Kid YouTube Star Nastya Signs Deal With Westbrook Studios for Slate of Animated Projects

Amazon Studios under which she will create scripted and non-scripted programming, including a docuseries that follows her exploits on and off the court, the tennis star said Tuesday.Williams made the announcement during a conversation with actor Michael B.

Tennis icon Serena Williams has inked a first-look TV deal with Amazon Studios, with an untitled docuseries already in the works.

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios has closed a first-look television deal with award-winning director Alma Har’el (Honey Boy) and her newly formed production company, Zusa. Under the pact, Har’el will work with the studio to develop and create new television series to run exclusively on Amazon Prime Video.

EXCLUSIVE:  Shout! Studios and Studiocanal have made an exclusive deal to distribute the new animated family feature Little Vampire in North America. Directed by Joann Sfar (Little Vampire TV series, The Rabbi’s Cat), the Annecy International Animated Film Festival winner is a production of On Animation (The Little Prince) and Sfar’s Magical Society.

Andrew Garfield and Maya Hawke share a big kiss in the first trailer for their film, Mainstream.

Elaine Low Senior TV Writer#MeToo movement founder and activist Tarana Burke and her producing partner Mervyn Marcano have struck an overall producing deal with CBS Studios to develop scripted, unscripted and documentary projects for linear television and streaming platforms.Their entity Field/House Productions will serve to develop and produce stories that “embrace complexity and highlight underrepresented voices,” with the aim of championing “narratives driven by storytellers who represent

James Charles, known best as a personality on YouTube, has addressed allegations he was inappropriately messaging teenage boys in a recent video. The 21-year-old uploaded a new video on the platform Thursday taking full responsibility for flirting or sexting (sexually explicit texting) with minors.

TV history was made when The Fresh Prince of Bel Air star Will Smith and and his former TV Aunt Viv Janet Hubert finally sat down together after 27 years to discuss for first time why she left the show in 1993 after three seasons. Janet was then replaced in the role by Daphne Maxwell Reid.

EXCLUSIVE: Danny McBride’s Rough House Pictures is partnering with Spire Animation Studios to develop the animated feature, Trouble.

Angelique Jackson Introducing the “Brzrkr” on-screen universe.“Brzrkr” co-author and co-creator Keanu Reeves will star in and produce both a live-action film and anime series adaptation of his BOOM! Studios comic series for Netflix.The new projects will be an expansion on the 12-episode limited series, which originated from an idea Reeves had been developing for a number of years.The legendary action star makes his comic book debut with the series, written with New York Times bestselling writer

Dr. Phillip Atiba Goff, a respected expert on racism, sexism, and public safety, has entered into a multi-year creative partnership and exclusive overall deal with Warner Bros. Television Group.

Moses McCormick was a popular YouTuber whose viral videos documented his conversations with people in languages including Mandarin, Arabic, and Japanese.McCormick’s journey as a language learner began when he was 18 and decided to study Chinese because he loved kung fu movies. He went on to teach himself a wide variety of languages, and his YouTube videos showed him conversing comfortably in at least 20 languages.

EXCLUSIVE: Searchlight Television has optioned N.K. Jemisin’s seminal fantasy book series The Inheritance Trilogy for series development.

EXCLUSIVE: Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith’s Westbrook Studios have optioned rights to the graphic novel Canto and are adapting the fantasy series as an animated feature.

EXCLUSIVE: In just two short years, Davita Scarlett has emerged as one of Robert and Michelle King’s MVP writer-producers, simultaneously serving as a co-executive producer on two of the duo’s series, The Good Fight for Paramount+ and Evil for CBS. Scarlett is now joining the talent roster of CBS Studios, which is behind The Good Fight and Evil, signing a multi-year overall deal to develop new projects for the studio targeting all platforms.