Spike Lee Teams With Netflix for Multi-Year Creative Partnership

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2021 has been a great year for Steven Yeun. The former “Walking Dead” actor has continued his quest to choose better and better projects, especially this year, with “Minari” earning raves and awards recognition, then later with “Invincible,” the acclaimed Amazon animated series.

Despite the continuing challenges of the pandemic, it was a year of highlights from film festivals around the world.

Spike Lee has signed a multi-year creative partnership with Netflix to direct and produce features through his production company, Forty Acres and a Mule Filmworks.The acclaimed director has teamed up with Netflix on four projects so far, including Da 5 Bloods, She’s Gotta Have It, Rodney King and as a producer on See You Yesterday.Lee’s next project for the streaming service is Gordon Hemingway & The Realm Of Cthulu, where he serves as producer.Speaking about the partnership with Netflix, Lee

Reinaldo Marcus Green was a grad student at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, angling for extra time with his professor — Spike Lee. Flash-forward six years: Marcus Green has directed one of the best-reviewed dramas of 2021 — “King Richard,” starring Will Smith as Richard Williams, the father of tennis champs Venus (Saniyya Sidney) and Serena (Demi Singleton).

“Da 5 Bloods” and the “She’s Gotta Have It” series, the streaming giant said Thursday,Under the deal, the “Do the Right Thing” filmmaker will direct and produce narrative films via his Forty Acres and a Mule Filmworks production companies.Lee said “there is no better way for me and my company 40Acres and a Mule Filmworks to begin the new year than renew our partnership” with Netflix.

“There Is No Better Way For Me And My Company 40 Acres And A Mule Filmworks To Begin The New Year Than Renew Our Partnership With Ted, Scott And Tendo — Da Fearless Leaders Of NETFLIX. Besides My Joints, We Together Will Focus On The New Diverse Storytellers, YOUTH MUST BE SERVED.

Oscar-winning filmmaker Spike Lee (Da 5 Bloods, BlacKkKlansman) has entered into a new creative partnership with Netflix, which will see him directing and producing narrative features for the streamer under a multi-year deal.

Ryan Seacrest will be ringing in New Year’s Eve in Times Square for years to come. MRC Live and Alternative have signed Seacrest to a multi-year deal extension to host and EP Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest.

Manori Ravindran International EditorAmazon Prime Video is breaking into the Nigerian film market, also known as “Nollywood.”The global streaming service has struck a multi-year licensing deal with Nigerian production outfit Inkblot Studios. Under the deal, Prime Video will have exclusive, worldwide distribution rights for the company’s slate of theatrical releases from 2022.

NBC Sports will televise USFL games along with Fox Sports when the pro football league returns in a new incarnation next spring.

The BBC and Screen Scotland have renewed a partnership that will see a further £3M ($4M) pumped into the Scottish TV industry over the next three years.

No change at the top of Netflix’s latest most-watched series list.

New Regency, which was formerly housed at 20th Century Fox before being absorbed into Disney in 2019 via the big studio merger, has re-upped a new long-term global theatrical distribution deal with the Burbank, CA studio.