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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…

The Matrix and CSI star Laurence Fishburne is to star in and exec produce Sony's anthology UFO drama series Rendlesham. The series, which is a co-production between Sony Pictures Television and Eleventh Hour Films, the UK indie that the Hollywood studio owns a stake in, is an eight-part drama is inspired by a…

For those who just can’t get enough politics these days, there’s a new podcast launching next week. The scripted America 2.0 stars Suits’ Patrick J. Adams as an idealistic first-term congressman, along with Kate Walsh (13 Reasons Why), Shanola Hampton (Shameless), Oscar nominee Laurence Fishburne and others. Listen to…

EXCLUSIVE: Milo Gibson — the son of Mel Gibson — and Laurence Fishburne have signed on to star in the sports drama Brother’s Keeper for Winter State Entertainment, an upstart production company out of Minnesota started by husbannd/wife indie film producing team of Hamid and Camille Torabpour. Brother’s Keeper is…

UPDATED: In addition to Benedict Cumberbatch, the first-ever Letters Live in New York has added a second wave of performers for the event which takes place on May 18 and 20 at the town hall. Joining Cumberbatch will be Cynthia Erivo, Edie Falco, Ian McShane, James Earl Jones, Katie Holmes, Kyle MacLachlan, Laurence Fis…

Most war movies offer lots of action, explosions and perilous life-and-death situations, but not Last Flag Flying from director and co-writer Richard Linklater. As he has proven in the past, Linklater is one of the rare filmmakers who loves words and lets them breathe onscreen — think his Before Sunset trilogy in…

Standing onstage at Alice Tully Hall, director Richard Linklater dedicated the world premiere screening of his film, Last Flag Flying to Jonathan Demme, the widely admired Oscar winner who died earlier this year. The tribute fit the opening night of the New York Film Festival, as Last Flag resonated with a modulated…

Steve Carell, Bryan Cranston and Laurence Fishburne could well have teamed up for a convention on-the-road, mismatched buddy comedy – moments in this official trailer from Amazon Studios certainly suggest the trio has the right stuff for it. But judging from what we see here, Richard Linklater’s Last Flag Flying aims…

When Anthony Anderson (The Shield) and Kenya Barris (Girls Trip) met a few years back, they got to talking about how different their kids' lives were from their own childhoods. As Anderson puts it, "Kenya made a comment like, 'You know, I feel like I went from raising a black family to a black-ish family.'" Thus…

Laurence Fishburne and his Cinema Gypsy Productions (black-ish) have signed a new two-year overall deal at ABC Studios. Under the pact, Fishburne and his longtime manager and producing partner Helen Sugland will continue to develop projects for the studio. Additionally, Melissa Gelineau is joining the company as Head…

At a time when the feet of most New Yorkers haven’t yet touched beach sand, the town’s preeminent movie festival is already steeped in lining up Oscar-season launches for the fall.  The Film Society of Lincoln Center has set as the opening-night film of the 55th New York Film Festival to be the Richard…