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UPDATE 2/25: Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw and Simon Kinberg’s Genre Films have issued a statement about the end of The Twilight Zone series. We greatly enjoyed our time working on The Twilight Zone — particularly when the real world around us often felt more and more like another dimension. We cherished the opportunity to…

EXCLUSIVE: Jordan Peele's Monkeypaw Productions has hired Keisha Senter as Director of Social Impact for the company. Senter will identify and lead the strategies and campaigns that will allow Monkeypaw to drive meaningful societal change. "We're thrilled to have Keisha join the Monkeypaw team," said Win Rosenfeld…

Update: Sources now tell Deadline Daniel Kaluuya is in negotiations to co-star with Palmer as first reported by The Illuminerdi. If deal closes, it would mark a reteam for Peele and Kaluuya, who worked together on Get Out. EXCLUSIVE: Following the massive success of his first two feature films, Jordan Peele’s next…

Universal, which already had July 22, 2022 RSVP’ed on the theatrical release calendar, is designating that as the day to open Jordan Peele’s next horror event title. Between the Oscar-winning filmmaker’s Get Out and Us, his directed genre fare has minted a combined $510.5 million worldwide for the studio. The news…

After taking the film off the Calendar, Universal and MGM have pushed the new reimagining of the horror classic Candyman to Aug. 27, 2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the film was forced to move off its previous June 2020 release date like so many other films that have pushed to 2021. Nia DaCosta directs the fresh…

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of tonight's Lovecraft County episode ‘A History of Violence’ on HBO. Tread carefully. EXCLUSIVE: "There was an operative sentence that came to me at the beginning, and it had to do with Jurnee Smollett calling me on a Saturday early early early in the morning," explains…

Several major films primed to begin production just got some big bucks to shoot in California. Netflix's Russo Brothers-directed The Gray Man, the Jessica Chastain-starrer Losing Clementine and an untitled Jordan Peele project for Universal were among nine films allocated $50,053,000 collectively in the last round of…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a hot one. Universal Pictures, Insecure star and creator Issa Rae and Oscar winner Jordan Peele (Get Out) are teaming on Sinkhole, a thought-provoking genre movie that engages with questions of female perfection and identity. In a low-seven-figure deal, Universal beat out more than 10 studio bidders…

When it comes to evaluating the financial performance of top movies, it isn't about what a film grosses at the box office. The true tale is told when production budgets, P&A, talent participations and other costs collide with box office grosses and ancillary revenues from VOD to DVD and TV. To get close to that mysteri…

Universal is pulling out all the stops to get us hyped for MGM and Jordan Peele's reimagining of the 1992 horror pic Candyman directed by Nia DaCosta (Little Woods). The first trailer for the movie dropped this morning and it will “hook” you in. It will also make you tempted to say “Candyman” five times in the mirror…

TBS has slotted Tuesday, April 7 for the season three premiere of its hit sitcom The Last O.G., starring Tracy Morgan and Tiffany Haddish. Co-created and executive produced by Oscar winner Jordan Peele, The Last O.G. has ranked as cable’s #1 sitcom since its 2018 launch. In season 3, after serving his time at the…

EXCLUSIVE: Shock Waves, the popular Blumhouse horror podcast that has interviewed guests including Jordan Peele, Robert Eggers, Elijah Wood and Udo Kier, is being absorbed into horror brand Fangoria's network of podcasts. First launched back in 2016, Shock Waves is hosted by filmmaker Rebekah McKendry, Fangoria's Rob…