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Mackenzie Foy (“The Nutcracker and the Four Realms”) and Kate Winslet have boarded a reboot of “Black Beauty” for writer-director Ashley Avis. The film, which will see Winslet lend her lungs to the role of the horse, is told as a fictional autobiography of the titular wild horse. In a significant change from the original book, in which Black Beauty is a carriage horse, in the new adaptation, she is a a wild mustang captured on the Wyoming Plains. [More…]
“Black Panther” star Chadwick Boseman is headlining action drama “Yasuke”. Yasuke is the Japanese name of a samurai of African origin who fought under a Japanese warlord Oda Nobunaga during the 1580s. The period action drama is based on the historical tale of the only known African to reach the samurai ranking in feudal Japan.Doug Miro (“Narcos”) is penning the screenplay. [More…]
“Barry” star Henry Winkler has joined the cast of “Pink Skies”, hte first movie from Greg Silverman’s Stampede production banner. The pic will see Winkler play Dr. Cotton, who cares for Winona (already cast Jessica Barden). Winona goes to Dr. Cotton, once her pediatrician, when she is diagnosed with an anxiety disorder. [More…]
Stephan James and Laurence Fishburne are set to star and Jasmine Cephas Jones, Skeet Ulrich and Annabeth Gish will co-star in Antoine Fuqua’s short-form drama series ”#Freerayshawn”. The drama will be featured on Quibi, a short-form mobile streaming service which takes long-form content and breaks it into little bits, essentially one long story told in chapters. The show ells the story of a young, black Iraq War veteran named Rayshawn (James) who is set up by New Orleans police on a drug deal, runs for his life, and takes refuge inside his apartment building with his girlfriend and child. With New Orleans PD and the SWAT team outside ready to storm his home, a social media frenzy begins as community members and news outlets arrive at the scene. During this growing mayhem, a sympathetic cop named Steven Poincy (Fishburne) plays the role of negotiator, and, over the course of one brutally stressful day, Steven tries to get Rayshawn to calmly surrender in order to avoid an escalation of unnecessary violence. [More…]
“Iron Man 3” co-stars Guy Pearce and Ben Kingsley will reunite for “Long Gone Heroes”. Santiago Manes Moreno will write and direct the Cannes-bound project, about a special forces soldier trying to track down a reporter in a war zone. [More…]
Rachel McAdams looks to reunite with “Wedding Crashers” helmer Dave Dobkin on the Will Ferrell-starring Eurovision comedy. The comedy is set around the The Eurovision Song Contest, the longest-running annual international TV song competition. [More…]
