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EXCLUSIVE: Gravitas Ventures has set an Academy-qualifying U.S. theatrical run for the Jason Pollock doc Finding Kendrick Johnson. Pic will first hit 17 theaters across the country today for one-night only engagements, with a seven-night Los Angeles run kicking off on the 29th. The documentary’s awards campaign will…

EXCLUSIVE: Malcolm D. Lee's Blackmaled Productions has hired Sheila Walcott to be Head of Film and Television. Walcott moves from Warner Bros where she was Director of Development and worked on such films as Just Mercy, A Star is Born, Ocean's 8 and the upcoming adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Tony winning musical I…

Kevin Hart is back together with Night School director Malcolm D. Lee for an untitled action-comedy pitch by Comedy Central Broad City scribes Lucia Aniello and Paul W. Downs. The latter duo will write the script and executive produce. Hart will produce through his Hartbeat Productions banner alongside Will Packer and…

Star's Meagan Good, Empire's Grace Byers, Mother's Milk's Jerrie Johnson and I Am The Night's Shoniqua Shandai are to star in Amazon's half-hour comedy from Girls Trip writer Tracy Oliver. Girls Trip director Malcolm D. Lee is set to direct the first two episodes of the ten-part series, which comes from Universal…

NBC has handed out its first pilot order this cycle to Night School, a multi-camera comedy based on the hit 2018 Universal movie, from Marlon co-creator Christopher Moynihan and the film’s star/producer Kevin Hart, producer Will Packer and director Malcolm D. Lee. Penned by Moynihan, Night School the series centers on…

EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate has acquired action comedy The Spoils, a pitch for Malcolm D. Lee to produce through Blackmaled Productions. The screenplay will be written by Roshan Sethi and Hayley Schore. The plot revolves around a group of disparate immigrants who realize the London Museum holds their countries’ most prized…

EXCLUSIVE: Malcolm D. Lee is taking over the directing reins on Warner Bros./SpringHill Entertainment’s Space Jam 2 from Terence Nance. We hear that Nance’s departure from the project was amicable, and essentially the filmmaker and the studio/producers had different takes on the creative vision for Space Jam 2. Lee’s…

EXCLUSIVE: Malcolm D. Lee is set to produce The Untitled Double Dutch Project at Universal, based off an original idea by Thembi Banks which she will write. The story we hear will revolve around the journey of a coach and his double-dutch jump rope team. Banks is currently the co-producer on the Untitled Hilde Lysiak P…

A second group of filmmakers have petitioned WarnerMedia to reconsider its decision to shutter FilmStruck at month’s end. Here is . the second letter To whom it may concern at Turner and Warner Bros. Digital Networks: Roger Ebert once said "the movies are like a machine that generates empathy. It lets you understand a…

EXCLUSIVE: Hot off the success of Night School which is on its way to clicking past $40M worldwide by the end of today, the pic’s director Malcolm D. Lee is back in business with Universal for the romantic ensemble comedy How to Fall in Love with Anyone.  The studio is developing the project, inspired by Mandy Len…

Now what you hear is not a test: Night School director Malcolm D. Lee is down with Real Talk, an homage to old-school hip hop from screenwriter Radha Blank (Netflix’s She’s Gotta Have It and The Get Down). In a reteam with Universal, Lee is set to direct and produce the film under his Blackmaled Productions banner…

Deadline has confirmed that Girls Trip filmmaker Malcolm D. Lee is in talks to direct a remake of the 1974 Bill Cosby-Sidney Poitier film Uptown Saturday Night. The original pic follows two buddies who enter an illegal high class club and have their wallets stolen, one of them containing a lottery ticket. Overbrook…