{"id":568300,"date":"2026-05-06T00:13:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T00:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/568300\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T00:13:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T00:13:13","slug":"jordan-peeles-monkeypaw-productions-cuts-down-development-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/568300\/","title":{"rendered":"Jordan Peele&#8217;s Monkeypaw Productions Cuts Down Development Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/jordan-peele\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jordan-peele_1\" data-tag=\"jordan-peele\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jordan Peele<\/a>\u2019s Monkeypaw Productions is slimming down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe genre-skewing banner, which has a first-look deal at Universal, has quietly let go of three members its development team, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tIt is unclear who was let go, but insiders say that the development department will maintain a staff of four and is still receiving new material. The move has been described as a \u201crefocusing\u201d by those in the know. Sources also say Peele wants to be take a more hands-on involvement in the development of projects. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe layoffs may be an acknowledgement of business realities for the banner that became a Hollywood name thanks to Peele\u2019s success in the wake of Get Out and Us. In 2019, Peele signed a rich, five-year deal with Universal, with Monkeypaw becoming one of the bigger-staffed companies of its type in town.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tPeele reupped in 2024, but his deal was scaled back, according to sources. It didn\u2019t help that the banner\u2019s output wasn\u2019t prolific. Apart from 2022\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/nope\/\" id=\"auto-tag_nope_1\" data-tag=\"nope\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nope<\/a>, which Peele wrote and directed, the only movie the company produced was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/him\/\" id=\"auto-tag_him_1\" data-tag=\"him\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Him<\/a>, the troubled football horror movie that failed at the box office. (Candyman, released in 2021, was already in production when the original five-year deal was made.) The company was also involved in several shows, Lovecraft Country and Hunters, among them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAdding to the mire is Peele\u2019s directorial follow-up to Nope, which has been stuck in script development limbo for years. A release for December 2024 was originally scheduled, then it was pushed to 2026, then taken off the calendar entirely.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tIn the end, the company was described as too bloated for its current output.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe slimming down is described as similar to the situation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/jj-abrams-bad-robot-los-angeles-1236557375\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">recently faced by Bad Robot<\/a>, the production banner run by J.J. Abrams. That company scaled down its operations as Abrams worked on fewer movies and TV shows while planning a movie to New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jordan Peele\u2019s Monkeypaw Productions is slimming down. 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