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David Oyelowo is EPing a limited series in development with the BBC about Biafra with Fremantle and Richard Johns’ newly-launched Argo Films. Biafra is set in the UK and Nigeria, with the story unfolding across two main timelines: the present day, and the 1967-70 Biafra War – which remains a largely…

EXCLUSIVE: RLJE Films has picked up North American rights to actor Mo McRae’s feature directorial debut, A Lot of Nothing — a satirical thriller starring Y’Ian Noel (Insecure), Cleopatra Coleman (The Last Man on Earth), Lex Scott Davis (Rebel), Shamier Anderson (Invasion) and Justin Hartley (This Is Us)…

Apple TV+ is close to a series order for dramedy Government Cheese, starring and executive produced by David Oyelowo. In addition to Oyelowo, the project hails from creators Paul Hunter and Aeysha Carr (Midnight Run, Brooklyn Nine-Nine), Macro Television Studios and Apple Studios. Written and executive produced by…

EXCLUSIVE: Yellowstone co-creator and showrunner Taylor Sheridan will direct the pilot of 1883: Bass Reeves, the six-part limited series starring David Oyelowo as the legendary Wild West lawman. Sheridan cleared room in his busy schedule after the pilot script came in and Sheridan was so impressed that he called…

EXCLUSIVE: Don’t Let Go creator Jacob Aaron Estes has enlisted his wife and kids for latest horror thriller He’s Watching. Scroll down for the trailer. XYZ Films’ feature, which is written and directed by Estes, features Estes’ musician wife Gretchen Lieberum and their children, Iris Serena Estes and Lucas Steel…

Having starred as Martin Luther King in Selma, British actor David Oyelowo is planning to play another American icon, Sugar Ray Robinson. The star of The Midnight Sky is in the process of writing the film Sweet Thunder, which he will also produce and star in, and tells the Times newspaper that it has proved a tireless…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar winner Billy Bob Thornton is boarding Studiocanal and Picture Company’s high-concept thriller Role Play starring Kaley Cuoco and David Oyelowo. Production starts in Berlin next month at Studio Babelsberg. The Thomas Vincent directed pic revolves around a married couple whose life turns upside down…

EXCLUSIVE: Two-time Primetime Emmy nominee David Oyelowo will star opposite Kaley Cuoco in the Studiocanal and Picture Company high-concept thriller Role Play, which we hear will roll cameras in four weeks in Berlin. We also hear that Amazon Prime Video is in final talks to take the US and several major offshore…

Bass Reeves, a previously announced limited series produced by Yellowstone co-creator Taylor Sheridan, will now be an offshoot of Yellowstone prequel 1883 at Paramount+. The news was revealed as part of MTV Entertainment Studios’ upfront on Wednesday. Now titled 1883: The Bass Reeves Story, the limited series stars…

A Lot of Nothing director Mo McRae joined executive producer David Oyelowo and stars Y’lan Noel, Cleopatra Coleman and Lex Scott Davis to discuss the film at Deadline’s SXSW Studio. “I saw [McRae’s] short film of A Lot of Nothing,” says Oyelowo, “a 17-minute, one-take short film that crammed so many themes, such…

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has the first teaser for A Lot of Nothing, a thriller starring Y’lan Noel (Insecure), Cleopatra Coleman (Dopesick), Shamier Anderson (John Wick: Chapter 4), Lex Scott Davis (Rebel) and Justin Hartley (This Is Us) that is making its world premiere in Narrative Feature Competition at the SXSW Film…

2022 Oscar nominee Will Smith (King Richard) and two-time Emmy nominee David Oyelowo (The Girl Before) have come aboard Netflix’s film adaptation of Tọlá Okogwu’s upcoming book Onyeka and the Academy of the Sun as producers, Deadline has confirmed. Onyeka is the first in a series of children’s books from the author…