Tim Story Inks First-Look TV Deal With eOne, Taps Lynn Barrie As Head Of TV For The Story Company

Toni Collette‘s brand new Netflix series, Pieces of Her, has first look photos and an official release date!

“A woman pieces together her mother’s dark past after a violent attack in their small town brings hidden threats and deadly secrets to light,” that’s the Netflix logline of “Pieces Of Her,” a new upcoming streaming series with a terrific cast, featuring leads, Toni Collette and Bella Heathcote. READ MORE: The 70 Most Anticipated TV Shows & Mini-Series Of 2022 Based on Karin Slaughter’s New York Times bestselling novel, Charlotte Stoudt (“Fosse/Verdon”) wrote the series adaptation and serves as showrunner, while Minkie Spiro (“The Plot Against America”) will direct all eight episodes.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterLulu Wang and Dani Melia have signed a first-look television deal with Amazon via their newly formed production company, Local Time.Wang and Melia first worked together on the critically-acclaimed 2019 feature “The Farewell.” Under the deal, Local Time will develop shows from emerging storytellers for Amazon. Wang is currently directing and executive producing the Amazon drama series “Expats,” based on the Janice Y.K.

Lulu Wang, director of Awkwafina comedy drama The Farewell, and producer Dani Melia have launched their own production company and struck a first-look TV deal with Amazon.

John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentParis-based sales agent MPM Premium has shared with Variety a first trailer for “Eami,” a striking ecological fable and tale of the pain of exile which will world premiere in main competition at the 2022 Rotterdam Festival.Brought onto the market at Ventana Sur, “Eami” marks the fourth feature, and second narrative movie, from Paz Encina, Paraguay’s most prominent auteur whose 2005 debut, “Hamaca Paraguaya,” about an old couple awaiting their son’s return from the 1932-35 Chaco War, opened Cannes Critics’ Week, winning the Intl. Federation of Film Critics Fipresci Award for best film in that section.The background to “Eami” is the forced displacement of the Ayoreo Totobiegosode, who lived in the Northern Paraguayan Chaco, by one of the most rampant deforestations in the world, as companies coveted their land for stockbreeding.

Mónica Marie Zorrilla When Telemundo comes to her mind, the first thing Bianca Quesada thinks about is her grandma’s television set and seeing telenovelas with the same soapy narratives that have been told by the genre for ages. Fast-forward to today, and the “Vida” development alum will be producing unscripted and scripted content for Telemundo that will expand the aperture of the medium, redefining what a telenovela can be.“We both fundamentally believe that the Latinx experience is not monolithic and that it is not a one-size-fits-all narrative.

Apple Original Films is partnering with Skydance Media on a multi-year, first-look film deal for Skydance to develop, produce and distribute an annual slate of live-action films globally.The deal is specifically for live-action features, and Apple and Skydance already have several films in the works including “Ghosted” with Chris Evans and Ana de Armas, which begins principal photography next month, and “The Greatest Beer Run Ever” from “Green Book” director Peter Farrelly and starring Zac Efron and Russell Crowe (which recently wrapped production).Skydance will continue to produce its ongoing franchises with Paramount, including “Mission: Impossible,” “Transformers” and “Star Trek,” and audiences are still awaiting the release of “Top Gun: Maverick” this summer. Skydance is currently in production “Transformers: Rise of the Beasts” and the next two “Mission: Impossible” films.

Will Packer Productions has tapped screenwriter Leon Chills (Spinning Out, The Wilds) to adapt Stan Parish’s novel Love and Theft for Universal Pictures.

Ahead of its world premiere at Sundance, the producer of “Dual,” Lee Kim, has signed a first look film deal with the indie production studio XYZ Films.The deal is with Kim’s Toronto and Los Angeles’ based Resolute Films and Entertainment and will be an agreement to produce several titles together per year, specifically with a focus on diverse, filmmaker-driven projects. They’ll also develop international co-productions in Kim’s native Canada and elsewhere.

Ahead of the Sundance premiere of Dual, XYZ Films has inked a first-look production deal with the movie’s producer Lee Kim.

Manori Ravindran International EditorXYZ Films has struck a first-look production deal with Toronto- and Los Angeles-based producer Lee Kim, who produced Sundance sci-fi title “Dual” and oversees Resolute Films and Entertainment.Under the deal, XYZ and Resolute will jointly produce a number of titles per year, with a focus on films helmed by diverse directors and international co-productions, particularly with Kim’s native Canada.XYZ and Resolute most recently collaborated on Riley Stearns’ “Dual,” which is playing in Sundance’s U.S. Dramatic Competition.

Netflix released a first look photo (above) of Sofia Vergara as real-life drug queenpin Griselda Blanco from the upcoming limited series, Griselda. The streamer also revealed 10 newly added cast members including Vanessa Ferlito (NCIS: New Orleans, 24) and Juliana Aidén Martinez (Prodigal Son, The Blacklist).

Watching the first two seasons of “The Boys,” who didn’t sit back and imagine a world where we got an animated anthology series including a little Looney Tunes-esque adventure where a little baby shoots lasers and annihilates the police? We were all thinking it, right? Well, Amazon sure hopes so, as the first teaser for “The Boys: Diabolical” sure does tickle that very particular itch.

Leslie Grace has given fans a first look at “Batgirl,” the upcoming superhero film coming to HBO Max. Leslie stars as Barbara Gordon, the titular heroine.Latina ‘Batgirl’ Leslie Grace is already filming for the upcoming superhero movie‘Batgirl’: Brendan Fraser plays role of supervillain in Leslie Grace’s new filmA post shared by Leslie Grace (@lesliegrace)The post features a photo of Leslie wearing the Batgirl suit, an exciting moment for fans of the character, who’ve long been waiting for the film.“I use their expectations against them. That will be their weakness.

DC Films and WarnerMedia continue to push forward beyond Zack Snyder’s era of the DCEU. The studio is already planning a slew of DC Comics projects and will even attempt to expand the Bat-family with a new incarnation of “Batgirl” played by “In The Heights” actress Leslie Grace.