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Monica Beletsky, the creator, executive producer and showrunner on “Manhunt,” has signed with management and production company 42.

“Manhunt,” which starred Emmy-winner Tobias Menzies and Anthony Boyle, premiered this year on Apple TV+. Beletsky also served as a writer and producer on the third season of FX’s “Fargo,” starring Ewan McGregor, Carrie Coon and Mary Elizabeth Winstead. The season received 16 Emmy nominations and three Golden Globe nominations, and earned Beletsky a shared Emmy nomination for Outstanding Limited Series, alongside Writers’ Guild Award and PGA Award nods. She was the only female writer and producer nominated in the Outstanding Limited Series category that year.

In addition, Beletsky’s credits include NBC’s “Friday Night Lights” and “Parenthood,” as well as HBO’s “The Leftovers.” From 2019 to 2022, Beletsky was on an overall deal at Apple TV+, and she has previously developed features for HBO Films, Tristar/Sony and Amazon, in addition to...

Exclusive, Updated with Zero Gravity’s legal response: Jake Miller and Karli Doumanis have joined production/management company 42 as talent managers, sources tell Deadline. Based in Los Angeles, they come from Zero Gravity Management.

Both are bringing their client rosters, which include one of the hottest actors at the moment, Anna Sawai, who won an Emmy on Sunday for Shōgun and also stars in Apple TV+’s Pachinko. She is managed by Miller.

The duo, whose first day is Monday, is expected to ramp up actor representation at the U.S. operation of the London- and Los Angeles-based 42, minority owned by Lionsgate. The Los Angeles office, led by 42 partners Josh Varney and Ben Pugh, has been more lit-focused to date.

In response to Miller’s departure, Zero Gravity Management has sent a cease and desist letter to 42 through attorney Robert M. Barta, claiming that Miller is under contract through December...

The Dazey Phase has announced the filmmaking team and cast for Léa Fae Caddigan’s debut feature “Blue Balls.” The film, which will shoot this summer, is based on a story by Meredith Metcalf who wrote the screenplay with Caddigan.

“Blue Balls” follows Emma, who, back at home in her small town, wants nothing more than a night of driving around and hanging out with her best friend, Mara. But when they meet Tom and Jack, Mara invites these two strangers back to their place to get to know each other better.

The only problem is that Emma is a virgin as is Tom. But Tom’s not a sexual virgin, he’s a vampire who’s never killed before and he’s hoping tonight will be the night for him to join a centuries-old vampire fraternity. As the two humans fight for their lives with every weapon they can find,...

Exclusive: Production studio Vanishing Angle has announced the production of the ensemble drama Under The Lights, directed by Miles Levin in his directorial debut. Based on an award-winning script by Levin, the film is produced by Vanishing Angle’s Natalie Metzger, and is executive produced by Levin, Matt Miller and Carlos Quesada. UTA is handling world sales.

The all-star cast includes Pearce Joza, Tanzyn Crawford, Lake Bell, Randall Park, Marin Hinkle, Mary Holland, and Kevin Carroll, with Nick Offerman in a supporting role.

In the film, Sam (Joza) is a boy with epilepsy, so desperate to feel like a “normal” kid,...

Netflix has expanded the Season 2 cast for To All The Boys spinoff series Xo, Kitty, as production gets underway in Seoul. (You can watch a start of production clip below). Audrey Huynh has joined as a new series regular, and Sasha Bhasin (Brave the Dark) and Joshua Lee (Gangnam Project) are set to recur in the half-hour dramedy inspired by the popular movie trilogy and Jenny Han’s bestselling book series.

In Season 1, teen matchmaker Kitty Song Covey (Anna Cathcart) thinks she knows everything there is to know about love. But when she moves halfway across the world to reunite with her long-distance boyfriend, she’ll soon realize that relationships are a lot more complicated when it’s your own heart on the line.

In addition to Cathcart, the series stars Minyeong Choi (Dae), Gia Kim (Yuri), Sang Heon Lee (Min Ho), Anthony Keyvan (Q), Regan Aliyah (Juliana...

Season 4 of Netflix’s Outer Banks has some new cast members.

Pollyanna McIntosh, J. Anthony Crane, Brianna Brown, Rigo Sanchez and Mia Challis have joined the cast of the show, which has been a breakout show for Netflix over its past three seasons.

Created by Jonas Pate, Josh Pate and Shannon Burke, Outer Banks is a coming-of-age story that follows a tight-knit group of local teens — the “Pogues” — in the beach vacation destination of the Outer Banks of North Carolina.

Crane (Dead Ringers, Billions) will play Chandler Groff, a man darkly grief-stricken over the loss of his wife, who is welcoming to the Pogues on their latest adventure. McIntosh (The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live, Double Blind) will Dalia, a revolutionary-like leader and worldly baddie on a plunder who comes face to face with the Pogues.

Brown (Dynasty, Eastsiders) will play the biggest realtor on the island who previously...

Exclusive: Zoe Colletti (Only Murders in the Building, Boo), Regan Aliyah (Marvel’s Ironheart, Xo Kitty) and Andrew Liner have joined Michelle Dockery in Destry Allyn Spielberg’s feature directorial debut Please Don’t Feed the Children, as Altitude launches the genre film at the Cannes Market.

In Please Don’t Feed the Children, after a viral outbreak ravages the country’s adult population, a group of orphans heads south in search of a new life, only to find themselves at the mercy of a deranged woman harboring a dangerous secret.

Jason Dubin is producing through his Perry Street Films imprint, along with Josh Kesselman and Michael Hagerty (Old Henry). Principal photography begins in Santa Fe, Nm, next month on a script from Paul Bertino.

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In March, we brought you news of Dockery’s casting as the lead,...

Exclusive: The Wilds star Shannon Berry has joined the cast of Susanna Fogel’s Canadian feature Winner.

Berry is appearing opposite Emilia Jones, Zach Galifianakis, Kathryn Newton, Danny Ramirez and Connie Britton in the darkly comedic biopic. The casting reunites the emerging Australian actress with The Spy Who Dumped Me director Fogel, who directed her in the pilot of Prime Video drama series The Wilds.

Winner is a biopic of Reality Winner (Jones), a brilliant misfit U.S. Air Force member and Nsa consultant who in 2018 was given the longest prison sentence in American history for the unauthorized release of government information to the media — five years, three months — after leaking an intelligence report about Russian interference in the 2016 election.

We first told you about the film last October, as the film went into principal photography. The feature is set to take on the traditional whistleblower thriller — a coming-of-age story about...

Exclusive: Zero Gravity Management on Wednesday announced their expansion with the hiring of Karli Doumanis and Kendall Kramer as Talent Managers, and Houston Bradley and Ryan Lewis as Producers.

Prior to joining Zero Gravity, Doumanis spent three years at Brave Artists Management. Some of her notable talent include Tanzyn Crawford (Tiny Beautiful Things), Tyroe Muhafidin (The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power), Sean Keenan (The Power of the Dog), Shannon Berry (The Wilds), Cooper van Grootel & Marianly Tejada (One Of Us Is Lying) and Asher Yasbincek (Heartbreak High). Clients with shows soon to launch include Sam Song Li (The Brothers Sun), Regan Aliyah and Annie Shapero.

Kramer brings with her clients including Erica Dasher (Jane by Design), Paulina Nguyen (Power Book IV: Force) and Travis Labranch (The Oval), having begun her career at A3 Artists Agency.

Both Bradley and...

Exclusive: Red Skies star Annie Shapero has signed with Verve Talent and Literary Agency.

The Australian-uk actress’ first major role was in Red Skies, the Israeli drama from the team behind the original Euphoria, and is next up appearing in an FX pilot.

Red Skies debuted last month at Series Mania, where it was in International Competition. Shapero plays Jenny, an American journalist forced to pick a side when an unlikely friendship between an Israeli and a Palestinian is tested when tragedy strikes. Euphoria‘s Ron Leshem and Daniel Amsel co-created the series with Amit Cohen.

The series comes from Yoav Gross Productions alongside U.S. firms Red82 and Nebo Content for Reshet 13, with Shistel’s Alon Zingman is set to direct. Amir Khoury, Maor Schwitzer and Alona Sa’ar are among the other stars.

Shapero is also set to star in the pilot of FX drama The Border, which is...

FX has given a pilot order to The Border, a drama based on the third book in Don Winslow’s bestselling Cartel Trilogy, from Daniel Zelman,, Shane Salerno is set to lead the cast, which also includes Frank Blake, Annie Shapero (Red Skies), Sebastián Buitrón and Luis Bordonada. Produced by FX Productions, the pilot will begin production in Mexico in 2023.

Zelman will write and serve as showrunner and executive producer along with Salerno, who adapted The Border for television with Zelman, Winslow, Diego Gutierrez, Jayro Bustamante, who will direct the pilot, and Scott Free. Anabel Hernández will serve as Consulting Producer.

The Border is an epic saga that reveals the dark truths about America’s failed 50-year war on drugs.

A pilot has been ordered by FX for “The Border,” announced FX’s president of entertainment, Nick Grad, on Wednesday.

Based on Don Winslow’s award-winning, critically acclaimed Border trilogy, the story is said to “explore America’s failed 50-year war on drugs through the intertwining narratives of characters on both sides of the Mexican-American border: an obsessive Mexican-American DEA agent, a young boxing promoter who inherits a drug empire, a jaded teenager who rises to power in the world of high class escorts, and an Irish kid from the streets of Hell’s kitchen who becomes a ruthless, international hitman”, per the network. “

The New York Times called the Cartel Trilogy “a hybrid of The Godfather and War and Peace” and “this generation’s defining work of American mass-culture storytelling on the border.” FX nabbed the rights to the trilogy in 2019.

Daniel Zelman will write and serve as showrunner...

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FX is heading to The Border.

The Disney-owned cable outlet has ordered a drama pilot based on a trio of novels by best-selling author Don Winslow. The Border — named after the third book in Winslow’s cartel trilogy — will delve into the drug war at the U.S.-Mexico border via the lives of several people on both sides of the conflict.

E.J. Bonilla (The Old Man) will star as Art Keller, a Mexican-American DEA agent. The cast also includes Frank Blake (Normal People) as Sean Callan, Annie Shapero as Nora Hayden, Sebastián Buitrón (Narcos: Mexico) as Adan Barrera and Luis Bordonada (Vida) as Miguel Angel Barrera.

FX optioned Winslow’s cartel trilogy — which also includes 2005’s The Power of the Dog (no relation to the 2021 film of the same title) and 2015’s The Cartel — in March 2019, shortly after The Border was published.

Exclusive: Regan Aliyah has joined the cast of Marvel Studios’ Disney+ series Ironheart in an undisclosed role, Deadline has learned.

Marvel reps declined to comment.

The six-episode series created by Chinaka Hodge will star Dominique Thorne as Marvel character Riri Williams, a genius inventor and creator of the most advanced suit of armor since Iron Man. Previously announced cast also includes Anthony Ramos, Manny Montana, Alden Ehrenreich, Shea Couleé and Zoe Terakes.

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Sam Bailey and Angela Barnes are directing, with Ryan Coogler’s Proximity among the production entities. Coogler, Ironheart head writer Chinaka Hodge, Zinzi Coogler, and Sev Ohanian serve as executive producers alongside Marvel Studios’ Kevin Feige, Louis D’Esposito, Victoria Alonso, Brad Winderbaum, and Zoie Nagelhout.

Aliyah is an actor and rapper who will next appear in Netflix’s Xo, Kitty, a spinoff of To All The Boys I Loved Before, as a series regular.

Exclusive: The Wilds’ Sarah Pidgeon and newcomer Tanzyn Crawford have been cast as series regulars alongside Kathryn Hahn and Quentin Plair in Hulu’s Tiny Beautiful Things, based on Cheryl Strayed’s bestselling book, from ABC Signature and Hello Sunshine. Additionally, Rachel Lee Goldenberg has been tapped to direct the first two episodes.

Created and written by Liz Tigelaar based on Strayed’s book, Tiny Beautiful Things is a half-hour series about a woman, Claire (Hahn), who reluctantly becomes Dear Sugar — an anonymous, revered advice columnist — when her own life is falling apart. Told in multiple timelines with astonishing intimacy, nerve and candor, she excavates the beauty, struggle and humor in her own life to show us that we are not beyond rescue, that it’s our stories that will ultimately save us.

Pidgeon will play Young Clare, the younger version of the lead character, played by Hahn. Rebellious and sharp-tongued,...

Exclusive: Sean Keenan (The Power of the Dog), Shannon Berry (The Wilds) and Tyroe Muhafidin (Amazon’s Lord of the Rings)—a trio of up-and-coming actors out of Australia—have signed with Brave Artists Management’s Karli Doumanis for representation.

Keenan is an Aacta Award nominee who recently appeared in Jane Campion’s acclaimed Netflix pic The Power of the Dog and Justin Kurzel’s award winner Nitram. The actor will next be seen in the ABC series Barons, along with a show based on the 2002 Bali bombings, which is currently in production. He has also featured on the film side in such titles as Nim’s Island, The True History of the Kelly Gang, Strangerland, Australia Day, Hard Target 2, Is This the Real World and Drift. Keenan made his screen debut at the age of fourteen as the title character in the Australian children’s series Lockie Leonard, based on Tim Winton’s novels,...

Exclusive: Mia Challis (Clickbait) has joined the cast of writer/director Lee Cronin’s Evil Dead Rise.

She’ll appear opposite previously announced cast members Lily Sullivan and Alyssa Sutherland.

Evil Dead Rise is an HBO Max sequel to 2013’s Evil Dead, which served as a soft reboot of the supernatural horror franchise of the same name. In the fifth Evil Dead film, a road-weary Beth pays an overdue visit to her older sister Ellie, who is raising three kids on her own in a cramped L.A apartment. The sisters’ reunion is cut short by the discovery of a mysterious book deep in the bowels of Ellie’s building, giving rise to flesh-possessing demons, and thrusting Beth into a primal battle for survival as she is faced with the most nightmarish version of motherhood imaginable.

Challis will play Jessica, an 18 year old girl,...

Brandon Murphy, the screenwriter of “The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard,” is set to make his directorial debut with the indie horror thriller “Snow Valley,” TheWrap has learned exclusively.

Cooper van Grootel, Tom Williamson, David Lambert and Barbara Crampton will star in the film, which centers around a newly engaged couple on a ski weekend that goes horribly wrong when an unexpected guest arrives and the house’s supernatural forces begin to rise.

Rachel Michiko Whitney and Paige Elkington round out the cast. Justice Laub, Rachel Whitney and Chris Abernathy are producing alongside Paper Street Pictures’ Aaron B. Koontz. The film is from Ulinta Productions.

Murphy is currently in development on the romantic dramedy “The Last Drop” as well as a biopic on the Rolling Stones titled “Exile.” He is represented by Range Media Partners.

Van Grootel can be seen in Peacock’s “One of Us Is Lying,” while Lambert recently starred in ABC’s “The Fosters.

Peacock, NBCUniversal’s upcoming streaming service, has set the cast for One Of Us Is Lying, its Ya mystery drama pilot based on Karen M. McManus’ bestselling novel. Marianly Tejada (The Purge), Cooper van Grootel (Go!), Annalisa Cochrane (Into the Dark: Pure), newcomer Chibuikem Uche (Ghost Draft), Jessica McLeod (You Me Her), Barrett Carnahan (Grown-ish) and Melissa Collazo (Swamp Thing) will lead the ensemble cast of the drama which hails from NBCU’s Ucp and John Sacchi’s 5 More Minutes Productions banner.

Written by Erica Saleh and based on McManus’ novel, One Of Us Is Lying is the story of what happens when five high schoolers walk into detention and only four make it out alive. Everyone is a suspect, and everyone has something to hide.

Tejada will play Brownyn. Top of her class, Bronwyn is so focused on the future she rarely thinks about the present. Most classmates admire...

Mike Gillespie has been staffing up his Brave Artists Management, which he launched in January. Eric Kind, formerly of Kind Management, was brought in as Executive Partner in late April, while Eric Skinner has joined as Partner, reuniting with Gillespie. Additionally, Bam has added managers Tom Bixby, Karli Doumanis and Kimberly Kottwitz.

Kind has 20 years of industry experience and has worked in studio business and legal affairs, casting, agency and management at Lionsgate Television, Sovereign Talent Group, and Casting House La and NY. Most recently, he was the owner/manager of Kind Management.

Kind’s clients include Amanda Clayton Lou Ferrigno Jr., Conor Husting and Shayan Sobhian...