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NBC announced Thursday that Oscar-nominated actor Don Cheadle has signed a two-year production deal with parent company Universal Media Studios.

Under the pact, revealed during NBC’s portion of the winter Television Critics Assn. press tour, Cheadle’s Crescendo Prods. will develop series projects for the studio.

Founded in 2005, Crescendo recently signed a two-year feature deal with Overture Films. It has produced such films as Traitor and the documentary Darfur Now and is developing a biopic of musician Miles Davis.

Cheadle was a producer of the Oscar-winning movie Crash and is serving as an executive producer of the Starz/Lionsgate series of the same name, which is based on the film.

On the big screen, Cheadle opens today in Hotel for Dogs.

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