The Sundance Film Festival is well underway and amidst all the traffic, premieres and snow slushed roads, the talk of inclusion and representation at the festival took center stage at a special panel titled “Making the (In)visible: Radical Transparency in the Data-Driven Age.” Moderated by the Black List’s Franklin…

UPDATE Saturday, Jan. 26: As soon as Dr. Stacy L. Smith announced the TimesUp 4% Director Challenge, the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative tweeted out the news and more accepted the commitment to work with a female director within 18 months to increase the number of female directors in the 1200 top grossing films…

EXCLUSIVE: Rebecca Hall has set up Passing, an adaptation based on Nella Larsen’s 1920s Harlem Renaissance novel that explores the practice of racial passing, a term used for a person classified as a member of one racial group who seeks to be accepted by a different racial group.  Hall has penned the script and will…

Terry Moore and filmmaker Angela Robinson are partnering to adapt Moore’s long-running graphic novel Strangers In Paradise for film. The comic follows Katchoo, a beautiful young woman living a quiet life with everything going for her. She’s smart, independent and very much in love with her best friend, Francine…

In Professor Marston & The Wonder Women, writer-director Angela Robinson brings the fascinating — and provocative — life of the titular Harvard psychologist and creator of the superhero Wonder Woman, Dr. William Moulton Marston to the big screen. Amidst the bells and whistles of CG-laden, fantastical Hollywood…

EXCLUSIVE: Connie Britton and Oliver Platt have been added to the cast of Professor Marston & The Wonder Woman, the biopic from writer/director Angela Robinson. The two join Rebecca Hall, Luke Evans and Bella Heathcoate. The film details the true story of Dr. William Moulton Marston (Evans), Harvard psychologist and…

EXCLUSIVE: Angela Robinson, the co-executive producer of HBO’s True Blood and Hung, has sold an untitled supernatural teen thriller pitch to Paramount. Robinson, who wrote and directed the film D.E.B.S. and directed Herbie Fully Loaded, will write the script and produce with the Grady Twins’ Dawn Olmstead (exec…