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ABC/Lisa RoseEmmy winner Yahya Abdul-Mateen II will executive produce and star in a new Warner Bros. action thriller, Emergency Contact. According to Deadline, Dwayne Johnson has signed on as executive producer under his production banner, Seven Bucks, alongside Beau Flynn's Flynn Pictures. Deadline also has learned that actress Gloria Reuben has landed new roles in two upcoming projects. In The First Lady, Showtime's limited series about women in the White House, Reuben will portray former President Barack Obama's senior advisor, Valerie June Jarrett. The series also stars Gillian Anderson as Eleanor Roosevelt, Michelle Pfeiffer as Betty Ford, and Viola Davis portraying the first Black First lady, Michelle Obama. In addition, Reuben may have a leading role in Firestarter, a new film adaptation of Stephen King's 1980 novel about "a young girl who develops pyrokinetic abilities and is abducted by a secret government agency that wants

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