Steve McQueen's female-centric heist movie Widows might be packed with familiar and accomplished women like Viola Davis, Elizabeth Debicki and Michelle Rodriguez, but magnetic breakout Cynthia Erivo still jumped off the screen in her first ever feature. Erivo is a storied stage actress, and has already won an Emmy, a…

EXCLUSIVE: In the wake of pop R&B and Hidden Figures star Janelle Monae boarding Focus Features’ Harriet Tubman biopic Harriet earlier this week, four more actors have joined the Kasi Lemmons-directed pic including Queen Sugar‘s Omar J. Dorsey, Colony‘s Tory Kittles, Ben Is Back‘s Tim Guinee and Antonio J. Bell who…

EXCLUSIVE: Vanessa Bell Calloway (Coming To America, Shameless), Zackary Momoh (Seven Seconds, A United Kingdom), Deborah Ayorinde (Girls Trip), and Vondie Curtis-Hall (ABC’s For The People) have come aboard the Harriet Tubman biopic from Focus Features. Directed by Eve’s Bayou helmer Kasi Lemmons, the film will be…

Focus Features has set production on Harriet, which tells the story of heroic abolitionist Harriet Tubman, directed by Kasi Lemmons from a screenplay she co-wrote with Gregory Allen Howard. Tony, Emmy and Grammy Award-winner Cynthia Erivo, who recently stars in Steve McQueen’s Widows which made its TIFF premiere last…

EXCLUSIVE: Tony award winning actress Cynthia Erivo has been tapped as the title character in Macro/New Balloon’s film Harriet, the biopic on famous abolitionist and warrior Harriet Tubman. Seith Mann attached to direct from a script by Gregory Allen Howard. Tubman is an American hero who escaped the shackles of…

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…