Rick Famuyiwa, who has written and directed films like The Wood, Brown Sugar, and Dope, has been tapped to helm Fox 2000’s Children of Blood and Bone, an action fantasy film based on the New York Times bestselling novel by Nigerian-American author Tomi Adeyemi.

The novel was released in March of last year, via Henry Ho…

EXCLUSIVE: Disney has acquired a pitch for Sadé, a live-action fairytale film about an African Princess, based on an original idea by Ola Shokunbi and Lindsey Reed Palmer, which has Dope director Rick Famuyiwa is attached to produce, while Scott Falconer will serve as exec producer via their Verse production shingle.

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EXCLUSIVE: Netflix has found success with a slew of small-screen superheroes, but now it is moving into the movie realm. I hear the SVOD service has ordered Past Midnight, a feature about a new kind of vigilante superhero, and is hoping to sign Keanu Reeves to star.

The film is written by TJ Fixman and is to be directe…

Rick Famuyiwa, who directed the breakout indie hit Dope, is in negotiations to helm the feature version of Son of Shaolin, which is based on the graphic novel created by Jay Longino who also wrote the first draft and will serve as exec producer. The project is set up at Sony with Dwayne Johnson, Dany Garcia and Hiram…

A year after its launch, AT&T Hello Lab has unveiled a mentorship program designed to pair entertainment industry leaders with aspiring filmmakers from diverse backgrounds as they create new short films. The mentor list this year: Oscar winner Octavia Spencer, writer-director Rick Famuyiwa, Common, Desiree Akhavan and…

Dope writer-director Rick Famuyiwa has joined Showtime’s Chicago-set drama project from Lena Waithe, Common, Aaron Kaplan and Fox 21 TV Studios. With Famuyiwa on board to direct, I hear the project, which has been redeveloped and will be recast, is on track for a series order.

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It happened on Wonder Woman and now it’s happening on The Flash. After Rick Famuyiwa stepped away from duties on Warner Bros.’ D.C. Comics hopeful $100M tentpole The Flash, word comes that the entire picture will be moved from its start date. A similar thing happened last year when Michelle MacLaren left Wonder Woman…

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros has found its director for its feature The Flash starring Ezra Miller. The studio has chosen Rick Famuyiwa, the up-and-coming director who on the feature front most recently helmed the Sundance pic Dope, which he scripted. He will step in and direct the film that Warner Bros has slotted for…

A prime Emmy TV movie contender this year for HBO is the recently premiered Confirmation, which details the 1991 Supreme Court confirmation hearings of Clarence Thomas and the firestorm of publicity <img class="alignleft wp-image-1201722349"…

EXCLUSIVE: In a preemptive buy, Fox has given a pilot production commitment to Greatest American Hero, a single-came<img class="alignright wp-image-1201603524" src="https://s0.wp.com/wp-content/themes/vip/plugins/lazy-load-0.7/images/1x1.trans.gif" alt="Rick Famuyiwa" width="203" height="271"…

EXCLUSIVE: Dope director Rick Famuyiwa is attached to write, direct and produce an as-yet-untitled hacker movie for Macro, the new finance and production company founded by former WME partner Charles D. King. The thriller centers on an unassuming and brilliant kid from New York's projects who turns out to be the…

In case you missed it the other day, prepare to have a much happier Memorial Day off. Sundance hit Dope has a new red band trailer. It’s similar to the previous trailer released in April, but with more details about the problem the film’s three young protagonists find themselves stuck with, and of course far more…