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EXCLUSIVE: We hear that Film Bridge International will be handling the international and domestic rights to the Milo Gibson-Laurence Fishburne sports drama Brother’s Keeper. Deadline first told you about the project coming together in August 2018 from Minneapolis-based upstart production company Winsterstate…

Nick Jonas (Jumanji) and Laurence Fishburne (Matrix) have signed on to star in Pierre Morel (Taken) action-thriller The Blacksmith, which AGC is financing and producing. Morel and Liam Neeson had enormous success with action franchise Taken. This time it will be Jonas with the very particular set of skills. The actor…

Steven Soderbergh’s 2011 film Contagion about a horrific pandemic has been getting plenty of new attention lately, and now five of its key cast members have recorded PSAs for the coronavirus era. Watch the clips from Matt Damon, Kate Winslet, Laurence Fishburne, Marion Cotillard and Jennifer Ehle below. The actors…

 Quibi has released the official trailer for #Freerayshawn, one of its “Movies In Chapters” lineup. The film is executive produced by Antoine Fuqua and stars Stephan James and Laurence Fishburne. #FreeRayshawn tells the story of a young black Iraq War veteran named Rayshawn (James) who is set up by New Orleans police…

EXCLUSIVE: Laurence Fishburne is to host and narrate a new strand for History that will investigate a range of mysteries surrounding the Titanic, D.B. Cooper, Roswell and John Wilkes Booth. The Matrix and Black-ish star is to front History's Greatest Mysteries for the A+E Networks broadcaster, launching in summer…

EXCLUSIVE: Laurence Fishburne is set to join Liam Neeson to star in the upcoming action adventure film The Ice Road, which Jonathan Hensleigh will direct from his screenplay. Shivani Rawat's ShivHans Pictures is boarding the action film as producer and co-financier alongside producer/financier CODE Entertainment. Pic…

EXCLUSIVE: Laurence Fishburne and his Cinema Gypsy Productions are behind a half-hour ensemble comedy starring teacher-turned-comedian Eddie B, which is in development via ABC Studios, where Cinema Gypsy is under an overall deal. Written by Richard Manus (Merry Happy Whatever, Grown-ish), the untitled single-camera…

In his first Broadway appearance since his widely acclaimed, Emmy-winning TV performance as serial killer Andrew Cunanan, Darren Criss will join the previously announced Laurence Fishburne and Sam Rockwell in the upcoming revival of David Mamet's American Buffalo, producer Jeffrey Richards announced today. The…

Laurence Fishburne and Sam Rockwell will return to Broadway this spring in a revival of David Mamet’s American Buffalo, lead producers Jeffrey Richards, Steve Traxler and Stephanie P. McClelland announced today. Directed by frequent Mamet collaborator Neil Pepe, American Buffalo will begin previews in March 2020 with…

Disney Channel has ordered Marvel’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur, an original animated series based on Marvel’s comic book series, from Disney Television Animation. Laurence Fishburne and Helen Sugland’s Cinema Gypsy Productions (ABC’s Black-ish), Marvel Animation & Family Entertainment, and Emmy winner Steve Loter…

EXCLUSIVE: Cinema Libre Studio has acquired North American distribution rights to Imprisoned, the indie drama starring Laurence Fishburne, Juana Acosta and Juan Pablo Raba along with Esai Morales and Edward James Olmos. Directed by Paul Kampf, the pic was filmed entirely in Puerto Rico in 2017, and was among the last…

EXCLUSIVE: Stephan James and Laurence Fishburne are set to star and Jasmine Cephas Jones, Skeet Ulrich and Annabeth Gish will co-star in director Seith Mann’s shortform drama series #Freerayshawn, The drama, from Sony Pictures TV and executive producer Antoine Fuqua, will be featured on Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg…