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Amazon Studios has put in development Victories Greater Than Death, a series based on Charlie Jane Anders’ novel, from Michael B. Jordan’s Outlier Society. A writer is not yet attached. The project falls under Jordan’s overall deal at Amazon Studios. Per the synopsis: “High school can be rough. It's hard to fit in…

EXCLUSIVE: Studio exec Elizabeth Raposo looks to have found her next big gig as she has been named President of Michael B. Jordan’s Outlier Society banner. Raposo was most recently the President of Production at Paramount before leaving this past fall. The exhaustive search for the position took six months with the…

Amazon Studios and Michael B. Jordan's Outlier Society are hosting a nationwide summer screening series "A Night at the Drive-In" with the Black Panther star is curating with a line-up of features celebrating diverse voices in cinemas. The series kicks off on July 1 and runs through Aug. 26. Attendance will be at no…

Endeavor said Monday it pivoting its recently launched Fellowship Program, postponed due to COVID-19, to a virtual Summer Series available to all Fellowship applicants in addition to Michael B. Jordan's Outlier Society Fellowship and HBCU in LA students. More than 1000 people have registered for the Series, it said…

EXCLUSIVE: Michael B. Jordan is heading to HBO Max…with some style. The Black Panther actor and Alana Mayo are developing the comedy Fashionably Black (wt) under their Outlier Society production banner alongside HBO Max, which is set to launch their streaming service in 2020. The feature film will be penned by Christa…

In one of his most challenging projects to date, Michael B. Jordan stars in, co-produces and helped cast the biographical drama Just Mercy through his new Outlier Society banner. The upcoming Warner Bros film follows the true story of Walter McMillian, an African-American man sentenced to death in Alabama for a murder…

Making inclusive movies is organic for Black Panther and Creed II star Michael B. Jordan. “It’s natural for me. Long before the word inclusion became a thing,” said the actor on developing movies at his new Outlier Society production company this afternoon during the Produced By session titled “Content With a…

Kung: Skull Island filmmaker Jordan Vogt-Roberts will be directing an original monster movie next, one based in his hometown of Detroit Michigan, a pic that will be produced by New Regency and Michael B. Jordan’s Outlier Society. A search for a writer is underway with plot details being kept secret.  Shooting in…