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JuVee Productions, the production company owned by Viola Davis and film producer Julius Tennon, has signed a two-year, exclusive first-look television and new media deal with Entertainment One. "Viola and Julius' powerhouse partnership has impacted audiences worldwide with their raw and authentic…

Maya Penn, the 22-year old award-winning animator, environmental activist and multi-hyphenate, has set her first directing project: the animated short film Asali: Power of The Pollinators. The short is an original project from Penn's purpose-driven animation studio Upenndo! Productions and is set to be…

JuVee Productions CEO Viola Davis and her husband, JuVee President Julius Tennon, said the entertainment industry must become a kinder workplace. They spoke at a Produced By conference panel moderated by Yvette Nicole Brown. "We really have to think more about how this work-life balance works out," Tennon said. "Where…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-nominated filmmaker Stanley Nelson (Showtime’s Attica) is teaming up with Jacqueline Olive (Lincoln’s Dilemma) to direct the feature documentary, The Color of Cola. The film now in production is based on Stephanie Capparell’s 2008 book, The Real Pepsi Challenge: How One Pioneering Company Broke Color B…

Rockhill Studios has joined Viola Davis and Julius Tennon's JuVee Productions along with Everywhere Studios to produce the movie adaptation of Rachel Lloyd's critically acclaimed novel Girls Like Us. Julie Lynch is on board to pen the script. "We at Rockhill Studios know that Girls Like Us is a must-tell story, and…

EXCLUSIVE: Viola Davis and Julius Tennon’s JuVee Productions has set comedy Unf$?%ables (working title) at Hulu for development. Co-written by Jeremy Hsu (Jimmy Kimmel Live!) loosely inspired by his own experiences, Unf$?%ables is set in the world of dating. There's the dating pool, and there's the bottom of it…meet…

Viola Davis and Julius Tennon’s JuVee Productions is staying in business with Amazon Studios. The company has expanded its exclusive first-look deal to include television, in addition to extending its film deal. As part of the new pact, JuVee will continue to develop and produce features as well as television series…

EXCLUSIVE: Viola Davis and Julius Tennon’s JuVee Production is teaming with HBO to develop the comedy House of Chow from Ken Cheng (Wilfred, Betas), who wrote the pilot and will serve as executive producer alongside Head of TV Development at JuVee Andrew Wang and pilot director Jude Weng. Davis and Tennon also will…

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios is developing Fast Color, a TV series based on the 2018 sci-fi film, I have learned. The project comes from Viola Davis and Julius Tennon's JuVee Productions, along with feature’s writers Julia Hart and Jordan Horowitz and their Original Headquarters as well as Mickey Liddell's LD…

The limited run of the gripping documentary Emanuel from Steph Curry and Viola Davis ends today (which is June 19 aka Juneteenth) and celebrities are doing their part to support, advocate and spread the message about the feature that focuses on the tragedy that struck the Emanuel A.M.E. church on June 17, 2015. Actors…

EXCLUSIVE: Operation Othello, a Shakespeare-inspired virtual reality series pilot, produced by Viola Davis and Julius Tennon's JuVee Productions in collaboration with Oculus, is part of the official 2019 lineup for Cannes Film Festival’s Marché du Film XR Arcade. A work-in-progress prototype of the pilot episode will…

EXCLUSIVE: On June 17, 2015, tragedy struck the nation when a white supremacist gunman took the lives of members of the Emanuel A.M.E. church. In the documentary Emanuel executive produced by Steph Curry's Unanimous Media, Viola Davis and Julius Tennon’s JuVee Productions and Mariska Hargitay, director Brian Ivie shed…