EXCLUSIVE: Aaron Magnani has optioned screen rights to Walker Percy’s New York Times bestseller The Second Coming, with plans to develop the novel for film.
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EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is making a feature take of Chris Leslie-Hynan’s novel Ride Around Shining which Rodney Barnes will adapt. Jonah Hill’s Strong Baby Productions is producing.
The Harper-published novel tells the provocative story of a young white chauffeur and his wealthy black employer, a professional basketball player; a discomfiting portrait of envy and obsession.
Barnes is also an associate producer on the project. Hill, Matt Dines, LaKeith Stanfield and Colin Stark are producing with Ali Goodwin executive producing.
Up next for Barnes is the HBO series Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty, on which he serves as an EP and writer of. Based on Jeff Pearlman’s book Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s, the series is debuting on March 6. Barnes has several other projects in the works including a mini-series about the fall and comeback of controversial golf champion Tiger Woods. He’s also writing the script for an original creature feature for New Regency with Jordan Voigt-Roberts to direct and working with Levantine Films on the television adaptation of his best-selling graphic novel series Killadelphia: Sins Of The Father, which he will both write and produce. His previous credits include the Peabody Award winning series The Boondocks and Hulu’s Wu-Tang: An American Saga, Marvel’s Runaways and the seminal sitcom Everybody Hates Chris.
Barnes launched his own comic studio and publishing imprint, Zombie Love Studios with the goal of creating a space dedicated to storytelling from BIPOC perspectives in a format where they typically aren’t told– making way for more nuanced, honest depictions of Black culture within the medium. Barnes and Zombie Love Studios are set to release
EXCLUSIVE: Aaron Magnani has optioned screen rights to Walker Percy’s New York Times bestseller The Second Coming, with plans to develop the novel for film.
K.J. Yossman Richard Armitage is set to star in “Damage,” a new Netflix series from Gaumont U.K.
EXCLUSIVE: An untitled James Ellroy project and reimaginings of Ernest Hemingway’s Old Man and the Sea and Gary Sherman’s Death Line comprise part of Chicken Soup for the Soul-owned Halcyon Entertainment’s latest development slate.
EXCLUSIVE: An untitled James Ellroy project and reimaginings of Ernest Hemmingway’s Old Man and the Sea and Gary Sherman’s Death Line comprise part of Chicken Soup for the Soul-owned Halcyon Entertainment’s latest development slate.
EXCLUSIVE: Rhys Ifans (Spider-Man: No Way Home) has signed on to star alongside Annette Bening and Jodie Foster in the Netflix film Nyad, which marks the narrative directorial debut of Oscar, BAFTA and Emmy winners Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin (The Rescue, Free Solo).
Servant of the People, the 2015-2019 political comedy series that starred Volodymyr Zelensky before he entered politics for real, is back on Netflix, the streamer announced today.
EXCLUSIVE: Jonathan Majors is set to star in The Man In My Basement, the film adaptation of the Walter Mosley novel. Majors will also serve as an executive producer, under his Tall Street Productions banner. Protagonist Pictures will fully finance and cameras are expected to roll in the fall. Nadia Latif will make her directorial debut on the film.
EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is in negotiations for a green light to The Gentlemen, a series adaptation of the 2019 Guy Ritchie movie, sources said. Ritchie co-wrote the pilot script, will direct the first two episodes and will serve as an executive producer on the series, which Miramax TV is producing alongside Moonage in the UK.
Tony Awards. The 75th annual awards show is returning to the legendary Radio City Music Hall in New York City to celebrate live theater in a four-hour television and streaming event that will be broadcast live coast to coast for the first time.The festivities will commence at 7 p.m.
Jenna Ushkowitz cradles her baby bump at The Little Market’s International Women’s Day Celebration 2022 on Tuesday (March 8) in Los Angeles.
EXCLUSIVE: Never Have I Ever, the coming-of-age comedy following the life of an Indian-American teen, is returning for a fourth and final season.
Joe Otterson TV Reporter“Never Have I Ever” has been renewed for Season 4 at Netflix, which will also be the show’s last season, Variety has confirmed.News of the fourth season renewal comes before Season 3 of the series even has a premiere date. Production on the third season recently wrapped and will debut over the summer.The comedy series hails from co-creators Mindy Kaling and Lang Fisher.
Jonah Hill and Shaquille O’Neal may be our new favourite pair. On Sunday, the “Don’t Look Up” actor took to his Instagram account to celebrate the NBA legend’s 50th birthday.
Jonah Hill and Shaquille O’Neal may be our new favorite pair. On Sunday, the actor took to his Instagram account to celebrate the NBA legend’s 50th birthday.“Happy birthday to the GOAT @shaq let’s remake Twins,” Hill wrote next to a picture of the duo standing side by side. Clearly, the height difference is reminiscent of the 1988 buddy comedy starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito, who played fraternal twins separated at birth.
Backed against the wall, Netflix wants a Texas District Attorney stopped from hitting the streamer with child pornography charges over the coming-of-age drama Cuties.
Joe Otterson TV ReporterThe upcoming Netflix comedy series “Blockbuster” has added five new cast membersTyler Alvarez (“Never Have I Ever,” “American Vandal”), Madeline Arthur (“To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before,” “Devil in Ohio”), and Olga Merediz (“In the Heights,” “Encanto”) have all joined the show as series regulars. JB Smoove (“Curb Your Enthusiasm,” “Spider-Man: No Way Home”) and Kamaia Fairburn (“Overlord and the Underwoods,” “Endlings”) will appear in recurring guest star roles. Full character descriptions can be found below.The new cast members join previously announced leads Randall Park and Melissa Fumero.
2022 slate for a release later this summer. “Hello, Goodbye and Everything in Between” stars Jordan Fisher (“Work It”) and Talia Ryder (“Never Rarely Sometimes Always”). The romantic comedy is about a couple who made a pact to break up before college, only to find themselves retracing the steps of their relationship on their last evening as a couple.