Range Signs ‘Top Boy’ & ‘Noughts + Crosses’ Director Koby Adom

EXCLUSIVE: WME has signed award-winning filmmaker Alysa Nahmias and her production company AJNA Films for representation.

Premiering in the U.S. Dramatic Competition at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, Nikyatu Jusu’s unsettling “Nanny” is a supernatural thriller that weaves together strands of domestic drama and West African folklore.

Among those quite happy with the re-installment of Bob Iger as Disney’s CEO was exhibition giant, AMC’s Adam Aron, who took to Twitter in the wake of the news exclaiming, “Based on box office grosses, Disney is the biggest film maker of any movie studio. Bob Iger coming back to again lead Disney as its CEO is a big deal. Let me shout this from the mountain top. I have the absolute highest respect for Bob Iger.”

EXCLUSIVE: WME has signed writer-director Geremy Jasper for representation. Jasper’s first feature film, Patti Cake$, was a breakout hit at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. The film played at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival Directors’ Fortnight and was released theatrically by Fox Searchlight over the summer. Additionally, Jasper also wrote all the movie’s original songs, which were released as a soundtrack album on Republic Records.His next film, O’Dessa, is set up at Searchlight with him directing and once again having written all the original music for the film. He is also developing an animated series with Searchlight TV.

The “Predator” franchise recently got a substantial creative shot in the arm with the Hulu original “Prey.” And surely 20th Century Studios is hoping they can do the same for the “Alien” franchise following the underwhelming response to “Alien: Covenant,” which left the series floating in space.

The “Predator” franchise recently got a huge creative shot in the arm with the Hulu original “Prey.” And surely 20th Century Studios is hoping they can do the same for the “Alien” franchise following the underwhelming response to “Alien: Covenant” which left the series floating in space.

“Black Panther: Wakanda Forever” opens in theaters today in the US to close out Phase 4 for the MCU. But don’t expect the film’s worldwide box office numbers to reach those of Ryan Coogler‘s 2018 film.

Joe Gorga is sharing his side of the story about what went down between Jennifer Aydin and him at this year’s BravoCon!

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver is not saying troubled Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving is anti-semitic.

Range Media Partners is continuing to building out its sports division, Range Sports, as it has partnered with Richmond Flowers’ Collective Sports Advisors and tapped Flowers to become the President of Football and Coaching at Range Sports. Flowers will lead the newly formed football division Range Collective, which will now serve as the umbrella company for all football verticals.

EXCLUSIVE: Beulah Koale (Hawaii Five-0, Thank You For Your Service) has signed with A3 Artists Agency for theatrical representation.

Dahmer continues to make a killing for Netflix by dominating Nielsen’s U.S. streaming chart for the week of Oct. 3-9..

EXCLUSIVE: Longtime APA literary agent Adam Perry has been promoted to Partner.

Sky and Peacock are forging a TV adaptation of Frederick Forsyth’s The Day of the Jackal with Top Boy showrunner Ronan Bennett attached.

It’s not uncommon for a major news event to spawn multiple TV and film projects. Often, these are welcomed because it’s always interesting to watch different filmmakers and writers take a stab at a major news event.

Nigel Lythgoe, a 12-time Emmy nominee and co-creator and executive producer of So You Think You Can Dance, has signed with A3 Artists Agency for representation. Lythgoe also served as executive producer of Pop Idol and TV juggernaut, American Idol.

EXCLUSIVE: Principle photography has begun on the WWII drama The Boy In The Woods, a big-screen adaptation of the wartime novel The Boy in the Woods: A True Story of Survival During the Second World War by Maxwell Smart.