Set in a recording studio in the 1920’s, over the course of one afternoon, a group of musicians and the legendary blues singer Ma Rainey record several songs as they discuss the questions of prejudice and the problems facing black people in American society.
The newly Oscar-nominated screenwriter got his start on shows like ER and Criminal Minds, and it would be Washington’s first film as a director since the Oscar-nominated Fences if he commits to direct.
The second movie from “Nightcrawler” director Dan Gilroy is scheduled for release in select cities on Nov. 3, following its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September.
Both filmmakers will be returning to the Toronto Film Festival after having success with previous films that played the fest. Gilroy’s Nightcrawler premiered there in 2014 leading to his screenplay receiving an Oscar nomination.
Which two Oscar nominees are working with Guillermo del Toro on The Shape of Water? The same duo who have their eye on high-profile TV projects in 2017.
While the debate continues over whether or not Deadpool will receive any Oscar love, The People’s Choice Awards is happy to show the actioner the love, as the film picked up wins for Favorite Action Movie and Favorite Movie Actor.
As we head into a season of indie films and critical darlings fighting for a few awards season nominations, the 2017 People’s Choice Awards has released their list of nominees, celebrating the big hits that gained pop culture notoriety over the past year.
An African American father struggles with race relations in the United States while trying to raise his family in the 1950s and coming to terms with the events of his life.
There have been talks circulating around a sequel to the 2014 crime thriller The Equalizer, but producer Todd Black has officially confirmed that The Equalizer 2 is happening with director Antoine Fuqua directing and Denzel Washington set to reprise his role as Robert McCall.
The spec Inner City from Nightcrawler writer-director Dan Gilroy is nearing a deal with Sony Pictures and Cross Creek Pictures. The new project, which Gilroy will write and direct, already has Denzel Washington attached to star.
When his business partner, and frontman for their firm, has a sudden heart attack, a hard-nosed liberal lawyer starts to uncover a web of unsettling things their crusading firm has been involved in. As the trail of lies goes deeper, his existential crisis turns into extreme action.
With the town of Rose Creek under the deadly control of industrialist Bartholomew Bogue, the desperate townspeople employ protection from seven outlaws, bounty hunters, gamblers, and hired guns. As they prepare the town for the violent showdown that they know is coming, these seven mercenaries find themselves fighting for more than money.
Seven gun men in the old west gradually come together to help a poor village against savage thieves.
The first images from Antoine Fuqua’s reboot of Magnificent Seven starring a mustachioed Denzel Washington and a neckerchief-clad Chris Pratt have been released and they are serving up some major western realness.
The major studios flocked to Las Vegas last week to show off the most promising projects within their upcoming slates at the annual convention known as CinemaCon. We’ve put together a few of the highlights from each studio’s presentation.
Mykelti Williamson and Russell Hornsby have officially signed on to join the Paramount Pictures’ adaptation of August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play, Fences. The two will reprise their roles they played in the Broadway revival.
Tony Kushner has signed on to pen the adaptation of the August Wilson play, Fences. Denzel Washington will direct and likely star in the film, alongside Viola Davis. The two actors previously headlined the Broadway revival.
Logline kept under wraps, but based on the award winning play by August Wilson.
The story of 1st Sgt. Charles Monroe King, who kept a journal of life-lessons for the son he never met. King was killed in Baghdad one month shy of finishing his tour of duty.
Washington will star in and Fuqua will helm the remake of the classic Western.
A former black ops commando who faked his death for a quiet life in Boston comes out of his retirement to rescue a young girl and finds himself face to face with Russian gangsters.
A former black ops commando who faked his death for a quiet life in Boston comes out of his retirement to rescue a young girl and finds himself face to face with Russian gangsters.
The “Training Day” actor could re-team with director Antoine Fuqua for the remake.
A former black ops commando who faked his death for a quiet life in Boston comes out of his retirement to rescue a young girl and finds himself face to face with Russian gangsters.
Disney is floundering deep below sea-level with desperate attempts to get above water.
An aloof DEA agent and a not-all-there undercover naval officer unwittingly investigate each other while both stealing mob money.
Hopefully not in a “Book of Eli” kind of way.
Logline: In a dystopian future, a garbage man who has decided to walk the path of a hit man, decides to protect an innocent girl instead of killing her.
An aloof DEA agent and a not-all-there undercover naval officer unwittingly investigate each other while both stealing mob money.
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