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EXCLUSIVE:  Actress Sanaa Lathan will be making her feature directorial debut on Paramount Players' adaptation of Angie Thomas’ New York Times bestseller On the Come Up.  The feature project has been a priority for Paramount Players and they were impressed with Lathan’s vision for the film, the story of which comes…

EXCLUSIVE: Kenyan filmmaker Wanuri Kahiu has come aboard to direct Paramount Player’s feature adaptation of bestselling author Angie Thomas’ second novel On The Come Up.  The director behind the 2018 Cannes Film Festival premiere Rafiki is stepping in for George Tillman Jr. who was originally attached to On The Come Up…

EXCLUSIVE: Kay Oyegun, who currently serves as a producer and writer on NBC’s hit drama series, This Is Us, has been tapped to write the screenplay for the film adaptation of On the Come Up, the young adult novel by The Hate U Give author Angie Thomas. The project, originally set at Fox 2000 who released 2018’s The Hat…

Following the 2018 release of Fox 2000’s highly emotive YA drama The Hate U Give, the studio is reuniting with New York Times bestselling author Angie Thomas and the team behind the film for a feature iteration of Thomas’ second novel, On The Come Up. George Tillman Jr. is directing the follow-up for Temple Hill and…