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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…

A second group of filmmakers have petitioned WarnerMedia to reconsider its decision to shutter FilmStruck at month’s end. Here is . the second letter To whom it may concern at Turner and Warner Bros. Digital Networks: Roger Ebert once said "the movies are like a machine that generates empathy. It lets you understand a…

EXCLUSIVE: The Crown‘s Anna Chancellor and The Wire‘s Clarke Peters have joined the cast of Come Away, the fantasy drama starring Angelina Jolie and David Oyelowo that is serving as the live-action debut of Brave director Brenda Chapman. The pic has just started filming in the UK for seven weeks, followed by three…

EXCLUSIVE: David and Jessica Oyelowo and their production company Yoruba Saxon have sealed an exclusive, first-look deal with MWM Studios to develop both film and television projects. Yoruba Saxon, founded in 2014, is the company behind such films as A United Kingdom (Fox Searchlight Pathe), Captive (Paramount), Nighti…

EXCLUSIVE: Angelina Jolie and David Oyelowo are in talks to star in Come Away, a fantasy drama that will mark the live-action debut of Brenda Chapman, the Oscar-winning director and co-writer of the Pixar film Brave. Marissa Kate Goodhill wrote the script, and UK-based Fred Films is producing with Oyelowo’s Yoruba…

Masterpiece is teaming with BBC One on the upcoming six-part event adaptation of Victor Hugo’s classic novel, Les Misérables. The partners have set key cast with Dominic West playing Jean Valjean and David Oyelowo as Javert. Lily Collins has also boarded as Fantine with Adeel Akhtar and Olivia Colman as Monsieur and…

Here is the first trailer for Nash Edgerton’s dark comedy Gringo, starring his brother Joel Edgerton, David Oyelowo, Amanda Seyfried and Charlize Theron. The picture from Amazon Studios and STX is about a businessman (Oyelowo) who goes to Mexico and ends up crossing the line from citizen to criminal. The release date…