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Oprah Winfrey will re-team with her Selma director Ava DuVernay when she stars in A Wrinkle In Time, Disney’s adaptation of the Newberry Award-winning Madeline L’Engle novel.
Oprah Winfrey is set to star in HBO Films’ The Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks. George C. Wolfe penned the adaptation and will direct.
Pitched as being in the vein of Stand By Me and classic Spielberg. After his mother grows ill, a clever young boy journeys out to find a mythical being known as The Water Man, whose legend dictates that he is able to cheat death.
The story follows an African-American studio executive that is sued for misrepresenting a black woman in a film about the Civil Rights Movement.
Pitched as being in the vein of Stand By Me and classic Spielberg. After his mother grows ill, a clever young boy journeys out to find a mythical being known as The Water Man, whose legend dictates that he is able to cheat death.
Oscar nominees will take the stage to present awards.
An African-American studio executive is sued for misrepresenting a black woman in a movie about the Civil Rights Movement, leading her to the trial in Birmingham Alabama, where she re-evaluates her life choices and ambitions.
Story focuses on the historic–and often violent–marches that took place in Selma, Alabama in 1965, which marked the political and emotional peak of the civil rights movement.
Jeremy Strong also joins the cause.
A-list celebrities may join Forest Whitaker’s adaptation of “The Shack”!
The story of Eugene Allen, an African-American, who worked as butler in the White House, serving eight presidents from 1952 to 1986.
Logline: Four years after his daughter was abducted and presumed murdered in a shack in Oregan, a man receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend and what he finds there will change his life forever.
Was previously with CAA.
Another loss for CAA today.
A recap of the week’s TV news!
Industry executive comings and goings from the last week!
Logline: Story centers on a young Indian man who becomes a famous French chef with the help of Madame Mallory.
Logline: Story centers on a gifted college student trying to make a way for herself, even though she can barely afford her food or books, at a university full of the privileged and elite.
Logline: Story focuses on a brothel in war-torn Congo and the struggles of its madam, to keep the women from getting caught in-between the government and rebel armies.
Logline: Kept under wraps, but the story will be set in the world of a home shopping network.
Sara Scott has joined the staff at Universal, as their new CE. She was previously at Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Films.
Logline: Inspired by a true story, a white, married journalist living in Manhattan comes to the unnerving realization one night at a cocktail party that virtually his entire social circle is white. Indeed his entire existence has become steeped in a certain style of “whiteness”: a rarefied industry in publishing, a weekend house in the Catskills, yoga, ambient music and seasonal gourmet cooking. With help of the internet, a “white guy†sets off on a journey to make “black friends,†only to discover that regardless of race, the older you get, the harder it is to make friends.
Logline: Story focuses on the historic–and often violent–marches that took place in Selma, Alabama in 1965, which marked the political and emotional peak of the civil rights movement.
Logline: A teenage girl’s family is visited by a mysterious old woman on a dark and stormy night and what she tells them sends the young girl off on an adventure through space and time in search of her missing father.
Logline: The story of Eugene Allen, an African-American, who worked as butler in the White House, serving eight presidents from 1952 to 1986.
Logline: A mute teenager, Edgar Sawtelle, lives on a farm in Wisconsin with a family that’s raised a coveted breed of dog for generations. When Sawtelle’s father dies mysteriously after his uncle comes to stay with the family, the teen runs away with three of his dogs.