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Big Beach To Produce Period Allegory ‘Tropical Gothic’ From ‘Lingua Franca’ Filmmaker Isabel Sandoval
EXCLUSIVE: Big Beach has announced that it will produce the upcoming feature Tropical Gothic from Lingua Franca‘s Isabel Sandoval.
Set in the 16th-century Philippines, Tropical Gothic is an allegory on Western colonialism about a Native Priestess who convinces her Spanish master that she is possessed by the spirit of…
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Ben Kingsley, Jane Curtin & More Board Marc Turtletaub’s Feature ‘Jules’
EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winner Ben Kingsley, 2x Emmy winner Jane Curtin, Harriet Harris and Zoë Winters are starring in the Marc Turtletaub directed Big Beach production Jules, Deadline can report first. Production is already underway in New Jersey on the pic.
The pic, written by Gavin Steckler (Comedy Central's Review), is…
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Lena Waithe’s Hillman Grad, Amazon Developing Series About Nigerian-American Tech Professional From Obehi Janice
EXCLUSIVE: Emmy winner Lena Waithe has teamed with Amazon Studios and Big Beach to develop a series based on a play by Obehi Janice, titled Ole White Sugah Daddy.
The currently untitled series will follow the story of Janice, a Nigerian-American woman in tech who spends her days navigating her peers at the co-working…
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Big Beach Sets Autobiographical Feature ‘1000 Miles’, Hanelle M. Culpepper To Direct Script By Selwyn Seyfu Hinds
EXCLUSIVE: Big Beach, the company that brought us Marielle Heller’s A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood and Lulu Wang’s Independent Spirit Award-winning The Farewell, has set an adaptation of the memoir Running A Thousand Miles For Freedom by William and Ellen Craft. The feature will be titled 1000 Miles and Hanelle M…
‘Five Women’: Marielle Heller & Big Beach Reteam For Limited Series About How Serial Sexual Harasser Affects Employees
EXCLUSIVE: Marielle Heller and Big Beach, the respective director and producers of last year’s Mister Rogers pic A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, are reteaming for a limited series about a serial sexual harasser and his female employees.
Heller will direct Five Women, which is based on an episode of the National…
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‘The Spy Who Dumped Me’ Helmer Susanna Fogel To Direct Reality ‘Winner’ Biopic For ‘The Farewell’ Producers
Big Beach, the production company behind Oscar contenders The Farewell and A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood, has tapped Susanna Fogel to direct Winner, a biopic about former American intelligence specialist Reality Leigh Winner.
Winner was the first to expose Russia’s interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential…
‘A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood’ Director Marielle Heller Signs First-Look TV Deal With Big Beach
A Beautiful Day In the Neighborhood director Marielle Heller has signed a first-look overall TV deal with Big Beach, the film’s producer, via her new production shingle Defiant By Nature. Under the pact, Heller will develop and produce new series and specials for television, some of which she may direct, while also…
‘The Farewell’s Lulu Wang Sets Next Movie, Sci-Fi Pic ‘Children Of The New World’
The Farewell writer-director Lulu Wang has set up her next project, a science-fiction movie titled Children of the New World. It will mark a reteam with her Farewell producer Big Beach after that film’s success premiering in competition at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, where it landed a splashy distribution deal…
HBO Orders ‘Gorilla And The Bird’ Limited Series From Jean-Marc Vallée, Channing Tatum & Big Beach
HBO has greenlighted Gorilla and the Bird, a new limited series from Jean-Marc Vallée, the director/executive producer behind the network’s Big Little Lies and Sharp Objects. Vallée is set to direct and executive produce the project, based on Zack McDermott's book Gorilla and the Bird: A Memoir of Madness and a Mother'…
Netflix Acquires Animated Sundance Film ‘White Fang’
EXCLUSIVE: In a deal in the seven-figures, Netflix has acquired the animated feature White Fang. This marks the first deal by Netflix for a film that debuted at last month's Sundance Film Festival. Netflix will launch the film later this year in the US, Canada, Latin America, Southeast Asia, Japan, South Korea, UK…
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Big Beach Developing ‘Brujas’ Series With Showrunner Tanya Saracho
EXCLUSIVE: Big Beach is developing a new series titled Brujas Tanya Saracho (Vida) as showrunner. The series will follow four Afro-Caribbean/Latinx women in Chicago and series explore the relationships and community born out of the growing identification with the Bruja movement.
Brujas marks the continuing…
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Channing Tatum & Big Beach To Develop ‘Gorilla And The Bird’ Bipolar Disorder Memoir As TV Series
Channing Tatum’s Free Association has teamed with Marc Turtletaub and Peter Saraf’s Big Beach to option Zack McDermott’s book Gorilla and the Bird: A Memoir of Madness and a Mother's Love, for TV series development. Demolition scribe Bryan Sipe is attached to pen the adaptation and executive produce.
The memoir…
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