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EXCLUSIVE: Following a lengthy search, Roxanne, Roxanne star Chante Adams has landed the female lead opposite Michael B. Jordan in Sony’s A Journal For Jordan, directed by Denzel Washington. Written by Academy Award nominee Virgil Williams, the film is based on Dana Canedy's best-selling memoir, which was published in…

EXCLUSIVE: Kelvin Harrison Jr. (It Comes At Night), Chante Adams (Roxanne Roxanne), Jasmine Cephas Jones (Broadway's Hamilton), and Y'lan Noel (The First Purge) are the latest to board Stella Meghie’s romantic drama, The Photograph, set up at Universal Pictures. They join previously announced stars Issa Rae, LaKeith…

Rising star Chanté Adams (Monsters and Men) has been cast as a lead opposite Anika Noni Rose in Beast Mode (working title), TNT's drama pilot inspired by the life of legendary boxing trainer Ann Wolfe. Tina Mabry (Pose) is attached to direct the pilot, written and executive produced by David Schneiderman and produced…

EXCLUSIVE: WME has just signed Chanté Adams, the star of the Sundance film Roxanne Roxanne. All the agencies courted Adams after they saw her play Roxanne Shanté in Michael Larnell's biopic Roxanne Roxanne, opposite Mahershala Ali and Nia Long. WME Global sold the film to Neon, which will release it later this…

Director Michael Larnell has returned to the Sundance Film Festival this season with his second feature, Roxanne Roxanne. The pic starring newly minted Oscar nominee Mahershala Ali, Nia Long, Elvis Nolasco and Chanté Adams in her big-screen debut tells the story of 14-year-old Roxanne Shanté, a fierce teenager from…

EXCLUSIVE: After an all-night bidding battle, Neon is near to closing a deal for Roxanne Roxanne, the Michael Larnell-directed film that yesterday also had Amazon, Lionsgate and Miramax vying for North American rights in a deal that reached near $3 million. This would be the second Sundance title for Neon, the upstart…