Let us use the news about Jordan Peele and Universal continuing their partisanship to remind Academy voters, the Hollywood Foreign Press and year-end critics groups, just how much they all liked 'Us' when it opened in late March of this year.
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Universal and Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions have signed a five-year exclusivity agreement. Whatever the writer/director of has next, Universal will be presenting them at a theater near you. Peele is already standing tall alongside the likes of M. Night Shyamalan, Chris Nolan and Quentin Tarantino in terms of directors who put butts in the seats without relying on a brand or an IP.
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