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EXCLUSIVE: Kenyan filmmaker Wanuri Kahiu has come aboard to direct Paramount Player’s feature adaptation of bestselling author Angie Thomas’ second novel On The Come Up.  The director behind the 2018 Cannes Film Festival premiere Rafiki is stepping in for George Tillman Jr. who was originally attached to On The Come Up…

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…

In introducing The Hate U Give star Amandla Stenberg recently to the packed audience at Deadline’s first-ever The Contenders New York all-day awards-season event, I held up the cover of Time magazine, on which she recently appeared, an honor to note her activism outside of acting. During our discussion onstage…

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…

"Unfortunately, this story has always been timely. It was timely 20 years ago, 10 years ago, and here we are today. Sadly, it will probably be timely tomorrow," said Fox 2000’s The Hate U Give star Russell Hornsby about the film’s familiar narrative, which involves the death of an unarmed black man at hands of a…

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…