Deniese Davis And Reform Media Group Ink Development Deal With Tyler Perry Studios

EXCLUSIVE: The NAACP production venture with CBS Studios has set up two more drama projects at CBS in its second broadcast development cycle, For Justice, from writers Sallie Patrick and Garen Thomas, which is based on the life of former NYPD Detective Katrina Brownlee; and The Pact, from writer Marcus Dalzine. They join Carver Law, from writer Aaron Carew and executive producer Martin Lawrence, which also was recently sold to CBS for development. The trio of projects span the three classic network drama genres, a cop (For Justice), medical (The Pact) and legal (Carver Law) show.

Byron Allen’s Allen Media Group is expanding its television sales team with the addition of Kevin O’Donnell and Mark McKay.

Director Shaunak Sen says his award-winning film All That Breathes can be seen as “a kind of love story between man and bird.” 

Fox Entertainment has entered into a broadcast development deal with writer, producer and director McG (Supernatural, Lethal Weapon, We Are Marshall).

Tyler Perry is going to Amazon Prime Video. The film division led by Jennifer Salke has notched a deal with the Atlanta-based entertainment mogul that will see him produce, write and direct four features for worldwide distribution on Prime Video.

Amazon Studios announced on Monday that it has closed a four-picture film deal with powerhouse producer, actor, writer and director Tyler Perry. The pact will see Perry write, direct and produce four features for release on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide.

Fauda creators Lior Raz and Avi Issacharoff are attending the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in Goa for the world premiere of the fourth season of the show. Since the first season started streaming on Netflix, the Israeli political thriller has built up a huge following in India, and also has a Hindi-language remake, produced by Applause Entertainment for local streamer SonyLiv. 

EXCLUSIVE: Sam Mendes has cast Johnny Flynn (Emma, Beast), Tuppence Middleton (Downton Abbey, Mank) and Sherlock’s Mark Gatiss to portray legendary stars Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor and John Gielgud in The Motive and the Cue, a mouth-watering new play by Jack Thorne that explores how acting giants Burton and Gielgud staged Hamlet on Broadway in 1964.

It’s all Jamie Kennedy, all 24/7 on the new Jamie Kennedy Channel on Allen Media Group’s digital platform Local Now.

Proud papas! Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Justin Mikita love to dote on their little ones ever since their respective arrivals.

It looks like in just a few months, there may be a new entrant into the prestigious and highly exclusive EGOT club.Earlier this week, actress Viola Davis was nominated for her first-ever Grammy Award. The G just happens to be the only letter she’s missing in her EGOT, and while it’s too early to tell who will take home the trophy, it seems like there’s a very good chance that she will end up the winner, therefore filling in the G in one of the most important acronyms in all of entertainment.Davis is nominated in the Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording category, which went by a much shorter and easier-to-remember name until the Recording Academy split it into two different verticals.Now, there is one category dedicated to audiobooks and similar projects, and another ​​that focuses solely on poetry.

Growing their modern family! Jesse Tyler Ferguson and his husband, Justin Mikita, have welcomed their second child.

As “Yellowstone” Season Five and “Tulsa King” approach their premieres on Paramount Network and Paramount+ this weekend, another Taylor Sheridan series is on the horizon. Enter “1923,” Sheridan’s second “Yellowstone” spinoff after “1883.” “1923” picks up forty years after the events of “1883,” with a new couple leading the Dutton family in Montana.