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EXCLUSIVE: Ashton Sanders has joined the cast of the biopic I Wanna Dance With Somebody, the upcoming feature about the late musical icon Whitney Houston. Sanders will play Bobby Brown, and sources also tell Deadline that Black Label Media is coming on board to co-finance the film with Compelling Pictures and Primary…

EXCLUSIVE: Moonlight and Native Son star Ashton Sanders has secured the film and television rights to Peter Nelson's non-fiction novel, A More Unbending Battle: The Harlem Hellfighter’s Struggle for Freedom in WWI and Equality at Home. Sanders will produce the adaptation under his 1237 Production banner. Published in…

EXCLUSIVE: In the starriest new package announced so far for this year’s virtual AFM, we can reveal that Tye Sheridan (Mud), Oscar-nominee Tom Hardy (Mad Max: Fury Road), Golden Globe-nominee Stephan James (If Beale Street Could Talk), Bill Skarsgard (It Chapter One & Two), Pete Davidson (The King Of Staten Island), As…

Considering similar territory covered in much better, stirring dramas such as Ryan Coogler’s Fruitvale Station, John Singleton’s seminal Boyz n the Hood and Joe Talbot’s transcendent The Last Black Man in San Francisco — one of my top 10 favorites of 2019 — to name just three, Coogler’s Black Panther co-writer Joe…

Netflix has released the first trailer for All Day & A Night, a drama written and directed by Black Panther co-writer Joe Robert Cole. Jeffrey Wright and Ashton Sanders star as an estranged father-son duo who find themselves in the same unfortunate circumstance that forces them to come together in order to break a…

EXCLUSIVE: Moonlight breakout Ashton Sanders, currently starring as RZA in Hulu’s Wu-Tang: An American Saga, is in talks to join Warner Bros and MACRO's anticipated Black Panthers pic Jesus Was My Homeboy, starring Daniel Kaluuya (Get Out), Lakeith Stanfield (Atlanta), Jesse Plemons (The Post) and Dominique Fishback (T…

HBO Films has slotted April 6 as the debut date for Native Son, the Rashid Johnson-directed drama that the premium cabler made a splashy deal for last month at Sundance where the film had its world premiere. This announcement, which was made by HBO Films president Len Amato, also included a first-look teaser. See the…

Ashton Sanders (Moonlight), Shameik Moore (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, The Get Down), Siddiq Saunderson (Messiah), Marcus Callender (Power), Zolee Griggs (Ballers) and Erika Alexander (Get Out, Black Lightning) are set to star in Hulu’s Wu-Tang: An American Saga, a 10-episode drama from Wu-Tang Clan frontman…

Soon after being picked up by HBO Films in an eight-figure deal, A24’s Native Son cast and creatives stopped by Deadline’s Sundance studio following the Park City-based fest premiere of the film. Based on the 1940 novel by Richard Wright, the film centers on Big (played by Moonlight breakout Ashton Sanders) who…

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…

EXCLUSIVE: Ashton Sanders is set to star with Jeffrey Wright in All Day & A Night, a drama written and to be directed by Joe Robert Cole, who co-wrote Black Panther. Netflix has set the film for a July 30 start date and will release the film on its streaming service. Color Force’s Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson are…

EXCLUSIVE: Sanaa Lathan has joined the cast of Native Son, the big-screen adaptation of Richard Wright’s iconic book in the works at A24, which made a worldwide rights deal last month for the project. Ashton Sanders, Margaret Qualley, Nick Robinson and Bill Camp are already aboard the pic, which has a screenplay…