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EXCLUSIVE: As Deadline reported earlier today, Kurt Sutter was fired from his executive producer post on the FX series Mayans M.C. based on complaints from cast and crew collected by the human resources department of Disney, which now owns FX as well as the studio that produces the Sons of Anarchy spinoff, 20th…

BREAKING: This is unfolding in real time. Kurt Sutter has abruptly exited his involvement in the Sons of Anarchy spinoff Mayans M.C. and, for that matter, his long tenure at FX. An email by Sutter was sent to the cast and crew that he has been fired from the show, which he co-created and executive produced. Looks like…

While Kurt Sutter told fans at the Season Two premiere of Mayans MC at the Arclight Hollywood Cinerama Dome on Tuesday night that he would take a step back to further allow Elgin James and the creative team they built to assert themselves, Sutter isn’t exiting the Sons Of Anarchy spinoff show. That has gotten confused…

When the cast of FX’s Mayans MC represents, they don’t play. Creators of the show Kurt Sutter and Elgin James rolled deep into the ATX Television Festival with executive producer Norberto Barba as well 13 of the show’s cast members including JD Pardo, Clayton Cardenas, Sarah Bolger, Carla Baratta, Richard Cabral, Anton…

FX has picked up to series Mayans MC, Kurt Sutter’s Sons of Anarchy spinoff, with a 10-episode order for a 2018 premiere. The announcement was made today at TCA. The series order comes after the pilot underwent a reshoot and recasting of some key roles. FX CEO John Landgraf expressed optimism for the future of the…

FX Networks has begun formal script development on the long-rumored Mayans spinoff series from Kurt Sutter’s hit biker drama Sons of Anarchy. The offshoot, titled Mayans MC, will be co-created by Sutter and Elgin James (Little Birds), with James writing the pilot script and both producing. SOA studios Fox 21…

EXCLUSIVE: Elgin James has been set to direct Come Sundown, a drama scripted by Justin Marks that will shoot in the fall. Jamie Patricof and Lynette Howell of Electric City Entertainment are producing the thriller about a family taken hostage by desperate fugitives determined to get across the border. It becomes a…

Vicky Eguia has been named vice president of publicity at Millennium Entertainment, reporting to marketing head Brooke Ford. Eguia most recently had been publicity veep at Apparition and before that served stints at Newmarket Films and Picturehouse with former Apparition chief Bob Berney. Under CEO Bill Lee…

Little Birds, the Elgin James-directed drama about two restless teenage girls who leave their dying Salton Sea hometown to  take a dangerous road trip to Los Angeles with three street kids, has been acquired for North American distribution by Millennium Entertainment. The film stars Juno Temple, Kay Panabaker, Kate Bos…

Elgin James, who wrote and directed the 2011 Sundance Film Festival entry Little Birds and just got his first major studio writing job, was yesterday sentenced to spend a year in jail by a federal judge in Chicago. The sentence stems from a 2005 attempt to extort $5000 from a man. A life he put behind him has come…