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EXCLUSIVE: MGM has set Misha Green to write and make her feature directorial debut on the next Tomb Raider, which has Alicia Vikander set to reprise her role as Lara Croft. Green steps up here after creating and directing Lovecraft Country, the breakout HBO series that stars Jurnee Smollett, Jonathan Majors, and…

SPOILER ALERT: This post contains details of tonight's Lovecraft Country Season 1 finale "As an artist, I make art to start conversations, and one always hopes their art is a reflection of the times," says Lovecraft Country showrunner Misha Green in a definite understatement of the discourse and timeliness of the HBO…

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details about Sunday night’s season finale of Lovecraft Country. Ever since Misha Green unleashed the wonder that is Lovecraft Country to the world in August, she, along with an all-star roster of writers and directors has immersed us in the LCCU: The Lovecraft Country Cinematic…

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of tonight's Lovecraft County episode ‘A History of Violence’ on HBO. Tread carefully. EXCLUSIVE: "There was an operative sentence that came to me at the beginning, and it had to do with Jurnee Smollett calling me on a Saturday early early early in the morning," explains…

Lovecraft Country is a big-budget, epic genre adventure that wouldn't have been possible without movies like Get Out and TV series such as Lost, according to showrunner Misha Green. Speaking at HBO's panel session at the virtual TCA press tour, Green said, "I think this would have been incredibly hard to get on screen…

Showtime has put in development Kill Creek, an hour-long drama based on Scott Thomas’ award-winning novel of the same name, with Underground co-creator Misha Green and Doctor Strange helmerScott Derrickson set to executive produce. Derrickson also will direct. Showtime and Platform One Media, the production and…

Director-writer and newly minted Academy member Justin Simien is taking his voice to the podcast universe with his new podcast “Don’t @ Me.” In the trailer below, the creator of Netflix’s acclaimed comedy Dear White People describes the KCRW podcast as an “attitude.” Each episode will feature conversations with…

UPDATED with full list, full rankings: This year's The Black List, the annual rundown of Hollywood's top screenplays that haven't been produced, has been revealed this morning. Matthew Firpo and Ryan Firpo’s script Ruin received the most votes this year for their story of  a nameless ex-Nazi captain who must navigate…

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros is reviving Cleopatra Jones, the 1973 blaxploitation female empowerment film that starred Tamara Dobson as the undercover government agent who used the day job of supermodel as her cover and an excuse to travel to exotic places. The studio has set Misha Green to write the script and produce a…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix outbid several suitors for Mother, an action thriller by Underground co-creator Misha Green that Deadline tipped yesterday as a hot spec sent to buyers on the eve of the historical opening of Wonder Woman. Several bidders chased this script that has a female protagonist in a scenario reminiscent of T…

EXCLUSIVE: Get Out writer-director Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions is teaming with J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot and Warner Bros Television on Lovecraft Country, a one-hour drama that has been given a straight-to-series order by HBO. The pilot will be written by Underground executive producer/showrunner/writer Misha Gree…

“We do so much research, and our problem is we find so many great things,” Underground co-creator Joe Pokaski said last night, discussing the second season of the WGN America series. “As we read about Harriet [Tubman] and started to understand her, we all know she's a superhero; it's about understanding her as a…