The just-released trailer for the Warner Bros. drama Just Mercy shows Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Fox, and Brie Larsen leading an ensemble that’s locked-in on the intense project’s compelling true-life tale about Walter McMillian, a wrongly convicted inmate on Alabama’s death row.
Just Mercy premiered at the Toronto…
Based on Bryan Stevenson's book of the same name, Destin Daniel Cretton’s film Just Mercy stars Jamie Foxx as wrongly-convicted death row prisoner Walter McMillian—a man without hope who is facing the electric chair when idealistic young lawyer Stevenson (Michael B. Jordan) takes on his case. It's a harrowing and…
Wrongly-convicted Death Row prisoner Walter McMillian may have tragically lost most of his life to a broken justice system, but McMillian's story lives on in both the memoir of his tireless lawyer, Bryan Stevenson, and now in the film it inspired: Destin Daniel Cretton's Just Mercy. Jamie Foxx plays McMillian—a man…
Disney and Pixar released the first Soul teaser this morning, giving us a look at exactly how stars Jamie Foxx and Tina Fey will be portrayed as beings of the hereafter.
Or a hereafter-like place where souls are refined before being sent off to human bodies. The teaser doesn’t quite say, but we do see the Foxx’s…
According to star Jamie Foxx, the upcoming movie Just Mercyhas the scent of authenticity.
Let us explain. Foxx portrays real-life character Walter McMillian, who was wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of a white woman in Monroeville, AL. He was released in 1993 after spending six years on…
After a string of Oscar contenders have now dropped at both Venice and Telluride, all eyes are on Canada, as the first major World Premiere of an Academy Award hopeful took place Friday night and this morning, and it was Warner Bros which delivered it with a punch.
Just Mercy, the true story of lawyer Bryan Stevenson…
Warner Bros has released the official trailer for Just Mercy, the uplifting awards-season drama starring Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Foxx and Brie Larson and directed by Destin Daniel Cretton.
Jordan plays young lawyer Bryan Stevenson (Jordan) and the pic follows Stevenson’s real-life battle for justice. After graduating…
Disney’s Pixar revealed Saturday at the D23 Expo that the animation studio’s new film Soul will be toplined by Jamie Foxx and Tina Fey. The pic is set to be the second original Pixar film for 2020 after March’s Onward, and it has a June 19, 2020 release date.
Directed by two-time Oscar winner Pete Docter, who was…
In one of his most challenging projects to date, Michael B. Jordan stars in, co-produces and helped cast the biographical drama Just Mercy through his new Outlier Society banner.
The upcoming Warner Bros film follows the true story of Walter McMillian, an African-American man sentenced to death in Alabama for a murder…
CAA announced today that they will host their third annual CAA Amplify June 24 in Ojai, Calif. The invitation-only event is a convening of diverse leading artists and executives from the most impactful organizations in entertainment, sports, media, brands, technology, and social justice.
Hosted in partnership with the…
Perhaps it is telling us something about the history of the film industry that Denzel Washington, last night’s highly deserving honoree for the 47th AFI Life Achievement Award, is only the third African American to ever receive it, and before Morgan Freeman was honored in 2011, Sidney Poitier in 1992 was the…
