20th Television 
"Power Book III: Raising Kanan" at Starz has found its lead actor.Mekai Curtis has been cast as a young Kanan Stark, the character played in the mothership series by Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson. He joins previously announced cast member Patina Miller, who will play Kanan's mother.The young Kanan is described as smart, driven and still naïve. Kanan’s world revolves around his mother, Raq (Miller), who raised him by herself. She is his everything. At the same time, he is beginning...
Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman, Newman, Warren, Richman, Rush, Kaller, Gellman, Meigs & Fox, LLP
John
Meigs
Partner
Meigs became a name partner at his firm at the start of 2022, becoming the first person of color there to achieve that status. Heading into the year, he busied himself with what earned him that position: making deals. He set Kaley Cuoco to star in the half-hour Peacock series “Based Upon a True Story,” Winston Duke to join Amazon’s “Marked Man,” Sherri Shepherd to topline her own talk show (“Sherri”), Steven Caple Jr. to direct the Lionsgate adaptation of the YA thriller “Thieves’ Gambit” and Betty Gilpin to play the lead in Peacock’s “Mrs.Davis” and the co-lead in Showtime’s “Three Women.” Meigs also optioned Leila Mottley’s bestselling debut novel, “Nightcrawling,” to Amblin and closed a deal for Michelle Buteau to co-write and star in a Netflix series based on her book “Survival of the Thickest.”
