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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…

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…

EXCLUSIVE: Viola Davis (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, The Suicide Squad) is in talks to star in Two Butterflies, an Amazon drama based on an original idea and script by Evan Dodson, which will be directed by Strong Island‘s Yance Ford. Two Butterflies follows two estranged sisters who are torn apart by tragedy and forced…

EXCLUSIVE: The century-old story of Bruce’s Beach, which has been garnering national attention amid an effort to return the land to the owners’ descendants, will be subject of a scripted TV series. The project, from Brad Pitt’s Plan B and Viola Davis and Julius Tennon’s JuVee Productions, is in development at Amazon…

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…

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: The Nelson Rodrigues Estate, considered the largest and most diverse literary estate in Latin America, is partnering with Viola Davis and Julius Tennon's JuVee Productions for both a stage and film/TV adaptation of Brazilian playwright Nelson Rodrigues' seminal 1960 play The Asphalt Kiss. The project is…

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…

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…

EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Prime Video is developing Wild Seed, a drama series based on the first book in Octavia E. Butler’s acclaimed Patternist sci-fi series, from Viola Davis and Julius Tennon’s JuVee Productions. Co-written by award-winning sci-fi novelist Nnedi Okorafor and Rafiki filmmaker Wanuri Kahiu who is set to…