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EXCLUSIVE: Commercial production company Spark & Riot has inked Justin Baldoni for commercial director representation. The Five Feet Apart filmmaker will continue to be repped by WME in all other areas. The director, producer, author and actor is the co-founder of Wayfarer Studios and the Wayfarer Foundation. Last…

EXCLUSIVE: Kevin Garnett, 15-time NBA All-Star and league MVP, has joined forces with Jane the Virgin alum and Five Feet Apart helmer Justin Baldoni for a feature adaptation based on the largest 3×3 basketball tour, Hoop It Up. Garnett, who acquired the tour in 2019 via his Big Ticket Sports LLC label, is producing…

EXCLUSIVE: Chicago's first Black mayor Harold Washington, an influential figure to politicians including President Barack Obama, is getting the TV treatment. Ike Holter, a writer on FX's Fosse/Verdon, is penning a limited series about Washington for Wayfarer Studios, the production company founded by Jane The Virgin…

Justin Baldoni's Wayfarer Studios and Wayfarer Entertainment have unveiled the five winners for the “The Six Feet Apart Experiment” filmmaking competition. Deadline exclusively announced the competition in May as the world was on lockdown due to the pandemic. Jane the Virgin alum Baldoni took these circumstances and…

Disney CEO Bob Chapek said that more feature films will be coming to Disney+, and here’s what looks to be another marquee title in the wake of the streamer’s announcement earlier this week to debut Hamilton over July 4th weekend. Disney+ Global Content has made their first feature acquisition, Clouds, about 17-year…

EXCLUSIVE: Jane The Virgin alum Justin Baldoni has taken the concept of his film Five Feet Apart and turned it into a new $50,000 filmmaking competition that speaks to the age of COVID-19. Baldoni’s Wayfarer Studios and Wayfarer Entertainment have launched “The Six Feet Apart Experiment” to empower creatives with the…

EXCLUSIVE: In the wake of winning a multi-studio and streamer auction for film rights to Judy Blume's classic novel Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret this morning as Deadline broke, Lionsgate continues to strut its stuff in the YA sphere. It is reteaming with Five Feet Apart filmmaker Justin Baldoni, who’ll direct…

EXCLUSIVE: Wayfarer Entertainment, the social impact media company specializing in inspirational content that was co-founded by Jane the Virgin star Justin Baldoni, has hired longtime creative and business executive D’Angela Proctor as the company’s new Chief Executive Officer. She replaces Interim CEO Jim…

Grab the tissues and get prepared for the best ugly cry you’ve ever had because Jane the Virgin is leaving us. The series finale isn’t set to air on the CW until the summer, but for the cast, they just filmed the last episode and as you might guess, it was emotional, heartwarming and filled with tears. The cast took…

EXCLUSIVE: Justin Baldoni, the Jane the Virgin co-star whose feature film directorial debut Five Feet Apart hit theaters last weekend, has signed with WME and Management 360. Five Feet Apart, the romantic drama starring Haley Lu Richardson and Cole Sprouse as teenagers with terminal illnesses who meet at the hospital…

As the final episode of Jane the Virgin is upon us, the cast got super emotional at the start of their PaleyFest panel. Star and executive producer Gina Rodriguez shed some tears as she and co-star Justin Baldoni remembered when they first started the show and how they had the opportunity to share their gifts with the…

EXCLUSIVE: Haley Lu Richardson has been set to star opposite Cole Sprouse in Five Feet Apart, CBS Films’ romantic drama that is being directed by Jane the Virgin‘s Justin Baldoni. The pic is now set to begin production in May. The screenplay from Mikki Daughty and Tobias Iaconis centers on Stella and Will, two young…