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Aunjanue Ellis has been cast as the lead in Ava DuVernay's adaptation of Isabel Wilkerson's Caste. The addition of the King Richard veteran and Academy Award nominee to the film is a When They See Us reunion of sorts between the director and the actress. Ellis portrayed Sharonne Salaam, the…

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of tonight’s series penultimate episode of Queen Sugar on OWN. EXCLUSIVE: "You just have to look just a little past making the money of producing a show, a movie, and you look at how to make change," says Queen Sugar creator Ava DuVernay of the near end…

Ava DuVernay has landed a three-year script-to-series commitment from Starz on a romantic drama series with fellow executive producers Lauren Ridloff (Eternals, The Walking Dead) and Joshua Jackson (When They See Us, Dr. Death) set to star. The news was announced on Thursday at Starz’s inaugural #TakeTheLead Summit…

EXCLUSIVE: Queen Sugar has a new boss to take the Ava DuVernay and Oprah Winfrey executive produced drama to its conclusion later this year Shaz Bennett will serve as showrunner for the OWN series in its seventh and final season. Set to start production this month down in Louisiana, Queen Sugar is expected to premiere…

Like Neil Young, Joni Mitchell and India Arie, Ava DuVernay's Array is no longer doing business with Spotify. Just more than a year after the activist Oscar nominee's film collective inked a first-look deal with the music and podcast streamer, a spokesperson for Array has confirmed the plug has been pulled. Even…

EXCLUSIVE: Queen Sugar is coming to an end with its seventh season in 2022. “It's a radical act that it lasted this long, and it's a testament to every single pair of hands that touched it and I am so proud of that," series creator Ava DuVernay told Deadline today of the acclaimed OWN drama executive produced by Oprah…

EXCLUSIVE: Upon its 10th anniversary as a successful agent of change in Hollywood, Ava DuVernay’s Array is adding six executives to the company. Array’s new hires include Anne-Marie McGintee as the VP Scripted Programming, coming from Netflix, and MJ Caballero as VP Physical Production from Blumhouse. McGintee and…

Leading US genre festival Beyond Fest has set a slate of programming comprising 39 features ahead of its return to theaters between September 29 and October 11. The festival will open with the West Coast premiere of Julia Ducornau's Palme d'Or Winner Titane, which will be screened from a never-before-seen 35mm print…

NBC has set a fall premiere date for Home Sweet Home, a new series from Ava DuVernay, her Array Filmworks and Warner Horizon Unscripted Television. Described as a family social experiment, Duvernay’s first unscripted series will bow at 8 p.m. Friday, October 15. It’s also the Emmy winner and Oscar nominee’s first…

The ever-burgeoning slate of Ava DuVernay's media collective has a new boss, and it's a familiar face. Paul Garnes, Queen Sugar executive producer and Array’s Head of Physical Production, is now the President of Array Filmworks, the Oscar-nominated DuVernay revealed Thursday. With previous Filmworks chief Sarah…

Ava DuVernay's arts and social impact collective Array has taken the wraps off plans for its first masterclass, headlined by Ethiopian filmmaker Haile Gerima. Liberated Territory: A Masterclass by Haile Gerima will be a five-day workshop in Los Angeles that explores the catalyst of storytelling and a story's structure…

EXCLUSIVE: "I've said it before, and I'll say it again, I truly treasure the Peabody because of the way in which it is determined, said Array founder Ava DuVernay on Tuesday as she and the decade-old collective were unveiled as this year's recipient of the Peabody's Institutional Award. Citing the "tremendous honor,"…