Exclusive: Naomi Osaka is getting further into anime.
The tennis star’s production company Hana Kuma has teamed with Rebel Maverick, run by the queer, Afro-Latinx writing and producing team, Matt Nicholas and Nastassja Kayln, to develop manga series Allure: The Evening Primrose as an adult anime TV series.
It is based on Noir Caesar Entertainment’s manga of the same name.
Osaka will lead the voice cast and exec produce the series, which will be adapted and written by Kenny Byerly (Big Hero 6: The Series).
The series, originally written by comic book writer Sinitus Tempo, follows Akane Koizumi (Osaka), a talented rookie assassin for the Adachi crime family, who longs to receive “Allure,” a dangerous drug that enhances the abilities of elite killers known as “Death Bringers”. However, when she and her team cross the Adachis and are marked for death, they must find a way to survive...
The tennis star’s production company Hana Kuma has teamed with Rebel Maverick, run by the queer, Afro-Latinx writing and producing team, Matt Nicholas and Nastassja Kayln, to develop manga series Allure: The Evening Primrose as an adult anime TV series.
It is based on Noir Caesar Entertainment’s manga of the same name.
Osaka will lead the voice cast and exec produce the series, which will be adapted and written by Kenny Byerly (Big Hero 6: The Series).
The series, originally written by comic book writer Sinitus Tempo, follows Akane Koizumi (Osaka), a talented rookie assassin for the Adachi crime family, who longs to receive “Allure,” a dangerous drug that enhances the abilities of elite killers known as “Death Bringers”. However, when she and her team cross the Adachis and are marked for death, they must find a way to survive...
- 2/13/2024
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Web Therapy, Lisa Kudrow’s acclaimed comedy web series debuted its third season on Lexus’ branded entertainment site L Studio this week. Joining Kudrow and her co-creator Dan Bucatinsky on the small screen this season are Tim Bagley, Selma Blair, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Michael McDonald and Molly Shannon. [L Studio] Ugly Americans, the Comedy Central TV series based on Devin Clark’s Atom.com web series 5-On, has just been picked up by the cable network for an additional seven episodes. The animated series debuted March 17th with a total of 2.1 million viewers and has held steady, averaging 2 million total viewers since then, according to Nielsen. [Comedy Central] Revision3’s Digg Dialogg welcomes special guest and former President Bill Clinton to the show tomorrow (4/22) to celebrate Earth Day. The hosted interview web series with Digg founder Kevin Rose has run the gambit in terms of guests—from athletes like Tony Hawk, Adrian Petersen and Grant Hill...
- 4/21/2010
- by Marc Hustvedt
- Tubefilter.com
New York -- Dolphin Entertainment, the production firm behind such teen TV hits as "Zoey 101," has picked high school comedy "Unpopular" as one of its first feature film projects and is developing an online teen telenovela project, company president Bill O'Dowd said Thursday.
Appearing at the annual What Teens Want conference, organized by Hollywood Reporter parent The Nielsen Co., he said the teen and tween content specialist plans to release the film, based on a script by Kenny Byerly, next fall. Casting will begin shortly, and the film will start shooting this fall, he said. Dolphin is also working on finding a director.
"It's a little bit of 'Mean Girls' crossed with 'Clueless,'" said O'Dowd in a keynote interview.
In October, Dolphin secured more than $100 million in financing from Continental Entertainment Capital for six films that Dolphin will produce and sell overseas, with Sony getting first crack at U.
Appearing at the annual What Teens Want conference, organized by Hollywood Reporter parent The Nielsen Co., he said the teen and tween content specialist plans to release the film, based on a script by Kenny Byerly, next fall. Casting will begin shortly, and the film will start shooting this fall, he said. Dolphin is also working on finding a director.
"It's a little bit of 'Mean Girls' crossed with 'Clueless,'" said O'Dowd in a keynote interview.
In October, Dolphin secured more than $100 million in financing from Continental Entertainment Capital for six films that Dolphin will produce and sell overseas, with Sony getting first crack at U.
- 6/25/2009
- by By Tina Yazdani
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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