On the heels of a breakthrough role in Netflix and A24’s “Beef,” actor Young Mazino has signed with M88 for representation.
The Korean American actor stars in the dramedy series as Paul Cho, the crypto-investing younger brother of Danny (Steven Yeun), whose road rage incident with a woman named Amy Lau (Ali Wong) marks the show’s central “beef.” With Danny and Amy unable to move past their vitriolic interaction, Paul finds himself increasingly embroiled in their drama to a dangerous end.
Strong reviews for Mazino’s performance amid the buzz for the show — which premiered at SXSW before launching on Netflix last month — have put him in the mix for his first Emmy nomination (in the outstanding supporting actor in a limited series or TV movie category).
“Internally and emotionally, he feels like he’s still a little kid,” Mazino told Variety about creating the character, who is...
The Korean American actor stars in the dramedy series as Paul Cho, the crypto-investing younger brother of Danny (Steven Yeun), whose road rage incident with a woman named Amy Lau (Ali Wong) marks the show’s central “beef.” With Danny and Amy unable to move past their vitriolic interaction, Paul finds himself increasingly embroiled in their drama to a dangerous end.
Strong reviews for Mazino’s performance amid the buzz for the show — which premiered at SXSW before launching on Netflix last month — have put him in the mix for his first Emmy nomination (in the outstanding supporting actor in a limited series or TV movie category).
“Internally and emotionally, he feels like he’s still a little kid,” Mazino told Variety about creating the character, who is...
- 5/1/2023
- by Angelique Jackson
- Variety Film + TV
Filmmaker, actor, chef and television personality Eddie Huang has signed with M88 for representation.
The multi-hyphenate entertainer’s career kicked into high gear when Huang penned the autobiography “Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir,” about growing up the son of Taiwanese-Chinese immigrants, which was adapted into a critically acclaimed ABC comedy series of the same name. The series — starring Randall Park, Constance Wu and Hudson Yang as a younger version of Eddie — wrapped its six-season run in 2020.
Before bringing his life experiences to television, Huang owned the iconic NYC restaurant Baohaus, ushering in a generation of Taiwanese-Chinese restaurants over the course of a decade in business and launching his career as the host of cooking shows, including “Cheap Bites,” “Unique Eats” and “Huang’s World.”
In 2021, Huang made his feature directorial debut with the basketball drama “Boogie.” He also wrote the Focus Features film, in which he co-starred opposite Taylour Paige...
The multi-hyphenate entertainer’s career kicked into high gear when Huang penned the autobiography “Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir,” about growing up the son of Taiwanese-Chinese immigrants, which was adapted into a critically acclaimed ABC comedy series of the same name. The series — starring Randall Park, Constance Wu and Hudson Yang as a younger version of Eddie — wrapped its six-season run in 2020.
Before bringing his life experiences to television, Huang owned the iconic NYC restaurant Baohaus, ushering in a generation of Taiwanese-Chinese restaurants over the course of a decade in business and launching his career as the host of cooking shows, including “Cheap Bites,” “Unique Eats” and “Huang’s World.”
In 2021, Huang made his feature directorial debut with the basketball drama “Boogie.” He also wrote the Focus Features film, in which he co-starred opposite Taylour Paige...
- 4/5/2023
- by Angelique Jackson
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: M88 has inked a deal to rep brother filmmakers Aaron Tao And Winston Tao, who together go by the name Tao/S.
The award-winning, Chinese-American pair of writer-directors, currently best known for their work in the branded space, most recently saw their branded film “The Rabbit Hole” make the shortlist for Ad of The Year: Charity in Shots, winning Best Directing, Screenplay and Fiction at the One Screen Film Festival, and taking gold in Best Branded category On The Cusp of Greatness at the 1.4 Awards. The duo were also behind the film “Sleep Well, My Baby,” which won silver at the Cannes Yda Awards.
Tao/S’s other branded films, “Watching” and “SuperMaarko,” won them an additional Cannes Yda Award and the Webby Award for People’s Voice, as well as noms for Best Emerging Directors and Narrative at the One Screen Film Festival.
Graduates of Chapman University’s...
The award-winning, Chinese-American pair of writer-directors, currently best known for their work in the branded space, most recently saw their branded film “The Rabbit Hole” make the shortlist for Ad of The Year: Charity in Shots, winning Best Directing, Screenplay and Fiction at the One Screen Film Festival, and taking gold in Best Branded category On The Cusp of Greatness at the 1.4 Awards. The duo were also behind the film “Sleep Well, My Baby,” which won silver at the Cannes Yda Awards.
Tao/S’s other branded films, “Watching” and “SuperMaarko,” won them an additional Cannes Yda Award and the Webby Award for People’s Voice, as well as noms for Best Emerging Directors and Narrative at the One Screen Film Festival.
Graduates of Chapman University’s...
- 4/4/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Boston Celtics shooting guard Jaylen Brown has signed with M88 for management, becoming the first athlete to join the company’s roster of artists and cultural leaders. M88 will now look to create and develop opportunities for Brown in both the entertainment and strategic partnership spaces.
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The No. 3 pick overall in the 2016 NBA Draft, Brown joined the Celtics at just 19 after negotiating his own contract. The two-time All-Star in 2019 became the youngest member of the National Basketball Players Association’s executive committee, joining as Vice President and being reelected this year.
Brown aided, as VP, in the creation of THINK450, which helps NBA players gain control of their name and likeness.
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The No. 3 pick overall in the 2016 NBA Draft, Brown joined the Celtics at just 19 after negotiating his own contract. The two-time All-Star in 2019 became the youngest member of the National Basketball Players Association’s executive committee, joining as Vice President and being reelected this year.
Brown aided, as VP, in the creation of THINK450, which helps NBA players gain control of their name and likeness.
- 3/22/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: M88 has signed Netflix’s Ginny and Georgia writer Mike Gauyo.
Gauyo also wrote for the critically acclaimed series, Insecure (HBO), Netflix’s Ginny and Georgia, and is the founder of the Black Boy Writes and Black Girl Writes Mentorship initiative, which is a yearlong program that provides pre-wga Black writers with access towards becoming established screenwriters in entertainment. Of the mentorship initiative Mike says,
“I launched the program in hopes of creating a space for Black writers to have access towards a career in writing that otherwise may have felt out of their reach. I’m happy to sign with M88, who isn’t just dedicated to being stewards of my career, but is equally as invested in the success of my mentorship initiative and its goal of amplifying marginalized voices.”
Most recently, Gauyo co-created Send Help for AMC Network’s Allblk streaming platform and served as its co-showrunner and Executive Producer.
Gauyo also wrote for the critically acclaimed series, Insecure (HBO), Netflix’s Ginny and Georgia, and is the founder of the Black Boy Writes and Black Girl Writes Mentorship initiative, which is a yearlong program that provides pre-wga Black writers with access towards becoming established screenwriters in entertainment. Of the mentorship initiative Mike says,
“I launched the program in hopes of creating a space for Black writers to have access towards a career in writing that otherwise may have felt out of their reach. I’m happy to sign with M88, who isn’t just dedicated to being stewards of my career, but is equally as invested in the success of my mentorship initiative and its goal of amplifying marginalized voices.”
Most recently, Gauyo co-created Send Help for AMC Network’s Allblk streaming platform and served as its co-showrunner and Executive Producer.
- 3/6/2023
- by Valerie Complex
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: M88 has signed Nigerian American filmmaker Walé Oyéjidé, on the heels of his first narrative feature, Bravo, Burkina!‘s world premiere in the Next section of the 2023 Sundance Film Festival.
The film written, directed and exec produced by Oyéjidé tells the story of a Burkinabé boy who flees his village and migrates to Italy. When later disillusioned by heartbreak, and haunted by memories of home, he travels through time in hope of regaining all he has lost. Pic premiered in Park City, Ut on January 23 and was nominated for the Next Innovator Award.
Oyéjidé previously helmed the documentary short After Migration: Calabria, which is currently available to stream on The Criterion Channel. Next up is the feature Chiaroscuro, which went through last year’s Sundance lab and will be packaged by M88.
Oyéjidé is a Sundance Feature Film Program fellow, as well as a National Geographic explorer, Ted fellow,...
The film written, directed and exec produced by Oyéjidé tells the story of a Burkinabé boy who flees his village and migrates to Italy. When later disillusioned by heartbreak, and haunted by memories of home, he travels through time in hope of regaining all he has lost. Pic premiered in Park City, Ut on January 23 and was nominated for the Next Innovator Award.
Oyéjidé previously helmed the documentary short After Migration: Calabria, which is currently available to stream on The Criterion Channel. Next up is the feature Chiaroscuro, which went through last year’s Sundance lab and will be packaged by M88.
Oyéjidé is a Sundance Feature Film Program fellow, as well as a National Geographic explorer, Ted fellow,...
- 2/2/2023
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Actress DeWanda Wise (Jurassic World: Dominion) has signed with M88 for representation.
Wise most recently starred alongside Chris Pratt, Bryce Hallas Howard, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Sam Neill and more in the blockbuster Jurassic World: Dominion from Amblin Entertainment and Universal Pictures, which grossed over 1 billion at the worldwide box office upon its June release.
The actress is otherwise best known for starring as Nola Darling in Spike Lee’s series She’s Gotta Have It, based on his classic 1986 film of the same name, which aired for two seasons on Netflix. Additional TV credits include Invasion, The Twilight Zone, Shots Fired, Underground, The Mentalist, Boardwalk Empire and The Good Wife.
Wise has also previously appeared in films including Jennifer Kaytin Robinson’s Someone Great, Paul Weitz’s Kevin Hart starrer Fatherhood and Jeymes Samuel’s The Harder They Fall for Netflix, and Stella Meghie’s The Weekend.
Anticipated...
Wise most recently starred alongside Chris Pratt, Bryce Hallas Howard, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Sam Neill and more in the blockbuster Jurassic World: Dominion from Amblin Entertainment and Universal Pictures, which grossed over 1 billion at the worldwide box office upon its June release.
The actress is otherwise best known for starring as Nola Darling in Spike Lee’s series She’s Gotta Have It, based on his classic 1986 film of the same name, which aired for two seasons on Netflix. Additional TV credits include Invasion, The Twilight Zone, Shots Fired, Underground, The Mentalist, Boardwalk Empire and The Good Wife.
Wise has also previously appeared in films including Jennifer Kaytin Robinson’s Someone Great, Paul Weitz’s Kevin Hart starrer Fatherhood and Jeymes Samuel’s The Harder They Fall for Netflix, and Stella Meghie’s The Weekend.
Anticipated...
- 12/8/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: The fourth annual Macro Hbcu Summit is underway Tuesday in-person again this year at Howard University in Washington, DC. The microfestival is hosting panels, food trucks, giveaways and a film screening.
The inaugural summit debuted at Howard in 2019 with the mission to engage and educate students on careers, opportunities and paths in the media and entertainment fields.
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Confirmed to appear this year are Naturi Naughton, Oscar-winning production designer Hannah Beachler, M88 partner/talent manager Oronde Garrett, UTA talent agent Yasmine Pearl, journalist/TV host Gia Peppers, managing director and Chase Sapphire Gm Marleta Ross and Macro founder and CEO Charles D. King, along with a virtual appearance by director Ryan Coogler.
The inaugural summit debuted at Howard in 2019 with the mission to engage and educate students on careers, opportunities and paths in the media and entertainment fields.
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Confirmed to appear this year are Naturi Naughton, Oscar-winning production designer Hannah Beachler, M88 partner/talent manager Oronde Garrett, UTA talent agent Yasmine Pearl, journalist/TV host Gia Peppers, managing director and Chase Sapphire Gm Marleta Ross and Macro founder and CEO Charles D. King, along with a virtual appearance by director Ryan Coogler.
- 10/18/2022
- by Valerie Complex
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Alton Mason, the 24-year-old actor who broke out with his turn as Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winner Little Richard in Warner Bros.’ Elvis, has signed with M88 for representation.
The film marking Mason’s acting debut examines the life and music of Elvis Presley (Austin Butler) through the prism of his complicated relationship with his manager, Colonel Tom Parker (Tom Hanks) — charting their dynamic over the course of 20 years, from Presley’s rise to fame, to his unprecedented stardom. The musical drama from Oscar-nominated director Baz Luhrmann (The Great Gatsby) was released in the U.S. on June 24, following its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. It has since gone on to become Luhrmann’s highest-grossing movie to date in the U.S. and Canada, thus far grossing over 284M worldwide.
Mason moved to Los Angeles to study dance and theatre at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy...
The film marking Mason’s acting debut examines the life and music of Elvis Presley (Austin Butler) through the prism of his complicated relationship with his manager, Colonel Tom Parker (Tom Hanks) — charting their dynamic over the course of 20 years, from Presley’s rise to fame, to his unprecedented stardom. The musical drama from Oscar-nominated director Baz Luhrmann (The Great Gatsby) was released in the U.S. on June 24, following its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. It has since gone on to become Luhrmann’s highest-grossing movie to date in the U.S. and Canada, thus far grossing over 284M worldwide.
Mason moved to Los Angeles to study dance and theatre at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy...
- 9/14/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Peabody Award-winning showrunner, producer and writer Gary Lennon (Power Book IV: Force) has signed with M88.
Lennon currently serves as showrunner and executive producer of Starz’s Power spin-off Power Book IV: Force, which boasts the most-watched series premiere in the history of the premium cabler, with 3.3 million multiplatform views in the U.S. alone. The crime drama, renewed for a second season in March, now also has the record for most-watched day on the Starz app and on linear as the highest-rated premiere.
Under his deal with Starz, Lennon also exec produces the Cape Cod opioid crisis-based crime drama Hightown, which was renewed for a third season earlier this year. He at the same time serves as an executive producer on HBO’s hugely popular teen drama series Euphoria starring Zendaya, which recently garnered 16 Emmy nominations including Best Drama Series.
Lennon previously served as co-showrunner, writer and executive producer on Power,...
Lennon currently serves as showrunner and executive producer of Starz’s Power spin-off Power Book IV: Force, which boasts the most-watched series premiere in the history of the premium cabler, with 3.3 million multiplatform views in the U.S. alone. The crime drama, renewed for a second season in March, now also has the record for most-watched day on the Starz app and on linear as the highest-rated premiere.
Under his deal with Starz, Lennon also exec produces the Cape Cod opioid crisis-based crime drama Hightown, which was renewed for a third season earlier this year. He at the same time serves as an executive producer on HBO’s hugely popular teen drama series Euphoria starring Zendaya, which recently garnered 16 Emmy nominations including Best Drama Series.
Lennon previously served as co-showrunner, writer and executive producer on Power,...
- 7/15/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
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Director Tony Vainuku has signed with M88.
Vainuku became an Emmy award-winning director in 2017 for his feature-length documentary In Football We Trust. The cautionary sports doc, which bowed at Sundance, focused on the impact that football has on the emerging Polynesian community in the United States.
The Polynesian-American filmmaker also directed the two-part finale for Netflix’s Untold documentary series executive produced by the Way Brothers and set for a release next month. The finale chronicles the catfishing hoax that led to Heisman trophy finalist Manti Te’o’s fall from stardom.
Vainuku is also directing the docuseries American Gladiators with Campfire Films, and will helm and showrun a docuseries for Scott Budnick’s One Community.
In addition, he is developing a narrative series based on the life of Junior Seau. The life of the Samoan NFL star from Oceanside, California came to a...
Director Tony Vainuku has signed with M88.
Vainuku became an Emmy award-winning director in 2017 for his feature-length documentary In Football We Trust. The cautionary sports doc, which bowed at Sundance, focused on the impact that football has on the emerging Polynesian community in the United States.
The Polynesian-American filmmaker also directed the two-part finale for Netflix’s Untold documentary series executive produced by the Way Brothers and set for a release next month. The finale chronicles the catfishing hoax that led to Heisman trophy finalist Manti Te’o’s fall from stardom.
Vainuku is also directing the docuseries American Gladiators with Campfire Films, and will helm and showrun a docuseries for Scott Budnick’s One Community.
In addition, he is developing a narrative series based on the life of Junior Seau. The life of the Samoan NFL star from Oceanside, California came to a...
- 7/15/2022
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: M88 has signed Emmy- and Critics’ Choice Award-nominated actor Asante Blackk (This Is Us) for theatrical representation.
Blackk found his breakout role in Ava DuVernay’s acclaimed limited series When They See Us for Netflix, which had him portraying Central Park Five member Kevin Richardson. His turn brought him a Critics’ Choice Award nomination as well as his first Emmy nom, which made him the TV Academy’s youngest actor nom of 2019.
The 20-year-old most recently appeared on NBC’s hit show This Is Us opposite Sterling K. Brown, Susan Kelechi Watson, Lyric Ross and more. His portrayal of Malik Hodges—the boyfriend of Lyric Ross’ Déjà Pearson—brought him his second Critics’ Choice Award nom in the year of When They See Us. Blackk will next make his feature debut in Cory Finley’s Landscape with Invisible Hand for MGM and Plan B, opposite Tiffany Haddish.
Former WME...
Blackk found his breakout role in Ava DuVernay’s acclaimed limited series When They See Us for Netflix, which had him portraying Central Park Five member Kevin Richardson. His turn brought him a Critics’ Choice Award nomination as well as his first Emmy nom, which made him the TV Academy’s youngest actor nom of 2019.
The 20-year-old most recently appeared on NBC’s hit show This Is Us opposite Sterling K. Brown, Susan Kelechi Watson, Lyric Ross and more. His portrayal of Malik Hodges—the boyfriend of Lyric Ross’ Déjà Pearson—brought him his second Critics’ Choice Award nom in the year of When They See Us. Blackk will next make his feature debut in Cory Finley’s Landscape with Invisible Hand for MGM and Plan B, opposite Tiffany Haddish.
Former WME...
- 7/7/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Marvel star Dominique Thorne has signed with M88 for representation.
Thorne will soon make her MCU debut as the comic book character Riri Williams, aka Ironheart, a brilliant inventor who built her own version of the Iron Man suit in an MIT dorm, in the highly-anticipated movie “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.” Thorne will then go on to headline her own Disney+ series, “Ironheart.”
The young actor made her feature film debut in Oscar-winning filmmaker Barry Jenkins’ critically acclaimed 2018 movie “If Beale Street Could Talk.” She played Sheila Hunt, the younger sister of Fonny Hunt (Stephan James), one half of the movie’s central love story. Thorne next starred opposite Daniel Kaluuya and Lakeith Stanfield in Warner Bros.’ Academy Award-nominated film “Judas and the Black Messiah.” Directed by Shaka King and executive produced by Ryan Coogler and Charles D. King, the film follows the story of Fred Hampton, Chairman of the Illinois Black Panther Party,...
Thorne will soon make her MCU debut as the comic book character Riri Williams, aka Ironheart, a brilliant inventor who built her own version of the Iron Man suit in an MIT dorm, in the highly-anticipated movie “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.” Thorne will then go on to headline her own Disney+ series, “Ironheart.”
The young actor made her feature film debut in Oscar-winning filmmaker Barry Jenkins’ critically acclaimed 2018 movie “If Beale Street Could Talk.” She played Sheila Hunt, the younger sister of Fonny Hunt (Stephan James), one half of the movie’s central love story. Thorne next starred opposite Daniel Kaluuya and Lakeith Stanfield in Warner Bros.’ Academy Award-nominated film “Judas and the Black Messiah.” Directed by Shaka King and executive produced by Ryan Coogler and Charles D. King, the film follows the story of Fred Hampton, Chairman of the Illinois Black Panther Party,...
- 5/9/2022
- by Angelique Jackson
- Variety Film + TV
“Black-ish” and “Little” star Marsai Martin and her Genius Entertainment production company have signed with UTA for representation in all areas.
In 2019, Martin starred in “Little,” a feature that she conceptualized, pitched, sold and then executive produced with Will Packer for Universal. The move made Martin, who was just 14, the youngest person to executive produce a major Hollywood film. Directed by Tina Gordon and co-starring Regina Hall and Issa Rae, “Little” went on to gross $49 million at the box office. Most recently, she voiced characters in Universal/Dreamworks Animation’s “Spirit Untamed,” as well as Paramount’s feature film “Paw Patrol.”
For the past seven years, Martin has starred on the Emmy-nominated comedy “Black-ish,” stealing scenes as the Johnson family’s smart, witty, youngest daughter Diane Johnson. Martin has earned nine NAACP Image Awards and three BET Awards for her performance on the hit ABC show, which is set to...
In 2019, Martin starred in “Little,” a feature that she conceptualized, pitched, sold and then executive produced with Will Packer for Universal. The move made Martin, who was just 14, the youngest person to executive produce a major Hollywood film. Directed by Tina Gordon and co-starring Regina Hall and Issa Rae, “Little” went on to gross $49 million at the box office. Most recently, she voiced characters in Universal/Dreamworks Animation’s “Spirit Untamed,” as well as Paramount’s feature film “Paw Patrol.”
For the past seven years, Martin has starred on the Emmy-nominated comedy “Black-ish,” stealing scenes as the Johnson family’s smart, witty, youngest daughter Diane Johnson. Martin has earned nine NAACP Image Awards and three BET Awards for her performance on the hit ABC show, which is set to...
- 11/19/2021
- by Angelique Jackson
- Variety Film + TV
Actor and activist Kendrick Sampson has signed with M88, the independently operated representation firm founded in 2020 by Phillip Sun and Macro’s Charles D. King.
Alongside M88, the star will also be represented by the firm’s sister company Uncmmn, which spotlights disruptive talent rooted in new media. Under the new partnership, M88 and Uncmmn will work together to holistically amplify Sampson’s career, in another example of their combined mission to represent diverse creators in a full-spectrum capacity.
Sampson is best known for his role as Nathan on HBO’s “Insecure,” and is set to return for the Emmy-nominated show’s fifth and final season. Most recently, the actor starred opposite Nicole Beharie in Channing Godfrey Peoples’ award-winning movie “Miss Juneteenth.”
After landing his breakout role on the CW’s “The Vampire Diaries,” the actor also booked major roles on ABC’s “How to Get Away with Murder,” Showtime’s “White Famous,...
Alongside M88, the star will also be represented by the firm’s sister company Uncmmn, which spotlights disruptive talent rooted in new media. Under the new partnership, M88 and Uncmmn will work together to holistically amplify Sampson’s career, in another example of their combined mission to represent diverse creators in a full-spectrum capacity.
Sampson is best known for his role as Nathan on HBO’s “Insecure,” and is set to return for the Emmy-nominated show’s fifth and final season. Most recently, the actor starred opposite Nicole Beharie in Channing Godfrey Peoples’ award-winning movie “Miss Juneteenth.”
After landing his breakout role on the CW’s “The Vampire Diaries,” the actor also booked major roles on ABC’s “How to Get Away with Murder,” Showtime’s “White Famous,...
- 8/4/2021
- by Angelique Jackson
- Variety Film + TV
Producer and creative executive Maya Rodrigo has joined M88, the full-service representation firm founded by former WME partner Phillip Sun and Macro founder and CEO Charles D. King.
In her new position, Rodrigo will be focused on building and supporting the firm’s literary roster.
“Maya’s expertise, keen eye for meaningful content and determination to continue the work that needs to be done for underrepresented voices, are a perfect addition to our growing M88 team. I am very excited to have her join us,” Sun said in a statement announcing Rodrigo’s new position.
Rodrigo most recently served as a creative executive for QC Entertainment, the production and finance company behind the Academy Award-winning films “Get Out” & “BlacKkKlansman,” where she worked to identify, cultivate and shepherd projects across the company’s film and television slates. Rodrigo also served as an associate producer on QC’s “The Oath,” written, directed by and starring Ike Barinholtz,...
In her new position, Rodrigo will be focused on building and supporting the firm’s literary roster.
“Maya’s expertise, keen eye for meaningful content and determination to continue the work that needs to be done for underrepresented voices, are a perfect addition to our growing M88 team. I am very excited to have her join us,” Sun said in a statement announcing Rodrigo’s new position.
Rodrigo most recently served as a creative executive for QC Entertainment, the production and finance company behind the Academy Award-winning films “Get Out” & “BlacKkKlansman,” where she worked to identify, cultivate and shepherd projects across the company’s film and television slates. Rodrigo also served as an associate producer on QC’s “The Oath,” written, directed by and starring Ike Barinholtz,...
- 4/13/2021
- by Angelique Jackson
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Oscar-nominated and Golden Globe-winning actor, writer, producer, activist and overall queen Taraji P. Henson has signed with M88. Henson will be repped by the entire M88 team, led by new partner Oronde Garrett and co-founder Phillip Sun.
Henson has an acting career that showcases both her range and personality. Most recently, she wrapped Empire where she played the memorable no-nonsense Cookie Lyon. The role earned her three Emmy nominations, a Golden Globe, a Critics’ Choice Award and three BET Awards.
In July, Henson’s production company Tph Entertainment signed a first-look deal with Twentieth Century Fox TV. The first project in development out of the gate is — you guessed it — a Cookie Lyon spinoff series. The agreement with Fox will also include other projects for multiple platforms.
Henson’s breakout performance in Hustle & Flow was a launching pad to stardom. Her credits...
Henson has an acting career that showcases both her range and personality. Most recently, she wrapped Empire where she played the memorable no-nonsense Cookie Lyon. The role earned her three Emmy nominations, a Golden Globe, a Critics’ Choice Award and three BET Awards.
In July, Henson’s production company Tph Entertainment signed a first-look deal with Twentieth Century Fox TV. The first project in development out of the gate is — you guessed it — a Cookie Lyon spinoff series. The agreement with Fox will also include other projects for multiple platforms.
Henson’s breakout performance in Hustle & Flow was a launching pad to stardom. Her credits...
- 12/1/2020
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Managers Alexa Daniel and Gerald Lee have joined M88, a full-service representation firm founded by former WME partner Phillip Sun and Macro founder and CEO Charles D. King.
Beginning their careers in the talent department at WME, Daniel and Lee work with Michael B. Jordan, Idris Elba, Donald Glover, Naomi Scott, Riz Ahmed, Gemma Chan, Caleb McLaughlin, Sullivan Stapleton, Sabrina Dhowre Elba and Corey Calliet. Daniel and Lee also recently signed digital content creator Katie Florence, who will make her on-screen debut in the Umc streaming series “Millennials,” after launching the popular Instagram and TikTok franchise “The Kouncil.”
“I loved working with Alexa and Gerald since our time at WME. They are remarkably talented individuals and I deeply admire their drive and determination to progress our business forward,” Sun said of the new additions. “Their skillset, mentality and vision for the future of our industry are a perfect addition to our M88 team.
Beginning their careers in the talent department at WME, Daniel and Lee work with Michael B. Jordan, Idris Elba, Donald Glover, Naomi Scott, Riz Ahmed, Gemma Chan, Caleb McLaughlin, Sullivan Stapleton, Sabrina Dhowre Elba and Corey Calliet. Daniel and Lee also recently signed digital content creator Katie Florence, who will make her on-screen debut in the Umc streaming series “Millennials,” after launching the popular Instagram and TikTok franchise “The Kouncil.”
“I loved working with Alexa and Gerald since our time at WME. They are remarkably talented individuals and I deeply admire their drive and determination to progress our business forward,” Sun said of the new additions. “Their skillset, mentality and vision for the future of our industry are a perfect addition to our M88 team.
- 11/30/2020
- by Angelique Jackson
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Former WME Partner Phillip Sun and MacRo Founder & CEO Charles D. King’s newly launched M88 is growing. Prominent talent manager Oronde Garrett has joined M88 as partner. The new addition bolsters the full-service representation firm that was created to amplify the voices of artists and creators from the “global new majority”.
Garrett is the longtime business partner and manager to Idris Elba. In addition to Elba, he brings with him a unique roster of marquee talent including Hollywood’s record-breaking producer and black-ish star Marsai Martin, media staple Van Lathan, writer-filmmaker Chad Sanders and young tech genius Iddris Sandu.
Prior to joining M88, Garrett built a 20-year career as a preeminent talent manager, film/television consultant and branding executive while working and collaborating with some of the most recognizable actors, creatives, athletes and brands.
“I first got to know Oronde through our mutual client Idris Elba, and over...
Garrett is the longtime business partner and manager to Idris Elba. In addition to Elba, he brings with him a unique roster of marquee talent including Hollywood’s record-breaking producer and black-ish star Marsai Martin, media staple Van Lathan, writer-filmmaker Chad Sanders and young tech genius Iddris Sandu.
Prior to joining M88, Garrett built a 20-year career as a preeminent talent manager, film/television consultant and branding executive while working and collaborating with some of the most recognizable actors, creatives, athletes and brands.
“I first got to know Oronde through our mutual client Idris Elba, and over...
- 10/29/2020
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Marsai Martin, who plays Diane Johnson in the hit ABC comedy Black-ish, has teamed with Walden Media to adapt Ingrid Law’s children’s fantasy novel Savvy as a TV series.
Martin’s Genius Entertainment, which has a first-look film deal with Universal Pictures, is developing the adaptation with The Chronicles of Narnia producer Walden Media.
The book, which was published in 2008 by Penguin Random House and Walden Media, tells the story of Mibs Beaumont, who is elated for her upcoming birthday. Not only does turning 13 officially make her a teenager, but in the Beaumont family, the 13th birthday is when Beaumonts discover their “savvy,” their own supernatural power. While Mibs’ grandfather can move mountains, and her brothers cause hurricanes and create electricity, her power, the ability to read minds, isn’t exactly the best thing when you’re a teenage girl.
Elizabeth Chandler, who wrote the screenplay for...
Martin’s Genius Entertainment, which has a first-look film deal with Universal Pictures, is developing the adaptation with The Chronicles of Narnia producer Walden Media.
The book, which was published in 2008 by Penguin Random House and Walden Media, tells the story of Mibs Beaumont, who is elated for her upcoming birthday. Not only does turning 13 officially make her a teenager, but in the Beaumont family, the 13th birthday is when Beaumonts discover their “savvy,” their own supernatural power. While Mibs’ grandfather can move mountains, and her brothers cause hurricanes and create electricity, her power, the ability to read minds, isn’t exactly the best thing when you’re a teenage girl.
Elizabeth Chandler, who wrote the screenplay for...
- 9/30/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Peacock is developing a teen comedy drama about Black teenagers in L.A. from Real Husbands of Hollywood creator Chris Spencer and Grown-ish writer Chad Sanders.
How To Survive Inglewood is created and written by by the pair, who will exec produce alongside Morgan Freeman and Lori McCreary of Revelations Entertainment. Matt Milkovich is producing for Revelations Entertainment
Ucp, a division of Universal Studio Group, is the studio.
The comedy drama follows Black teenagers trying to get through the absurd, treacherous, and embarrassing obstacles that come with adolescence. After moving from the suburbs to Inglewood, the Sanders family will find that teenage years are universally magical, confusing, scary, and hormonal, but in this new environment, the emotional swings are crazier because the stakes are higher.
Chris Spencer and Chad Sanders (left) were recently set to write the Universal Pictures-Will Packer Productions sports drama One and Done.
The project...
How To Survive Inglewood is created and written by by the pair, who will exec produce alongside Morgan Freeman and Lori McCreary of Revelations Entertainment. Matt Milkovich is producing for Revelations Entertainment
Ucp, a division of Universal Studio Group, is the studio.
The comedy drama follows Black teenagers trying to get through the absurd, treacherous, and embarrassing obstacles that come with adolescence. After moving from the suburbs to Inglewood, the Sanders family will find that teenage years are universally magical, confusing, scary, and hormonal, but in this new environment, the emotional swings are crazier because the stakes are higher.
Chris Spencer and Chad Sanders (left) were recently set to write the Universal Pictures-Will Packer Productions sports drama One and Done.
The project...
- 7/30/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Marsai Martin is continuing to build her Hollywood empire and adding talk show host to her list of credits. The Black-ish star is set to host her own talk show appropriately titled Tiny Talk Show (wt) on Quibi — and as the title suggests, it is literally tiny.
Produced by Art & Industry, Tiny Talk Show is the billed as the world’s smallest functional talk show. The set will be a one-sixth scale of an actual set that reflects the mission of the show itself: intimate, revealing, and devoted to subjects with a lot to say. Marsai will ask her guests some big questions and steer us through this new world as we discover sometimes the littlest voices are the loudest.
Martin will serve as executive producer under her Genius Entertainment banner alongside Josh Martin and Carol Martin. Michelle Caputo and Shannon Hartman for Art & Industry, Alex Diaz, Daryn Carp...
Produced by Art & Industry, Tiny Talk Show is the billed as the world’s smallest functional talk show. The set will be a one-sixth scale of an actual set that reflects the mission of the show itself: intimate, revealing, and devoted to subjects with a lot to say. Marsai will ask her guests some big questions and steer us through this new world as we discover sometimes the littlest voices are the loudest.
Martin will serve as executive producer under her Genius Entertainment banner alongside Josh Martin and Carol Martin. Michelle Caputo and Shannon Hartman for Art & Industry, Alex Diaz, Daryn Carp...
- 7/29/2020
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Universal Pictures is developing “One and Done,” a sports drama written by Chad Sanders and Chris Spencer. The film focuses on one of the nation’s top high school athletes and his unprecedented decision to attend an Hbcu.
Packer and James Lopez will produce through their Will Packer Productions. The movie marks Sanders and Spencer’s first major writing job.
“This is a timely story about a young man’s journey of discovery at an Hbcu and his fight against the Ncaa system,” Packer said.
Executive vice president of production Matt Reilly and creative executive Tony Ducret will oversee the movie on behalf of Universal.
Packer recently produced the romantic drama “The Photograph” starring Issa Rae and Lakeith Stanfield, which bowed over Valentine’s Day weekend.
He had three releases in 2019: “What Men Want” starring Taraji P. Henson, “Little” and a remake of “Jacob’s Ladder” with Michael Ealy.
His...
Packer and James Lopez will produce through their Will Packer Productions. The movie marks Sanders and Spencer’s first major writing job.
“This is a timely story about a young man’s journey of discovery at an Hbcu and his fight against the Ncaa system,” Packer said.
Executive vice president of production Matt Reilly and creative executive Tony Ducret will oversee the movie on behalf of Universal.
Packer recently produced the romantic drama “The Photograph” starring Issa Rae and Lakeith Stanfield, which bowed over Valentine’s Day weekend.
He had three releases in 2019: “What Men Want” starring Taraji P. Henson, “Little” and a remake of “Jacob’s Ladder” with Michael Ealy.
His...
- 6/30/2020
- by Justin Kroll
- Variety Film + TV
Chad Sanders and Chris Spencer are set to write the Universal Pictures-Will Packer Productions sports drama One and Done.
One and Done will center around one of the nation’s top high school athletes and his unprecedented decision to attend an Hbcu.
“This is a timely story about a young man’s journey of discovery at an Hbcu and his fight against the Ncaa system,” said Packer about One and Done which he’ll produce with James Lopez.
Universal EVP of Production Matt Reilly and Creative Executive Tony Ducret will oversee on behalf of the studio.
Sanders is repped by Oronde Garrett and Del Shaw Moonves Tanaka Finkelstein & Lezcano. Spencer is repped by Parallel Entertainment and Del Shaw Moonves Tanaka Finkelstein & Lezcano.
Packer’s movies have grossed more than $1 billion with ten pics that have opened at No. 1 including Girls Trip and Night School, which were the top...
One and Done will center around one of the nation’s top high school athletes and his unprecedented decision to attend an Hbcu.
“This is a timely story about a young man’s journey of discovery at an Hbcu and his fight against the Ncaa system,” said Packer about One and Done which he’ll produce with James Lopez.
Universal EVP of Production Matt Reilly and Creative Executive Tony Ducret will oversee on behalf of the studio.
Sanders is repped by Oronde Garrett and Del Shaw Moonves Tanaka Finkelstein & Lezcano. Spencer is repped by Parallel Entertainment and Del Shaw Moonves Tanaka Finkelstein & Lezcano.
Packer’s movies have grossed more than $1 billion with ten pics that have opened at No. 1 including Girls Trip and Night School, which were the top...
- 6/30/2020
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
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