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EXCLUSIVE: Jamie Foxx is back in tune with Ray helmer Taylor Hackford. Foxx has just joined the cast of Signal Hill, the working title of the drama that will star Anthony Mackie as attorney Johnnie Cochran,.and Elizabeth Banks as Mary Neiswender, an investigative newspaper reporter for the Long Beach…

EXCLUSIVE: Elizabeth Banks has been set to star alongside Anthony Mackie in Cochran, the Taylor Hackford-directed drama about that casts Mackie as Johnnie Cochran in a career-making case revolving around the pursuit of justice in the Signal Hill police brutality case in 1981. Banks will play Mary Neiswender, an…

EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-winning Ray helmer Taylor Hackford has been set to direct Signal Hill, the working title of the drama that will star Anthony Mackie as attorney Johnnie Cochran. Long before he defended O.J. Simpson in the trial of the century, Cochran established himself as a legal superhero because of his…

EXCLUSIVE: Justin Chadwick is making a deal to direct the untitled film about the landmark Signal Hill police brutality case in 1981 that has Anthony Mackie playing attorney Johnnie Cochran. The script is by David McMillan, and the film is backed by The Firm. Mackie and Jason Spire will produce with Robbie Brenner…

EXCLUSIVE: As Anthony Mackie this week reprises the role of the winged Falcon in Captain America: Civil War, he’s signed on to star in a movie about the case that made a legal superhero out of Johnnie Cochran. And this one didn’t involve OJ Simpson. Mackie is set to play Cochran in an untitled film about his dogged…

EXCLUSIVE: Hot off his critically acclaimed performance as Johnnie Cochran in FX's record-breaking series The People vs. OJ Simpson, Courtney B. Vance has joined the cast of The Mummy for Universal Pictures, the first film in the studio's new production endeavor that will expand and unify a network of classic…

EXCLUSIVE: The legacy of superstar lawyer Johnnie Cochran has been elevated with the FX series The People Vs. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story. Now, the litigator who died in 2005 will be the subject of a feature film. The Firm has acquired a drama spec that tells of Cochran’s dogged pursuit of justice in the Signal…

Law & Order: Criminal Intent alum Courtney B. Vance is back on the legal beat with a starring role as defense attorney Johnnie Cochran in FX's miniseries American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson, from Ryan Murphy. The mini takes a look at the O.J. Simpson trial told from the perspective of the lawyers that…