otherworldly power. But the Sixth Gun, the most dangerous of the weapons, vanished…until the day Becky Montcrief unknowingly grabs that very weapon from her dead father in a desperate attempt at self-defense — an act that hurls her into a terrifying new reality. One where men, and dark entities beyond men, will hunt the holder of...
Under the pact, Hinds will produce projects across various platforms through his production company Mad Massive Entertainment. First up is “The Sixth Gun,” based on the graphic novels from Oni Press by Cullen Bunn and Brian Hurtt.
Per UCP’s description for the potential show, “During the darkest days of the Civil War, vile men unearthed six pistols of otherworldly power. But the Sixth Gun, the most dangerous of the weapons, vanished…until the day Becky Montcrief unknowingly grabs that very weapon from her dead father in a desperate attempt at self-defense — an act that hurls her into a terrifying new reality. One where men, and dark entities beyond men, will hunt the holder of...
- 3/2/2022
- by Jennifer Maas
- Variety Film + TV
Charles Dance has been cast in Hulu’s “Washington Black” in the recurring role of James Wilde.
James is the father of Erasmus and Titch (Tom Ellis) Wilde. He is described as an esteemed scientist and inventor whose shadow looms over the entire story, bearing down with the enormous weight of patriarchy, empire and duty. At his core, Wilde is a man fighting to give himself permission to love the way he must, even as he reckons with his failings as a father. Throughout the series, he will attempt to reconcile those things without destroying himself and everything he cares for.
“Washington Black” is adapted from Esi Edugyan’s novel of the same name. The nine-episode series is set in the 19th century and follows Washington “Wash” Black (Ernest Kingsley Jr.) as he flees from a Barbados sugar plantation after a shocking death threatens to upend his life. He becomes the protégé of Medwin Harris,...
James is the father of Erasmus and Titch (Tom Ellis) Wilde. He is described as an esteemed scientist and inventor whose shadow looms over the entire story, bearing down with the enormous weight of patriarchy, empire and duty. At his core, Wilde is a man fighting to give himself permission to love the way he must, even as he reckons with his failings as a father. Throughout the series, he will attempt to reconcile those things without destroying himself and everything he cares for.
“Washington Black” is adapted from Esi Edugyan’s novel of the same name. The nine-episode series is set in the 19th century and follows Washington “Wash” Black (Ernest Kingsley Jr.) as he flees from a Barbados sugar plantation after a shocking death threatens to upend his life. He becomes the protégé of Medwin Harris,...
- 2/25/2022
- by Selome Hailu
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Rupert Graves has joined Hulu’s anticipated limited series Washington Black as a series regular, with Shaunette Renée Wilson signing on to a recurring role.
Graves and Wilson join a previously announced series regular ensemble led by Ernest Kingsley Jr. and Sterling K. Brown, which also includes Eddie Karanja, Tom Ellis, Iola Evans, Edward Bluemel and Sharon Duncan-Brewster.
Selwyn Seyfu Hinds is adapting the nine-episode drama series based on Esi Edugyan’s international bestselling novel of the same name. It will follow the extraordinary 19th-century adventures of George Washington (“Wash”) Black (Kingsley Jr.)—an 11-year-old boy on a Barbados sugar plantation who must flee after a shocking death threatens to upend his life. As previously announced, Brown is playing the gregarious, larger-than-life Medwin Harris, who traveled the world after a traumatic childhood as a Black refugee in Nova...
Graves and Wilson join a previously announced series regular ensemble led by Ernest Kingsley Jr. and Sterling K. Brown, which also includes Eddie Karanja, Tom Ellis, Iola Evans, Edward Bluemel and Sharon Duncan-Brewster.
Selwyn Seyfu Hinds is adapting the nine-episode drama series based on Esi Edugyan’s international bestselling novel of the same name. It will follow the extraordinary 19th-century adventures of George Washington (“Wash”) Black (Kingsley Jr.)—an 11-year-old boy on a Barbados sugar plantation who must flee after a shocking death threatens to upend his life. As previously announced, Brown is playing the gregarious, larger-than-life Medwin Harris, who traveled the world after a traumatic childhood as a Black refugee in Nova...
- 2/10/2022
- by Matt Grobar and Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
‘Lucifer’ actor Tom Ellis has joined the cast for Hulu’s limited series adaptation of ‘Washington Black.’ Led by Sterling K. Brown, Ellis takes on the role of steam-punk inventor Christopher “Titch” Wilde.
Based on Esi Edugyan’s novel of the same name the nine-episode series follows the extraordinary 19th-century adventures of George Washington “Wash” Black, an 11-year-old boy on a Barbados sugar plantation who must flee after a shocking death threatens to upend his life. Brown will play the gregarious, larger-than-life Medwin Harris, who travelled the world after a traumatic childhood as a Black refugee in Nova Scotia as the de facto Mayor of Black Halifax prioritizes the community over everything except Washington Black, his young protégé. Meeting Wash sends him down a challenging path of self-discovery. And as the barricades around his heart start to fall, Medwin will learn to dream again.
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Based on Esi Edugyan’s novel of the same name the nine-episode series follows the extraordinary 19th-century adventures of George Washington “Wash” Black, an 11-year-old boy on a Barbados sugar plantation who must flee after a shocking death threatens to upend his life. Brown will play the gregarious, larger-than-life Medwin Harris, who travelled the world after a traumatic childhood as a Black refugee in Nova Scotia as the de facto Mayor of Black Halifax prioritizes the community over everything except Washington Black, his young protégé. Meeting Wash sends him down a challenging path of self-discovery. And as the barricades around his heart start to fall, Medwin will learn to dream again.
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- 2/3/2022
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Tom Ellis is going from playing the devil to a steam-punk inventor. The Lucifer star has joined the cast of Hulu’s upcoming limited series, Washington Black, according to Variety. He’ll be playing Christopher “Titch” Wilde, described as “eccentric” and “passionate” and someone “whose youthful enthusiasm masks an inner vulnerability.” Following a disturbing death at his family’s sugar plantation, he sets out on a journey across the sky with 11-year-old George Washington “Wash” Black and while he becomes a mentor and father figure to him, it’s a position Titch “is ill-prepared for” since he’s “chasing the shadow of his own father, an inevitable reckoning that threatens to doom him and Wash both.” The nine-episode series is based on Esi Edugyan’s novel. It follows Wash on his adventures from Barbados to the Arctic and those he meets along the way. Ellis played Lucifer Morningstar for six seasons on Fox,...
- 2/2/2022
- TV Insider
The king of hell is moving to a new streaming service!
Lucifer may be over, but Tom Ellis is staying booked and busy.
According to Deadline, the actor has joined the cast of Hulu's forthcoming adventure series Washington Black.
This Is Us veteran Sterling K. Brown also stars and exec-produces the new project.
Washington Black is adapted from Esi Edugyan's bestselling novel.
It follows the extraordinary 19th-century adventures of George Washington “Wash” Black (newcomer Eddie Karanja), an 11-year-old boy on a Barbados sugar plantation who must flee after a shocking death threatens to upend his life.
Brown will play Medwin Harris, who traveled the world after a traumatic childhood as a Black refugee in Nova Scotia and takes Wash on as his protégé.
Ellis is set to play Christopher "Titch" Wilde, "an eccentric, passionate Steam-Punk inventor whose youthful enthusiasm masks an inner vulnerability," according to Deadline.
The cast also includes Ernest Kingsley Jr.
Lucifer may be over, but Tom Ellis is staying booked and busy.
According to Deadline, the actor has joined the cast of Hulu's forthcoming adventure series Washington Black.
This Is Us veteran Sterling K. Brown also stars and exec-produces the new project.
Washington Black is adapted from Esi Edugyan's bestselling novel.
It follows the extraordinary 19th-century adventures of George Washington “Wash” Black (newcomer Eddie Karanja), an 11-year-old boy on a Barbados sugar plantation who must flee after a shocking death threatens to upend his life.
Brown will play Medwin Harris, who traveled the world after a traumatic childhood as a Black refugee in Nova Scotia and takes Wash on as his protégé.
Ellis is set to play Christopher "Titch" Wilde, "an eccentric, passionate Steam-Punk inventor whose youthful enthusiasm masks an inner vulnerability," according to Deadline.
The cast also includes Ernest Kingsley Jr.
- 2/2/2022
- by Paul Dailly
- TVfanatic
Lucifer alum Tom Ellis is set as a series regular in Washington Black, the Sterling K. Brown-fronted adaptation of Esi Edugyan’s novel, which received a straight-to-series order at Hulu. Twilight Zone writer Selwyn Seyfu Hinds is adapting the limited series for 20th Television.
Washington Black follows the extraordinary 19th-century adventures of George Washington (“Wash”) Black – an 11-year-old boy on a Barbados sugar plantation who must flee after a shocking death threatens to upend his life. Brown will play the gregarious, larger-than-life Medwin Harris, who traveled the world after a traumatic childhood as a Black refugee in Nova Scotia as the de facto Mayor of Black Halifax prioritizes the community over everything except Washington Black, his young protégé. Meeting Wash sends him down a challenging path of self-discovery. And as the barricades around his heart start to fall, Medwin will learn to dream again.
Ellis will play Christopher “Titch” Wilde,...
Washington Black follows the extraordinary 19th-century adventures of George Washington (“Wash”) Black – an 11-year-old boy on a Barbados sugar plantation who must flee after a shocking death threatens to upend his life. Brown will play the gregarious, larger-than-life Medwin Harris, who traveled the world after a traumatic childhood as a Black refugee in Nova Scotia as the de facto Mayor of Black Halifax prioritizes the community over everything except Washington Black, his young protégé. Meeting Wash sends him down a challenging path of self-discovery. And as the barricades around his heart start to fall, Medwin will learn to dream again.
Ellis will play Christopher “Titch” Wilde,...
- 2/2/2022
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Tom Ellis, TV’s erstwhile devil, is going to get his steampunk on with his first series regular role since Lucifer signed off.
Ellis has joined Washington Black, Hulu’s nine-episode adventure series starring and executive-produced by This Is Us Emmy winner Sterling K. Brown.
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Adapted from Esi Edugyan’s bestselling novel and...
Ellis has joined Washington Black, Hulu’s nine-episode adventure series starring and executive-produced by This Is Us Emmy winner Sterling K. Brown.
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Adapted from Esi Edugyan’s bestselling novel and...
- 2/2/2022
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
“Lucifer” star Tom Ellis has joined the cast of Hulu’s Sterling K. Brown-led “Washington Black” limited series in the role of steam-punk inventor Christopher “Titch” Wilde.
Described as an epic nine-episode adventure series based on Esi Edugyan’s novel of the same name, “Washington Black” follows the extraordinary 19th-century adventures of George Washington “Wash” Black, an 11-year-old boy on a Barbados sugar plantation who must flee after a shocking death threatens to upend his life. Brown will play the gregarious, larger-than-life Medwin Harris, who traveled the world after a traumatic childhood as a Black refugee in Nova Scotia as the de facto Mayor of Black Halifax prioritizes the community over everything except Washington Black, his young protégé. Meeting Wash sends him down a challenging path of self-discovery. And as the barricades around his heart start to fall, Medwin will learn to dream again.
Ellis most recently starred as...
Described as an epic nine-episode adventure series based on Esi Edugyan’s novel of the same name, “Washington Black” follows the extraordinary 19th-century adventures of George Washington “Wash” Black, an 11-year-old boy on a Barbados sugar plantation who must flee after a shocking death threatens to upend his life. Brown will play the gregarious, larger-than-life Medwin Harris, who traveled the world after a traumatic childhood as a Black refugee in Nova Scotia as the de facto Mayor of Black Halifax prioritizes the community over everything except Washington Black, his young protégé. Meeting Wash sends him down a challenging path of self-discovery. And as the barricades around his heart start to fall, Medwin will learn to dream again.
Ellis most recently starred as...
- 2/2/2022
- by Jennifer Maas
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Killing Eve and A Discovery Of Witches star Edward Bluemel, Dune actress Sharon Duncan-Brewster and newcomer Eddie Karanja (After Ever After) have joined Sterling K. Brown, Iola Evans and Ernest Kingsley Jr as series regulars in Hulu drama series Washington Black, we can reveal.
Hulu has ordered the sprawling nine-episode limited drama straight to series with filming due to begin next month for producer 20th Television.
The show will follow an 11-year-old boy who embarks on a globe-trotting journey of identity after fleeing a Barbados sugar plantation aboard a flying machine in the company of his master’s eccentric inventor brother.
Brit Karanja will play the ‘Young Wash’, described as “a gentle-eyed, 11-year-old boy with a dreamer’s heart. Born on the Barbados sugar plantation, a shocking death forces him to flee by taking to the skies—sending him on a path to become a globe-trotting artist, scientist and inventor…...
Hulu has ordered the sprawling nine-episode limited drama straight to series with filming due to begin next month for producer 20th Television.
The show will follow an 11-year-old boy who embarks on a globe-trotting journey of identity after fleeing a Barbados sugar plantation aboard a flying machine in the company of his master’s eccentric inventor brother.
Brit Karanja will play the ‘Young Wash’, described as “a gentle-eyed, 11-year-old boy with a dreamer’s heart. Born on the Barbados sugar plantation, a shocking death forces him to flee by taking to the skies—sending him on a path to become a globe-trotting artist, scientist and inventor…...
- 1/26/2022
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: The Gotham Group has optioned Catherine Raven’s New York Times bestselling memoir Fox & I: An Uncommon Friendship for film.
The debut book from the newly-launched Spiegel & Grau, released on July 6, watches as an unexpected friendship blossoms between a solitary woman and a wild fox.
A self-described misfit in the world of people, Raven left home at 15 and headed west to work as a National Park Service ranger. Over time, she earned a Ph.D. in biology and built a house on an isolated plot of land in Montana. Then, a mangy-looking fox began appearing on her property every day at 4:15 pm.
She had never had a regular visitor before, so she placed her camping chair as near to him as she dared and began reading aloud from The Little Prince. Her scientific training had taught her not to anthropomorphize animals, yet as she grew to know Fox,...
The debut book from the newly-launched Spiegel & Grau, released on July 6, watches as an unexpected friendship blossoms between a solitary woman and a wild fox.
A self-described misfit in the world of people, Raven left home at 15 and headed west to work as a National Park Service ranger. Over time, she earned a Ph.D. in biology and built a house on an isolated plot of land in Montana. Then, a mangy-looking fox began appearing on her property every day at 4:15 pm.
She had never had a regular visitor before, so she placed her camping chair as near to him as she dared and began reading aloud from The Little Prince. Her scientific training had taught her not to anthropomorphize animals, yet as she grew to know Fox,...
- 12/13/2021
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Hulu announced that Ernest Kingsley Jr. and Iola Evans have been added to the cast of upcoming adventure limited series “Washington Black.” Kingsley will play George Washington “Wash” Black and Evans will play his love interest Tanna Goff.
“Washington Black” is adapted from Esi Edugyan’s novel of the same name. The nine-episode series is set in the 19th century and follows Wash as he flees from a Barbados sugar plantation after a shocking death threatens to upend his life. He becomes the protégé of Medwin Harris (Sterling K. Brown), a Black refugee from Nova Scotia who serves as the de facto major of Black Halifax. While trying to outrun his past and the hunters on his tail, he meets Tanna, a young wealthy British woman who passed as white but was secretly born of a Melanesian mother on the Solomon Islands, forcing her and her father to flee London for Nova Scotia.
“Washington Black” is adapted from Esi Edugyan’s novel of the same name. The nine-episode series is set in the 19th century and follows Wash as he flees from a Barbados sugar plantation after a shocking death threatens to upend his life. He becomes the protégé of Medwin Harris (Sterling K. Brown), a Black refugee from Nova Scotia who serves as the de facto major of Black Halifax. While trying to outrun his past and the hunters on his tail, he meets Tanna, a young wealthy British woman who passed as white but was secretly born of a Melanesian mother on the Solomon Islands, forcing her and her father to flee London for Nova Scotia.
- 11/23/2021
- by Selome Hailu
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Ernest Kingsley Jr. has been cast in the title role and Iola Evans also stars in Washington Black, the Sterling K. Brown-fronted adaptation of Esi Edugyan’s novel, which received a straight-to-series order at Hulu. Twilight Zone writer Selwyn Seyfu Hinds is adapting the limited series for 20th Television.
Washington Black follows the extraordinary 19th-century adventures of George Washington (“Wash”) Black (Kingsley)– an 11-year-old boy on a Barbados sugar plantation who must flee after a shocking death threatens to upend his life. Brown will play the gregarious, larger-than-life Medwin Harris, who traveled the world after a traumatic childhood as a Black refugee in Nova Scotia as the de facto Mayor of Black Halifax prioritizes the community over everything except Washington Black, his young protégé. Meeting Wash sends him down a challenging path of self-discovery. And as the barricades around his heart start to fall, Medwin will learn to dream again.
Washington Black follows the extraordinary 19th-century adventures of George Washington (“Wash”) Black (Kingsley)– an 11-year-old boy on a Barbados sugar plantation who must flee after a shocking death threatens to upend his life. Brown will play the gregarious, larger-than-life Medwin Harris, who traveled the world after a traumatic childhood as a Black refugee in Nova Scotia as the de facto Mayor of Black Halifax prioritizes the community over everything except Washington Black, his young protégé. Meeting Wash sends him down a challenging path of self-discovery. And as the barricades around his heart start to fall, Medwin will learn to dream again.
- 11/23/2021
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
As NBC’s This Is Us‘ prepares to launch its final season, star Sterling K. Brown is lining up his next TV project.
The multiple-Emmy winner will star in and executive produce Washington Black, a Hulu limited series based on Esi Edugyan’s 2018 novel, our sister site Deadline reports.
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Washington Black has received a nine-episode order at the streaming service. Selwyn Seyfu Hinds (The Twilight Zone) will...
The multiple-Emmy winner will star in and executive produce Washington Black, a Hulu limited series based on Esi Edugyan’s 2018 novel, our sister site Deadline reports.
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Washington Black has received a nine-episode order at the streaming service. Selwyn Seyfu Hinds (The Twilight Zone) will...
- 10/4/2021
- by Kimberly Roots
- TVLine.com
Hulu has greenlit the series adaptation of the novel “Washington Black,” with Sterling K. Brown now attached to star as well as executive produce.
Variety exclusively reported that the project had received a script commitment with penalty attached at Hulu in September 2019.
Based on the Esi Edugyan novel of the same name, the nine-episode series follows the 19th-century adventures of George Washington “Wash” Black – an 11-year-old boy on a Barbados sugar plantation who must flee after a shocking death threatens to upend his life. Brown will play the gregarious, larger-than-life Medwin Harris, who traveled the world after a traumatic childhood as a Black refugee in Nova Scotia as the de facto Mayor of Black Halifax prioritizes the community over everything except Washington Black, his young protégé. Meeting Wash sends him down a challenging path of self-discovery.
Selwyn Seyfu Hinds will write the adaptation and serve as executive producer. Brown executive...
Variety exclusively reported that the project had received a script commitment with penalty attached at Hulu in September 2019.
Based on the Esi Edugyan novel of the same name, the nine-episode series follows the 19th-century adventures of George Washington “Wash” Black – an 11-year-old boy on a Barbados sugar plantation who must flee after a shocking death threatens to upend his life. Brown will play the gregarious, larger-than-life Medwin Harris, who traveled the world after a traumatic childhood as a Black refugee in Nova Scotia as the de facto Mayor of Black Halifax prioritizes the community over everything except Washington Black, his young protégé. Meeting Wash sends him down a challenging path of self-discovery.
Selwyn Seyfu Hinds will write the adaptation and serve as executive producer. Brown executive...
- 10/4/2021
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
Hulu has handed a straight-to-series order to Washington Black, the Sterling K. Brown-fronted adaptation of Esi Edugyan’s novel.
The streamer has given the limited series project a nine-episode order with Twilight Zone writer Selwyn Seyfu Hinds adapting for 20th Television. The project, which is also exec produced by This Is Us star Brown, has been in development at the digital platform for a couple of years.
Washington Black follows the 19th-century adventures of George Washington “Wash” Black – an 11-year-old boy on a Barbados sugar plantation who must flee after a shocking death threatens to upend his life. Brown will play the gregarious, larger-than-life Medwin Harris, who traveled the world after a traumatic childhood as a Black refugee in Nova Scotia as the de facto Mayor of Black Halifax prioritizes the community over everything except Washington Black, his young protégé. Meeting Wash sends him down a challenging path of self-discovery.
The streamer has given the limited series project a nine-episode order with Twilight Zone writer Selwyn Seyfu Hinds adapting for 20th Television. The project, which is also exec produced by This Is Us star Brown, has been in development at the digital platform for a couple of years.
Washington Black follows the 19th-century adventures of George Washington “Wash” Black – an 11-year-old boy on a Barbados sugar plantation who must flee after a shocking death threatens to upend his life. Brown will play the gregarious, larger-than-life Medwin Harris, who traveled the world after a traumatic childhood as a Black refugee in Nova Scotia as the de facto Mayor of Black Halifax prioritizes the community over everything except Washington Black, his young protégé. Meeting Wash sends him down a challenging path of self-discovery.
- 10/4/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Sterling K. Brown has lined up his next TV series.
Brown (This Is Us) will star in and executive produce a series based on Esi Edugyan’s best-selling novel Washington Black at Hulu, where it scored a series order. The Disney-run streamer has had the project in development for two years, and a deal to take it to series has been percolating for months.
Selwyn Seyfu Hinds (Paramount+’s The Twilight Zone, Prince of Cats) is adapting the novel, which follows the adventures of George Washington “Wash” Black, an 11-year-old boy on a 19th century Barbados sugar plantation. After a shocking ...
Brown (This Is Us) will star in and executive produce a series based on Esi Edugyan’s best-selling novel Washington Black at Hulu, where it scored a series order. The Disney-run streamer has had the project in development for two years, and a deal to take it to series has been percolating for months.
Selwyn Seyfu Hinds (Paramount+’s The Twilight Zone, Prince of Cats) is adapting the novel, which follows the adventures of George Washington “Wash” Black, an 11-year-old boy on a 19th century Barbados sugar plantation. After a shocking ...
- 10/4/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Sterling K. Brown has lined up his next TV series.
Brown (This Is Us) will star in and executive produce a series based on Esi Edugyan’s best-selling novel Washington Black at Hulu, where it scored a series order. The Disney-run streamer has had the project in development for two years, and a deal to take it to series has been percolating for months.
Selwyn Seyfu Hinds (Paramount+’s The Twilight Zone, Prince of Cats) is adapting the novel, which follows the adventures of George Washington “Wash” Black, an 11-year-old boy on a 19th century Barbados sugar plantation. After a shocking ...
Brown (This Is Us) will star in and executive produce a series based on Esi Edugyan’s best-selling novel Washington Black at Hulu, where it scored a series order. The Disney-run streamer has had the project in development for two years, and a deal to take it to series has been percolating for months.
Selwyn Seyfu Hinds (Paramount+’s The Twilight Zone, Prince of Cats) is adapting the novel, which follows the adventures of George Washington “Wash” Black, an 11-year-old boy on a 19th century Barbados sugar plantation. After a shocking ...
- 10/4/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
CAA has signed actor and producer Sterling K. Brown.
Brown’s first big break came in 2016 when he portrayed prosecutor Christopher Darden in FX’s highly-rated award-winning television event series American Crime Story: The People V. O.J. Simpson. He earned rave reviews for the role and would go on to win an Emmy Award and Critics’ Choice Award for the role and was nominated for a Golden Globe, SAG Award, and NAACP Image Award for the role. He would follow that part up the next year with his star making role as Randal Pearson aka one of the big three in NBC’s critically acclaimed drama series This Is Us. The first season was not only a huge hit but earned him a second straight Emmy for Best Actor in a drama series. In addition to his Emmy, Golden Globe, and SAG accolades for his performance, Brown has won...
Brown’s first big break came in 2016 when he portrayed prosecutor Christopher Darden in FX’s highly-rated award-winning television event series American Crime Story: The People V. O.J. Simpson. He earned rave reviews for the role and would go on to win an Emmy Award and Critics’ Choice Award for the role and was nominated for a Golden Globe, SAG Award, and NAACP Image Award for the role. He would follow that part up the next year with his star making role as Randal Pearson aka one of the big three in NBC’s critically acclaimed drama series This Is Us. The first season was not only a huge hit but earned him a second straight Emmy for Best Actor in a drama series. In addition to his Emmy, Golden Globe, and SAG accolades for his performance, Brown has won...
- 5/18/2021
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: CAA has signed screenwriter, producer and author Selwyn Seyfu Hinds.
Hinds’ has a handful of films in development including Prince Of Cats, the adaptation of Ronald Wimberly’s graphic novel, at Legendary; and 1000 Miles, based on the memoir Running A Thousand Miles For Freedom by William and Ellen Craft, to be directed by Hanelle M. Culpepper for Big Beach Films and Zucker Productions.
He is also the showrunner of the upcoming 20th Television/Hulu series Washington Black based on the book by author, Esi Edugyan, starring Sterling K. Brown, who is also producing with The Gotham Group, and to be directed by Anthony Hemingway. Hinds recently worked as a writer-producer on Jordan Peele’s Twilight Zone.
Previously, Hinds served as Editor-in-Chief of the hip hop magazine The Source in the late-‘90s, and created the Vertigo comic-book series Dominique Laveau: Voodoo Child.
Additionally, Hinds has written two non-fiction books,...
Hinds’ has a handful of films in development including Prince Of Cats, the adaptation of Ronald Wimberly’s graphic novel, at Legendary; and 1000 Miles, based on the memoir Running A Thousand Miles For Freedom by William and Ellen Craft, to be directed by Hanelle M. Culpepper for Big Beach Films and Zucker Productions.
He is also the showrunner of the upcoming 20th Television/Hulu series Washington Black based on the book by author, Esi Edugyan, starring Sterling K. Brown, who is also producing with The Gotham Group, and to be directed by Anthony Hemingway. Hinds recently worked as a writer-producer on Jordan Peele’s Twilight Zone.
Previously, Hinds served as Editor-in-Chief of the hip hop magazine The Source in the late-‘90s, and created the Vertigo comic-book series Dominique Laveau: Voodoo Child.
Additionally, Hinds has written two non-fiction books,...
- 1/29/2021
- by Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Heading into a fall that is full of Genius: Aretha, Power Book II: Ghost and more, Anthony Hemingway has inked an overall deal with 20th Century Fox Television.
The two-year pact with the filmmaker’s Anthony Hemingway Productions will encompass projects for Hemingway to both develop and direct for the Disney-owned unit on a multitude of platforms
“We live in a world that has consistently proven that basic opportunity just isn’t enough for people within the Bipoc community,” Hemingway told Deadline this morning. “Anthony Hemingway Productions is a cultural incubator and an intergenerational connector; fueling the creation of innovative, inspiring and provocative content across all platforms,” the Emmy winner added.
“I’ve had nothing but wonderful experiences working with Dana Walden, Craig Hunegs and Carolyn Cassidy,” Hemingway, who is currently enmeshed in the next installment of Nat Geo’s Genius anthology from Imagine Television and Fox 21 TV...
The two-year pact with the filmmaker’s Anthony Hemingway Productions will encompass projects for Hemingway to both develop and direct for the Disney-owned unit on a multitude of platforms
“We live in a world that has consistently proven that basic opportunity just isn’t enough for people within the Bipoc community,” Hemingway told Deadline this morning. “Anthony Hemingway Productions is a cultural incubator and an intergenerational connector; fueling the creation of innovative, inspiring and provocative content across all platforms,” the Emmy winner added.
“I’ve had nothing but wonderful experiences working with Dana Walden, Craig Hunegs and Carolyn Cassidy,” Hemingway, who is currently enmeshed in the next installment of Nat Geo’s Genius anthology from Imagine Television and Fox 21 TV...
- 7/27/2020
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Pluto, the puppy Internet sensation of quarantine, has got just herself what she would call “two-legged” representation. The “talking” miniature Schnauzer beloved by stars like Jennifer Aniston, Drew Barrymore, Sia and Robin Wright has been signed by The Gotham Group, which produced The Maze Runner franchise and Disney+’s Stargirl, and literary agency Sterling Lord Literistic, which has bestselling author Rachel Maddow among its clients. Deadline hears a television project will likely be Pluto’s first pursuit.
Pluto recently found fame with her Pluto Living PSAs, otherwise known as Pluto Service Announcements, in which she “tells’ viewers—whom she calls “two-leggeds”—everything from how to relieve stress during quarantine, to reminding us to appreciate our healthcare workers.
Beginning with a Facebook video on March 17 (see it below), Pluto’s Canada-based owner Nancie Wight decided the terrier would be great at cheering people through quarantine, and thus, a star was born.
Pluto recently found fame with her Pluto Living PSAs, otherwise known as Pluto Service Announcements, in which she “tells’ viewers—whom she calls “two-leggeds”—everything from how to relieve stress during quarantine, to reminding us to appreciate our healthcare workers.
Beginning with a Facebook video on March 17 (see it below), Pluto’s Canada-based owner Nancie Wight decided the terrier would be great at cheering people through quarantine, and thus, a star was born.
- 5/13/2020
- by Patrick Hipes and Antonia Blyth
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Big Beach, the company that brought us Marielle Heller’s A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood and Lulu Wang’s Independent Spirit Award-winning The Farewell, has set an adaptation of the memoir Running A Thousand Miles For Freedom by William and Ellen Craft. The feature will be titled 1000 Miles and Hanelle M. Culpepper is set to direct with Selwyn Seyfu Hinds penning the script.
1000 Miles is the true story of the aforementioned William and Ellen Craft, an enslaved couple that go on a daring thousand-mile escape to freedom from Georgia to Boston by hiding in plain sight with Ellen disguised as a white male slave owner and her husband, William, passing as her slave. The story follows their journey as they fight the terror of discovery, the dangerous men on their tail and the complications the ruse brings to their relationship.
“It’s simply astounding to think about a...
1000 Miles is the true story of the aforementioned William and Ellen Craft, an enslaved couple that go on a daring thousand-mile escape to freedom from Georgia to Boston by hiding in plain sight with Ellen disguised as a white male slave owner and her husband, William, passing as her slave. The story follows their journey as they fight the terror of discovery, the dangerous men on their tail and the complications the ruse brings to their relationship.
“It’s simply astounding to think about a...
- 2/26/2020
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
The Gotham Group, the management and production company behind the Maze Runner franchise and Netflix film Kodachrome among others, has signed a multi-year first-look deal with Fox 21 Television Studios to create projects for both linear and streaming platforms.
“We couldn’t be more excited to work with Bert Salke and his extraordinary team of executives at Fox 21,” said Gotham Group founder and CEO Ellen Goldsmith-Vein. “They have an unsurpassed record of successfully launching and supporting television projects that speak to the zeitgeist and create a conversation. After working with them on so many projects over the past decade, it’s a dream come true to now officially be partners moving forward.”
Led by Goldsmith-Vein, alongside Gotham partner Jeremy Bell and VP Television D.J. Goldberg, who will oversee the deal, The Gotham Group produced the film Stargirl, based on the bestselling novel by Jerry Spinelli, which premieres later this year on Disney+.
“We couldn’t be more excited to work with Bert Salke and his extraordinary team of executives at Fox 21,” said Gotham Group founder and CEO Ellen Goldsmith-Vein. “They have an unsurpassed record of successfully launching and supporting television projects that speak to the zeitgeist and create a conversation. After working with them on so many projects over the past decade, it’s a dream come true to now officially be partners moving forward.”
Led by Goldsmith-Vein, alongside Gotham partner Jeremy Bell and VP Television D.J. Goldberg, who will oversee the deal, The Gotham Group produced the film Stargirl, based on the bestselling novel by Jerry Spinelli, which premieres later this year on Disney+.
- 2/6/2020
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Fox has given a script commitment plus penalty to Live, a Washington, D.C.-set police drama series executive produced by This Is Us star Sterling K. Brown through his 20th Century Fox TV-based Indian Meadows Productions.
Written by Chris Collins (The Wire), Live is based on the Korean series of the same name. It is described as a grounded and gritty, adrenalized exploration of six interconnected unsung heroes within D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department. Seen primarily through the eyes of Darcell Murrray, a young African-American cop born and raised in one of the most dangerous sectors of D.C., we deep dive into each of the four unique quadrants of the most powerful city in the country. The emsemble highlights how each of the four police bureaus is impacted not only by one another and but also by the clash of money, race, sex and statecraft in the nation’s capital.
Written by Chris Collins (The Wire), Live is based on the Korean series of the same name. It is described as a grounded and gritty, adrenalized exploration of six interconnected unsung heroes within D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department. Seen primarily through the eyes of Darcell Murrray, a young African-American cop born and raised in one of the most dangerous sectors of D.C., we deep dive into each of the four unique quadrants of the most powerful city in the country. The emsemble highlights how each of the four police bureaus is impacted not only by one another and but also by the clash of money, race, sex and statecraft in the nation’s capital.
- 10/18/2019
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
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