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Ava DuVernay Signs A $100 Million Multi-Year, Multi-Genre Warner Bros. TV Overall Deal

<p>Ava DuVernay is definitely wrapping up the year in a pretty big way&comma; with another bag secured&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>According to <em><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;deadline&period;com&sol;2018&sol;11&sol;ava-duvernay-warner-bros-tv-overall-deal-tv-documentaries-1202509261&sol;">Deadline<&sol;a><&sol;em>&comma; DuVernay just signed a multi-year and multi-genre overall deal with Warner Bros&period; Television&period; It is her first pact with any studio&comma; and it is scheduled to start in January&period; According to the site&comma; the deal is within the &dollar;100 million range&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>She said&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I’ve had nothing but beautiful experiences working with Peter Roth&comma; Susan Rovner&comma; and Brett Paul&period; They love and support artists in wonderful and nourishing ways&period; They work within a traditional studio headed by Kevin Tsujihara that is stirring with untraditional energy and fresh protocols for intentional&comma; inclusive image-making&period; Warner Bros is a terrific partner about matters of visibility and belonging for all kinds and cultures of people&comma; which is our mission at Forward Movement&period; I couldn’t be happier to call Warner Bros TV my production home&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>DuVernay already has an existing relationship with the studio through the Warner Horizon Scripted Television-produced show &&num;8220&semi;Queen Sugar&comma; &&num;8220&semi;and the CBS event series &&num;8220&semi;Red Line&period;&&num;8221&semi; She serves as an executive producer on both shows&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The deal offers DuVernay the opportunity to sell her shows to everyone as opposed to being locked into one outlet&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As we <em><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;ava-duvernay-is-creating-a-central-park-five-miniseries-for-netflix&sol;">previously<&sol;a><&sol;em> reported&comma; DuVernay is also in business with Netflix&comma; with her highly anticipated four-part &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Central Park Five&comma;” drama premiering next year&period; She also signed on to do a <em><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;ava-duvernay-is-working-on-a-prince-documentary-for-netflix&sol;">documentary<&sol;a><&sol;em> about Prince&comma; which is also expected to premiere next year&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Back in 2017&comma; her Netflix documentary &&num;8220&semi;13th&&num;8221&semi; was nominated for an Academy Award&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Congrats to Ava DuVernay on her new deal&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Source<&sol;strong>&colon; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;deadline&period;com&sol;2018&sol;11&sol;ava-duvernay-warner-bros-tv-overall-deal-tv-documentaries-1202509261&sol;">https&colon;&sol;&sol;deadline&period;com&sol;2018&sol;11&sol;ava-duvernay-warner-bros-tv-overall-deal-tv-documentaries-1202509261&sol;<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine; 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