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Editors note: On the commemoration of what would have been Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s 93rd birthday, multi-platform company Macro founder Charles D. King today takes a big picture look at an American icon and his influence in a guest column for Deadline. *** The significance of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's birthday in…

EXCLUSIVE: Fresh off completing shooting in New Mexico, the Taika Waititi executive produced feature Frybread Face and Me now has some heavy hitters on board to see the Billy Luther-directed film over the finish line. Charles D King's Macro, along with River Road and REI Co-op Studios, have teamed with Chad Burris' Ind…

James F. Lopez, who for the past three years was president of Will Packer Productions where he produced a string of hits including Girls Trip and Night School, has been hired as president of Macro Film Studios, the motion picture arm of Charles D. King’s Macro. Lopez, who before joining WPP in 2015 worked at Sony’s…

Judas and the Black Messiah director-producer and co-scribe Shaka King, producers Ryan Coogler and Charles D. King and star Lil Rel Howery are collaborating on an untitled original movie centering around an American political insurrection. King will direct and also produce along side Coogler’s Proximity label and…

“I had to really grow as a man to inhabit the words,” said recent Golden Globe winner Daniel Kaluuya, who stopped by Deadline’s Virtual House to talk about his role as the incomparable activist Chairman Fred Hampton in Judas and the Black Messiah. Kaluuya said was he “kind of taken aback,” as he was doing a deep dive…

EXCLUSIVE: Former WME Partner Phillip Sun and MACRO Founder & CEO Charles D. King’s newly launched M88 is growing. Prominent talent manager Oronde Garrett has joined M88 as partner. The new addition bolsters the full-service representation firm that was created to amplify the voices of artists and creators from the…

EXCLUSIVE: Crazy Rich Asians and Captain Marvel actress Gemma Chan has signed with M88, the full-service representation firm formed created by former WME Partner Phillip Sun and MACRO Founder & CEO Charles D. King. The signing marks the continuing relationship between Chan and Sun who initially worked together at WME…

WME Partner Phillip Sun has teamed with MACRO Founder and CEO Charles D. King to launch M88, a full-service representation firm that will continue to move the needle when it comes to amplifying stories from underrepresented communities. This marks a reunion between Sun and King who previously worked together at WME…

In the new trailer for Judas and the Black Messiah, Daniel Kaluuya, who plays the real-life iconic Black Panther revolutionary, is heard saying: “You can murder a liberator, but you can’t murder a liberation! You can murder a revolutionary, but you can’t murder a revolution! You can murder a freedom fighter but you…

"Like how I dodge the whole ATA issue?" UTA CEO Jeremy Zimmer joked Wednesday at the Milken Institute Global Conference after the pitched battle between the WGA and the Association of Talent Agents over the lucrative practice of packaging was brought up. Lamenting that he was probably driving his communications staff…

MACRO, the media company founded by former WME partner Charles D. King, has set a first-look deal with Warner Bros. The announcement was made by King, WB Chairman Toby Emmerich, and the studio’s Production head Courtenay Valenti. This comes just after Deadline exclusively broke the news that MACRO, WB, and Black Panthe…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a hot one. Black Panther director Ryan Coogler and Charles D. King’s MACRO (Mudbound) are producing movie Jesus Was My Homeboy, about iconic Black Panther Party member Fred Hampton, for Warner Bros. Get Out’s Daniel Kaluuya is in talks to star as activist Hampton with Atlanta and Sorry To Bother You…