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Netflix is developing a new animated series based on the hugely popular Minecraft sandbox game. Few details are known, but according to Netflix, the series “will feature an original story with new characters that shows the Minecraft world in a new light.” The announcement comes on the 15th…

EXCLUSIVE: Barbie actor and longtime SNL vet Kate McKinnon and Flight of the Conchords maestro Jemaine Clement are joining the mushrooming ensemble of Jared Hess’ Minecraft at Warner Bros. Domain is co-financing the feature take of the Mojang videogame with Legendary. Related…

EXCLUSIVE: Straight off her second Primetime Emmy win for HBO’s The White Lotus, Jennifer Coolidge is boarding Warner Bros/Vertigo/Legendary’s feature take of the Minecraft video game that is shooting in New Zealand. She joins the posse already in place for the big screen take of the Mojang/Microsoft…

Danielle Brooks is teasing the upcoming season of Peacemaker and her new film Minecraft. The Color Purple star talked to Deadline on the red carpet of the Critics Choice Awards, where she talked about her upcoming projects. “It’s happening,” Brooks told us. “That’s all I know. It’s happening…

EXCLUSIVE: Production is about to get underway on Warner Bros/Vertigo/Legendary’s feature take on Mojang/Microsoft’s Minecraft, and sources are telling us that Jack Black is joining the cast of the Jason Momoa-led movie. The pic’s plot is under wraps, with writing credits still being determined. We…

EXCLUSIVE: Emma Myers has a closed a deal we hear to star in Warner Bros and Legendary’s Minecraft feature film. Myers stars as Enid Sinclair on Netflix’s most watched series ever, Wednesday, which counts 1.72 billion global hours watched off 252.1M views. She currently stars in the streamer’s Ed…

EXCLUSIVE: We hear on good authority that Peacemaker star Danielle Brooks and Sebastian Eugene Hansen are joining the cast of Warner Bros and Legendary’s Minecraft movie. Jared Hess is directing the Jason Momoa-starring feature take on the classic computer game. Brooks will play the role of Dawn…

EXCLUSIVE: We can reveal more details and the first pages of YouTuber Karl Jacobs’ comic book Time Traveler Tales, adapted from his Minecraft streaming series Tales From The SMP. Below are the first two pages from the series. Jacobs has teamed up with Umbrella Academy and Sin City publisher Dark…

EXCLUSIVE: Matt Berry (What We Do in the Shadows) is in negotiations to star opposite Jason Momoa in the Minecraft movie that Jared Hess (Napoleon Dynamite) will direct for Warner Bros. Related Stories <a href="https://deadline.com/category/casting/" class="c-span__link a-font-accent-bold-xs u-color-brand-red u-text-transform-uppercase…

Warner Bros decided to wake up a sleepy day with some release-date changes. The first, James Wan’s Aquaman & The Lost Kingdom, is going five days earlier on Wednesday, December 20 this year instead of Christmas Day. The DC pic will open against Sony’s Ghostbusters sequel on Wednesday and will face…

Technoblade, a YouTube creator and Minecraft gamer with nearly 11 million subscribers, has died of cancer, his parents announced in a video posted on their son’s channel. He was 23. Eight hours before he died — he was diagnosed with cancer a year ago — the gamer wrote a final message to his followers, a message that…

Jason Momoa (Dune) is in early talks to star in a live-action Minecraft film in the works at Warner Bros, sources tell Deadline. Minecraft is a first-person survival game developed and published by Mojang Studios that spans multiple platforms. The first installment in the franchise debuted in November 2011, with the…