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It's been almost a year since Cynthia Erivo first stepped into Harriet Tubman's shoes in Harriet—a biopic about the historical heroine who escaped slavery and freed hundreds of slaves via the Underground Railroad. And it's almost a year, too, since Erivo first felt the wrath of Twitter. As a British woman of Nigerian…

I thought I'd figured out Hollywood's prevailing attitude toward firearms. Oscar winner John Legend seemed to sum it up at an appearance in Dayton this week when he said: "The NRA doesn't represent America," and "we're tired of bigotry and hate turning lethal because of easy access to guns." Then I saw the trailer for…

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…

EXCLUSIVE: Eve’s Bayou helmer Kasi Lemmons has been set to adapt and direct On Beauty, based on the Booker Prize-nominated novel by Zadie Smith. The film will be developed as a coproduction between Carol Polakoff Productions, Ruby Films and Film4. The book is an academic comedy of manners, focusing on the story of two…