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Fox News Apologizes For Infographic That Showed Stock Market Gains After Martin Luther King Assassination, Other Moments Racial Unrest
Fox News is apologizing for an infographic that aired on Special Report with Bret Baier on Friday that showed historic stock market reactions to racial unrest sparked by the assault or killing of African American men.
The graphic showed market gains after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., the acquittal of…
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Joe Berlinger Plans To Direct Martin Luther King Murder Mystery As Docu & Narrative
EXCLUSIVE: Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning filmmaker Joe Berlinger has signed on to direct the feature film Slay the Dreamer, and he will also direct and produce a feature documentary on the same subject. Pic is based on the life of Rev. James Lawson, friend and advisor to Martin Luther King. A civil rights icon in…
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Jeffrey Lord Doubles Down On Claim Donald Trump Is “Martin Luther King Jr. Of Healthcare” On ‘AC360’
CNN brought Donald Trump surrogate Jeffrey Lord back this evening to address his remarkable statement from this morning calling President Donald Trump “the Martin Luther King of healthcare.”
“Jeff, I want to give you a chance to explain yourself, what you meant by your earlier comments,” Anderson Cooper began…
Gerald Levin To Donald Trump On Rep. John Lewis: Have You No Sense Of Decency, Sir?
Former AOL-Time Warner CEO Gerald Levin writes guest columns for Deadline when the spirit moves him. Like it has today, on MLK Day, on the eve of the inauguration of Donald Trump as U.S. president, and the controversy over his reaction to comments made by iconic Civil Rights reformer and Georgia congressman John…
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Hard Road To Oscar: ‘Selma’s Ava DuVernay On Why It Took 50 Years To Make A Major MLK Movie
How could Ava DuVernay, a former Hollywood publicist and Sundance-winning director of a movie that cost just $200,000, be the one to break the long trail of futility in mounting a major movie that conveyed how much of a galvanizing presence Dr. Martin Luther King Jr was in the battle for civil rights in America…
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Paramount To Make MLK Pic ‘Selma’; Oprah Winfrey Producing
EXCLUSIVE: Big news on the MLK movie front. Paramount is in final negotiations to acquire domestic distribution rights to Selma, a feature drama about Martin Luther King‘s 1965 landmark voting rights campaign regarded as the peak of the civil rights movement, and none other than Oprah Winfrey has boarded the project…
As Oliver Stone And Jamie Foxx Mobilize DreamWorks MLK Pic, Paul Greengrass, Isn’t It High Time For ‘Memphis’?
Reports are surfacing that DreamWorks is ready to move forward with the authorized version of Martin Luther King‘s life story, the one that MLK’s family is behind and which has the rights to use his copyrighted speeches. They have Jamie Foxx and director Oliver Stone poised for an Any Given Sunday re-team on the…
CNN Wins Demo For Obama’s MLK Speech On D.C. March 50th Anniversary
The Jeff Zucker-run network's desire to top the cable news heap may still be a dream but CNN did come out on top on Wednesday in one category. CNN was No. 1 among adults 25-54 during President Barack Obama's remarks yesterday commemorating the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr's historic "I Have A Dream"…
Broadcast Nets To Cover Obama’s MLK Speech On March Anniversary; CNN, MSNBC To Telecast ‘I Have A Dream’
ABC, CBS and NBC said this afternoon they will interrupt regularly scheduled programming tomorrow afternoon to join the cable news networks in carrying live President Obama's remarks on the 50th anniversary of the historic March on Washington, at which Martin Luther King Jr delivered his famous "I Have A Dream"…
Ava DuVernay Now Aboard To Direct MLK Biopic ‘Selma’
EXCLUSIVE: I’ve learned that writer-director Ava DuVernay has been set by Pathe UK, Brad Pitt’s Plan B and producer Christian Colson to helm Selma, a feature drama about Martin Luther King‘s 1965 landmark voting rights campaign regarded as the peak of the civil rights movement. She reportedly has been scouting…
Oscar-Nominated 1970 Martin Luther King Doc To Get Special Nationwide Screenings
EXCLUSIVE: In honor of the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, and of the March on Washington, Kino Lorber will release a newly restored and re-mastered edition of Oscar-nominated documentary King: A Filmed Record… Montgomery To Memphis. The updated version of the 1970 film will get a…
Martin Luther King Film ‘Memphis’ Coming Back Around For Paul Greengrass And Scott Rudin
EXCLUSIVE… UPDATE: Memphis, Paul Greengrass‘ film about the final days of Dr. Martin Luther King, is coming back around. Now, I hear that steps are underway to make Memphis Greengrass’ next directorial outing. I’ve heard that Veritas is in talks to finance with Wild Bunch. You might recall the picture was shelved…
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