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Focus Features will release Boogie, Eddie Huang’s feature directorial debut, on March 5, 2021. In the coming-of-age story, Alfred "Boogie" Chin is a basketball phenom living in Queens, New York, who dreams of one day playing in the NBA. While his parents pressure him to focus on earning a scholarship to an elite…

EXCLUSIVE: HBO Max has won an auction and committed to a put pilot on Chinos, an original animated series idea from Fresh Off the Boat’s Eddie Huang. Raf Martinez, Huang's producing partner under their Color Correct banner, acclaimed tattoo artist Dr. Woo and artist/animator Bernard Chang (who will also art direct)…

Set in Oakland, Embrace tells the story of a medical student who is trying to make some extra money for her Iranian family. Created by and starring Kathreen Khavari (Insecure, Big Little Lies) and produced by Refinery 29, the series adds to the need for diverse narratives within underrepresented communities. For…

EXCLUSIVE: Mike Moh, Dave East, Perry Yung, Alexa Mareka and Taylour Paige are ready to Boogie. The quintet of actors are the latest to join Eddie Huang’s coming-of-age pic at Focus Features which is currently filming in New York City. The actors round out the cast which includes previously announced newcomer Taylor…

Focus Features is producing Boogie, a coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of contemporary New York City from writer and director Eddie Huang, the author of Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir, which spun into the ABC series of the same name. Newcomer Taylor Takahashi has been cast in the title role with Pamelyn Chee…

Fresh Off the Boat author and restaurateur Eddie Huang is partnering with Ben Silverman and Howard T. Owens’ Propagate to produce Cash Only, an original unscripted series exploring race, identity and multiculturalism through immigrant kitchens. "Immigration is what’s made America the most interesting experiment in the…

Except for one failed pilot for Amazon, Constance Wu never had tried TV comedy when Fresh Off the Boat came along. So it comes as a surprise to the 33-year-old actress to find herself a TV critics' darling and breakout star of the series about a Taiwanese immigrant couple and their all-American kids, based on the…

Eddie Huang continues to complain that his edgy memoir Fresh Off The Boat got turned into an ABC sitcom. After this week’s episode, Huang took to Twitter to savage the series again, announcing he does not watch the program he now calls “unrecognizable.” For the record I don't watch #FreshOffTheBoat on @ABCNetwork…

Premiering February 4 with a special two-episode sneak peek, ABC's Fresh Off The Boat is a lot more of the same-old stale same-old sitcom stuff. I've read chef Eddie Huang's 2013 memoir of the same name and, as my video review above says, something sadly was lost in the translation to a network TV show. Viewers are…

“I wanted to ask the question: I love Asian culture. And I was just talking about chopsticks, and I just love all that. Will I get to see that, or will it be more Americanized?” a journalist asked the cast and producers of ABC’s midseason comedy Fresh Off The Boat today at Winter TV Press Tour 2015 — perfectly setting…