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EXCLUSIVE: Misha Green will reteam with her Underground and Lovecraft Country star Jurnee Smollett for the Lionsgate thriller Sunflower. Green will direct off a script she wrote and produce with Craig J. Flores and his Bread and Circuses Entertainment banner. In Sunflower, two women struggle to…

SPOILER ALERT: This post contain details about James Andrew Miller’s book Tinderbox, an oral history of HBO, which was published today.  On the eve of yet another corporate reframing, HBO has received its own Magna Carta with the publication of James Andrew Miller's Tinderbox today. Coming from the keyboard that…

Warner Bros. and DC Films are moving forward with a Black Canary movie at HBO Max with Jurnee Smollett starring and Lovecraft Country creator Misha Green writing. Sue Kroll will produce the Black Canary movie under her Kroll & Co. Entertainment banner, having also produced Birds of Prey.  While plot details of this…

HBO’s Lovecraft Country made quite a splash critically, most recently when it was nominated for a whopping 18 Emmys. Even though the series based on the Matt Ruff novel won’t be continuing after just this one season, it definitely has left a strong impression as evidenced by all those nominations. It is perhaps the…

HBO's Lovecraft Country earned 18 Emmy nominations this season including Outstanding Drama Series. Based on the Matt Ruff novels of the same name, the series is set in 1950s Jim Crow America where Atticus (Jonathan Majors) searches for his missing father with his childhood friend Leti (Jurnee Smollett) and his Uncle…

For visual effects supervisor Kevin Blank, one of the biggest initial draws to Lovecraft Country was a skin-shedding sequence he knew would take place in Episode 5, "Strange Case." "You think about things you’ve seen when you’re younger, like a werewolf transformation in American Werewolf in London, and they really…

Turns out the grass is greener up in Cupertino, at least figuratively and literally for Misha Green. The Lovecraft County creator has signed an overall deal with tech titan Apple to create and develop small screen projects for streamer AppleTV+ worldwide. The lucrative multi-year agreement for Green comes exactly one…

A very very different America was going to be unveiled in Season 2 of Lovecraft Country, creator Misha Green revealed today after HBO officially pulled the plug on the acclaimed horror drama. A couple of hours after Deadline exclusively reported on the surprising demise of the the Jurnee Smollett, Jonathan Majors and M…

EXCLUSIVE: One of the most celebrated — and inventive — new series of 2020, Misha Green’s Lovecraft Country, will not be getting a second installment. “We will not be moving forward with a second season of Lovecraft Country,” HBO said in a statement to Deadline. “We are grateful for the dedication and artistry of the…

"Atticus and Leti can’t believe what they’re seeing," reads the intricate script Misha Green penned for Lovecraft Country's jaw-dropping first episode. "They remain with their Flares out like swords. Still on high alert even though it seems the danger has passed…for now." The opener for the HBO horror drama is the…

HBO’s new hit series Lovecraft Country takes inspiration from Matt Ruff’s dark fantasy horror novel that explores racism in American culture through the contents of H. P. Lovecraft’s horror books. “I just think it’s so interesting what Matt was doing in the book, which was reclaiming genre spaces for people who have…

EXCLUSIVE: In competitive bidding, Amazon Studios is in negotiations for Fuel, a pitch for an action vehicle movie for Lovecraft Country star Jurnee Smollett. She is attached to produce with Lovecraft Country EP Misha Green. The script will be written by Kat Wood. The plan is to develop this as a vehicle for Smollett…