It’s official: Marta Fernandez has been named President of Macro Television Studios, joining the financing and production company founded by former WME Partner Charles D. King as it ramps up its TV operations. As we reported last month when Fernandez stepped down as EVP Original Programming at Starz, she had been in…

MACRO, the media company founded by former WME partner Charles D. King, has set a first-look deal with Warner Bros. The announcement was made by King, WB Chairman Toby Emmerich, and the studio’s Production head Courtenay Valenti. This comes just after Deadline exclusively broke the news that MACRO, WB, and Black Panthe…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a hot one. Black Panther director Ryan Coogler and Charles D. King’s MACRO (Mudbound) are producing movie Jesus Was My Homeboy, about iconic Black Panther Party member Fred Hampton, for Warner Bros. Get Out’s Daniel Kaluuya is in talks to star as activist Hampton with Atlanta and Sorry To Bother You…

Producer Aaliyah Williams has signed a one-year first look deal with MACRO and has also launched Just A Rebel production company. Under the deal, MACRO will have first look rights to projects that Williams and Just A Rebel seek to develop and produce. Williams is no stranger to MACRO, she was the former head of…

Lena Waithe, Eva Longoria, and representatives of MACRO and The Black List have selected Sahar Jahani and K.C. Scott as the winners of The MACRO Episodic Lab powered by The Black List. The winners, announced at Sundance, will each receive development support and a pilot presentation or sizzle at a budget of up to…

EXCLUSIVE: The Lena Waithe and Halle Berry executive produced Boomerang recharge doesn't debut until February, but Sundance Film Festival attendees are going to get a world premiere preview of the BET series in just over a week. In addition, leaving the likely still ongoing government shutdown behind for the snow of…

EXCLUSIVE: Michael Ealy has joined Kofi Siriboe, Uzo Aduba, Naturi Naughton, Tristan Mack Wilds, Yootha Wong-Loi-Sing, and Jade Eshete in MACRO's romantic drama Really Love, which is being directed by Angel Kristi Williams from a screenplay she wrote with Felicia A. Pride. Ealy’s more recent film credits include The Pe…

EXCLUSIVE: Emmy-winner Uzo Aduba, Naturi Naughton (Power), Tristan Mack Wilds (Shots Fired, 90210), Yootha Wong-Loi-Sing (OWN’s Love Is_), and Jade Eshete (Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency) have signed on to join previously announced Kofi Siriboe in MACRO’s romantic drama Really Love. Angel Kristi Williams is…

EXCLUSIVE: Kofi Siriboe, star of the OWN series, Queen Sugar, has been tapped as the lead in the film Really Love, which is being helmed by first-time feature director Angel Kristi Williams, who also co-wrote the script with Felicia A. Pride. The story is by Pride and Sanford Grimes. Charles D. King’s MACRO, the…

Charles D. King’s MACRO has hired Zennen Clifton as Vice President of Digital Strategy & Distribution on the company's digital side where he will spearhead the digital planning and distribution strategy for MACRO Digital Studio's premium content slate and all of its external partnerships. He will report to King and…

MACRO founder and CEO Charles D. King, Emmy winner Lena Waithe, Eva Longoria, and The Black List’s Franklin Leonard are paying it forward. The Hollywood movers have teamed to launch The MACRO Episodic Lab Powered by The Black List, which will cater specifically to episodic storytellers of color. The mission stated is…

EXCLUSIVE: Roger Ross Williams, who won the 2010 Oscar for his documentary short, Music By Prudence, is directing an authorized documentary feature on the famed Apollo Theater in Harlem. The announcement was made today by Jonelle Procope, President and CEO of The Apollo Theater, and Nigel Sinclair of White Horse Pictur…