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EXCLUSIVE:  Production is underway for Fancy Dance in Cherokee Nation/Tulsa County, Oklahoma. Based on a script by director Erica Tremblay & Miciana Alise, Fancy Dance was developed with the support of the Sundance Screenwriters Lab, Directors Lab, Creative Producing Lab and Indigenous Intensive. Charlotte Koh for Conf…

The 75th edition of the Cannes Film Festival officially kicked off this evening with an emotional opening ceremony that reached a pinnacle as Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelenskyy appeared via video to address the Palais audience live from Kyiv. During his speech, Zelenskyy referred to Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dicta…

More than 20 years in the making, Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis has set its star cast. Adam Driver, Forest Whitaker, Nathalie Emmanuel (Game of Thrones and Fast X), Jon Voight and Laurence Fishburne have been set for the main roles. Fishburne began his career with Coppola at the tender age of 14 in Apocalypse…

More than three decades after he first attended the Cannes Film Festival, Forest Whitaker will receive the honorary Palme d'Or at the event's 75th opening ceremony this month. Academy Award winner Whitaker follows Jodie Foster in receiving the award, which is given out as a tribute to those figures whose artistic…

Aretha Franklin has been getting a lot of attention lately, not only for the critically praised big-screen biopic Respect, in which Jennifer Hudson plays the Queen of Soul to great effect, but also in 2021’s television limited series Genius: Aretha, in which Cynthia Erivo gets a crack at the role for which she earned…

Epix has renewed the Forest Whitaker-led Godfather of Harlem for a 10-episode third season. The critically acclaimed drama from ABC Signature is scheduled to begin production on Season 3 in New York this summer. The renewal follows a strong second season, Epix’s best-performing season of all time, according to the…

Forest Whitaker has joined global economist and author Dr. Dambisa Moyo to become the latest among a group of African business leaders and ex-basketball players to invest in NBA Africa. They are strategic investors who bring money, brainpower and activism to the body. Whitaker's Oscar came from The Last King of Scotlan…

EXCLUSIVE: Apple TV+'s climate change anthology drama series Extrapolations has added more big names to its cast. Forest Whitaker, Marion Cotillard, Tobey Maguire and Eiza Gonzalez are the latest stars to join the series, from Scott Z. Burns. They join the likes of Meryl Streep, Sienna Miller, Kit Harington, Tahar…

EXCLUSIVE: Breathtaking bets on his vision established him as one of the greatest living American filmmakers and a vineyard magnate. Now, Francis Coppola is ready to put a lot of his hard-won chips on the table one more time to make his epic dream project, Megalopolis. While the financial configuration is still…

“R-E-S-P-E-C-T.” That is the name of one of Aretha Franklin’s best-known hits, and it also happens to be the word I would use to describe my admiration not only for the Queen of Soul but now also for the Oscar-winning star who portrays her in the new film that is indeed titled Respect. No matter what flaws there are…

Bumpy Johnson's wild ride through New York's criminal underworld continues on August 8, when Godfather of Harlem returns for the back half of its second season. In Epix's crime drama created by Chris Brancato and Paul Eckstein, Oscar winner Forest Whitaker plays the infamous crime boss, who wars with the Italian mob…

In Godfather of Harlem, Forest Whitaker has tapped into one of the most complex roles and narratives of his storied career, which has already netted him an Oscar, a BAFTA Award, two SAG statuettes, the Cannes Film Festival's award for Best Actor and countless other accolades. The character he plays in the Epix series…