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EXCLUSIVE: Emmy nominated Barry producer and scribe Jason Kim is set to pen a spinoff of Crazy Rich Asians which will center around the Gemma Chan character of Astrid Young Teo and her romance with Charlie Wu, played by Harry Shum Jr. in the original movie. I hear that Kim came in with a dynamite pitch for the…

EXCLUSIVE: Rowan Atkinson’s Netflix comedy Man vs Bee has revealed cast, with Crazy Rich Asians star Jing Lusi leading the show that will launch on June 24. Lusi plays Nina, the owner of the luxurious mansion that is being house-sat by Trevor (Atkinson), who finds himself in a battle with a bee as he avoids…

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros and Color Force have set up-and-coming Chinese-Australian writer Amy Wang to pen Crazy Rich Asians 2, Deadline can reveal, replacing Peter Chiarelli and Adele Lim following a 2019 controversy around pay parity. Wang takes on sole writing duties for Jon M. Chu’s sequel starring Henry Golding and…

EXCLUSIVE: Crazy Rich Asians and Hustlers star Constance Wu has inked with CAA, Deadline has learned. She rose to fame in the ABC comedy series Fresh Off the Boat as Jessica Huang, a role which earned her a Critics Choice Television Award nominatio. She also was lauded as part of Time‘s 100 Most Influential People of…

EXCLUSIVE: After adapting Lin Manuel-Miranda’s In the Heights for Warner Bros, Jon M. Chu has his sights set on adapting one of Broadway’s biggest hits. Sources tell Deadline that Chu will direct Universal's Wicked, the feature-film adaptation of the record-breaking musical phenomenon that is in its 17th smash-hit…

From her unforgettable strut down the water-filled aisle as Araminta Lee in Crazy Rich Asians, to her turn as a chain-smoking scientist in Cary Joji Fukunaga's Netflix series Maniac, Sonoya Mizuno has in the past few years proven that she can disappear into characters, even without a costume as extreme as the faceless…

EXCLUSIVE: Jon M. Chu we hear is set to produce a feature adaptation of Mary H.K. Choi’s bestselling YA romance novel Permanent Record for Warner Bros. He is also in talks to direct. Published by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, the novel explores how social media influences relationships every day. Pablo…

Chinese filmmaker Wong Kar Wai has boarded upcoming buddy film One For The Road from helmer Nattawut (Baz) Poonpiriya, the director behind 2017 Thai crime comedy hit Bad Genius, which grossed more than $40m in China. Wong Kar Wai's Jet Tone Films has attached to the pic as a producer, and the Chinese filmmaker's Block…

Close to a week after the news broke about Crazy Rich Asians screenwriter Adele Lim leaving the sequels due to a huge pay disparity between her and co-writer Peter Chiarelli, director Jon M. Chu responded to the situation Monday championing Lim on Twitter, and explaining the challenging intricacies of…

SATURDAY UPDATE: Reacting to the firestorm of criticism over her seeming disappointment  to the renewal by ABC of her sitcom Fresh Off the Boat, Constance Wu tried yet again this morning to dispell the notion that her profane tweets were a negative reaction to the news. These words are my truth. I hope you hear them…

Toggling between the Apple TV series Home Before Dark, a Netflix project on the trapped Thai boys real life drama of 2018, the In the Heights movie and more, Jon M. Chu has found a small screen home. The Crazy Rich Asians director has signed a four-year overall deal with 20th Century Fox Television. Joining recent…

Netflix is joining forces with SK Global Entertainment (Crazy Rich Asians), director Jon M. Chu (Crazy Rich Asians), and Nattawut "Baz" Poonpiriya (Bad Genius) to tell the story of the 2018 Thai soccer team cave rescue. Netflix and SK Global Entertainment have been granted the rights by the 13 Thumluang Company – the…