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Kevin Hart’s Laugh Out Loud and the Sundance Institute have set three scribes for their inaugural Women Write Now screenwriting fellowship, designed to bolster the next generation of Black women in comedy. This year’s Fellows, whose short film scripts were selected from a pool of 672 submissions, are Wilandrea Blair…

Comedy Central has inked a deal with Comedy Dynamics to license and distribute hundreds of iconic albums from the network’s library including Kevin Hart, Amy Schumer and Bo Burnham. The agreement is through Comedy Central Records, a NY label owned by parent ViacomCBS that specializes in stand-up comedy albums. It’s…

EXCLUSIVE: Kevin Hart and director F. Gary Gray are set to team for the first time on Lift, a heist film that Netflix acquired last March as a spec script by Dan Kunka. Production will begin at the top of the year. The film is produced by Simon Kinberg and Audrey Chon for Genre Pictures, Matt Reeves and Adam Kassan…

Kevin Hart and Wesley Snipes share brotherly moments in the first look images for Netflix’s upcoming limited series True Story. In True Story, written, executive produced and showrun by Narcos: Mexico EP Eric Newman; Hart plays Kid, a fictional version of himself. The series centers on Kid and Kid’s older brother…

EXCLUSIVE: The set of Netflix’s upcoming comedy feature Me Time starring Kevin Hart and Mark Wahlberg at Sunset Gower Studios in Hollywood was the scene of a major accident Tuesday morning. LAFD spokesman Brian Humphrey told Deadline that they had received a 911 call at 7:04 AM of a report of someone taking a “long…

EXCLUSIVE: Kevin Hart’s HartBeat Productions is teaming up with youth entertainment company Complex Networks, Klutch Originals and Haven Entertainment on what they say will be the definitive documentary series on one the wildest sports tale of 2021: the story of Bishop Sycamore High School’s football team. On the…

Regina Hall is set to join Kevin Hart and Mark Wahlberg in the Netflix comedy Me Time. Hart's Night School writer John Hamburg will write and direct the pic, with Hamburg also producing through his Particular Pictures along with Hart and Bryan Smiley for HartBeat Productions. Hart first announced the casting on his…

Shark Tank will feature four new guest sharks when ABC’s freshly Emmy-nominated unscripted series returns for its 13th season in October, the network revealed Thursday during its virtual TCA presentations. Kevin Hart, whose entertainment companies include HartBeat Productions and comedy brand Laugh Out Loud, will swim…

EXCLUSIVE: Marking the first time the two A-list stars will work together, sources tell Deadline that Mark Wahlberg is set to star opposite Kevin Hart in the Netflix comedy Me Time. Hart’s Night School writer John Hamburg will write and direct the pic, with Hamburg also producing through his Particular Pictures along…

Ultimately lacking the Covid catastrophe or shutdown that many predicted, the Tokyo Olympics officially ended today in a near empty somber stadium with little more than a handful of athletes and a Japanese term for "thank you" on the jumbotron “Arigato,” indeed. "The Olympic Games of Tokyo 2020 were the games of hope…

Simone Biles took to the balance beam today at the Tokyo Olympics and proved she is every inch a true champion as the Covid conflicted NBC broadcast games head into their final days. Yet, as Emmy campaigning truly ups its game and the Delta variant brings masks and vaccination mandates across the nation, there's a lot…

Real Husbands of Hollywood is making a comeback. BET+ has greenlighted a six-episode limited series revival of the hit BET reality TV parody show from Kevin Hart’s Hartbeat Productions and Jesse Collins Entertainment. The show is currently in production in Los Angeles with a premiere date TBD. Original series star…