EXCLUSIVE: Emmy winner Colman Domingo (Euphoria, Michael) stars in The Headlands House, a thriller limited series, which, in a competitive situation, has landed at Netflix for development. From AMC Studios, it is executive produced by Colman Domingo and Raúl Domingo for their Edith Productions and Patrick Moran (The Rainmaker) via his PKM Productions.

The Headlands House is written and executive produced by Cameron B. Dupont (Yellowjackets). In it, a marriage begins to fracture after a gay couple moves into their dream home, only to discover that its prior residents were brutally murdered on the property—and that their own lives may now be in danger, too.

This would mark Domingo’s third series for Netflix where he headlined the 2024 limited series The Madness and also stars in the comedy series The Four Seasons, which has earned him two Emmy nominations for the two seasons to date. Domingo’s relationship with Netflix also spans film, including his Oscar-nominated performance in Rustin, as well as Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, and the upcoming An Innocent Girl.

Domingo also has a relationship with AMC Global Media, most notably, starring as Victor Strand on Fear the Walking Dead, the second series in AMC’s Walking Dead Universe, which ran for eight seasons from 2015-2023. It is that relationship and the first-look deal Edith Productions has there, that led to AMC Studios’ involvement in the project.

The Headlands House signals an expansion into third-party production for AMC Studios, which AMC Global Media CEO Kristin Dolan alluded to on the company’s most recent earnings call.

“In addition to creating programming for our own platforms, our studio team is actively developing projects with a range of leading distributors,” she said. “Producing for others is a natural offshoot of our internal development process.”

AMC Studios previously developed and produced Apple TV’s Silo before Apple Studios took over the big-budget sci-fi drama after Season 1.

From co-founder and CEO Colman Domingo and co-founder and president Raúl Domingo, Edith has produced Sing Sing, It’s What’s Inside, Dead Man’s Wire, the animated short film New Moon, North Star, When My Sleeping Dragon Woke, Bottomless Brunch at Colman’s and Season 1 of You are Here for AMC Networks. Colman Domingo is repped by WME, Liebman Entertainment and Schreck Rose Dapello Adams Berlin & Dunham.

Moran executive produces the USA Network series The Rainmaker and has Genuine Fraud, starring The Summer I Turned Pretty‘s Rain Spencer, and Rich AF, in development at Amazon under his first-look deal there, and Just One Day, starring Kathryn Newton, in the works at Hulu.

Dupont is managed by Echo Lake Entertainment and also repped by Ryan & Jesse Nord of The Nord Group.

Charles Melton, who recently landed an Emmy nomination for his role in the Netflix series Beef, is in final negotiations for a key role in the live-action Naruto movie set up at Lionsgate, sources tell The Hollywood Reporter.

Destin Daniel Cretton, who is currently in theaters for Spider-Man: Brand New Day, is set to direct the movie based on the manga series by Masashi Kishimoto.

Naruto is the coming-of-age story of a young and enthusiastic ninja named Naruto Uzumaki who wants to grow up to be the leader of his ninja village but also happens to have the spirit of a nine-tailed demon fox inside him. The story was serialized in Japan’s popular Weekly Shonen Jump from 1999 to 2014, and later spawned a couple of popular animated series that ran for years on Cartoon Network and Disney XD.

A search is underway to find the young actor to play Naruto. Melton is said to be playing Kakashi Hatake, the elite ninja mentor figure to the main character and his friends. Kakashi is one of the most popular characters in the long-running and massively popular manga.

Lionsgate had no comment on the casting.

Avi Arad, Ari Arad, and Emmy Yu are producing for Arad Productions with Jeremy Latcham. Cretton is producing alongside Jeyun Munford through his company, Hisako. 

Cretton, whose credits also include the Marvel movie Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, is coming off the massive success of Spider-Man: Brand New Day. With its current $2 billion at the global box office, it is one of the highest-grossing movies of all time. Naruto is set to be next up for the director and is eyeing a production start around February 2027, according to sources.

Melton broke out as a star on the long-running CW series Riverdale where played Reggie Mantle and then transitioned into more prestige fare beginning with Todd Haynes’ May December, where he starred opposite Julianne Moore and Natalie Portman. His other credits have included Alex Garland’s Warfare and Nicolas Winding Refn’s Her Private Hell.

The actor is a longtime fan of anime and manga and is also extremely proficient in martial arts. He is a second degree black belt taekwondo and competed in the Junior Olympics held in Seoul, South Korea.