NBA star Stephen Curry ’s Unanimous Media and Netflix are teaming for Black Brother, Black Brother, a feature based on Jewell Parker Rhodes’ book. The novel was chosen for Curry’s Underrated Book Club. It’s the second book by Rhodes to be optioned as a film and the first book from Underrated to be sold. The story follows 12-year-old Donte, who wishes he were more like his popular, lighter-skinned brother, Trey. After being framed by the school bully, who’s also the school fencing captain, for something he didn’t do, Donte joins a local youth center and meets disgraced former Olympic fencer Arden Jones. With Arden’s help, he starts training as a competitive fencer, setting his sights on taking down his nemesis. Curry and Erick Peyton produce for Unanimous Media, whose Brian Tetsuro Ivie will serve as a creative producer for and is leading development on the project. Watch on Deadline “Jewell’s Black Brother, Black Brother is a powerful story that …
Lucifer Season 6: When & Where To Watch The Final Season Of Netflix’s Hit Series in India
The finale season of Tom Ellis, Lauren German-starrer hit Netflix season Lucifer is all set to release on the streaming platform on September 10, 2021. The show has been one of the most anticipated releases by the streaming giant. Lucifer revolves around the Lord of Hell, the devil relocating to Los Angeles after being bored of running the underworld of death. He then opens a nightclub and forms a connection with a homicide detective. The two continue to solve crimes around Los Angeles until more heavily bodies descend forcing Lucifer's return to Hell. A few hours ago Netflix surprised fans by releasing the opening scene from the season premiere. Netflix's official Twitter account has posted the opening scene and said, "The final season of Lucifer premieres in 12 hours! But you don't have to wait to watch the opening scene from the season premiere!" Take a look: The final season of Lucifer premieres in 12 hours! pic.twitter.com/pLnyOAcr3a — Netflix …
‘Manifest’: Daryl Edwards Upped To Series Regular For Season 4 On Netflix
EXCLUSIVE: We’ll be seeing more of fan favorite Vance in the upcoming fourth and final season of Manifest on Netflix . Daryl Edwards , who has recurred as NSA Director Robert Vance (aka “Vance”) since the pilot episode, has been promoted to series regular for the upcoming season of the missing plane drama. It was Vance who, in the pilot, announced to passengers of Flight 828 that they’ve “been missing and presumed dead for 5 1/2 years.” Since then, he has become an ally to the passengers, especially Ben Stone, played by Josh Dallas. The role was only meant to be short-term, but due to praise for Edwards’ performance, the role was expanded and he was brought back in the second season after being killed off in Season 1. In Manifest, created by Jeff Rake , when Montego Air Flight 828 landed safely after a turbulent but routine flight, the crew and passengers were relieved. Yet in the span of those few hours, the world had aged five years — and their friends, …
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Paramount And Netflix Set Multi-Picture Film Deal
Paramount Pictures has signed a multi-picture film deal with Netflix , studio boss Jim Gianopulos revealed today during Viacom ’s fourth-quarter earnings call with Wall Street analysts. “Our priority is to expand our role as a major global content supplier,” Gianopulos said. “As such, we’re exploring various new revenue streams in addition to our traditional theatrical releases as a producer of first-run films and television for other media platforms.” The companies have collaborated across the studio’s operations under Gianopulos, who became CEO of Paramount in March 2017. At the TV studio, Paramount has supplied Netflix with popular series such as Maniac and 13 Reasons Why . The film unit broke new ground last winter by selling The Cloverfield Paradox to the streaming service, an abrupt change of plans two months before a planned theatrical rollout. Netflix then mounted a stealth release on its streaming platform on Super Bowl Sunday in February, advertising it on …
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Netflix & ‘Unorthodox’ Creator Anna Winger Form Partnership; Set ‘Transatlantic’ As First Project
Netflix and Unorthodox creator Anna Winger and her production company Airlift Productions have set a multi-year creative partnership. The overall deal will see Winger and Airlift develop and produce international drama series for the streamer. The first project for the partnership will be Transatlantic (working title), a drama series set during the 1940 refugee crisis in Marseille, France. It’s inspired by the true adventures of the Emergency Rescue Committee and Julie Orringer’s 2019 novel, The Flight Portfolio . The series is created by Winger and Daniel Hendler and is currently in pre-production. Winger is also working with Anne Mensah’s Netflix team in the UK on a contemporary original series set in the English countryside while Airlift has further expanded its team with the addition of Camille McCurry as partner. Based in Berlin, Airlift is working with writers from around the world on projects set in Europe, Africa and the UK. Winger will also work …
Hayley Atwell To Voice Lara Croft In Netflix’s ‘Tomb Raider’ Anime Series
Hayley Atwell , who is part of the Marvel universe as Agent Peggy Carter and who is next up in Mission: Impossible 7 , has been cast as the voice of Lara Croft in Netflix and Legendary ’s Tomb Raider anime series. It is based on the Square Enix action-adventure video game that has spawned comic books and three feature films, with a fourth on the way. The anime series, first announced in January , will pick up after the video game reboot trilogy, and follow the heroine 25 years after her first game appeared as she explores new territory. Tomb Raider will be written by Tasha Huo ( The Witcher: Blood Origin, Red Sonja ), who is executive producing with dj2 Entertainment founder and CEO Dmitri M. Johnson ( Sonic the Hedgehog ), Stephan Bugaj and Howard Bliss. Jacob Robinson will be an executive producer via his company Tractor Pants. On the big screen, Lara Croft, an archaeologist, treasure hunter and thrill seeker, was played by Angelina Jolie in two films …
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‘The Starling’ Helmer Ted Melfi To Adapt & Direct Don DeLillo Masterpiece Novel ‘Underworld’ For Netflix
EXCLUSIVE: Ted Melfi , whose new film The Starling premiered last night at the Toronto Film Festival, has been set to adapt, direct and produce for Netflix Underworld, based on the seminal novel by Don DeLillo . The novel is a sprawling tapestry spread across decades that has a through line of the home run Bobby Thomson hit in 1951 to win the pennant for the New York Giants, breaking the hearts of crosstown fans of the Brooklyn Dodgers. As the home run is hit and retrieved by a young fan named Cotter Martin, things are happening all around, including J. Edgar Hoover learning that moment that the Soviet Union had completed its first test of the hydrogen bomb. The ball eventually winds up in the hands of a waste management business owner named Nick Shay, who sets out to find the original owner as he sorts out his own mess of a life. More on this shortly, but Netflix has made a big eight-figure deal for this. The streamer made the Melissa McCarthy-Kevin …
Cynthia Erivo & Andy Serkis Join Idris Elba In Netflix’s ‘Luther’ Film From Director Jamie Payne
Two-time Oscar nominee Cynthia Erivo ( Harriet , Genius: Aretha ) and Emmy nominee Andy Serkis ( The Lord of the Rings trilogy, War for the Planet of the Apes ) will join Golden Globe nominee Idris Elba in a Netflix film continuing the story of Luther , Deadline has confirmed. Emmy nominee Jamie Payne ( The Alienist ) will direct the feature, billed as “an epic continuation of the Luther saga,” from a script by series creator and writer Neil Cross. Netflix is producing the film in association with the BBC. Cross and Elba are also producing, along with Peter Chernin, Jenno Topping and David Ready for Chernin Entertainment. Dan Finlay is exec producing for Chernin Entertainment, along with Kris Thykier and BBC Studios’ Priscilla Parish. It’s not yet clear who Erivo and Serkis will play in the film. Watch on Deadline Luther is an acclaimed crime drama from the BBC that has aired thus far for five seasons, between 2010 and 2019. It centers on …
‘Narcos: Mexico’ To End With Season 3 On Netflix; Premiere Date, First-Look Photos & Teaser Released
Netflix ’s Narcos: Mexico returns with season 3 on Nov. 5 — its final season in Mexico. It is as yet unknown if the franchise will continue with another installment after the original series, set in Colombia, and the Mexico offshoot, both of which ran for three seasons. Executive producers previously have said their intention was to follow the drug trade across various countries. The new season is set in the ’90s, when the globalization of the drug business ignites. It examines the war that breaks out after Félix Gallardo’s ( Diego Luna ) arrest. As newly independent cartels struggle to survive political upheaval and escalating violence, a new generation of Mexican kingpins emerge. But in this war, truth is the first casualty – and every arrest, murder, and take-done only pushes real victory further away. Although Luna won’t return as Gallardo , there are many returning stars as well as some new ones. Most notably, Urban Latino superstar Benito Antonio “ …
Arden Cho Leads Cast Of ‘Partner Track’ Netflix Series From Georgia Lee Based On Helen Wan’s Book; Julie Anne Robinson To Direct
Netflix has given a formal 10-episode series order to Partner Track , an adaptation of Helen Wan ’s 2013 novel. Arden Cho has been tapped as the lead of the series, created by Georgia Lee ( The Expanse ). Bradley Gibson ( Powerbook III: Ghost ), Alexandra Turshen ( Ray Donovan ), Nolan Gerard Funk ( The Flight Attendant ), Dominic Sherwood ( Penny Dreadful: The City of Angels ), Rob Heaps ( Good Girls ) and Matthew Rauch (Terminal Lis) also star in the series, produced by Jax Media. Julie Anne Robinson is set to direct the first two episodes of Partner Track in her followup to directing two episodes, including the pilot, of another Netflix drama series, global hit Bridgerton. It earned Robinson an Emmy and DGA Award nominations. In Partner Track , Ingrid Yun (Cho), is an idealistic young lawyer, struggles with her moral compass and her passions as she fights to climb the partner track at an elite New York City law firm. “We are so …