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The Willow television adaptation has been handed a series order at Disney+. Crazy Rich Asians director Jon M. Chu will direct the pilot for the series, which is slated to begin production next year. This comes 18 months after news of the development of the adaptation of the movie, directed by Ron Howard from a story…

Jose Antonio Vargas’ media advocacy organization Define American is teaming with MACRO, Gold House, Color Of Change, the Coalition for Asian Pacifics in Entertainment and the UTA Foundation to host the live-streamed virtual panel, Black + Gold Forum: Building Solidarity and Support for Black and Asian Communities…

UPDATE, 3:55 PM:  Burning up the keyboards for more than six hours now, the Directors tweet-a-thon from Ava DuVernay and her ARRAY collective have filled the last open slot of the day. Oscar nominee and Empire co-creator Lee Daniels will be online taking questions, spinning yarns and pulling back the curtain at the…

Last month, ABC Entertainment President Karey Burke and EVP Development and Content Strategy Simran Sethi unveiled that they are ramping up their efforts to move its development process off-cycle, rebranding it a "second cycle." Today, the network handed its first second-cycle pilot order to medical drama Triage…

Crazy Rich Asians director Jon M. Chu is squarely in Rose Tico’s corner. Chu has taken to social media to urge Disney+ to make a Star Wars series revolving around Resistance member Rose Tico, played by Kelly Marie Tran in the Star Wars films The Last Jedi and The Rise of Skywalker. “Ok @disneyplus. Put me in coach…

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…

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…

Lin-Manuel Miranda and the In the Heights movie crew surprised on Friday by turning out for a high school performance of the play at New York's George Washington High. Crazy Rich Asians' Jon M. Chu, who will direct the film, recorded the reaction when Miranda took the stage. "We start shooting #InTheHeightsMovie on…

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…

Crazy Rich Asians has of course swept in a much-needed new era for actors of Asian descent, given that it's the first all-Asian cast studio film since The Joy Luck Club 25 years ago. It certainly rocked the box office, but when director Jon M. Chu set out on the project, rather than being crushed by the weight of its…

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details from the premiere episode of Good Trouble. Gone are the days of the enjoyably schmaltzy and sugar-coated melodramatic coming-of-age series about young adulthood (I love me some Dawson’s Creek) and welcome to a new era of millennial-driven shows that are inclusive and tackle…