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Rashida Jones and David Oyelowo are the latest big names to join Wool, the series adaptation of Hugh Howey's dystopian novels for Apple TV+. They join Tim Robbins and Rebecca Ferguson in the series from writer Graham Yost and director Morten Tyldum and AMC Studios. Wool is a set in a ruined and toxic future where a…

ViacomCBS and MTV Entertainment Studios have struck an exclusive overall deal with Emmy-nominated actor David Oyelowo and his wife, actress, writer and producer Jessica Oyelowo, for original scripted and unscripted series via their Yoruba Saxon productions. 101 Studios will serve as production partner on all…

EXCLUSIVE: Disney is reviving a cult classic favorite, The Rocketeer, with a new Disney+ movie titled The Return of the Rocketeer. David and Jessica Oyelowo are producing under their Yoruba Saxon banner. The project, written by Ed Ricourt, will also be a possible starring project for the Selma actor. The original…

(Interactive chart with estimates below) Vertical Entertainment’s Four Good Days claimed the highest total over Mother’s Day weekend. It was a remarkably slow three-day stretch at the specialty box office with the Glenn Close and Mila Kunis-starring drama being the only film to break the $200K mark. Though Four Good Da…

EXCLUSIVE: Multiple Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Emmy-nominated actor, producer and director David Oyelowo and his wife, actress, writer and producer Jessica Oyelowo, have signed a two-year first-look deal with Walt Disney Pictures for feature length films across all platforms at the studio. The Oyelowos will produce…

From his critically acclaimed role in Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to taking a journey to Wonderland and Neverland in Come Away,  David Oyelowo has given us moving performances and always delivers in front of the camera, but with the forthcoming The Water Man, Emmy-nominated actor does double duty as an actor and as…

Here is the first trailer for The Water Man, the directorial debut from David Oyelowo. The Golden Globe-nominated actor also stars in the film alongside Rosario Dawson, Lonnie Chavis, Amiah Miller, Alfred Molina and Maria Bello. RLJE Films and Netflix acquired the film this year, with RLJE set to release the film in…

Emmy-nominated David Oyelowo has signed on to star alongside Gugu Mbatha-Raw in The Girl Before, a four-episode limited series based on JP Delaney’s best-selling psychological thriller, from BBC One and 42. As Deadline reported in January, HBO Max was considered the U.S. frontrunner to co-produce with BBC One and 42…

David Oyelowo's The Water Man, the family adventure film that marks the actor’s feature directorial debut, has been acquired by RLJE Films and Netflix. The pic, which bowed at the 2020 Toronto Film Festival, will now hit U.S. theaters and Premium VOD on May 7 via RLJE, with Netflix releasing the film later this year…

Emmy-nominated Insecure co-star Yvonne Orji is tapping into her experience as a Nigerian-born, first-generation American in First Gen, a half-hour comedy, which is in development at Disney+. She has A-list collaborators on the project in British-born Nigerian-American actor David Oyelowo and Oprah Winfrey. 20th…

George Clooney takes on triple duties as star-director-producer of The Midnight Sky, and it proves to be just the right fit, and his best behind the camera since 2005’s multi-Oscar-nominated Good Night and Good Luck. Like the latter film, Midnight Sky’s subject matter not only serves as exciting filmmaking, it also…

EXCLUSIVE: Saoirse Ronan, Sam Rockwell and David Oyelowo have signed on to star in a new untitled murder mystery thriller from Searchlight Pictures. This Country director Tom George is on board to helm from a script by Mark Chappell. Iron Lady producer Damian Jones will produce following his work with Searchlight on…