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EXCLUSIVE: MGM has set a Sammy Davis Jr. biopic that will be based on Sammy Davis Jr.: My Father, a 1996 book written by Davis' daughter Tracey Davis and Dolores A. Barclay. Studio has Hillman Grad's Lena Waithe and Rishi Rajani producing with Sight Unseen's Julia Lebedev and Eddie Vaisman. David Matthews is writing…

Larysa Kondracki, the director of Picnic at Hanging Rock, has inked a deal to become an executive producer on Amazon’s original horror event series Them: Covenant. Kondracki, who signed a first-look television deal with Amazon Studios in 2018, also will direct multiple episodes of the Little Marvin-created show…

EXCLUSIVE: TV/film writer and author David Matthews has signed a two-year overall deal with Sony Pictures Television. Under the pact, Matthews will develop new series projects under his production company Turned Out Inc. He also will serve as executive producer and showrunner on Sony TV’s horror event series Them…

In a competitive situation, Hulu has picked up for development Ace of Spades, a half-hour comedy based on author/TV writer David Matthews’ memoir. It hails from Anonymous Content and Paramount Television, with Portlandia and Baskets co-creator, executive producer and director Jonathan Krisel set to direct and…

Manning Marable’s Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, Malcolm X: A Life Of Reinvention, is being adapted as a television series by Critical Content and writer David Matthews (Boardwalk Empire, Tyrant). Matthews will pen the adaptation with Critical Content’s Tom Forman, Andrew Marcus, Ray Ricord and Jon Schwartz…