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EXCLUSIVE: What does it take to become Civil Rights icon Martin Luther King Jr? David Oyelowo took on the challenge for Ava DuVernay's underrated 2014 film Selma. It’s all there in Becoming King, a new documentary coming to Paramount+. Related Stories …

David Oyelowo said Brad Pitt, an executive producer of Selma, gave him a valuable piece of advice about not rushing to determine any film’s ultimate place in the culture. Upon its initial release in December 2014, Oyelowo recalled in an appearance Tuesday at the NATPE Global conference in Miami…

David Oyelowo is EPing a limited series in development with the BBC about Biafra with Fremantle and Richard Johns’ newly-launched Argo Films. Biafra is set in the UK and Nigeria, with the story unfolding across two main timelines: the present day, and the 1967-70 Biafra War – which remains a largely…

Having starred as Martin Luther King in Selma, British actor David Oyelowo is planning to play another American icon, Sugar Ray Robinson. The star of The Midnight Sky is in the process of writing the film Sweet Thunder, which he will also produce and star in, and tells the Times newspaper that it has proved a tireless…

UPDATED with more networks: Several broadcast and cable networks are commemorating Juneteenth on Friday by offering special programming to celebrate the holiday, which traditionally marks the end of slavery in the U.S. The holiday is also being recognized by a growing number of media and entertainment companies who…

If you are invited to lunch at Oprah Winfrey's home, don't bring flowers. That is what producer, writer and director Ava DuVernay learned when she got an unexpected invitation to a Mother's Day brunch at Winfrey's home, which she attended with her grandmother. The pair recalled the luncheon during a conversation…

An electrician who was badly shocked during filming on Selma in 2014 has filed a lawsuit against Paramount Pictures and a subsidiary that supplies lighting and grip equipment for location shoots. Ronnie Sands was setting up lights at the historic Wheat Street Baptist Church in Atlanta when he was nearly killed by a…

EXCLUSIVE: Selma director Ava DuVernay has just been set by Disney to direct A Wrinkle In Time, an adaptation of the 1963 Newbery Medal-winning Madeleine L'Engle fantasy classic novel that has a script by Oscar-winning Frozen writer and co-director Jennifer Lee. Deadline revealed February 8 that DuVernay had been offer…

EXCLUSIVE: Writer/director Ava DuVernay is moving to CAA. DuVernay, whose last film Selma was nominated for a Best Picture Oscar, had been at Paradigm. She rose from a publicist in Hollywood films to make a splash with Middle of Nowhere, which won her the Best Director prize at 2012 Sundance, becoming the first…

Marvel has been absolutely mum on the matter of just who might end up helming the Black Panther film adaptation, planned for 2018, but that hasn’t stopped the wild speculation train from barreling out of the station full speed. Case in point, recent rumors over the last month claiming that Selma director Ava DuVernay…

One year ago today, Ronnie Sands was nearly electrocuted while working on the set of Selma in Georgia. Unable to work and struggling to get by on his Workers' Comp benefits, he's now broke and facing eviction. He is marking the anniversary today after his regularly scheduled rehabilitation appointment by appearing in…

EXCLUSIVE: Common has committed to star in the ensemble cast of Barbershop 3, the MGM sequel that New Line will distribute. He joins Ice Cube and Cedric the Entertainer, who are reprising, and The Best Man franchise director Malcolm D. Lee, who’s helming. Cube Vision is producing and MGM will run production. Bob…