Gordon Cox | Variety “The Birth of a Nation,” the Nate Parker film that was a buzz-magnet sensation at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, has been positioned for an awards-season release this fall from Fox Searchlight. Written, directed by and starring...
By James Roberts | Screenrant The current Hollywood obsession with remaking the hits of yesterday poses many questions about the state of the industry today. While some questions are more practical (“Has Hollywood run out of ideas?”) others tend towards the...
By Tambay A. Obenson | Shadow and Act Following the February 8th announcement that Ava DuVernay was offered (that we know of, at least) 2 high profile studio projects (one from Disney and the other from DreamWorks), comes news that the filmmaker has officially inked...
Justin Kroll | Variety Octavia Spencer is on board to co-star opposite Taraji P. Henson in Fox 2000’s “Hidden Figures.” The studio has been developing the adaptation of Margot Lee Shetterly’s book “Hidden Figures: The Story of the African-American Women Who Helped Win...
by Dave McNary | Variety Rosario Dawson will voice Batgirl in the animated “Lego Batman” opposite Will Arnett, Michael Cera and Zach Galifianakis in the Warner Bros.’ spin-off of “The Lego Movie.” Chris McKay, who supervised animation on “The Lego Movie,” is directing...
by Patrick Hipes | Deadline Hollywood Dope director Rick Famuyiwa is attached to write, direct and produce an as-yet-untitled hacker movie for Macro, the new finance and production company founded by former WME partner Charles D. King. The thriller centers on an...
by Matt Goldberg | Collider Star Wars: The Force Awakens will soon be upon us, and Star Wars: Episode VIII will be here before you know it. We don’t know how many of the Force Awakens cast will make it to the next installment of the sequel trilogy, but we now have the...
by Anita Busch | Deadline Hollywood UPDATE, 11:18 AM: F. Gary Gray made it official today, confirming via Twitter that he will direct Universal’s Furious 8. The studio and the Straight Outta Compton helmer have been working to close a deal over the past three days...
by Nellie Andreeva | Deadline Hollywood Marlon Wayans has launched a production company with his longtime business partner Rick Alvarez. The yet-unnamed banner will be based at Universal TV, where Wayans has signed an overall deal. Under the pact, Wayans is set to...
By Tambay A. Obenson | Shadow and Act Via a live stream of a conversation between Denzel Washington and Dr. Todd Boyd happening at USC School of Cinematic Arts as I type this, Washington just revealed that, in addition to the below previously-announced film adaptation...
by Ross A. Lincoln | Deadline Hollywood Following the huge critical and financial success of the N.W.A. biopic Straight Outta Compton, we’re hearing that Universal is considering another high profile deep dive into hip hop history, this time the story of Def Jam...
Laura Prudom | Variety Lifetime has given the greenlight to “Un-Break My Heart,” an original movie based on singer Toni Braxton’s memoir. The authorized film will follow Braxton’s ups and downs through severe chronic illness, financial troubles and divorce while...