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Oscar and Grammy-winning actor, artist, activist and Chicago native Common and his Freedom Road Productions is teaming with Ample Entertainment (Cold Case Files, Cooper’s Treasure) and Rebecca Halpern Productions on a political docuseries set around the upcoming 2019 Chicago Mayoral race. The companies will begin…

EXCLUSIVE: Count Oscar winner Common in for Charlie Day’s independent Hollywood satire El Tonto. Common’s role is being kept under wraps, and that’s because it’s a pivotal one. In El Tonto, Day does double duty, directing his first feature and playing a mute simpleton who upon stepping off the bus for the first time…

Lionsgate and Common’s Freedom Road Productions have acquired the rights to Barracoon: The Story of the Last ‘Black Cargo’, the critically praised, recently discovered book by 20th century writer Zora Neale Hurston, to develop as a limited television event series. Barracoon centers on 86-year-old Cudjo Lewis, the last…

EXCLUSIVE: Elementary and Trainspotting star Jonny Lee Miller and Oscar and Grammy-winner Common (The Hate U Give) have been set to star in Nine Lives, the movie adaptation of Ursula K. Le Guin’s sci-fi novelette of the same name. Set on a moon-base for off-world drilling, the darkly comedic story follows two jaded…

Worries of voter suppression has been a part of the gubernatorial race in the great state of Georgia since Democrat Stacey Abrams and Republican Brian Kemp secured their respective party's nominations – and today it looks like problems are popping up all over the Peach State. Shuttered polling stations, broken voting…

Fox has set a premiere date for They Fight, a documentary about one of the nation’s top youth boxing programs, which not only helps young athletes pursue their dreams in the ring but also steers them away from the pitfalls that led to Coach Walt Manigan’s imprisonment. Watch the first trailer above. Produced by <a href="https://deadline.com/tag/common/" id="auto-tag_common_5"…

Submarine movies are a genre unto themselves in Hollywood, which has been churning them out for as long as anyone can remember. There are some pretty good ones like Das Boot, The Hunt for Red October, Crimson Tide, Run Silent Run Deep and my favorite, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.  And then there is Hunter Killer. Now…

EXCLUSIVE: Colin Farrell and Common have joined the cast of Voltage Pictures and Freckle Films' upcoming feature Eve. The character-driven action drama stars Jessica Chastain and is being directed by Tate Taylor. Voltage will fully finance Eve and handle worldwide sales beginning at the Toronto Film Festival which…

Common, who starred in installments of Lionsgate’s John Wick and Now You See Me film franchises, is expanding his relationship with the company, signing an overall television deal to develop and produce new TV series via his Freedom Road Productions. "We're thrilled to have the talented multi-hyphenate Common join our…

When the Russian President is kidnapped by a rogue general, the U.S. Navy SEALs come to the rescue working alongside the Russians to bring their him back. That is the premise of the new Summit military actioner Hunter Killer that stars Gerard Butler, Gary Oldman, Common, Toby Stephens and Linda Cardellini. The…

Considering the social climate and the mistreatment and unlawful murder of Black men, the story behind 20th Century Fox’s The Hate U Give is wildly — and regrettably — similar to the reality making headlines. Directed by George Tillman, The Hate U Give follows Starr Carter (Amandla Stenberg) who is constantly…

HBO Films will premiere The Tale, Jennifer Fox's powerful narrative memoir about her own reckoning with childhood sexual abuse, on May 26th, and Fox joined castmembers Laura Dern, Isabelle Nélisse, Jason Ritter, Ellen Burstyn and Common for a moving panel after Sunday night’s AwardsLine screening of the film at LA’s…