EXCLUSIVE: Remember the Titans scribe Gregory Allen Howard has teamed with Chris Columbus' 1492 to tell the story of Fannie Lou Hamer, a sharecropper with a sixth-grade education who became an important voting-rights advocate and founded the first integrated political party in the South in mid-’60s Mississippi. Hamer…

EXCLUSIVE: New Line has acquired Life In Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina, and has set Remember the Titans scribe Gregory Allen Howard to adapt the biography of Misty Copeland. She made history by becoming the first African American woman to be promoted to principal dancer with the prestigious American Ballet Theatre…

EXCLUSIVE: First the abolitionist leader Harriet Ross Tubman pushed the controversial President (and Native American foe) Andrew Jackson off the $20 bill to become the first African American on U.S. currency, and now she’s getting her own feature film. It seems quite appropriate that Charles D. King, who was the first…

EXCLUSIVE: Millennium Films has acquired Hunt, Capture, Kill, a spec script by Gregory Allen Howard, the writer of Remember The Titans. Mark Gill made a preemptive deal and Debra Martin Chase will produce. Howard, who also did writing on Ali and other inspirational and historical projects, is rebranding himself in the…