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EXCLUSIVE: Tyler Lepley (The Haves and the Have Nots) is set as a series regular in Amazon's half-hour comedy from Girls Trip writer Tracy Oliver. Girls Trip director Malcolm D. Lee is set to direct the first two episodes of the ten-part series, which comes from Universal Television, and Amy Poehler's Paper Kite…

EXCLUSIVE: MRC Film and The Story Company are developing The Blackening, a feature film adaptation of a Comedy Central digital short that lampooned horror film tropes with its tale of seven African-American friends trapped in a cabin with a homicidal maniac. Writers Tracy Oliver (Girl Trip, First Wives Club) and…

Star's Meagan Good, Empire's Grace Byers, Mother's Milk's Jerrie Johnson and I Am The Night's Shoniqua Shandai are to star in Amazon's half-hour comedy from Girls Trip writer Tracy Oliver. Girls Trip director Malcolm D. Lee is set to direct the first two episodes of the ten-part series, which comes from Universal…

Amazon Studios has ordered 10 episodes of a female-focused half-hour comedy series from Tracy Oliver (Girls Trip), Amy Poehler’s Paper Kite Productions and Universal TV, where Poehler is under a deal. It’s set for premiere exclusively on Amazon Prime Video in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. Created…

Topic Studios has signed Girls Trip co-writer and The First Wives Club series creator Tracy Oliver to a first-look deal for film and TV. The pact, which begins April 1, comes at a busy time for the multi-hyphenate, who is currently working on First Wives Club, the half-hour comedy based on the movie that she executive…

EXCLUSIVE: A Clueless feature remake is in the works at Paramount with Girls Trip writer Tracy Oliver producing and Glow writer Marquita Robinson penning the script. The movie is quite early in development, so details are minimal in regards to whether it’s a fresh new take for the millennium and if older characters…

EXCLUSIVE: It was a female director who gave the industry and Warner Bros the highest overall summer film last year with $412.5 million at the domestic box office and provided the studio the wind to sail past Disney as the first to win the $2 billion domestic box office race. Patty Jenkins’ Wonder Woman made the…

Paramount Network has given a 10-episode series order to First Wives Club, a half-hour comedy based on the popular 1996 film from Paramount Pictures, from Girls Trip co-writer Tracy Oliver, who’s attached to write and executive produce the series, and Paramount Television. Production is scheduled to begin in New York…

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Network has given a pilot green light to First Wives Club, a half-hour comedy from Girls Trip co-writer Tracy Oliver and Paramount Television. The project, based on the popular 1996 film from Paramount Pictures, marks the first pilot order for Paramount Network, which launched in January…

Paramount Network (currently Spike) and Paramount Television have tapped Girls Trip co-writer Tracy Oliver to pen First Wives Club, a half-hour TV series based on the 1996 Paramount Pictures movie. A First Wives Club reboot was originally developed and picked up to pilot by TV Land last year with a different writer…

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros and MGM have teamed to acquire The Sun Is Also A Star, the YA bestselling novel by Nicola Yoon. Tracy Oliver has been set to write the script. Alloy Entertainment’s Les Morgenstein and Elysa Dutton will produce. Novel is the second by Yoon, whose debut Everything Everything was turned into a…

UPDATED: Misty Copeland, who broke barriers and defied convention to emerge as a ballet superstar, has teamed with rising writer Tracy Oliver for a drama set in the world of dance. The untitled project, which has been set up at Fox through 20th Century Fox TV, follows a young, hip and diverse group of aspiring dancers…