EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning filmmaker Joe Berlinger has signed on to direct the feature film Slay the Dreamer, and he will also direct and produce a feature documentary on the same subject. Pic is based on the life of Rev. James Lawson, friend and advisor to Martin Luther King. A civil rights icon in…

Jennifer Landon (TNT’s Animal Kingdom) and John Bedford Lloyd (The Bourne Supremacy) have joined Hugh Jackman, Vera Farmiga, and J.K. Simmons in The Front Runner, the Gary Hart biopic directed by Jason Reitman, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Matt Bai. The film, based on Bai’s book All the Truth Is Out…

Claws will come out this summer. TNT today set a June 11 premiere date for its dramedy series starring Niecy Nash and also issued a new trailer. TNT describes the hourlong show as “a midnight-dark, wickedly funny meditation on female badness set in a Central Florida nail salon, where there is a lot more going on than…

Lost and Oz alum Harold Perrineau and Saint George co-star Jenn Lyon have been cast as series regulars in the TNT pilot Claws. The hourlong dark dramedy starring Nicey Nash hails from Rashida Jones and Will McCormack's Le Train Train, in association with Warner Horizon Television and TNT Original Productions. Written…

Parenthood’s Sam Jaeger and Lost alum Harold Perrineau are set to star in the USA Network pilot Poor Richard’s Almanack, from Legendary TV, Universal Cable Prods. and executive producer Jim Danger Gray (Orange Is The New Black). Weaving between modern day and a possible future where characters have changed radically, P…

True Blood alumna Lucy Griffiths has been cast as the female lead opposite Matt Ryan in NBC's drama pilot Constantine, from Warner Bros TV. Also cast in the project, based on the characters in DC Comics' John Constantine stories are Lost alum Harold Perrineau and Charles Halford (True Detective). Constantine centers…

Ray Richmond contributes to Deadline’s TV coverage. Ahead of its fifth season launch in September, FX‘s biker drama Sons of Anarchy — the network’s highest-rated show ever — trotted out new cast regulars Jimmy Smits and Harold Perrineau to critics during a noontime at TCA. In the case of Smits, it’s hardly his first…

EXCLUSIVE: Directed by Oscar-winner Kathryn Bigelow from a script by Mark Boal, Harold Perrineau‘s role is being kept secret as with other cast in the film. Kyle Chandler, Jessica Chastain, Jason Clarke, Joel Edgerton and Chris Pratt are also set to star in the film which focuses on Navy SEAL Team 6’s long hunt for Al…