Paramount is tapping “Hustle & Flow” writer and director Craig Brewer to help bolster its newly created television studio, the studio said Thursday.
The studio, which officially launched a TV division last summer, signed a multi-project pact with Brewer in which he will write, direct and executive produce two dramatic pilots for its newly created television studio.
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Brewer and Paramount have a history. The studio distributed “Hustle & Flow,” which put Brewer on the map at the Sundance Film Festival. Brewer went on to direct a remake of “Footloose” and produce the biopic “Katie Perry: Part of Me” at Paramout.