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EXCLUSIVE: Hiro Murai and his producing partner Nate Matteson, who have exec produced series including HBO Max's Station Eleven and FX's The Bear, are parting ways. Deadline understands that the parting of ways is amicable but the pair decided to strike out on their own. It comes four years after the…

The creators and star of the HBO Max series Station Eleven became worried about releasing a show about a pandemic during the second year of the Covid pandemic. However, creator Patrick Somerville, director Hiro Murai and star Himesh Patel focused on the limited series’ hopeful message. "We just tried to stay true to…

EXCLUSIVE: Super Frog, the production company set up by Atlanta director and exec producer Hiro Murai and his producing partner Nate Matteson, has hired 42's Claudia Shin. Shin joins the company as Vice President of Film & Television and has been tasked with shepherding its slate of small and big screen projects. She…

FX has handed a pilot order to half-hour The Bear, from Ramy executive producer/director Christopher Storer, Hiro Murai’s (Atlanta) Super Frog, Joanna Calo (Bojack Horseman, Undone) and FX Productions. Storer will write and direct the pilot, described as a half-hour show about a young chef who returns to…

Super Frog, the production company set up by Atlanta director and executive producer Hiro Murai, has inked a first-look deal with FX Productions. The deal covers all scripted and unscripted programming for FX, as well as potentially other divisions of Walt Disney Television. It is a renewal, of sorts, of the…

EXCLUSIVE: Makeready has locked a non-exclusive two-year deal with Hiro Murai, the visionary, disruptive director hailed for his collaborations with Donald Glover that so far encompass the FX series Atlanta, the provocative music video for “This Is America,” and the Amazon musical Guava Island, which Glover starred in…

Get ready to escape to the paradise known as Guava Island. Amazon announced today that the New Regency Film Guava Island starring Donald Glover, Rihanna, Nonso Anozie and Letitia Wright will launch globally at 12:01 am PT April 13 on Amazon. For those who don’t have Amazon — you’re in luck. The film will be available…

EXCLUSIVE: Filmmaker Hiro Murai and Grandview manager Nate Matteson have formed a new film and TV production partnership that will promote the vision of new filmmakers and storytellers. Matteson will be transitioning out of Grandview over the next several months with his roster remaining there. The company will…

BET Awards host Jamie Foxx went off script Sunday night and brought actor-singer Donald Glover on stage for a little impromptu jam session. After praising the Atlanta actor, Foxx jokingly did his own interpretation of the dancing from Childish Gambino’s (Glover’s hip hop alter ego) “This Is America” music video helmed…

One of the most disruptive directors working today, Atlanta helmer Hiro Murai has brought specificity of vision to the Golden Globe- and Emmy-winning series, resulting in an experience unlike any other on television. Working with Donald Glover prior to Atlanta—on memorable music videos for the actor's alter ego…

EXCLUSIVE: Hiro Murai is in talks at 20th Century Fox to make his feature directorial debut on Man Alive, the thriller that was bought as a spec script by Joe Greenberg and has a rewrite by David Robert Mitchell (It Follows). Man Alive covers the events following the invasion of earth by an alien species, when a man…

As Donald Glover was turning in one of the season’s notable hosting performances on Saturday Night Live, his musical alter-ego, Childish Gambino, debuted the striking video for his new single, “This Is America.” Set in a large warehouse, the video (watch it below) features a shirtless Glover/Gambino alternating…