Fena: Pirate Princess
Adult Swim and Crunchyroll are teaming to produce the new twelve-episode original anime series “Fena: Pirate Princess” which will premiere on Adult Swim’s Toonami and stream on Crunchyroll in 2021 . Kazuto Nakazawa will helm.
The story follows young orphan girl Fena Houtman, raised on an island with no hope other than to be used and discarded by soldiers of the British Empire. When her mysterious past comes knocking, she will break the chains of her oppressors and search for a place where she belong – one tied to the word ‘Eden’. [Source: Variety]
BritBox
Following the success of the service in the U.K., U.S. and Canada, BBC Studios and ITV have announced that they plan to bring streaming service BritBox into to twenty-five more countries. The service recently hit one million subscribers in North America alone and now BritBox will seek to broaden its global footprint across Europe, Asia, the Middle East, South America and Africa. A launch in Australia is already set for late 2020. [Source: THR]
All In
Amazon Studios has set a September 9th theatrical release for the Stacey Abrams voting rights documentary “All In: The Fight for Democracy.” That will be followed by a Amazon Prime Video release on September 18th with Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning filmmakers Liz Garbus and Lisa Cortes helming.
Abrams ran as the Democratic Party’s nominee in the 2018 gubernatorial election in Georgia and was the first Black woman to be a major-party gubernatorial nominee in the United States. She narrowly lost to Republican Brian Kemp. [Source: Amazon]
Lovecraft Country
There’s been trailers, and now HBO has released the first clip from HBO’s upcoming horror show “Lovecraft Country” launching August 16th. Jonathan Majors’ Atticus Freeman, Jurnee Smollett’s Letitia and Courtney B. Vance’s George, on a search for a missing father across 1950s Jim Crow America, visit a museum after hours and find a secret doorway to places creepy. Misha Green serves as showrunner while Jordan Peele and J.J. Abrams executive produce.
