Michael B. Jordan (Friday Night Lights) stars in Fruitvale Station as Oscar Grant, the 22-year-old Bay Area man whose fatal 2009 shooting by Oakland BART police sparked outrage and protests against police brutality. The Weinstein Co. nabbed Ryan Coogler’s directorial debut out of Sundance for $2 million before it won…

The Weinstein Company picked up Fruitvale, about the fatal 2009 shooting of 22-year-old Oscar Grant on San Francisco's BART by security guards, during the Sundance Festival for north of $2 million. It was one of the biggest deals of the fest, and the Ryan Coogler-directed drama went on to win Sundance’s U.S. Dramatic…

EXCLUSIVE: Fresh from producing the Sundance Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award winner Fruitvale, Forest Whitaker has taken over the nearly 20-year effort to bring the turbulent life of stand-up comedy legend Richard Pryor to the big screen. Whitaker is  teaming with the late comedian’s widow, Jennifer Pryor, to…

Fruitvale and Blood Brother were the big winners tonight at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival Awards. Fruitvale, about the fatal shooting of 22-year old Oscar Grant on San Francisco's BART by security guards in 2009, won both the Grand Jury Prize for U.S. Dramatic and the U.S. Dramatic Audience Award. "This will not be…

UPDATE: The Weinstein Company has confirmed Deadline’s break on this deal. Release appears below original story. EXCLUSIVE: Harvey Weinstein is salting his Oscar arsenal for next year. After a heated auction with numerous bidders, The Weinstein Company is in exclusive negotiations to acquire Fruitvale for a bit north…

EXCLUSIVE: Fruitvale, the Ryan Coogler-directed drama about the last day in the life of 22-year–old Oscar Grant before he was killed in a case that galvanized protests against police brutality in Oakland, is at the center of a multi-distributor auction that will be wrapped up first thing Monday morning at Sundance…