Director: Destin Daniel Cretton Writer(s): Destin Daniel Cretton, Andrew Lanham, Bryan Stevenson (novel) Starring: Michael B. Jordan, Brie Larson, Tim Blake Nelson, Jamie Foxx, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Rhoda Griffis, Rob Morgan, Elizabeth Becka, J. Alphonse Nicholson,...
Director: Michael B. Jordan Writer(s): David Barclay Moore (novel, screenplay) Starring: Unknown Synopsis: In the wake of his brother’s death, a young African American youth tries to steer a safe path through the projects in Harlem, aided by his imagination and the...
Director: Stefano Sollima Writer(s): Tom Clancy (novel), Taylor Sheridan Starring: Michael B. Jordan Synopsis: The story of John Clark, an ex-Navy Seal-turned-operations officer for the CIA. Release Date: September 18, 2020 | Length: Unknown | Genre: Action, Crime,...
Director: Ryan Coogler Writer(s): Ta-Nehisi Coates, Rachel Aviv (New York Yorker article) Starring: Michael B. Jordan Synopsis: A math teacher in Atlanta is scandalized when he looks to get funding for his school by altering his students’ test scores. Release...
Director: Jon Watts Writer(s): Zach Dean (earlier script) Starring: Michael B. Jordan Synopsis: A man manages to stay alive for over 400 years, without showing the physical signs of age. In that time, he has accumulated vast intellectual knowledge, from multiple...
LOS ANGELES, CA (February 13, 2019) –The nominees for the 50th NAACP Image Awards were exclusively announced today at the Television Critics Association’s (TCA) TV One’s joint press conference with Derrick Johnson, President and CEO of the NAACP and Alfred Liggins,...
Charlize Theron and Michael B. Jordan start talking before the cameras are even rolling. They are exchanging secrets about how they both disappear into character, undergoing dramatic physical — and emotional — transformations. That’s certainly been the case this year...
Director: Spike Lee Writer(s): Jackson Lee, Satchel Lee, Spike Lee Starring: Michael B. Jordan Synopsis: A motorcyclist finds words written on stones in the desert. Release Date: February 26, 2019 | Length: 2 min | Genre: Drama | MPAA Rating: NR Note: I based the...
Director: Denzel Washington Writer(s): Virgil Williams (screenplay), Dana Canedy (novel) Starring: Michael B. Jordan Synopsis: The novel tells the true story of Pulitzer-winning journalist Canedy and her love affair with First Sgt. Charles Monroe King, who kept a...
Director: Gerard McMurray Writer(s): Derek Haas (book), Frank Baldwin (screenplay) Starring: Michael B. Jordan Synopsis: The formative story of a man who becomes the most feared and respected hit man in the criminal underworld. Release Date: Unknown | Length: Unknown...
Director: Unknown Writer(s): Joe Robert Cole (screenplay), F.J. Desanto and Todd Farmer (comic) Starring: Michael B. Jordan Synopsis: The story of John Ravane, a legendary insurgent hunter who thought he had executed the last nanotech-enhanced super soldier, in a...
LOS ANGELES, CA – The Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA) and the Broadcast Television Journalists Association (BTJA) announced today the nominees for the 24th Annual Critics’ Choice Awards. The winners will be revealed at the star-studded Critics’ Choice...
Director: Jennifer Yuh Nelson Writer(s): Unknown Starring: Michael B. Jordan Synopsis: The story of a mobster whose longtime loyalties to his crime family are challenged when his boss orders him to kill a mistress he’s recently grown close to. Release Date: Unknown |...
…We’re Scratching Our Heads About by Jordan Simon | Shadow and Act The nominations for the 2019 Golden Globe Awards were announced Thursday morning, and while we are satisfied for the well-deserved nominations given to Black Panther,...
Director: Unknown Writer(s): Madison Turner (script) Starring: Unknown Synopsis: The story of the 761st regiment in World War II, an entirely African-American combat unit whose heroism led to the desegregation of the armed forces. Release Date: Unknown | Length:...
Director: Unknown Writer(s): Tom Clancy (novel) Starring: Michael B. Jordan Synopsis: Ex-Navy Seal, John Clark, and a new task force are on a mission to protect the world from its greatest terrorist threats. Release Date: Unknown | Length: Unknown | Genre: Action |...
Director: Dexton Deboree Writer(s): Dexton Deboree Starring: Anthony Anderson, Dapper Dan, Mark Wahlberg, Carmelo Anthony, Kenya Barris, David Stern, DJ Clarke Kent, Michael B. Jordan, Jeff Gorman, Jason Sudeikis, Hebru Brantley, Sal Masekela, Lance Mountain, Phil...
Director: Ryan Coogler Writer(s): Jack Kirby, Stan Lee, Ryan Coogler, Joe Robert Cole Starring: Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Gurira, Martin Freeman, Daniel Kaluuya, Letitia Wright, Winston Duke, Sterling K. Brown, Angela Bassett, Forest...
Tambay Obenson | Shadow and Act From Friday, November 10 through Thursday, November 16, BAMcinématek in Brooklyn, NY will present the screening series Strange Victories: Black Soldiers and World War II, a program inspired by the release of Dee Rees’...
July 13, 2016 | shadowandact Today, the BFI (British Film Institute) announced a new initiative titled “Black Star,” an exhaustive program described as the UK’s largest ever season of film and television that will be dedicated to celebrating the range, versatility and...
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 Mike Fleming Jr. | Deadline Hollywood The Weinstein Company is ready to greenlight its Richard Pryor biopic, and my, have Harvey Weinstein and Lee Daniels put together a terrific cast. The new additions: Oprah Winfrey will play Pryor’s grandmother, who ran a...
Director: Josh Trank Writer(s): Simon Kinberg, Jeremy Slater and Josh Trank (screenplay), Jack Kirby and Stan Lee (characters) Starring: Miles Teller, Michael B. Jordan, Kate Mara, Jamie Bell, Toby Kebbell, Reg E. Cathey, Tim Blake Nelson, Joshua Montes, Dan...
By Tambay A. Obenson | Shadow and Act While we wait to catch his starring appearance in the upcoming “Fantastic Four” which will be in theaters next month, followed by his reunion with his “Fruitvale” director, Michael Coogler, in...
A Personal Essay by Michael B. Jordan (As told to Chris Lee) | Entertainment Weekly You’re not supposed to go on the Internet when you’re cast as a superhero. But after taking on Johnny Storm in Fantastic Four—a character originally written with blond hair and blue...
Sandy Schaefer | Screenrant.com The upcoming Creed is a spinoff/sequel to the Rocky movie franchise, with Sylvester Stallone reprising his role as Rocky Balboa. Sly has shared the first official screenshot from Creed (via his social media channels), showing the...
Q&A with Michael B Jordan. Moderated by Jenelle Riley, Variety. Winner of both the Grand Jury Prize for dramatic feature and the Audience Award for U.S. dramatic film at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, director Ryan Coogler’s FRUITVALE STATION follows the...
Director: Ryan Coogler Writer(s): Ryan Coogler Starring: Michael B. Jordan, Melonie Diaz, Octavia Spencer, Kevin Durand, Chad Michael Murray, Ahna O’Reilly, Ariana Neal, Keenan Coogler, Trestin George, Joey Oglesby, Michael James, Marjorie Crump-Shears, Destiny...
Director: Anthony Hemingway Writer(s): John Ridley (story and screenplay), Aaron McGruder (screenplay), John B. Holway (book) Starring: Terrence Howard, Cuba Gooding Jr., Nate Parker, David Oyelowo, Tristan Mack Wilds, Ne-Yo, Elijah Kelley, Marcus T. Paulk, Leslie...
Director: Rockmond Dunbar Writer(s): Rhonda Baraka Starring: Salli Richardson-Whitfield, India Arie, Nicole Ari Parker, Keith David, Monica, Michael Beach, Michael B. Jordan, Ernie Hudson, Desiree Coleman, Rockmond Dunbar, Tisha Campbell-Martin, Tasha Smith, Angie...
Director: James Toback Writer(s): James Toback Starring: Scott Caan, Robert Downey Jr., Stacy Edwards, Allan Houston, Gaby Hoffmann, Kidada Jones, Jared Leto, Marla Maples, Joe Pantoliano, Bijou Phillips, Oliver ‘Power’ Grant, Raekwon, Claudia Schiffer, William Lee...
