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EXCLUSIVE: Showtime has found its missing President. Ann Dowd (The Handmaid’s Tale) has been cast in the key role opposite David Oyelowo in The President Is Missing, Showtime's drama pilot based on the novel by President Bill Clinton and James Patterson from Christopher McQuarrie and Anthony Peckham. In The President I…

Michael Rooker (Guardians of the Galaxy) set as a series regular opposite David Oyelowo in The President Is Missing, Showtime's drama pilot based on the novel by President Bill Clinton and James Patterson from Christopher McQuarrie and Anthony Peckham. In The President Is Missing pilot, a powerless and politically…

EXCLUSIVE: Y'lan Noel (Insecure, The First Purge) has been tapped to star in A Lot Of Nothing, the directorial debut feature from Mo McRae. The Mansa Productions thriller, which was co-written by McRae and Sarah Kelly Kaplan, follows a couple living in a Los Angeles suburb who are compelled to take dangerous actions…

Above is an exclusive clip of Come Away, a fable that premiered today in the Kids section and figures to be a sought after acquisition title in the Sundance Film Festival. Directed in her live action debut by Oscar-winning animation superstar Brenda Chapman, the film stars David Oyelowo and Angelina Jolie. While…

EXCLUSIVE: Mo McRae has set his feature directorial debut with A Lot Of Nothing, a darkly comedic thriller he co-wrote with Sarah Kelly Kaplan. Golden Globe-nominated actor David Oyelowo will serve as an executive producer for the project, which is being produced by McRae, Inny Clemons, Anonymous Content, Mansa…

Robert Redford may have declared this year that he's stepping back from the Sundance Film Festival, but it turns out the semi-retired Oscar winner will be back on screen at the Utah jamboree kicking off next month. In a jam-packed lineup of 118 films, Redford’s Omniboat: A Fast Boat Fantasia star joins Riley Keough…

David Oyelowo (Selma) is set to headline The President Is Missing, Showtime’s drama series adaptation of the novel by President Bill Clinton and James Patterson from Christopher McQuarrie and Anthony Peckham. With Oyelowo on board, the network has greenlighted the project to pilot, which is in pre-production and…

Benedict Cumberbatch, Tamsin Greig, David Oyelowo, David Walliams and Paul Whitehouse have been set as voice cast for Channel 4's animated Christmas special, The Tiger Who Came To Tea. Lupus Films is producing after striking a deal last year with HarperCollins Children’s Books to adapt the classic story by the late…

EXCLUSIVE: Jacob Aaron Estes’ supernatural thriller Don’t Let Go will be released theatrically by Blumhouse Tilt, Universal's OTL Releasing and Tom Ortenberg’s Briarcliff Entertainment on August 30. The pic, which stars David Oyelowo, Storm Reid, Mykelti Williamson and Brian Tyree Henry, premiered at the Sundance Film…

EXCLUSIVE: Golden Globe-nominated Selma star David Oyelowo has set his first feature directorial outing with The Water Man, a drama written by Emma Needell (featured on the Black List). Oprah Winfrey, who appeared alongside Oyelowo in the Ava DuVernay-directed Oscar-nominated film, is attached as an executive…

"I absolutely hated the musical!" said Andrew Davies, who wrote the screenplay for PBS/BBC’s six-part adaptation of Victor Hugo's classic novel Les Miserables, premiering on Masterpiece on April 14. "I just wanted to rescue this great book,” Davis proclaimed, adding, "I'm sorry, I'd like to be more frank," when TV…

David Oyelowo is a desperate uncle in search of answers to what happened to his niece Ashley (played by A Wrinkle in Time star Storm Reid) who, along with her parents, was involved in an apparent murder-suicide in the Blumhouse supernatural thriller Relive. The twist. Jack is still somehow able to communicate with…