OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network debuts season five of its hit dating series “Ready to Love” Friday, January 28th at 8 PM EST | 7 PM CST with a new cast and new rules on the one-hour debut. In 2021, Ready to Love was Friday night’s #1 original cable series among African-American women (18+). The show is executive produced by Will Packer, Will Packer Media and Lighthearted Entertainment.
Host, Tommy Miles is back following a dynamic Season 4 to help a new group of single men and women find love in the DMV area. The new cast of men and women are looking for love from Maryland, Virginia and the D.C. area. With the shift to online dating apps, swiping right, and DMs, the journey to find love has turned into a numbers game. This season, Tommy will guide the singles to find more meaningful and lasting relationships by shifting the focus from quantity to quality, and announcing that there will be only 14 singles to start the journey: seven men and seven women. Every week, the power shifts between the fellas and the ladies as they decide who just isn’t ready to love. But just like the mighty Potomac River, Tommy has twists and turns planned, including surprise blind dates to add NEW SINGLES to the mix. By the end, only the strongest couples will remain to decide whether they are genuinely Ready to Love.
Meet this season’s cast of women and men.
Women –
Ace, 37
DaKiya, 39
Joi, 41
Precious, 34
Kina, 39
Sabrina, 36
Tiffani, 37
Men –
Clifton, 44
Demetrius, 42
Fernando, 34
Laverne, 44
Paul, 48
Tory, 39
Wiley, 32
Watch the new trailer for season 5 below:
Grammy-winning rapper Kendrick Lamar’s pgLang company has teamed with Matt Stone and Trey Parker’s Park County banner to produce a new feature film for Paramount Pictures.
The live action comedy, written by Vernon Chatman, will “depict the past and present coming to a head when a young Black man who is interning as a slave re-enactor at a living history museum discovers that his white girlfriend’s ancestors once owned his.”
Lamar and pgLang partner Dave Free will produce the project alongside Stone and Parker. Paramount Pictures will handle theatrical distribution, home entertainment, and television licensing rights on the project, with Paramount plus acquiring streaming rights. Production on the yet to be titled feature begins in the spring.
“On behalf of Paramount Pictures and the wider ViacomCBS family, we look forward to ushering in the first theatrical collaboration from these creative visionaries, and galvanizing audiences worldwide around a powerful storytelling experience,” Paramount Pictures president & CEO Brian Robbins said announcing the project.
Source: Variety
Produced by Laugh Out Loud, The One-Night-Only Event will be Hosted by DeRay Davis and Feature Special Performances by Bill Bellamy, Michael Blackson, Earthquake, Mo’Nique, and More
Today, Laugh Out Loud, the multi-platform comedy brand founded by Kevin Hart announced the long-anticipated return of “All Star Comedy Jam.” The iconic event, originally dreamed up as a partnership between basketball hall of famer, media personality and entrepreneur, Shaquille O’Neal and LOL CEO Jeff Clanagan, will kick-off Superbowl Weekend, live from Downtown Los Angeles, with a special one-night-only experience on Thursday, February 10 at Microsoft Theater at L.A. Live.
The event, known for breaking stars and celebrating legends, will be hosted by DeRay Davis, and present hilarious performances from some of the biggest names in comedy including Bill Bellamy, Michael Blackson, Earthquake, and Mo’Nique and featuring surprise special guests, musical acts, and from the front row—the man himself—Shaquille O’Neal.
“From delivering numerous sold-out tours to being among the first to give a national stage to current comedy legends such as Mike Epps, DeRay Davis, and Kevin Hart, All Star Comedy Jam has been a fixture on the comedy scene, dedicated to elevating the brightest up-and-coming comedic voices,” said Shaquille O’Neal. “I’m looking forward to working with the Laugh Out Loud team to bring this iconic franchise back to a live audience for what is sure to be an unforgettable night of comedy.”
“There is nothing like a night of live comedy, and I couldn’t be more excited for the return of All Star Comedy Jam,” said Laugh Out Loud CEO, Jeff Clanagan. “What started as an idea between Shaq and I for a comedy show during All-Star weekend, has grown into a true comedy staple that showcases some of the heaviest hitters in comedy alongside the most promising up-and-comers, and this return feels better than ever. LOL’s mission is to keep the world laughing together, and right now, a good night with a lot of laughs is exactly what we need.”
Tickets are on sale now at axs.com.
Steve Harvey has no plans for another stand-up comedy special and blames “cancel culture.”
“The only way I can do one more special is if it’s at the end of my television career because it will end my television career,” Harvey told media on Tuesday during the TCA panel for his ABC series Judge Steve Harvey airing Tuesday nights at 8 p.m.
“We’re in the cancel culture now. No stand-up [comedian] alive that is sponsor-driven can say anything he wants to. Chris Rock can’t. Kevin Hart can’t. Cedric the Entertainer can’t. D.L. Hughley can’t. I can go down the list. The only person that can say what they want to say on stage is Dave Chappelle because he’s not sponsor-driven, he’s subscription-driven.”
He continued, “One of the reasons I stopped doing stand-up is because my wife told me God was about to do something for me that I didn’t know about yet. I didn’t I didn’t know he was going to give me this TV career, but he did. And it turned out to be the best thing that happened to me. But if I had tried to continue as a stand-up, there’s no way I could maintain a TV career because political correctness has killed comedy.”
Harvey began his career as a stand-up comedian in 1985 which opened up the doors for him in entertainment. He launched The Steve Harvey Show in 1996 which ran until 2002.
One of his biggest comedy tours was 1997’s Kings of Comedy Tour alongside Hughley, Cedric the Entertainer, and the late Bernie Mac. The act was so popular, Spike Lee turned the act into the feature film, The Original Kings of Comedy released in 2000.
Harvey’s last comedy special was in 2012 and was aired as a pay-per-view event.
“Every joke you tell now, it hurts somebody’s feelings, he said. “But what people don’t understand about comedians is that a joke has to be about something and somebody. We can’t write jokes about puppies all the time. The joke can’t be about bushes all the time. Some of these jokes will have to be about people because that’s the most interesting topic. So if I come back, I’ll have to wait until I’m done and I’m not done. I want to do one more. I’ll probably have to call it, ‘Well, this is it.’”
Source: Deadline
Lil Rel Howery is set to join Zachary Levi in Sony Pictures’ live-action adaptation of Harold and the Purple Crayon, which Carlos Saldanha is directing.
David Guion & Michael Handelman wrote the screenplay, which is based on Crockett Johnson’s bestselling children’s book. John Davis is producing through Davis Entertainment.
Published in 1955, the book told the story of a 4-year-old who, with the power of his crayon, created worlds around him. The book was a smash and was followed by six more.
Howery most recently starred opposite Ryan Reynolds in Free Guy as well as the comedy it Vacation Friends. His other credits include Bird Box, starring Sandra Bullock; Jordan Peele’s Get Out, Judas and The Black Messiah and Bad Trip. He is repped by Fourth Wall Management, UTA, The Aziza Work Group, and Cohen Gardner LLP.
Source: Deadline
Jo Koy’s single-camera comedy Josep is going to pilot at ABC.
The Disney-owned network has handed the series, which comes from 20th Television, the pilot order after revealing the project was in development in May.
The project follows the comedian, who is best known for his appearances on Chelsea Lately and a Netflix standup special In His Elements, as a recently divorced Filipino American nurse attempting to navigate dating, fatherhood and a very Filipino mother who loves to “help.”
Steve Joe, a co-exec producer on Doogie Kamealoha M.D. and Young Sheldon, Fresh Off The Boat’s Randall Park and Michael Golamco are writing and exec producing the half-hour comedy.
The project is also exec produced by others from Fresh Off the Boat including Kourtney Kang, The Detective Agency’s Jake Kasdan and Melvin Mar and Park alongside his Imminent Collision partners Golamco and Hieu Ho. Koy also exec produces alongside his manager Joe Meloche.
Coming up for Koy is Amblin Partners and Rideback’s film Easter Sunday, which comes out in April via Universal Pictures, as well as his fourth standup special for Netflix, shooting at the Forum in LA. He is repped by Arsonhouse Entertainment, CAA and Hirsch Wallerstein Hayum Matlof + Fishman.
Joe is repped by Dennis Kim and A.B. Fischer of Literate and lawyer Ken Richman.
Source: Deadline
Vertical Entertainment has acquired North American rights to the comedy Supercool, starring Jake Short (This Is the Year), Miles J. Harvey (The Babysitter) and Damon Wayans Jr. (Let’s Be Cops, The Other Guys), with plans to release it in theaters and on digital and VOD on February 11.
The film from director Teppo Airaksinen (Juice) centers on Neil Tobbler (Short), who has gone through most of his life feeling invisible and fantasizing about his long-time crush, Summer (Madison Davenport). When Neil and his best friend Gilbert (Harvey) find out that Summer is throwing a birthday party, Gilbert pressures Neil to ask her for an invitation. The plan fails, and Neil embarrasses himself in front of the girl of his dreams.
Desperate and humiliated, Neil wishes upon the universe to be someone else—a supercool version of himself—the next day waking up and realizing that the universe has granted him his wish. Armed with new confidence, Neil gets an invitation to Summer’s party and asks his playboy neighbor Jimmy (Wayans) to help him attract Summer’s attention. As the night begins, things quickly spin out of control. Neil and Gilbert are unexpectedly swept into a series of car chases, robberies and wild parties, with the epic outing testing the boys’ friendship, and forcing Neil to learn a couple life lessons.
Ali Moussavi and Yellow Film and TV’s Olli Haikka penned the script for Supercool, from an original manuscript by Patricia Goren and Eric Goren. The film’s cast also includes Iliza Shlesinger (Good on Paper, Spenser Confidential), Odessa A’zion (Let’s Scare Julie, Conception), Peter Moses (Barely Famous) and Madison Bailey (Outer Banks). Haikka produced, with Peter Barkman, Scott Einbinder, Eric Goren, Patricia Goren, Heikki Herlin, Jorma Reinilä, Giancarlo J. Sini and Marko Talli exec producing. Pietari Vappula and Chris Debenedetto served as associate producers, with Cherelle George and Warren Ostergard as co-producers.
“It takes courage to show people who you truly are – even for adults, but especially for teens,” said Haikka. “Despite being saturated with self-doubt, teens often carry on like they have all the confidence in the world – that’s where so much of the comedy in Supercool comes from.
“Inspired by improvisation sessions that we had with young actors in various LA acting schools, some jokes and scenes in Supercool are based on real-life experiences,” added the writer-producer, “and that’s what I hope will resonate with audiences and make them laugh.”
“Supercool is a film that resonated with us because of its duality in managing to be both a raunchy and hilarious film but also a genuine story about friendship and individuality,” added Vertical Entertainment’s SVP of Acquisitions, Tony Piantedosi. “For those looking for a good laugh and amusement during these unpredictable times, Supercool is definitely a must-see.”
One of the most prolific directors in the Nordics, Airaksinen has helmed five features and more than 200 hours of televisions, with his short film The Ceiling winning the Cannes Film Festival’s Special Jury Distinction in 2017.
Yellow Film & TV, found in 1994, is the largest independent studio in the Nordics. Its best-known international productions include the crime drama Arctic Circle and sports drama Borg vs. McEnroe, which was a co-production with SF Studios.
Vertical Entertainment is a global independent distributor, which was founded in 2012. Other upcoming releases from the company include Delmar Washington’s sci-fi thriller No Running, starring Skylan Brooks; AJ Jones’ horror film La Patasola; the comedy Unplugging, starring Eva Longoria and Matt Walsh; John Michael McDonagh’s thriller The Forgiven, starring Jessica Chastain and Ralph Fiennes, which it co-acquired with Roadside Attractions in November; and Drew Mylrea’s thriller Last Survivors, starring Alicia Silverstone, Stephen Moyer, and Drew Van Acker.
Vertical Entertainment’s Piantedosi negotiated the deal to acquire Supercool with WME Independent on behalf of the filmmakers.
Source: Deadline
A year after NAACP’s production partnership with CBS Studios formally launched with the hire of Sheila Ducksworth as President, the venture has sold its first projects. The five shows — spanning platforms (broadcast and streaming) and genres (drama, dramedy, comedy, limited series), include a reboot of cult 1991 movie Soapdish for Paramount+, with original co-star Whoopi Goldberg reprising her role and Jane the Virgin creator Jennie Snyder Urman co-writing the dramedy adaptation.
Goldberg is one of three top comedians attached to star in NAACP-CBS Studios projects, with D.L. Hughley and Earthquake set to headline autobiographical comedy series in the works at Fox and CBS, respectively.
Real people and events are the inspiration behind two dramatic projects, a limited series at Apple TV+ with Kapital Entertainment, which tells the story of the courageous Little Rock 9 Black students who helped end school segregation in the South, and drama Construction at Paramount+, inspired by NYC building magnate Cheryl McKissack for Paramount+. CBS Studios is the studio on all projects except Little Rock Nine, which is an Kapital/Apple Studios co-production; Soapdish is a co-production with Paramount TV Studios.
“This slate is highly indicative of the kind of fare that we’re looking to put forward, which is fresh and entertaining, with a strong point of view, and we have been very fortunate to have several attachments that we think will really propel our projects in a big way,” Ducksworth told Deadline. “We’re working with Whoopi Goldberg, we’re working with DL Hughley, we’re working with Earthquake, and we have several more projects in the queue that also have big talent attachments which we’re very excited about. It’s representation at its best, it’s showing different sides of life, different opinions, different types of people that there are, and that’s our goal for all of this: to have full inclusion of all different types of viewpoints in all that we do in a fun way.”
In putting together the slate, Ducksworth, who executive produces all of the venture’s projects, has tapped into the relationships she had developed over her two decades of industry experience, including serving as a producer on the landmark Showtime drama series Soul Food, winner of seven NAACP awards, as well as stints as head of TV for Will Packer and Susanne Daniels’ companies.
Here are details and the stories behind the five shows from NAACP-CBS Studios’ inaugural slate:
Soapdish: Co-written by Jennie Snyder Urman and up-and-coming writer Asha Michelle Wilson (American Horror Story) based on the 1991 feature, Soapdish is described as a juicy, soapy, and twisty dramedy ensemble starring Goldberg who reprises her role as Rose, Head Writer for the venerable soap The Sun Also Sets.
Urman and Joanna Klein executive produce via Sutton Street alongside Wilson and Tom Leonardis.
Goldberg was one of the first people that Ducksworth reached out to when she started at NAACP-CBS Studios. The two, who had known each other for a while, jumped on Zoom to discussed things they were interested in. During that virtual meeting, they both shared their love for Soapdish, which put the idea for the TV adaptation in motion.
The next big step was bringing on board one of the biggest showrunners on the CBS Studios’ roster, Urman, who, along with her executive, Klein, suggested Wilson as a co-writer.
“I consider it a real coup to be working with Jennie Snyder Urman. She is a powerhouse in every sense of the way,” Ducksworth said.
The movie was distributed by Paramount Pictures, making for complex negotiations and ultimately a co-production by the two ViacomCBS sibling TV studios, CBS Studios and Paramount TV Studios. “It’s going very well,” Ducksworth said of the project, which, like all ViacomCBS library title-driven shows, landed at Paramount+.
Directed by Michael Hoffman, written by Robert Harling and Andrew Bergman and produced by Aaron Spelling and Alan Greisman, the 1991 movie featured an all-star cast that included Sally Field, Kevin Kline, Robert Downey Jr., Elisabeth Shue, Goldberg, Teri Hatcher, Cathy Moriarty, Garry Marshall, Kathy Najimy, and Carrie Fisher.
Untitled DL Hughley Show: Fox has given a script commitment plus penalty to the project, co-produced with 3 Arts and Fox Entertainment
Co-created, co-written and executive produced by Hughley and The Last O.G. showrunner, writer-producer and comedian Owen Smith, the comedy, headlined by Hughley, is based on his life. Unfiltered, unapologetic, and opinionated radio host DL Hughley is free at work but under siege at home as he navigates life as a husband and father to an LGBTQ+ daughter, a son on the autism spectrum whose white girlfriend lives with them, and another daughter who can’t leave his credit card alone.
“DL is one of those rarities to me in that he really can do it all, but even more than that, what I find really special about him is that he doesn’t pull any punches,” Ducksworth said of the veteran comedian and radio host. “He says it exactly how he means it, and he is consistent across the board in expressing his point of view — and he definitely has one.”
Untitled Earthquake Project:
Co-created by Earthquake — who also is set to star — and Robb Chavis (black-ish) and written by Chavis, who is under an overall deal at CBS Studios, the CBS comedy centers on single dad-and-dating comedian Quake who goes from good time dad to full time dad when his two kids move in with him, forcing him to juggle his career as a standup comedian and a D.C. comedy club owner, which includes him taking back the reins of the club’s management from his free-wheeling childhood friend.
Earthquake (real name Nathaniel Martin Stroman) and Chavis executive produce alongside Erika Conner and Jermaine Smith.
“Earthquake has been one of my favorite comedians for years, maybe even decades, and he’s one of those people that I always said I really want to work with him,” Ducksworth said of the comedian who, like Hughley, also has a radio show. “He was very motivated to do television, and what we’re doing with him is inspired by his own life of raising his kids as a single dad. Those are really the best of stories, where you can borrow from what you know and how you live.”
Construction: Written by The Good Fight and Evil co-executive producer Davita Scarlett, who is under an overall deal at CBS Studios, the drama for Paramount+ is inspired by Cheryl McKissack, fifth generation owner of the oldest minority and female construction company in America. Described as Dynasty meets Succession in a high stakes family saga, the series follows a 5th generation Black, NYC female construction magnate in the hard-knuckled male-dominated world of a trillion dollar industry in which she navigates big money; city and state politics; and above all else, family.
Scarlett and McKissack executive produce; McKissack’s producing partner Chandra McQueen is a producer.
“If people don’t know Cheryl McKissack, they’re going to be in for a real treat. She is really one of a kind,” Ducksworth said. “She is running the oldest and biggest minority-owned construction company in the country, she’s fifth-generation, roots in the South, has been working here in New York, doing the biggest kind of endeavors in the field of construction for decades, including Barclays Arena in Brooklyn as well as Harlem Hospital. She is renovating Terminal 1 for JFK now and has many, many projects that are in the works.”
Ducksworth and Scarlett, who share alma mater, have been friends for about a decade. “I’ve been looking forward to working with her,” Ducksworth said, noting that finding a project to collaborate with CBS Studios-based Scarlett was a priority once she joined studio’s NAACP venture.
Little Rock Nine
On this 65th anniversary of one of the most seminal events in American history, the eight-part limited series, which is in very early development at Apple TV+, takes a deep dive into the 1957-1958 school year of Little Rock 9, and the showdown that rocked the nation.
Gwen Parker is writing as well as executive producing alongside Kapital Entertainment’s Aaron Kaplan and Brian Morewitz.
After segregated schools were proclaimed unconstitutional in the U.S., the NAACP in 1957 registered nine black students to attend the previously all-white Little Rock Central High. After the Arkansas National Guard was deployed by the Governor to block the students from entering the school, President Eisenhower had to intervene, providing military escort to the teens. Still, the nine were subjected to a year of physical and verbal abuse by many of the white students.
The limited series, a departure from the rest of Ducksworth’s slate, “which are a real mix of high drama and big comedy,” was brought to her by Kaplan. “He let us know that he had optioned the book ‘Warriors Don’t Cry’, written by one of the original Little Rock Nine, Melba Beals,” and that he had found a writer, Parker, Ducksworth said. “The angle that we’re going to be entering it is very special, and what makes it even more special is when you think about the fact that this year, 2022, is 65 years since that event happened, so, it’s a real milestone.”
What also sets this project apart is that NAACP is not just a producer, it is also part of the narrative, and the organization is opening their archives to the Little Rock Nine creative team.
“The NAACP was at the forefront of that event back in 1957, and in fact, Daisy Bates, the president of the local chapter of the NAACP, was the force to make it all happen back then,” Ducksworth said. “So, the NAACP is well-steeped in this project, Little Rock Nine, and I have to say, we couldn’t ask for a better partner.”
That goes beyond the limited series.
“The NAACP is highly supportive of everything that we’re doing,” Ducksworth said. “I talk with [President and CEO] Derrick Johnson all the time, he’s very intimately involved in everything that we do, including when we were out pitching the [Little Rock Nine] project, he was on those pitches, as well.”
The venture works with both established and upcoming Black writers.
“Our approach is we read everything, We read everything. We meet with people to get a sense of the kinds of things that are of interest to them, and it’s a real gamut,” Ducksworth said, teasing a big project from a baby writer with a strong point of view.
“The current political and societal landscape demand that we expand the voices, contexts, and visibility of artists producing content around the African American experience,” Johnson said. “Great storytelling has a unique ability to entertain, educate, and influence perspectives on critical issues. The projects stemming from the NAACP partnership with CBS Studios will continue to push the boundaries on the variety of stories available to audiences.”
Johnson’s partner on the initiative has been George Cheeks, President & CEO of CBS, who has been the driving force behind the production venture.
“This partnership with Derrick Johnson and the NAACP is incredibly important to our efforts to expand inclusive storytelling across CBS and the entire content ecosystem,” Cheeks said. “It’s been exciting to watch Sheila and her team bring this venture to life over the past year. They have delivered a development slate rich in creative talent and diverse in content, with multiple projects set up for broadcast and streaming.”
Ducksworth, who acknowledged CBS Studios President David Stapf and his team for their support on all fronts — from providing talent from the studio roster to helping with IP acquisitions, brainstorming and dealmaking — called Cheeks “a real shining and guiding light in all of this.”
She recalled that when she first came onboard, she had a conversation with Cheeks, in which she said that, while primetime series have been the mainstay of what she had done, she also was looking forward to producing for all dayparts and do things internationally.
“And he has supported that, and everything from animation, to unscripted, to — of course, our hours and our half-hours — but you name an everyday part, daytime, late night, he has really supported that effort that we have representation across all shows across the board,” Ducksworth said. “When we talk about what the next endeavor will be, I’ll say we’re looking to do more than we did the year before, and that’s the goal of it all, to keep building and having a leader like George and at the top of everything has made it really an experience that is not only a joy but really fruitful. So, we’re expecting really incredible projects to come from all of that.”
Source: Deadline
The official trailer for Peacock’s dramatized reboot of the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Bel-Air, was released on Monday.
In lieu of recapturing Will Smith and the original cast’s comedic energy, Bel-Air flips the show into a streaming drama that is more aesthetically akin to something like the early aughts drama The OC. The show is set to premiere on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb 13 on Peacock.
See the trailer below:
Actress Viola Davis (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, The Suicide Squad) is in talks to star in Two Butterflies, an Amazon drama based on an original idea and script by Evan Dodson, which will be directed by Strong Island‘s Yance Ford.
Two Butterflies follows two estranged sisters who are torn apart by tragedy and forced to reunite when one sister must be transported to an Alzheimer’s facility. Dodson became the youngest scribe ever to make the Black List of the year’s best-unproduced screenplays when his script was selected in 2016.
Davis and Julius Tennon will produce the upcoming film for JuVee Productions, with Rob Hardy for Rainforest Entertainment.
Davis is an Oscar, Emmy and Tony winner best known for turns in films including Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Fences, The Help and Doubt, as well as for the role of criminal defense attorney Annalise Keating in ABC’s How to Get Away with Murder. The actress and producer has also appeared in films including The Unforgivable, Suicide Squad and its sequel The Suicide Squad, Troop Zero, Widows, Blackhat, Get on Up, Prisoners and Beautiful Creatures, among others. Additional TV credits include Scandal and United States of Tara. Davis will next be seen in the Gina Prince-Bythewood TriStar film The Woman King, and in Showtime’s drama series The First Lady, which has her portraying former first lady Michelle Obama, among other projects.
Ford is best known for his 2017 documentary Strong Island, a Netflix Original which made its world premiere at Sundance. The success of the film, chronicling the 1992 murder of Ford’s brother and the failure of an all-white jury to convict his killer, led him to become the first openly transgender man to be nominated for any Academy Award, and to win an Emmy. The filmmaker worked for 10 years as a series producer for the PBS showcase POV, there curating work that garnered more than 16 Emmy nominations. He’s also an architectural welder, and while at Modern Art Foundry he helped assemble the sculpture Maman by Louise Bourgeois—the series of three spiders exhibited at Rockefeller Center, and now on permanent display at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain. Over the course of his career, Ford has been the recipient the Creative Capital Award and a MacDowell Colony Fellowship, as well as a Sundance Documentary Film Program Fellowship.
Hardy executive produced and directed the pilot episode for Power Book III: Raising Kanan, which was renewed for a second season last summer. He also exec produced and directed the pilot episode for The CW’s All American, which is now in its fourth season, while exec producing studio movies including No Good Deed, Think Like a Man and Stomp the Yard. Hardy continues to direct on series including Power Book II: Ghost. His company Rainforest Entertainment has a first look development deal at Lionsgate.
Other upcoming projects from up-and-coming screenwriter Dodson include an adaptation of Terms of Endearment for Paramount Pictures, which Lee Daniels is set to direct, and Frankly in Love, which is also for Paramount.
Davis is represented by CAA, The Lasher Group, and Lichter, Grossman, Nichols; Ford by CAA, Cinetic, and attorney Nina Shaw at Del Shaw Moonves; Hardy by Verve, manager Adam Robinson and attorney John V. Meigs; and Dodson by Verve, manager Jake Wagner and attorney Priya Verma.
Source: Deadline