The Hollywood Reporter (Weekly)
Behind the Headlines
John Cena (ICM) will star in Coyote vs Acme, a live- action/CG animation hybrid feature from Warner Bros. with director Dave Green.
Adam Sztykiel (UTA), who worked on Black Adam, will write and direct an original live-action feature, Wonder Twins, for HBO Max based on the DC Comics characters.
Anonymous Content has acquired rights to the upcoming novel We Spread, from author Iain Reid, with Minhal Baig (CAA) set to direct the planned feature.
Nida Manzoor’s (WME) feature directorial debut, the action comedy Polite Society, has been picked up by Focus Features and Working Title.
Ashleigh Powell (CAA) will write the ice skating drama Fire & Ice for Picturestart Films. Olympic skater Nancy Kerrigan is executive producing and will choreograph select skating sequences for the film.
TELEVISION
The Flight Attendant creator Steve Yockey (ICM) has signed a multiyear pact with Warner Bros. TV to develop and produce programming.
Olivia Munn (CAA),
Danny Ramirez (CAA) and Loan Chabanol (Buchwald) have joined AMC’s upcoming anthology series Tales of the Walking Dead from showrunner Channing Powell.
Tracy Morgan (CAA) is set to guest star on the CBS show The Neighborhood, playing the younger brother of star Cedric the Entertainer’s character.
Fox is adapting the 1980s comic Bloom County into a primetime animated series with cartoonist creator Berkeley Breathed on board.
Olivia Colman (ICM) and
Fionn Whitehead (UTA)
will star in FX’s six-part
Great Expectations
limited series from writer
Steven Knight.
DIGITAL
Dave Chappelle (Gersh)
will executive produce and host four Netflix comedy specials, dubbed Chappelle’s Home Team,
with each featuring a different comic introduced by Chappelle.
Mindy Kaling (CAA) has signed a deal with Amazon to launch a boutique literary line, Mindy’s Book Studio, with an eye to adapting material into films for Amazon’s Prime Video.
Maid creator Molly Smith Metzler has signed a multiyear overall deal with Netflix and will create more socially conscious originals that feature empowering roles for women on both sides of the camera.
Walton Goggins (ICM) will star in Amazon’s drama series adaptation of the video game Fallout from Westworld creators Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan.
Keri Russell (WME) will star as the title character in Netflix’s political thriller series The Diplomat from executive producers Debora Cahn and Janice Williams.
Idris Elba (WME) will voice Knuckles in a Sonic the Hedgehog spinoff series for Paramount+. A creative team has yet to be announced.
Melissa Fumero (UTA)
will star opposite Randall Park (UTA) in Netflix’s 10-episode workplace comedy Blockbuster,
from showrunner Vanessa Ramos.
After development at Netflix and then The CW, Amy Chozick’s (WME) book Chasing Hillary will be adapted by HBO Max as a drama series titled The Girls on the Bus with Supergirl’s Melissa Benoist (UTA) near a deal to star.
Amanda Seyfried (Innovative Artists) has joined Tom Holland (WME) in The Crowded Room, a drama anthology that
Akiva Goldsman is writing for Apple Studios and
New Regency.
Anna Paquin (Gersh), Jake Lacy (UTA), Colin Hanks (UTA) and Lio Tipton (ICM) will star in Peacock’s true-crime scripted drama A Friend of the Family, from showrunner Nick Antosca.
Paul Reiser (Gersh) has replaced Michael McKean in Steve Levitan’s Hulu comedy pilot Reboot, marking the second recasting for the comedy that also saw Judy Greer (CAA) tapped to replace Leslie Bibb as the female lead.
Martin Lawrence (UTA), Tisha Campbell (TCA), Tichina Arnold (APA) and Carl Anthony Payne II (J Pervis) have reunited for a Martin reunion special on BET+ produced by Jesse Collins Entertainment.
Narcos veteran Clayton Trussell (Grandview) will write and Ariel Vromen will direct the Colombian-Spanish drama series Nautilus for TelevisaUnivision’s forthcoming streaming platform ViX+.
Gemma Arterton (CAA), Kirby Howell-Baptiste (CAA) and Niamh Algar (UTA) have joined the cast of Disney+’s upcoming
U.K. original heist series Culprits, from executive producer Stephen Garrett.
REAL ESTATE
DJ Calvin Harris (Douglas Elliman) has listed a tenbedroom, five-structure Beverly Hills Post Office neighborhood complex for $25 million.
Emmy Rossum and Sam Esmail (Compass) have bought a seven-bedroom Brentwood mansion for $15.3 million.
Jeremy Pope, Emmynominated for Netflix’s Hollywood, has signed with WME.
Actor Tommy Flanagan (Starz’s Power Book IV: Force) has inked at APA.
TikTok creator/dancer Michael Le has signed with WME.
Gamer Tarik has signed with CAA.
Actor Coy Stewart (Netflix’s Mr. Iglesias) has signed with KEY Talent Management.
Sandra Bullock has sold two units in L.A. residential skyscraper Sierra Towers to two different buyers for a combined $8 million.
Anna Kendrick spent
$6.9 million on a fourbedroom Hollywood Hills home owned by Muse drummer Dominic Howard. — COMPILED BY ERIK HAYDEN