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There is plenty of reason to worry about what may happen on election night, what with an expected uptick in mail-in voting, concerns over suppression in key swing states and President Donald Trump already declaring that the results will be rigged if he doesn’t win. HBO is giving a reminder of what a disputed election…

Succession exec producer and Vice director Adam McKay will host and produce Death at the Wing, a narrative podcast about a series of tragic deaths of basketball players in the 1980s and 1990s. This comes as he moves aggressively into the podcast space following a joint-venture deal between his Hyperobject Industries…

EXCLUSIVE: After playing Magic Johnson’s father for Adam McKay in the upcoming HBO Los Angeles Lakers series, Rob Morgan has been tapped for McKay’s next feature film, joining Jennifer Lawrence in Netflix’s Don’t Look Up. McKay will write, direct and co-produce along with Kevin Messick under McKay's Hyperobject…

Vice duo Amy Adams and Adam McKay are getting the band back together for a Netflix limited series about three women linked with Walmart. The pair, who also worked together on 2006 comedy Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, are working on Kings of America for the streamer. Deadline understands that the drama…

EXCLUSIVE: The search for a vaccine for COVID-19 is one of the biggest news stories around the world right now. HBO is turning this hunt into a limited series with Succession exec producer Adam McKay. Deadline understands that the premium cable network has optioned The First Shot, a non-fiction narrative book by The…

EXCLUSIVE: Legendary has acquired Lauryn Kahn's social thriller Fresh, in a progress to production deal. Mimi Cave will direct and Hyperobject Industries' Adam McKay and Kevin Messick will produce. The deal marks Cave's feature directorial debut. She began her career in the world of music videos and commercials…

Netflix has boarded Adam McKay’s new comedy feature Don’t Look Up, which Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence will star in. Deadline first broke the news about the project last November when we announced the Oscar-winning Big Short filmmaker’s new first-look deal at Paramount under his label Hyberobject Industries. Don’t Loo…

HBO Max has given a green light to The Uninhabitable Earth, a climate change anthology series inspired by David Wallace-Wells' global best-selling book and New York Magazine article of the same name, from Oscar- and Emmy-winning writer Adam McKay and his Hyperobject Industries, wiip and Animal Kingdom. The series was…

After news broke that HBO was set to make a limited TV series based on Bong Joon Ho's Oscar-nominated thriller Parasite, the #bonghive came alive asking how the series would follow the film and how it would deal with the ending's dark twist. The WarnerMedia-owned network is leaving that question up to Bong Joon Ho and…

HBO is in negotiations for a limited series based on one of the hottest movies of the year, Bong Joon Ho’s genre-bending Parasite. Bong and Adam McKay will craft the TV series adaptation, from CJ Entertainment, the studio behind the feature film, McKay’s Hyperobject Industries and Dooho Choi’s Kate Street Picture…

HBO has given a series order to The Untitled Lakers Project, a one-hour limited series drama based on Jeff Pearlman's book Showtime: Magic, Kareem, Riley, and the Los Angeles Lakers Dynasty of the 1980s, produced by Oscar winner Adam McKay’s Hyperobject Industries. The project marks the first limited series under…

EXCLUSIVE: Following his five-year TV deal with HBO and a first-look Paramount deal for feature films, Adam McKay's new production company Hyperobject Industries has made an alliance for podcasts. Hyperobject has aligned with Three Uncanny Four Productions — the podcast company from Adam Davidson, Laura Mayer and Sony…