Nicki Minaj and Kim Petras are teaming up!
12.04.2023 - 23:39 / deadline.com
EXCLUSIVE: Nicki Minaj is set to executive produce and star in Lady Danger, a new animated series from Amazon Freevee based on the Dark Horse comic book series of the same name written by Alex de Campi, Deadline has learned.
Alongside Minaj, executive producers also include Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson under his G-Unit Film & TV banner, as well as Brian Sher, and Paul Young & Mike Griffin for Make Good Content. Starburns Industries is the animation studio.
Written by executive producers Carlton Jordan and Crystle Roberson, the series—set in the year 2075—follows a government field agent who is left for dead by her team after discovering a dangerous secret, only to be resurrected as Lady Danger, an afrofuturistic ass-kicking Agent of B.O.O.T.I (Bureau of Organized Terrorism Intervention), who must conceal her true identity while she fights villains who are destroying the earth and its vulnerable inhabitants.
Jordan’s credits as a writer, director and producer include Disney FairyTale Weddings for Freeform, Big Freedia: Queen Of Bounce for Fuse, Mexican Dynasties for Bravo, and the upcoming Unfiltered: Paris Jackson series for Facebook Watch. He is currently developing scripted projects with Regina King’s Royal Ties Productions, and adapting his digital series Love Handles for HBO.
Roberson completed the Sony Diversity Directors Program and honed her craft by doing shorts and music videos with Columbus Short, Idris Elba, and others. Last year she directed 8 episodes of TV, including multiple episodes of Ambitions and Greenleaf for OWN/ Lionsgateas well as multiple episodes of Bigger and American Soul for BET. Most recently, Roberson was a producer and director on Queens for ABC and is currently slated to direct a block of
Nicki Minaj and Kim Petras are teaming up!
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Joe Otterson TV Reporter Nic Pizzolatto is developing a series version of “The Magnificent Seven” at Amazon, Variety has confirmed. The project was originally reported on back in March with a series commitment. It was originally intended to be an original series, but was refashioned to be a new take on the Western classic. Pizzolatto previously co-wrote the 2016 remake of “The Magnificent Seven.” The logline for the reboot states, “In the tradition of the great epics from the golden age of westerns, an outlaw and his cohorts must unite a disparate band of indelible fighters to defend a settlement of immigrant homesteaders in an open range war against cattle barons in central Texas, telling an expansive saga of adventure, action and romance.”
Kim Petras has teamed up with Nicki Minaj for her new single, ‘Alone’.The new single samples Alice Deejay’s 1998 dance classic ‘Better Off Alone’. Petras handles the chorus, singing: “I’ve been tryna give it to you all night/ What’s it gonna take to get you all alone?/ I just want you here by my side/ I don’t wanna be here, baby, on my own.”It’s Petras’ first single since “bad bitch anthem” ‘brrrr’, which came out in January.Check out ‘Alone’ below:Petras then spoke to Zane Lowe on his Apple Music 1 show about the song.
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Kim Petras and Nicki Minaj joined forces on their raunchy floor-filler “Alone.”
Rep. George Santos (R-NY), the House of Representatives member with a long-documented history of misleading the public and his constituents, has introduced a new bill named after Queens rap star Nicki Minaj.
Ice Spice and Nicki Minaj have released a remix of "Princess Diana," a song that originally featured on Ice's Like..? EP. Minaj pays tribute to the late Diana's U.K.
BTS are set to release a new song for the upcoming South Korean animated series Bastions.Today (April 14), South Korean television network SBS released the opening title sequence for Bastions, featuring an as-yet-untitled song sung by BTS as the show’s theme song.The upcoming BTS song will be their first release as a full group since the release of their anthology album ‘Proof’ in June 2022. Since then, the members of the group have branched out into solo careers.“BTS is expected to provide an overwhelming sense of immersion to the emotions and action scenes of the series by singing the theme song in perfect harmony,” the show’s production company Timos Media said in a statement to Yonhap News Agency.In addition to BTS, K-pop groups and musicians such as LE SSERAFIM, Brave Girls, Heize, AleXa and more will feature on the soundtrack of Bastions.
Robert Carlock and Sam Means made their names in Hollywood as the writers behind hits like “30 Rock” and “The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.” Now the pair returns to Netflix with a new animated series, “Mulligan,” ready to debut next month. READ MORE: The 100 Most Anticipated TV Shows & Mini-Series Of 2023 So what’s “Mulligan” about? Continue reading ‘Mulligan’ First Look: New Animated Series From Writers Of ’30 Rock’ & ‘The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’ Hits Netflix On May 12 at The Playlist.
Stranger Things, arguably the biggest TV series of Netflix's streaming era, is due to end this year with the upcoming fifth season set to be the last for the sci-fi drama. This won't be the last action from The Upside Down, however, with Netflix confirming on Monday that an animated series based on the show has been ordered.
Chrissy Teigen, Tina Fey, Daniel Radcliffe and more are lending their voices for a new adult animated comedy series, , from the producers behind and . The Netflix series will launch Friday, May 12, it was announced Tuesday.picks up «after Earth is destroyed by an alien attack, a rag-tag band of survivors has to start society over from scratch.
Netflix has set the full cast for Mulligan, its upcoming animated comedy series from Tina Fey, who also stars, and Robert Carlock (30 Rock, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt). In addition to Fey, Nat Faxon, Chrissy Teigen, Sam Richardson, Dana Carvey and Phil LaMarr have been cast as series regulars and Daniel Radcliffe, Kevin Michael Richardson Ayo Edebiri and Ronny Cheng will recur. The series will premiere Friday, May 12 on Netflix. See the character posters below.
“Stranger Things” will be returning for one final swan-song season, but that doesn’t mean the saga will be over.
Netflix has announced an animated series set in the Stranger Things universe is in development.On Monday (April 10), Stranger Things creators The Duffer Brothers revealed they were working on the untitled spin-off project (via Tudum), which is described as being in “the vein of the Saturday morning cartoons” they grew up with.“We’ve always dreamed of an animated Stranger Things in the vein of the Saturday morning cartoons that we grew up loving, and to see this dream realised has been absolutely thrilling,” Matt and Ross Duffer shared in a statement.The animated spin-off is executive produced by The Duffer Brothers under their Upside Down Pictures production company, alongside Stranger Things producer Shawn Levy, Dan Cohen and Eric Robles from Flying Bark Productions.The Duffer Brothers added: “We couldn’t be more blown away by what Eric Robles and his team have come up with – the scripts and artwork are incredible, and we can’t wait to share more with you! The adventure continues…”This is the third Stranger Things spin-off known to be in development, following a live-action project described as being “1000 per cent different” to the main series and a stage play directed by Stephen Daldry (Billy Elliot, The Reader).
universe is expanding with an animated spinoff series ahead of the flagship's final season.The untitled animated series will be set in the world and will be developed by the Duffer Brothers, Shawn Levy, Dan Cohen and Eric Robles, it was announced Monday.According to the Duffer Brothers, the new series was inspired by childhood cartoons they watched as kids.“We’ve always dreamed of an animated in the vein of the Saturday morning cartoons that we grew up loving, and to see this dream realized has been absolutely thrilling," the Duffer Brothers said in a statement. «We couldn’t be more blown away by what Eric Robles and his team have come up with — the scripts and artwork are incredible, and we can’t wait to share more with you! The adventure continues…”News of the animated series comes as the fifth and final season approaches.»I know a little bit about where it's headed and it's really exciting," star David Harbourtold ET in September 2022, «but you'll see it in another 15 years when it's able to be released when we've shot it.» Millie Bobby Brown said in a recent interview with that she is «very ready to say goodbye» to the series after first joining it when she was 12 years old.«I'm definitely ready to wrap up.
It’s official – the Stranger Things world is getting bigger with an animated series treatment in the works.
“Stranger Things” fans already know the original Netflix series concludes with its upcoming fifth season, which should start filming in a month or two. But Deadline reports that the streamer still has plans for the franchise’s future.