Robin Thede Sets Zombie Comedy Movie ‘Killing It’ at Amazon Studios (EXCLUSIVE)

Super Bowl champ Russell Wilson and Grammy-winning singer Ciara are bringing their talents to Amazon Studios.

Kim Fields is looking to the future.

EXCLUSIVE: As HBO’s Insecure heads into its fifth and final season, showrunner and executive producer Prentice Penny has lined up his latest project at HBO. The premium cabler has put in development a single-camera half-hour comedy from Penny and his A Penny For Your Thoughts Entertainment and Janine Nabers (Atlanta).

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterAmid a spate of anti-Asian hate crimes this past year, the story of Vincent Chin — the 27-year-old Chinese American brutally beaten and killed in 1982 by two former autoworkers, Ronald Ebens and Michael Nitz, who blamed him for the economic downturn in Detroit — has become the focus of renewed interest for the entertainment industry.

Thomasin McKenzie has been tapped to star in Olivia Wilde‘s next film.

Comedian, musician, actor, writer, producer, and director Donald Glover is proving that he’s got creative juices for every occasion. It doesn’t look like he’s going to stop creating television and music content as the talented renaissance man aims to make a big push with his own movies.

There always seems to be a general reaction of hesitation when impressive and successful international features get the “domestic reboot treatment.” (Recall the news of J.J.

Nina Bloomgarden (Fatherhood), David Iacono (Grand Army), Mimi Davila (The Chonga Diaries), Dana Donnelly (The Sex Life Of College Girls) and Myra Molloy (He’s All That) are set as leads opposite Sarah Michelle Gellar in Hot Pink, a biting coming-of-age comedy pilot for Amazon created by Elisabeth Holm (Obvious Child).

John Carney— the director behind critically acclaimed musical dramas Sing Street and Once— has set his next feature, which will include music from legendary composer George Gershwin.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterAmazon Studios has ordered a YA pilot based on the Harlan Coben novel “Shelter,” Variety has learned exclusively.Shelter” is the first novel in Coben’s Mickey Bolitar book series. MGM has acquired the rights to all the other books in the Mickey Bolitar series as well.

EXCLUSIVE: Sabrina Carpenter, RJ Cyler, Donald Watkins, and Sebastian Chacon have been tapped to star in Emergency, a comedy thriller that hails from Amazon Studios and Temple Hill. Filming is currently underway with Carey Williams directing the film from the screenplay by KD Dávila, which landed on the 2020 Blacklist.

EXCLUSIVE: Allblk, AMC Networks’ popular streaming service for Black TV and film, has teamed with sister brand, RLJE Films, for the VOD release of Lil Duval’s Living My Best Life comedy special.

Caroline Framke Chief TV Critic“Dad Stop Embarrassing Me!” isn’t exactly trying to reinvent the multi-cam sitcom wheel. The new Netflix comedy, starring and executive produced by TV veteran Jamie Foxx, follows single Atlanta entrepreneur Brian (Foxx) who suddenly has to father his teenage daughter Sasha (Kyla-Drew) after her mother’s untimely death, much to their mutual wariness.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterSerena Williams has signed a first-look TV deal with Amazon, which includes a docuseries about her personal and professional life.“I’m very excited to be partnering with Amazon Studios – they are developing some of the most inspiring and important content for a global audience,” Williams said.

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

Zack Snyder has returned to his zombie roots with the new genre-blurring Netflix movie “Army Of The Dead”. And star Dave Bautista is happy to be along for the ride.

EXCLUSIVE: Tamra Simmons, an executive producer behind the Emmy-nominated docuseries Surviving R. Kelly, has signed a development deal with Blue And Studios to identify and develop a slate of unscripted projects.

Canadian studio operators have been watching the growing Hollywood backlash against Georgia's restrictive voting laws and are betting the major studios will soon bow to pressure and shift production out of Atlanta. Paul Bronfman, CEO of Comweb Corp.

Marlo Hampton is ready to declare her co-star Porsha Williams «the fakest of them all» after facing off with her one-time pal at the just-filmed season 13 reunion. The former friends fell out fast over the course of the season, thanks in part to Marlo’s rekindled friendship with her and Porsha’s mutual frenemy, Kenya Moore.