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Apple TV+ has greenlit female-driven anthology series Roar starring Nicole Kidman, Cynthia Erivo, Merritt Wever and Alison Brie. The series comes from GLOW creators Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch, who have signed an overall deal with the streamer. Roar, which has been in the works since 2018, is based on Cecelia Ahern's…

When Nicole Kidman first met Per Saari back in 2004, theirs would become the collaboration that spawned a brave new wave of television and film production. From their first film Rabbit Hole in 2010, to this year's second season of smash hit limited series Big Little Lies, Kidman and Saari's company Blossom Films…

EXCLUSIVE: Filmmaker Robert D. Krzykowski has signed with ROAR. Krzykowski recently wrote, produced and directed The Man Who Killed Hitler and then The Bigfoot starring Oscar-nominated A Star is Born actor Sam Elliott. Marking his feature film debut, Bigfoot is currently playing in select theaters and opened at #1 on…

Cecelia Ahern’s upcoming short story collection Roar is getting the TV series treatment. Nicole Kidman and Per Saari's Blossom Films, Bruna Papandrea's Made Up Stories and Theresa Park are teaming to produce the new series, and have tapped GLOW co-creators Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch to executive produce and showrun…

Julia Louis-Dreyfus has finished Round #2 of chemo in her battle with breast cancer and, as her Veep costars point out in a funny, sweet music video tribute, she’s still got the eye of the tiger. “Chemo #2: finito,” Louis-Dreyfus posted yesterday on Instagram. “We are NOT f*cking around here.” The actress followed up…

Writer-director duo Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz, the duo behind the short film music visuals for Jay-Z’s Kill Jay-Z track off his latest studio album 4:44, have signed with Beverly Hills-based management film for representation. Bush and Renz are said to engage different platforms to raise the visibility of a…

EXCLUSIVE: Longtime CAA agent Jon Levin, whose clients have included Arnold Schwarzenegger, Andy Serkis, Neil Gaiman and Mimi Leder, to name a few, has left the agency and will become a manager at Beverly Hills-based company ROAR. The management company is roughly 17 years old and has about 25 employees, with clients…

Don Groves is a Deadline contributor based in Sydney. Australian actor Luke Hemsworth plans to move to Hollywood, joining his younger brothers Chris and Liam. Luke, 32, signed with ROAR Management, which also reps his siblings, about a year ago. His Australian agent, Mark Morrissey, tells Deadline the actor has…

EXCLUSIVE: Newcomer Saxon Sharbino, who beat out a score of young actresses to land the lead in Fox's untitled Karyn Usher drama pilot, has signed with WME and ROAR. She was at Innovative. The pilot, written by Usher and directed by Brett Ratner, has been garnering strong early buzz, with Sharbino getting high marks…