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EXCLUSIVE: Award-winning filmmaker Antoine Fuqua is expanding his work in television, signing an exclusive multi-year overall production deal with Ben Silverman and Howard Owens' Propagate. Under the deal, Fuqua and his production company Fuqua Films, will team with Propagate on both scripted and non-scripted…

The ability to paint a nuanced tone, both visually and aurally, can be an impossible task for any filmmaker or TV series creator. It’s what keeps them toiling away in the editing suite. However, Brazilian-born composer Marcelo Zarvos has a keen sensibility when it comes to bringing music to the psychological…

EXCLUSIVE: Stephan James and Laurence Fishburne are set to star and Jasmine Cephas Jones, Skeet Ulrich and Annabeth Gish will co-star in director Seith Mann’s shortform drama series #Freerayshawn, The drama, from Sony Pictures TV and executive producer Antoine Fuqua, will be featured on Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg…

Antoine Fuqua, the director behind Training Day, The Equalizer, The Magnificent Seven and Southpaw among other movie hits, is being recognized Sunday by the Motion Picture Sound Editors, who are giving him their Filmmaker Award at the 66th MPSE Golden Reel Awards. Ahead of the ceremony, sound editors Mandell Winter…

EXCLUSIVE: Paramount Pictures is negotiating with Chris Evans to star for director Antoine Fuqua in Infinite, an adaptation of the D. Eric Maikranz novel The Reincarnationist Papers. The film is being produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Mark Vahradian at Par-based Di Bonaventura Pictures, and John Zaozirny. Rafi…

EXCLUSIVE: Just as his feature directorial debut The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind makes its Sundance Film Festival debut tonight, Chiwetel Ejiofor has been set by Los Angeles Media Fund to adapt and direct The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League, based on the…

EXCLUSIVE: Antoine Fuqua will develop to produce and potentially direct the historical-action epic, The Devil Soldier, based on Caleb Carr's bestselling novel. Fuqua will produce with Mark Earl Burman (Dog Eat Dog) and the film will be a production of ADME Studios. The Devil Soldier is a historical epic which follows…

It’s hard to believe, but Denzel Washington never has done a sequel in his long film career — until now. As I say in my video review above, there has been no temptation on his part to do The Magnificent Eight or More Better Blues or retreads of past roles to which so many superstars fall prey. It is true he has done…

In the new trailer for The Equalizer 2, Denzel Washington reprises his role as Robert McCall, but it seems as though he has settled down with his life and is happy with being a mild-mannered Lyft driver who minds his business and does his job…that is, until someone does him wrong — like in the trailer above. As his…

EXCLUSIVE:  Antoine Fuqua has made a deal to direct The Street, which Goodfellas scribe Nicholas Pileggi is writing for Tooley Entertainment, eOne and Pressman Films. Pic is a thriller set against the backdrops of New York and Shanghai. Tooley Entertainment CEO Tucker Tooley is producing with Edward R. Pressman and…

While Antoine Fuqua and Denzel Washington team often, Equalizer 2 marks the first sequel for each. “He's a mysterious character,” Fuqua said of Washington’s problem solver Robert McCall. “You don't really get to see these types of films where you have an amazing actor like Denzel Washington playing a role like this…

“They killed my friend,” says Denzel Washington as the seeker of justice (or something like it) in this new trailer for Sony’s The Equalizer 2. “So I’m going to kill each and every one of them, and my only disappointment is I only get to do it once.” In the first sequel of Washington’s career, he returns to the role…