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EXCLUSIVE: Winning Time executive producer Rodney Barnes has boarded HBO’s limited series project, set to star Mahershala Ali as boxing legend Jack Johnson. Barnes, who is under an overall deal with HBO, will serve as writer and executive producer on the Untitled Jack Johnson limited series (fka Unruly)…

EXCLUSIVE: Rodney Barnes, exec producer of HBO's Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty, is prepping a horror podcast devoted to legends and myths stemming from black folklore. The writer/producer of series such as Everybody Hates Chris and The Boondocks has teamed up with Campside Media, the…

Winning Time writer, producer and comic book creator Rodney Barnes is staying in business with HBO, with a renewal of his overall deal for three more years. Under the pact, Barnes will continue to develop, write and produce projects across drama, comedy and limited series formats through his Rodney Barnes Productions…

EXCLUSIVE: Netflix is making a feature film version of Chris Leslie-Hynan’s novel Ride Around Shining, which Rodney Barnes will adapt. Jonah Hill's Strong Baby Productions is producing. The Harper-published novel tells the provocative story of a young white chauffeur and his wealthy Black employer, a professional…

EXCLUSIVE: Rodney Barnes, the television writer and comic book author whose credits including Hulu's Wu Tang: An American Saga and Marvel's Runaways, has signed an overall deal with HBO. Deadline understands that the deal is for two years. This comes as Barnes is working with the premium cabler as a writer and…

EXCLUSIVE: The Tiger Woods scripted mini-series based on Jeff Benedict and Armen Keteyiann's biography of the controversial golf champion, has moved a step closer to a hole in one after finding its writer and a production partner. Rodney Barnes, who recently wrote on Hulu's Wu-Tang: An American Saga and is penning…

EXCLUSIVE: Levantine Films, the film/TV production company behind the Gurinder Chada-directed Blinded By The Light, has acquired small screen rights to Rodney Barnes' and Jason Shawn Alexander's best-selling graphic novel series Killadelphia: Sins of the Father. Levantine has partnered with Barnes on his adaptation…