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Sydney Freeland (Reservation Dogs, Deidra & Laney Rob a Train) is directing the coming-of-age sports drama Rez Ball for Netflix. The film described as Friday Night Lights meets Hoosiers explores the raw and exhilarating world of "reservation basketball" with its unique, lightening-quick pace that is rumored to have…

EXCLUSIVE: Gabrielle Union’s I'll Have Another Productions and Katie and Mauricio Mota's Wise Entertainment have optioned Tamara Winfrey-Harris’ award-winning book The Sisters Are Alright: Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women In America to develop as a 30-minute dramedy for television. Writer and former Wise…

Wise Entertainment, the production company behind six-time Emmy nominated drama series East Los High, has signed a first-look deal with Amazon Studios. Under the pact, Wise will develop develop and produce television series to premiere exclusively on Prime Video in more than 200 countries and territories…

It looks like Wattpad is furthering its global reach — and possible domination in the international market for developing foreign-language TV series and film. The latest company to join Wattpad’s list of collaborators is Wise Entertainment, the independent studio behind the Emmy-nominated series East Los High. With…

EXCLUSIVE: The Nelson Rodrigues Estate, considered the largest and most diverse literary estate in Latin America, is partnering with Viola Davis and Julius Tennon's JuVee Productions for both a stage and film/TV adaptation of Brazilian playwright Nelson Rodrigues' seminal 1960 play The Asphalt Kiss. The project is…