Writer Syreeta Singleton Inks Overall Deal With HBO & HBO Max

Taylor Sheridan is one of the most respected filmmakers working in Hollywood today. His unique brand of storytelling, typically focused on violence amongst everyday people in rural areas, has struck a chord with a ton of film fans, after seeing his writing in projects such as “Hell or High Water,” “Wind River,” and “Yellowstone.” Now, he is set to return with a new feature, “Those Who Wish Me Dead,” which is arriving on HBO Max next month.

Jean-Marc Vallée and Nathan Ross, the Emmy-winning producers behind HBO’s Big Little Lies and Sharp Objects, have entered into a three-year first-look deal with HBO and HBO Max via their Crazyrose production company. Under the deal, Vallée and Ross will executive produce both Gorilla and the Bird, a limited series based on the memoir by Zack McDermott which Vallée will also direct, and The Players Table, starring Sydney Sweeney and Halsey to be directed by Annabelle Attanasio.

If you just watch the promotional materials being released by WarnerMedia, you would be right to assume Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune” will be one of the many WB films released simultaneously on HBO Max and in theaters in 2021. Much like “Wonder Woman 1984,” “Godzilla vs.

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterAfter a delayed start due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the hotly anticipated “Friends” reunion is finally set to film next week — the week of April 5 — a source tells Variety.Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, David Schwimmer, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc and Matthew Perry will reunite on a Warner Bros.

2017 novel by Alissa Nutting and currently streaming its first three episodes (with new episodes out Thursdays).She plays Hazel, whose marriage to a billionaire tech mogul isn’t quite what it seems. While her life with Byron Gogol (Billy Magnussen) seems luxurious, neither of them ever leave his lavish compound.

Barry Jenkins is one of the most exciting voices in American film working today. That’s pretty undeniable.

Pastel, the filmmaking collective founded by Barry Jenkins and The Underground Railroad producers Adele Romanski, and Mark Ceryak, have struck a first-look television deal with HBO and HBO Max and A24.

Cynthia Littleton Business Editor“Moonlight” writer-director Barry Jenkins and his partners in Pastel have set up shop with HBO and HBO Max under a first-look deal that calls for A24 to executive produce all projects with the Pastel trio.Jenkins and Pastel partners Adele Romanski and Mark Ceryak had previously been under a first-look pact at Amazon Studios.

, the two titans will finally face off on the big screen (or whatever sized screen you have at home), with the promise that one will fall. So, who are you rooting for?The movie's human cast includes Alexander Skarsgård, Millie Bobby Brown, Rebecca Hall, Brian Tyree Henry, Shun Oguri, Eiza González, Julian Dennison, Kyle Chandler and Demián Bichir.

Joe Otterson TV ReporterGeorge R.R. Martin is staying in business with HBO, with the author signing a massive five-year overall deal with the premium cabler.The deal will see Martin develop new projects for both HBO and HBO Max.

Tracy Oliver, the writer behind “Girls Trip,” “Little” and “The Sun Is Also a Star,” has signed an overall deal with Apple.Apple landed the multiyear deal with Oliver in a competitive bidding situation. The deal will span original TV series and films, all through Oliver’s Tracy Yvonne Productions banner.

HBO Max has added Diana-Maria Riva, Juan Javier Cardenas and more to the cast of its upcoming family comedy pilot The Gordita Chronicles, from  Josh Berman’s Osprey Productions, Zoe Saldana’s Cinestar Pictures and Sony Pictures TV. Also joining the cast are Savannah Nicole Ruiz, Noah Rico and Cosette Hauer.

Insecure creator Issa Rae is extending her relationship with WarnerMedia, signing a big five-year overall deal with the company behind the Emmy-winning series. The pact, believed to be in the eight figures, is exclusive to WarnerMedia for television, including HBO, HBO Max and Warner Bros. Television, and a first-look for features with Warner Bros. Pictures Group, New Line and HBO Max. Projects will be developed with Rae’s media company, Hoorae.

A Black Lady Sketch Show, Robin Thede’s sketch comedy series, will return to HBO for season 2.

What attracted you to “Genera+ion?”[The fact] that it was created by this teenager and her dad. Zelda Barnz [the teenager]  is just an incredibly smart, intuitive, conscious human being.

It’s a certain kind of man who can rob the female orgasm of joy through data mining, and in HBO Max’s “Made for Love,” that man is Byron Gogol (Billy Magnussen), entrepreneur, tech genius, and serial creep. After coating the world in screens designed to connect consumers but intended to surveil them, he’s sorta kinda almost perfected his masterpiece, also called Made For Love.

EXCLUSIVE: HBO Max’s garden of unscripted talent continues to blossom after the streamer struck an overall deal with director Joseph Guidry.

Brittany Murphy’s life and death are set to be explored in a new HBO documentary series. The ‘Clueless’ star passed away in 2009 at the age of 32 from pneumonia and combined drug intoxication, and after her husband Simon Monjack died less than a year later of the same cause, speculation began to spread about the circumstances of Brittany’s death, which was officially ruled as an accident.

The brief life of actress Brittany Murphy will be placed under the microscope for a two-part docuseries, set to air on HBO Max.