Jordan Peele

Between July 1st and July 31st, we tracked 22 new feature specs hitting the market, with only 4 having some type of attachment. Surprisingly, this is only a 4.3% decrease in specs from June. June saw a monstrous uptick in specs from the rest of the year, so it looks like we’re holding steady for the summer. Still, July didn’t beat out the record high for the year but came quite close to it.

Universal Pictures is focused on determining what theatrical looks like in this new landscape as well as what makes sense for Streaming.

Peacock still exists within the cable department and wants to be writer focused.

In 1993, Lorena made headlines when she cut off her husband’s penis. She later claimed that she did so after he raped her. The series will examine how the case laid the foundation for the modern 24-hour news cycle and increasing sensationalistic media coverage.

Academy Award nominee Henry Selick is set to direct. Selick previously directed the stop-motion animated films Coraline and The Nightmare Before Christmas.

Jordan Peele and Simon Kinberg are about to enter a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity.

Get Outopened to $33 million and showed amazing legs, ultimately taking in $174 million at the domestic box office. The film was loved by critics and audiences alike, and the thinking is that Peele’s next film could open closer to The Conjuring, which grossed $41 million in its opening frame.

Still riding the high from the success of his directorial debut, the horror film Get Out, Jordan Peele is set to executive produce the new HBO series Lovecraft Country, which has been given a straight-to-series order.

Universal staved off a major push from Warner Bros., which had been courting Peele to direct one of its long-gestating development projects such as Akira, The Flash and Uptown Saturday Night.

Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way is producing Akira with Andrew Lazar, while Marco Ramirez wrote the most recent draft of the script,

As they do every year, CinemaCon has bestowed more than a dozen awards upon actors, directors, producers and other members of the industry, so let’s take you through this year’s honorees, shall we?

Comedian Tracy Morgan’s new comedy has received a straight-to-series order at TBS of ten episodes. Key & Peele‘s Jordan Peele created and executive produces the series with John Carcieri.

From writer-director Jordan Peele, a young African American man visits his white girlfriend’s family, with horrifying consequences.

Between the shootouts, the kittens, and the George Michael soundtrack, Keanu combines a lot of things that don’t normally go together. But in the hands of Key and Peele, it somehow makes sense.

In the new “Kitten Please” trailer for Keanu, everything is the same as the original trailer except for the fact that every single actor has been replaced with a cuddly cat.

Keith Stanfield has joined horror film Get Out from Blumhouse Productions. Jordan Peele of Key and Peele wrote and is directing the picture.

Squarespace has announced that Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele will provide live commentary during Super Bowl 50 on Sunday–in character, no less.

Friends hatch a plot to retrieve a stolen cat by posing as drug dealers for a street gang.

Caleb Landry Jones, best known for his work in X-Men: First Class, has signed onto to the horror movie Get Out. He will star opposite Jordan Peele, Catherine Keener, Allison Williams, and Daniel Kaluuya.

Kaluuya will star as a young African-American man who visits his white girlfriend’s family estate, to be played by Girls star Allison Williams. Jason Blum is producing under his Blumhouse banner, along with QC Entertainment’s Sean McKittrick and Edward H. Hamm Jr.

Two scheming demon brothers who must face their arch-nemesis, the demon-dusting nun Sister Helly, and her two acolytes, the goth teens Kat and Raoul.

Plot details are being kept under wraps, though sources confirm that the film will center on an African American man who visits his white girlfriend’s family estate.

Vine star King Bach (Andrew Bachelor) is starring in a new show on Fox from Key & Peele‘s Alex Rubens as an undercover cop in his old neighborhood.

Peele is both writing and directing the project, which has been pitched as a new spin on the horror-thriller genre. QC Entertainment is also producing. The film centers on a young African American man who visits his Caucasian girlfriend’s family estate.

Kept under wraps, but centers on a young African American man who visits his Caucasian girlfriend’s family estate.

Logline: No-nonsense irascible substitute teacher Mr. Garvey competes against a rival inner-city educator for the respect and admiration of the student body.

Logline: No-nonsense irascible substitute teacher Mr. Garvey competes against a rival inner-city educator for the respect and admiration of the student body.

Logline: A group of friends pose as drug dealers to infiltrate the criminal underworld, all to retrieve a stolen kitty.

A roundup of the week’s TV casting news!

Comedians Danny McBride, Sarah Silverman, Kevin Hart, Josh Gad, Keegan Michael Key, and Jordan Peele are also in talks to join the remake.