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Neflix’s Luke Cage showrunner Cheo Hodari Coker won the prize for most metaphors used to describe showrunning today at a morning session on the topic at Produced By New York. In a panel on the topic of being CEO of a series, Coker said the gig ranged from being like captaining the Starship Enterprise to like putting…

The Producers Guild of America has announced additional speakers for the 2016 edition of Produced By: New York Conference. New speakers for the event include M. Blair Breard, Cheo Hodari Coker, Matt Damon, Donna Gigliotti, Julie Goldman, William Horberg, Jon Kilik, Brian Koppelman and David Levien, Franklin Leonard…

When Marvel's Luke Cage first debuted in the comics in 1972, the New York City-based black superhero with super-strength and unbreakable skin was very much of his time. As the civil rights movement stepped onto a new stage, Blaxploitation movies like Superfly and Shaft snagged big box office and America's cities slid…

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains details about Luke Cage Season 1. Debuting at midnight tonight on Netflix, the first season of Luke Cage brings super strength, unbreakable skin and, according to Cheo Hodari Coker, some hip-hop attitude to the small screen. "It does have a bounce, and what I mean by that is the same…

The Luke Cage crew was in San Diego last month to debut footage from the upcoming Marvel/Netflix Jessica Jones spinoff to a packed Ballroom 20. Today, we’ve got a new trailer (check it out above). Mike Colter plays the eponymous prison escapee/superhero-for-hire whose storyline as a wrongly-accused man is explored in…

Today in a Q&A following the show’s TCA 2016 Summer Tour panel discussion, Marvel’s Luke Cage showrunner Cheo Coker talked about how the Netflix series’ look and feel came together, how hip hop music and comic book cultures intersect, and how shooting on location played directly into the political themes it explores.…

“When I think about what’s going on in the world right now, the world is ready for a bulletproof black man," said Luke Cage showrunner Cheo Hodari Coker today at Comic-Con. "It's got a ’90s vibe but very much of today, and I can't wait for you to see more of it," he added to a packed Ballroom 20 in a clip-heavy panel…

Marvel’s Luke Cage, the third series in Marvel’s four-series package at Netflix, is bringing a new Marvel character to the TV superhero ranks and a new writer-producer to the TV showrunner ranks. Ray Donovan co-executive producer Cheo Hodari Coker will serve as executive producer and showrunner on Luke Cage. He also…