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EXCLUSIVE: Under The Shadow and Wounds duo Babak Anvari and Lucan Toh of Two & Two Pictures have renewed their first look TV deal with AMC Studios. The filmmakers first struck a deal with The Walking Dead and Breaking Bad network in 2017. Two & Two, which is in post-production on Anvari’s third feature, the Netflix…

AMC Studios has opened writers’ rooms on two new projects — Invitation to a Bonfire based on Adrienne Celt’s novel and inspired by the famed Nabokov marriage, from Rachel Caris Love (Physical); and Demascus, a comedic sci-fi series from Tearrance Arvelle Chisholm (Boomerang) and executive produced by Better Call Saul…

Colman Domingo’s Dot will go from stage to screen after AMC Networks’ streamer ordered West Philly, Baby, a drama series inspired by the play. The series, which will co-produced by AMC Studios and AllBlk, will follow the journey of a Philadelphia family forced to grapple with their matriarch's declining memory amidst…

AMC Studios has greenlit AMC+ original Firebite, an Australian vampire fantasy series from See-Saw Films, the UK and Aussie producer behind AMC’s Top Of The Lake. Created, written, and directed by Australia's Indigenous auteur Warwick Thornton (Samson and Delilah) and Brendan Fletcher (Mad Bastards), Firebite is…

EXCLUSIVE: "I try to think big!' says Tura Satana's Varla in Russ Meyer's cult classic Faster Pussycat, Kill! Kill!, and that's exactly what Norman Reedus and AMC Studios plan to do. The Walking Dead star's bigbaldhead production company and AMC Studios are developing a small-screen series version of Meyer’s 1965…

EXCLUSIVE: AMC Studios has opened a writers' room for Moonhaven, an AI drama from writer-producer Peter Ocko (Lodge 49, Black Sails). The project is being developed as part of AMC's scripts-to-series model, which includes the commissioning of a writers' room to develop additional material and produce backup scripts…

EXCLUSIVE: The Walking Dead writer-producer Jim Barnes is expanding his relationship with AMC Studios, signing an exclusive, multi-year overall deal with the studio behind the hit zombie apocalypse series. Under the pact, Barnes will develop and produce new series for AMC’s television networks and streaming platforms…

EXCLUSIVE: AMC Studios has closed exclusive, multi-year overall deals with writers-producers Peter Ocko and J. David Shanks. Both have worked on AMC Studios series for AMC — Ocko was executive producer/showrunner on the praised Lodge 49, which aired for two seasons; Shanks serves as executive producer of the upcoming 6…

EXCLUSIVE: Norman Reedus is doubling down at AMC. Less than a week after it was announced that The Walking Dead star would be fronting his own spinoff of the cabler's zombie apocalypse series with Melissa McBride, Reedus has now signed a first look development deal with AMC Studios. Set to run for two years, the…

EXCLUSIVE: AMC Studios is developing Stay Tuned, a TV series adaptation of the 1992 cult classic which starred John Ritter and Pam Dawber. The project hails from Fear The Walking Dead co-showrunner/executive producer Ian Goldberg & writer/producer Richard Naing, who will write the series, part of Goldberg’s overall…

EXCLUSIVE: AMC has put in development The Burying Place, a thriller drama series based on Brian Freeman’s novel, from writer Kelly Masterson (Killing Kennedy), director David Semel (Goliath), producer Aaron Kaplan (A Million Little Things) and his Kapital Entertainment and AMC Studios. Written by Masterson, The Burying…

EXCLUSIVE: Fear the Walking Dead standout Colman Domingo has signed a first-look deal with AMC Studios, the studio behind the AMC zombie drama series, a spinoff from The Walking Dead. Domingo made his debut as Victor Strand in a two-episode guest arc during Fear the Walking Dead’s first season and was made a series…