The UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television’s Class of 2019 is set for a Bond hearing this week: 007 alum Pierce Brosnan will deliver its 72nd annual commencement address Friday at Royce Hall. The university also will bestow its Distinguished Alumni Award upon Star Trek original George Takei (Class of ’60…

EXCLUSIVE: Helmer Julie Dash has signed on to direct an upcoming biopic on Rosa Parks, which will center on the decade before her seminal moment on a Montgomery bus, when Parks, already an activist of her time, sought justice for 24-year-old wife and mother Recy Taylor, who was brutally gang-raped by six white men in…

Cohen Media Group’s Cohen Film Collection has acquired director Julie Dash’s seminal Daughters of the Dust, and will re-release it fully restored to theaters in Fall 2016 to mark the film’s 25th anniversary. The first feature directed by an African American woman to receive general theatrical release, Daughters of the…