Gary Glushon Joins King Bach’s Production Company Bach Enterprises As EVP Of Development

In the wake of playing the wise and balanced god of the universe, Doctor Manhattan, in HBO’s Watchmen, a role which earned Yahya Abdul-Mateen II a Primetime Emmy for supporting actor in a limited series, the actor has accumulated a resume of socially philosophical protagonists including Bobby Seale in The Trial of the Chicago 7, Anthony McCoy in Candyman and now Morpheus in Warner Bros/Village Roadshow’s Matrix Resurrections.

Back 4 Blood, Turtle Rock, has been acquired by Tencent along with its parent company Slamfire Inc.The acquisition will have no effect on Back 4 Blood itself, but the studio will become a part of Tencent.

EXCLUSIVE: Actor-writer-director Ryan Eggold has inked a new first-look deal with Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, to develop projects across various platforms.

EXCLUSIVE: Vernon Wells (Mad Max), Laurene Landon (Aramon’s Gate) and Sadie Katz (The Bill Murray Experience) have joined the cast of paranormal horror film The Beast Inside. 

EXCLUSIVE: Tim Connors, the former chief operating officer of Marvel Studios, has joined the studio arm of Asia-based video game company Nexon.

All3Media Deutschland-backed Undercover Boss indie Tower Productions has signed industry vet Kirstin Benthaus-Gebauer as Managing Director.

EXCLUSIVE: UTA has signed Emeraude Toubia, and her production company, The Emerald Co., in all areas. Troubia is the lead of Gloria Calederon Kellet’s Amazon Prime series With Love and can next be seen in The Ballad of a Hustler. She was also recently seen in the television movie, Holiday in Santa Fe, which she executive produced.

Former Manchester United captain Gary Neville has supported Ralf Rangnick's decision to stick with Diogo Dalot and Alex Telles in the full-back positions against Norwich City at Carrow Road.

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-winning writer-playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney, creator of the acclaimed series David Makes Man, has teamed up with actor-producer Glenn Davis, artistic director of Steppenwolf Theatre Company, to launch Chatham Grove, a production company which has inked an overall deal with UCP, a division of Universal Studio Group.

EXCLUSIVE: Comedian, actor and host Hasan Minhaj today announced the launch of his production company, 186K Films, as well as For the Culture, a new film he’s set to produce and star in for Amazon Studios, which he’s scripting with long-time collaborator Prashanth Venkataramanujam.

Kenan Thompson has formalized his plans to move into production and talent management.

Naman Ramachandran Studiocanal’s Red Production Company has secured the rights to Irish novelist John Boyne’s latest critically-acclaimed novel “The Echo Chamber,” after a competitive auction. The novel will become a 10-part returnable series, which Boyne will adapt for screen.

StudioCanal’s Red Production Company has secured the rights to Boy In The Striped Pyjamas author John Boyne’s latest novel The Echo Chamber, with Boyne set to adapt as a 10 x 30-minute series.

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Dev Patel on Wednesday announced the launch of a production company titled Minor Realm and expanded his producing team with the addition of two industry veterans. “The Green Knight” and “Slumdog Millionaire” star has a first-look deal with ShivHans Pictures, which will apply to his work with Minor Realm.

“Tiger King” pop culture phenom Joseph Maldonado-Passage a.k.a Joe Exotic has released a tell-all memoir. Filled with details about his upbringing, shocking claims about the familiar faces of Netflix’s “Tiger King” series and wild details about raising animals, Exotic wrote his book while serving out a prison sentence in a murder-for-hire plot against his rival, Carole Baskin.

Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, the actor known for “Candyman” and the upcoming “The Matrix: Resurrections,” has launched a new production company and has set a creative partnership with Netflix. Abdul-Mateen II’s company will be called House Eleven10, named after his childhood house in which he grew up as the youngest of six siblings.

Angelique Jackson Emmy-winning actor Yahya Abdul-Mateen II has officially added producer to his resume, with the launch of his production company House Eleven10.Abdul-Mateen and House Eleven10 have also inked a creative partnership with Netflix, with the actor starring in and producing films for the streamer under the new production banner.