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The companion films are produced by Jamie Foxx, Kevin Hart, Angela Bassett, Halle Berry and others.
Apple Original Films has picked up Number One on the Call Sheet, two documentary features about pioneering Black actors and actresses, with backing from Jamie Foxx, Kevin Hart, Angela Bassett and Halle Berry.
Apple will debut the companion films globally on Apple TV+. Number One on the Call Sheet: Black Leading Women in Hollywood, directed by Shola Lynch, celebrates Black achievement in the film industry and what it takes for Black women actors to find success in the film business.
The film is executive produced by Bassett and Berry. The second doc, Number One on the Call Sheet: Black Leading Men in Hollywood, will be directed by Reginald Hudlin and similarly chronicles the experiences of Black male actors who paved the way for today’s Black American stars in Hollywood.
Jamie Foxx, Kevin Hart, Datari Turner and Dan Cogan will produce the second film. Reginald Hudlin and Bryan Smiley will executive produce both documentaries.
Apple’s recent and upcoming releases include the Billie Eilish doc from R.J. Cutler and the Russo brothers’ Cherry.
Randy McKinnon, who broke out writing Disney+’s football drama “Safety,” will write the “Static Shock” script for DC Films and Warner Bros., according to an individual with knowledge of the project.
“One of the things we’re really excited about, we really want to live up to the name of the company, Milestone Media,” Hudlin said at FanDome. “When we spoke to Jim [Lee] about reviving the Milestone line, we said, ‘Look, we all know this has been a hit comic book and hit animated series. It’s time to expand back into all those areas and then some.’ So we’re in serious conversations about, as we’re launching the comic book series, developing the ‘Static Shock’ movie. That will be a theatrical feature film.”
The character of Static was created by Milestone Comics founders Dwayne McDuffie, Denys Cowan, Michael Davis and Derek T. Dingle. In the comics, a teen named Virgil Ovid Hawkins becomes a new kind of hero, named Static, after exposure to a radioactive chemical renders him capable of electromagnetic control and generation. In addition to DC Comics, he was the focus of the animated series “Static Shock,” which aired on Kids WB from 2000-2004.
SPEAKER INFO: REGINALD HUDLIN, Writer, Producer, Director, Executive Oscar and Emmy nominated producer and director Reginald Hudlin is one of the most influential filmmakers of his generation. Hudlin’s latest directorial effort is SAFETY, a sports drama that just debuted on Disney Plus and is a critically acclaimed hit. Hudlin recently directed THE BLACK GODFATHER, an award-winning documentary streaming on Netflix. He also recently directed the legal thriller MARSHALL, starring Chadwick Boseman as Thurgood Marshall, with Josh Gad, Kate Hudson and Sterling K. Brown.Hudlin is the first African American to executive produce the Emmys. Hudlin also produced The Oscars, for which he received an Emmy nomination. Additionally, he has been the executive producer of the NAACP Image Awards for the past seven years.In 2012, he was nominated for a Best Picture Academy Award as one of the producers of Quentin Tarantino’s Academy Award and Golden Globe-winning film DJANGO UNCHAINED, which is one of the top-grossing Westerns of all time.Hudlin wrote and directed his first film HOUSE PARTY which was one of the most profitable films of its decade and spawned a franchise.His second film BOOMERANG was a hit for Eddie Murphy and helped launch the careers of Martin Lawrence, Chris Rock and Halle Berry. Hudlin wrote and produced the first African American feature film BEBE’S KIDS. In television he was an executive producer of THE BOONDOCKS and wrote and produced THE BLACK PANTHER animated series based on the Marvel comic book series he wrote for 4 years. He is a co-owner of Milestone Media, who in partnership with Warner Media is developing multi-ethnic superhero properties for print, movies and television. Reginald received the Icon Award at the San Diego Comic con for his contributions to the medium.Hudlin is one of the few filmmakers to also run a major media company. He was the first president of entertainment for Black Entertainment Television, the biggest black media company in the world. He created B.E.T.’s first full slate of original shows and an award winning news division. Hudlin has produced award winning special BEAR WITNESS, TAKE ACTION for YouTube. Using roundtables of experts, short films by young filmmakers, music and more, the show explores the causes of recent civil unrests and proposes solutions to heal our nation. The show was so successful Hudlin recently completed a sequel.Hudlin is a longtime board member of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. He is also a member of Wasatch, a community of leaders in entertainment, technology and politics who focus on solving global problems. He has been a governor of the Motion Picture Academy, a member of the Television Academy, has been a Vice President of the Producers Guild, and a member of the Directors Guild, the Writers Guild and the Screen Actors Guild. Hudlin has been honored by the NAACP, The American Civil Liberties Union, The United Negro College Fund, The Sundance Film Festival, The American Film Institute, The San Diego Comic Con, The African American Film Critics Association, and many more venerable organizations.
