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EXCLUSIVE: Jalyn Hall (All American) has signed on to play Emmett Till in Chinonye Chukwu's Till, MGM's Orion Pictures announced today. The 14-year-old actor will appear in the film alongside previously announced cast members Danielle Deadwyler and Whoopi Goldberg. Till tells the story of Mamie Till-Mobley…

Chinonye Chukwu's Orion feature film Till has set Danielle Deadwyler as Mamie Till-Mobley and Oscar-winner Whoopi Goldberg as Emmett's grandmother Alma Carthan. Till follows Mamie Till-Mobley, whose pursuit of justice for her 14-year-old son Emmett Louis Till became a galvanizing moment that helped lead to the…

On the eve of the 65th anniversary of the 1955 torture and lynching death of 14-year-old Emmett Louis Till, writer/director Chinonye Chukwu is set to direct a feature film about his tragic death and the relentless pursuit of justice by his mother, Mamie Till Mobley, whose insistence on an open casket funeral for her…

It has been a busy time for Alfre Woodard, beginning in January, when Chinonye Chukwu's Clemency debuted at Sundance to critical acclaim, winning the Grand Jury Prize. Although the Oscar-nominated, Emmy-winning Woodard has had a number of noteworthy performances this year—from a dramatic rendering of the Mueller…

Chinonye Chukwu's sophomore feature Clemency has had long legs this year, debuting to win the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance in January before quickly becoming a steady festival favorite around the world. It was in the States, though, that the film's subject matter hit the hardest, with Alfre Woodard starring as prison…

Neon brought the films Parasite and Clemency to The Contenders Los Angeles on Saturday. Parasite is a Korean con artist film that won the Palme d'Or at Cannes this year. Clemency is an American drama about a death row warden that won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance this year. The connection is that both filmmakers…

NEON has released the first trailer to Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning drama, Clemency, written and directed by Chinonye Chukwu, who made history as the first black female to snag the marquee award at the festival. The film stars Alfre Woodard in a performance that has placed her among the early Oscar…

NEON has taken U.S. rights to this year’s Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize winner Clemency from filmmaker Chinonye Chukwu and starring Oscar nominee Alfre Woodard. Woodard plays female prison warden Bernadine Williams, who after years of carrying out death row executions, comes up against one inmate who forces…

EXCLUSIVE: Gabrielle Lewis is leaving Paradigm to become a Manager at Grandview. She has been a Motion Picture Lit Agent at Paradigm over the last three years, and began at the firm in 2015 after moving to Los Angeles from London.  She has specialized in awards-caliber filmmakers and playwrights. Those clients on…

EXCLUSIVE: Chinonye Chukwu is attached to direct an adaptation of former Black Panther leader Elaine Brown's memoir, A Taste of Power. Black List writer Alyssa Hill will adapt the screenplay. This comes right on the heels of the Sunday night Sundance premiere of Clemency, which Chukwu wrote and directed. The film is…

Clemency director-writer Chinonye Chukwu and the film’s stars Alfre Woodard, Danielle Brooks, Richard Schiff, and Aldis Hodge are today’s guests for the Stella Artois and Deadline Sundance Series. They spoke to Deadline’s Anthony D’Alessandro about making of the film and more. As Chukwu’s second feature, the story…