In the first trailer for the Angela Shelton-directed Heart, Baby!Gbenga Akinnagbe (The Wire, The Deuce) puts on the gloves and enters the ring as real-life George Lee Martin who becomes an unbeatable prison boxer while serving time in the Central Tennessee State Penitentiary.
Heart, Baby! marks the directorial debut…
North Of Two has acquired distribution rights to Angela Shelton's Heart, Baby! ahead of its world premiere tomorrow at the Newport Beach Film Festival. A mid-November theatrical bow is in the works. The true-story pic stars The Wire‘s Gbenga Akinnagbe as George Lee Martin, who at the age of 18 received a 40-year…
EXCLUSIVE:Jamie Kennedy has joined the cast of Angela Shelton’s indie Heart Baby!, a biopic of convict and boxer George Lee Martin. Gbenga Akinnagbe is already set to play Martin, who became infamous in the Tennessee prison system as an unbeatable boxer. When he is offered an opportunity at freedom in exchange for…
Production recently wrapped on Breaking Brooklyn, a drama starring Louis Gossett Jr. as Miles Bryant, a dance teacher and former performer struggling to keep his family-owned theater alive. When he takes two talented homeless boys under his wing, they team up with his family to save the theater. The film includes tap…
EXCLUSIVE:Gbenga Akinnagbe, best known for roles in The Following and The Wire, has been signed for the lead role in writer-director Angela Shelton’s Heart Baby! The film is from the same screenwriter whose Tumbleweeds won the filmmakers trophy for Gavin O’Connor at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival. The new pic tells…
