Long sharing the intention of collaborating, it took courtroom drama Marshall for Common and Diane Warren to come together in the writing of an original song. For each of them, the results were electrifying. A classic power anthem sung by Andra Day with an original rap by Common, the Oscar-nominated "Stand Up for…

The 49th NAACP Image Awards handed out awards tonight at the Pasadena's Civic Auditorium. ABC’s black-ish swept the comedy category in television while Power snagged Outstanding Drama. Breakout comedy Girls Trip won for Outstanding Motion Picture and Ava DuVernay took the top prize of Entertainer of the…

“What I loved about the script when I read it is it didn’t feel like I had to know who Thurgood Marshall was in order to enjoy the story,” said Chadwick Boseman of what attracted him to the lead role in Marshall. “Once I saw that, I was like, now I have a certain amount of freedom to explore who was he in this time…

Marshall star Chadwick Boseman and director Reginald Hudlin were joined on The Contenders stage by producer Paula Wagner and songwriter Diane Warren to discuss the biopic about the civil rights revolutionary Thurgood Marshall. “I didn’t feel like I needed to know who Marshall was to enjoy the film we created,” said…

Sunday AM writethru after Friday/Saturday post:  A microbudget horror film, Blumhouse/Universal's Happy Death Day, is beating the very expensive sci-fi Alcon Entertainment/Sony sequel Blade Runner 2049‘s second weekend, respectively $26.5M to $15.1M. On some level, the mere result of that has to be a studio marketing…

Hours after the worst mass shooting in U.S. history, Open Road Films has canceled the red carpet premiere of Marshall that was set for tonight at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. “On this day of national mourning, we have decided to cancel tonight's scheduled red carpet premiere of Marshall,” an Open Road…

Studio71 is producing the film adaptation to Alyson Noël’s bestselling young adult novel Saving Zoë starring sisters Laura & Vanessa Marano. Jeffrey Hunt is directing the pic, which follows high school freshman Echo (Laura), who after the murder of her sister Zoë (Vanessa), is determined to uncover what led to her…

“The only way to get through a bigot's door is to break it down." Here is the first trailer for Marshall, starring Chadwick Boseman in the biopic about Thurgood Marshall. Before he became the country’s first African-American Supreme Court Justice in 1967, Marshall was a lawyer famous for winning the landmark Brown v B…

Here's a cultural paradox: Even as American universities and their students are fleeing history at a frightful rate, movies, at least of the sort that contend for awards, are digging ever deeper into nooks and crannies of the past. On the academic front, the Harvard scholar Niall Ferguson has described some trends…

Open Road Films has set October 13 for the nationwide release of their Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall pic Marshall. The movie, directed by Oscar nominee Django Unchained producer and House Party director Reginald Hudlin stars Chadwick Boseman as the legendary attorney and title Supreme Court Justice during…

Sterling K. Brown has been a busy working actor for many years, but the relatively peripheral parts he was given kept him under the Emmy radar, until that is, he stepped into the shoes of prosecutor Chris Darden on The People v. O.J. Simpson. The show also helped to rewrite the public's understanding of Darden's role…

Open Road Films has acquired U.S. rights to Marshall, the Thurgood Marshall movie that will star Chadwick Boseman at the iconic lawyer and Supreme Court justice. Reginald Hudlin is directing the screenplay from trial lawyer Michael Koskoff and his son Jacob; the latter penned last year’s Michael Fassbender-Marion…