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…

EXCLUSIVE: Walt Disney Pictures is now in business with Moonlight Oscar-winning writer Tarell Alvin McCraney to script a musical idea for David Oyelowo to star. Details are under wraps on what is being titled Cyrano the Moor, but we know it’s some kind of musical mash up of two classic stories — Cyrano de Bergerac and…

EXCLUSIVE: David Oyelowo has been cast in Lionsgate's and director Doug Liman’s upcoming sci-fi adventure Chaos Walking. He will play Aaron, a controversial militant figure in the New World and the foe — along with Mayor Prentiss (Mads Mikkelson) — opposite Tom Holland and Daisy Ridley. Lionsgate has scheduled the…

David Oyelowo is about to enter the lion’s den. The two-time Emmy nominee and Selma star is set to voice Scar, the villainous younger brother of Mufasa, in the new season of Disney Junior’s animated kids series The Lion Guard. The actor will debut in the Season 2 opener “The Rise of Scar,” which premieres July 7. Scar…

Gringo is the new title of the Nash Edgerton dark comedy that stars 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. It will drop into theaters on March…