EXCLUSIVE: Netflix will adapt Erin Entrada Kelly’s Newbery Award-winning novel Hello, Universe into a family film. Playwright and screenwriter Michael Golamco (Always Be My Maybe) will adapt the book and Forest Whitaker and Nina Yang Bongiovi (Fruitvale Station, Roxanne Roxanne) of Significant Productions will…

EXCLUSIVE: Forest Whitaker has been set by Netflix to star in Jingle Jangle, the David E. Talbert-directed holiday musical about a cobblestone world that comes to life.  Whitaker will play Jeronicus Jangle, a once-great inventor and toy maker who has lost his belief in himself and his inventions, but stumbles upon a…

Newcomer Antoinette Crowe-Legacy has been cast in a major role opposite Forest Whitaker in Godfather of Harlem, Epix's straight-to-series crime drama, starring and executive produced by Whitaker. The series hails from Narcos co-creator Chris Brancato and Paul Eckstein, and ABC Signature Studios. Vincent D'Onofrio and…

“A murder like that only goes unsolved if the police don’t want to solve it.” That’s the take of Johnny Depp’s LAPD detective Russell Poole in City of Lies, Global Road’s Brad Furman-directed crime thriller based on the true story behind the investigation into the murder of rap star the Notorious B.I.G., aka Biggie…

Epix has given a 10-episode straight-to-series order to crime drama Godfather of Harlem, with Forest Whitaker attached to star and executive produce. The series hails from Narcos creator Chris Brancato and Paul Eckstein, and ABC Signature Studios. Written and executive produced by Brancato and Eckstein, Godfather of Ha…

Here is an exclusive first look at Burden, the Andrew Heckler-directed fact based drama that stars Garrett Hedlund, Forest Whitaker, Andrea Riseborough, Usher Raymond and Tom Wilkinson. The film premieres in competition tomorrow 6:15 at the PC Library, and is based on a true story about a taciturn repo man (Hedlund)…

EXCLUSIVE: Penguin Random House division Convergent has just won a competitive auction for the true story told in Burden, the Andrew Heckler-scripted and -directed drama that premieres this weekend at Sundance. Plans already are being made to get the book ready to coincide with the film’s release, the first time I can…

UPDATED with release date: Saban Films has acquired North American distribution rights to Roland Joffé's dramatic film The Forgiven which is based on the Michael Asthon play The Archbishop and The Antichrist and stars Forest Whitaker and Eric Bana. The film will hit theaters on March 9, followed by a VOD and digital…

EXCLUSIVE: Their films have been accepted into competition at the Sundance Film Festival four times — and now a fifth, with today’s news of the acceptance of first-time director Boots Riley’s Sorry to Bother You. Nina Yang Bongiovi and Forest Whitaker have been business partners for seven years through Significant Prod…

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains details of tonight's Empire Season 4 debut on Fox.  It wasn’t literally as explosive as the Season 3 finale, but things sure blew up figuratively tonight on Empire‘s Season 4 premiere. “We've got to keep these characters moving and growing, we've got to keep them feeling like…

Academy Award-winning actor Forest Whitaker will guest-star in a multi-episode arc on Fox’s Empire this fall, playing "Uncle Eddie," described as a charismatic music icon and hitmaker who gave Lucious (Terrence Howard) his first radio airplay. Decades later, Eddie steps up for Lucious at a critical moment during his…

A slew of new Black Panther photos show an unmasked T'Challa (Chadwick Boseman), Michael B. Jordan’s Erik Killmonger (Michael B. Jordan), the Wakanda warriors (Danai Gurira, Florence Kasumba, Lupita Nyong’o), and Forest Whitaker’s Zuri,  a shaman and spiritual elder to T’Challa. The photos were published exclusively…