J.Lo has signed on the dotted line.
Jennifer Lopez, actress, singer and CEO of the tv manufacturing firm Nuyorican Productions, has inked a multiyear, first-look cope with Netflix, Selection first reported. As a part of the deal, Lopez will produce each scripted and unscripted film and TV content material for the streaming behemoth.
Benny Medina, who co-founded Nuyorican with Lopez, and Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas, the corporate’s president, will co-produce alongside Lopez.
“I’m excited to announce my new partnership with Netflix,” Lopez instructed the publication. “Elaine, Benny and I imagine there isn’t any higher dwelling for us than a forward-leaning content material creation firm that seeks to defy typical knowledge and immediately market to the thousands and thousands throughout the globe who now not view artwork and leisure with the type of boundaries and limitations of the previous.”
“All through each side of her profession, Jennifer Lopez has been a pressure in leisure. In partnering along with her and Nuyorican, we all know she is going to proceed to convey impactful tales, pleasure and inspiration to audiences around the globe,” Netflix’s head of worldwide movies, Scott Stuber, instructed Selection in an announcement.
“[Lopez is] a singular expertise whose creativity and imaginative and prescient have captivated audiences and impressed the subsequent technology around the globe,” acknowledged Netflix’s head of worldwide TV, Bela Bajaria. “For years, she and the crew at Nuyorican have introduced a particular voice to leisure, and I’m trying ahead to working along with her and the crew to create new sequence for our members to like.”
It was beforehand introduced that Lopez can be starring in two upcoming movies for Netflix, an adaptation of the eponymous novel “The Cipher” and a function referred to as “The Mom,” set to be directed by Niki Caro of “Mulan.”
“The Cipher” tells the story of an FBI particular agent and a serial killer with a penchant for coded on-line riddles, whereas “The Mom” is a couple of feminine murderer and her daughter.
Her Netflix deal isn’t the one thrilling factor in J.Lo’s life proper now. She was simply noticed cuddling up with Ben Affleck, 48, throughout a dinner date. Affleck and Lopez, who have been engaged within the 2000s, began seeing one another once more in April this yr, Web page Six completely reported.
