{"id":151282,"date":"2021-04-05T10:56:30","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T14:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/?p=151282"},"modified":"2021-04-05T10:56:36","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T14:56:36","slug":"barry-jenkins-inks-first-look-deal-with-hbo-max-and-a24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/barry-jenkins-inks-first-look-deal-with-hbo-max-and-a24\/","title":{"rendered":"Barry Jenkins Inks First-Look Deal With HBO Max And A24"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Oscar winner, filmmaker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/2021\/02\/barry-jenkins-a24-reteam-for-all-dirt-roads-taste-of-salt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Barry Jenkins <\/a>and his <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wepastel?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pastel<\/a> production company has inked a two-year, first-look TV\u00a0deal\u00a0with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/2021\/02\/8-black-movies-to-watch-on-hbo-max-this-v-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">HBO<\/a>\u00a0and its streaming sister\u00a0HBO Max. Under the deal,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/2019\/08\/a24-to-release-trey-edward-shults-waves-starring-sterling-k-brown-kelvin-harrison-jr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">A24<\/a>\u00a0will executive produce all of the\u00a0HBO\/HBO Max and\u00a0Pastel projects and partner with\u00a0Jenkins\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/2021\/02\/blackfire-supersuit-unveiled-from-hbomaxs-titans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mark Ceryak<\/a> on select projects outside of the\u00a0deal. <span style=\"color:#ffffff\" class=\"has-inline-color\">Barry Jenkins Inks First-Look Deal With HBO Max And A24. Barry Jenkins Inks First-Look Deal With HBO Max And A24<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pastel aims to serve as an incubator and development support system for budding artists taking on challenging and ground-breaking works; a successful filmmaking collective founded by\u00a0Barry Jenkins\u00a0and\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/2019\/04\/thuso-mbedu-chase-w-dillon-aaron-pierre-cast-in-barry-jenkins-amazon-series-the-underground-railroad\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Underground Railroad\u00a0<\/a><\/em>producers\u00a0Adele Romanski, and\u00a0Mark Ceryak. This deal comes after Jenkins and Pastel previously had a first-look deal, signed in 2018, with Amazon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jenkins is best known for critically-acclaimed and award-winning movies &#8216;Moonlight&#8217; and &#8216;If Beale Street Could Talk&#8217;, both produced by Pastel. The collective collaborated with Brad Pitt&#8217;s Plan B Entertainment for Amazon&#8217;s limited series &#8216;The Underground Railroad&#8217;, which Jenkins has directed. Plan B Entertainment also worked with Jenkins on the Oscar winning film &#8220;If Beale Street Could Talk,&#8221; starring Oscar winner, Regina King, who made her directorial debut this year with &#8220;One Night in Miami.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Underground Railroad cast will be led by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/2019\/04\/thuso-mbedu-chase-w-dillon-aaron-pierre-cast-in-barry-jenkins-amazon-series-the-underground-railroad\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Thuso Mbedu<\/a>\u00a0as Cora, with\u00a0Aaron Pierre\u00a0as Caesar, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackfilm.com\/read\/2019\/04\/thuso-mbedu-chase-w-dillon-aaron-pierre-cast-in-barry-jenkins-amazon-series-the-underground-railroad\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Chase W. Dillon<\/a>\u00a0as Homer.\u00a0 Based on the Colson Whitehead book,\u00a0<em>The Underground Railroad <\/em>chronicles young Cora\u2019s journey as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. After escaping her Georgia plantation for the rumored Underground Railroad, Cora discovers no mere metaphor, but an actual railroad full of engineers and conductors, and a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. The 10-episode series, based on Colson Whitehead\u2019s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, will premiere on Amazon Prime Video this May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet lazyload\" data-expand=\"600\" data-script=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"  data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We the People&#8230;<br> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tgkrs7ULMa\">https:\/\/t.co\/tgkrs7ULMa<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Barry Jenkins (@BarryJenkins) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BarryJenkins\/status\/1318220428054200320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 19, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oscar winner, filmmaker Barry Jenkins and his Pastel production company has inked a two-year, first-look TV\u00a0deal\u00a0with\u00a0HBO\u00a0and its streaming sister\u00a0HBO Max. Under the deal,\u00a0A24\u00a0will executive produce all of the\u00a0HBO\/HBO Max and\u00a0Pastel projects and partner with\u00a0Jenkins\u00a0and Mark Ceryak on select projects outside of the\u00a0deal. Barry Jenkins Inks First-Look Deal With HBO Max And A24. 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