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EXCLUSIVE: Searchlight Television has optioned N.K. Jemisin’s seminal fantasy book series The Inheritance Trilogy for series development. Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith’s Westbrook Studios has come on board to produce the project, envisioned as an epic, live-action ongoing fantasy series. A search is underway for a…

EXCLUSIVE: Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith’s Westbrook Studios have optioned rights to the graphic novel Canto and are adapting the fantasy series as an animated feature. Co-creator and writer of Canto, David M. Booher is set to write the screenplay and will executive produce the project alongside co-creator and…

EXCLUSIVE: IMDb TV, Amazon’s free ad-supported streaming service, is developing Bright Young Things, a half-hour drama series from Spinning Out creator Samantha Stratton. Amazon Studios produces in association with Westbrook Studios, the production division of Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith’s media company. Written…

EXCLUSIVE: Westbrook Studios, the production division of Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith's media company, is expanding its unscripted activities with the hire of former NBC alternative exec Sahara Bushue. Bushue, who was most recently SVP of Alternative Development & Current Programming at the network, has been…

EXCLUSIVE: Westbrook Studios has brought on former Will Packer Productions exec Heather Washington to serve as Vice President of Development for Motion Pictures. Reporting to Westbrook Studios’ Co-President and Head of Motion Pictures Jon Mone, Washington will develop and produce films that further Westbrook's mission…

In a very competitive situation, Peacock has landed Bel-Air with a two-season order. The hourlong series, based on Morgan Cooper's popular fan film that reenvisions the 1990s Will Smith sitcom The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air,as a drama, hails from Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith's Westbrook Studios and Universal…

EXCLUSIVE: Quibi has acquired This Joka, a 16-episode stand-up comedy series hosted and executive produced by Will Smith. The series hails from Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith’s Westbrook Studios and Topgolf Entertainment Group. Westbrook and Topgolf had been developing This Joka since last October as part of their…

EXCLUSIVE: Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith’s Westbrook Studios has hired former Global Road Television, Electus and Shine executive Eli Shibley as SVP, Head Of International Film And Television. Shibley will focus the company’s efforts with filmmakers and creatives in the international market. He will oversee…

EXCLUSIVE: Terence Carter, 20th Century Fox TV’s EVP Development, Drama and Comedy. is leaving the Disney-owned studio to join Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith’s recently launched Westbrook Studios as Co-President, Head Of Television. Carter, who starts in early November, will oversee TV development and production…

Jon Mone, the former executive vice president of production at Universal, has been tapped as the co-president of Westbrook Studios, a subsidiary of Jada Pinkett Smith and Will Smith's recently launched multimedia venture, Westbrook Inc. Mone will serve as the head of motion pictures and will oversee production…