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EXCLUSIVE: Crazy Rich Asians co-writer Peter Chiarelli has teamed with SK Global and Project Brazen to write a television adaptation chronicling the decades-long “Fat Leonard” U.S. Navy scandal, one of the military's largest national security breaches. The script will be based on Project Brazen’s popular podcast Fat Le…

EXCLUSIVE: Aaron Kaplan’s Kapital Entertainment, Crazy Rich Asians producer SK Global, Jeff Sagansky and Florence Sloan have teamed to launch Jaya Entertainment, a content company focused on developing, producing and financing premium international series. Top TV producer Kaplan, prominent media investor Sagansky…

Critical Content, the largely unscripted producer behind series including MTV's Catfish and Kevin Hart-fronted Celebrity Game Face, has been acquired by Crazy Rich Asians producer SK Global. It comes as Deadline understands that the Tom Forman-run company was an acquisition target last year with multiple bidders…

Henry Golding is set to star in a series adaptation of Dean Koontz's thriller books Nameless. The Crazy Rich Asians star is teaming with SK Global, co-financers and producers of the blockbuster feature film, to develop the series. It comes after he struck a first-look film and TV deal earlier this year. Koontz's…

House Of Cards creator and showrunner Beau Willimon and his Westward producing partner Jordan Tappis have teamed with Crazy Rich Asians’ co-financier SK Global to develop a television series based on Tom Wright and Bradley Hope’s bestseller Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World…

EXCLUSIVE: SK Global and Gail Berman’s The Jackal Group have teamed to develop, finance and produce a series adaptation of Toshikazu Kawaguchi's international bestseller Before the Coffee Gets Cold. In a competitive situation, SK Global has acquired the rights to the novel which was published last year. Originally…

A couple of major industry players are planning to put their spin on music documentaries and scripted content. Warner Music Group and SK Global announced a partnership Thursday that will see the companies co-produce and co-finance a slate of music-oriented nonfiction and fiction projects "mined from WMG's…

Crazy Rich Asians co-financers and producers SK Global have pacted with that pic’s star Henry Golding for a two-year first-look film and television development and production deal. The projects under the new deal will be for a variety of global platforms including features, scripted and unscripted TV, and…

EXCLUSIVE: We have learned first that SK Global has set screenwriter Elliott San to adapt Ryan Graudin’s Little, Brown Books YA novel The Walled City for Crazy Rich Asians producer SK Global. The novel, which is in the spirit of Maze Runner, but based in Chinese Mythology, follows teens Mei Yee and Dai, who live in…

SK Global and The Mazur Kaplan Company have acquired rights to acclaimed Ghanaian writer and academic Peace Adzo Medie's novel His Only Wife in a competitive situation. Billed as "A Crazy Rich Asians for West Africa" in its Kirkus review, His Only Wife tells the empowering story of a young seamstress in Ghana whose…

SK Global is teaming up with Indonesia-based production entity Screenplay Bumilangit to co-finance and co-produce a slate of films based on popular local superhero IP the Bumilangit Cinematic Universe (BCU). Joko Anwar, whose credits include local hits such as 2019 BCU superhero pic Gundala, is on board as creative…

EXCLUSIVE: SK Global and LA-based production and literary outfit The Mazur Kaplan Company have closed a first-look development deal, with an initial five books set for adaptation. The pact was jointly announced Tuesday by SK Global President of Television Marcy Ross, and Mazur Kaplan principals Paula Mazur and…