MUDBOUND 
FENCES 
SORRY TO BOTHER YOU 
Even when Charles D. King was attending Howard University School of Law, he had his eye on the prize. In his 1996 graduation commemorative book, the onetime superagent turned producer vowed, “In 10 years I’m going to be at the helm of a diversified entertainment and media company.” It’s no surprise that the film, TV and digital production enterprise he would eventually launch would be called Macro.It took the ambitious law school graduate much longer than a decade to realize his...
MACRO
Charles
D.
King
CEO / Producer
Since King founded Macro less than five years ago, the multi-platform media company dedicated to projects driven by people of color has received a total of nine Oscar nominations for “Mudbound” (2017) and “Fences” (2016) and acclaim for the surreal comedy “Sorry to Bother You” (2018). It’s a satisfying riposte to anyone who doubted King in January 2015, when he left William Morris Endeavor, where he was the first African-American partner in the agency’s 100-plus-year history. Macro has several projects hitting screens in 2019, including HBO doc “The Apollo,” Netflix series “Raising Dion,” about a tyke with super powers; and the big-screen true-life drama “Just Mercy” with Michael B. Jordan and Jamie Foxx. In February, King inked a first-look deal with Warner Bros.
