Following the 2018 release of Fox 2000’s highly emotive YA drama The Hate U Give, the studio is reuniting with New York Times bestselling author Angie Thomas and the team behind the film for a feature iteration of Thomas’ second novel, On The Come Up. George Tillman Jr. is directing the follow-up for Temple Hill and…

For Russell Hornsby, who stars as Maverick 'Mav' Carter in The Hate U Give, working on the film was "a joy," and also "painful to do." Directed by George Tillman Jr., with Amandla Stenberg in first position amongst an all-star cast, the Fox drama follows Starr Carter, an African American student who navigates two…

Based on the YA novel of the same name by Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give tackles relevant social issues that are not just applicable to young adults. The George Tillman Jr.-directed pic adapted by the late Audrey Wells follows the story of Starr as she witnesses the killing of her best friend at the hands of a cop…

Stuart Ford’s AGC Studios is to finance, produce and sell comedy movie Action. Robert Teitel (The Hate You Give, Barbershop) and 51 Minds' Christian Sarabia and Mitchell Smith will produce the feature about best friends Damien and Marcus as they're about to graduate high school. Damien is a model student and film…

The term “woke” is being thrown around casually these days. There are times when the use of the word is warranted and other times when it is just used as fashionable rhetoric as a veneer to make you look socially aware. But if there is one actress who embodies the term, it’s Amandla Stenberg — but her advocacy and…

Fox came through Deadline’s annual Contenders LA event and brought along its films The Hate U Give, Bohemian Rhapsody, and Widows. Based on the novel by Angie Thomas, The Hate U Give tells the tragic but familiar story of an unarmed Black man who is gunned down at the hands of an officer and the ripple effect it has…

UPDATED, Sunday AM: Universal is calling Miramax/Blumhouse’s Halloween at $77.5 million after a $27.2M Saturday, making it the second-best opening ever for the month of October behind Sony’s Venom ($80.2M). As we’ve known since Thursday night, Halloween is the best domestic opening ever for John Carpenter’s 40-year…

No trick here: The estimates for Universal/Miramax/Blumhouse’s Halloween reboot-sequel keep climbing, with the high-end of current global projections at $100M. That’s $70M stateside (and some even think that’s low) at 3,928 U.S./Canada locations and another $30M from 21 markets, the biggest scares coming from Mexico…

Warner Bros’ romantic comedy blockbuster Crazy Rich Asians has been added to the list of honorees at the 22nd annual Hollywood Film Awards. The ceremony is November 4 at the Beverly Hilton. Jon M. Chu’s Crazy Rich Asians starring Constance Wu, Henry Golding, Awkwafina, Nico Santos, Gemma Chan, Jimmy O. Yang and a…

Singer-songwriter Arlissa took the stage at The Contenders London to perform “We Won’t Move”, a song from the drama The Hate U Give starring Amandla Stenberg. After gorgeously belting out the tune and stirring emotions in the audience, she spoke with Deadline co-Editor-in-Chief Mike Fleming Jr. about the film and how…

20th Century Fox’s The Hate U Give has won the narrative feature audience award at the Hamptons Film Festival, which just wrapped its 26th edition. The YA drama directed by George Tillman Jr and starring Amandla Stenberg began its theatrical rollout this weekend as well in three dozen locations grossing $500,000; it…

MONDAY AM: A Columbus Day holiday in the Northeast and Canada’s Thanksgiving fired up yesterday’s grosses with Sony’s Venom grossing $9.6M, a record for a Monday in October besting Gravity‘s Columbus Day Monday of $6.2M, while Warner Bros.’ A Star Is Born remained at a sharp pitch with $6.8M. Venom is now just under…