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EXCLUSIVE: Actor and rap artist Tip "T.I." Harris and John Ortiz (Fast & Furious, Fast & Furious 6) have signed to topline Flint, a feature set against the backdrop of the Flint, Michigan water crisis written by Malcolm M. Mays, who will also direct. The project hails from Will Smith and James Lassiter-founded Overbroo…

EXCLUSIVE: Will Smith's Overbrook Entertainment is to produce a documentary series about a youth racing school that teaches kids motorsports after striking a deal with nascent production and management company MoJo. The two companies are developing Urban Youth Racing School, a TV docu-series based on a Racing School…

Netflix is developing a hip hop musical feature with Flavor Unit Entertainment and 25/7 Productions on board to produce and Overbrook Entertainment attached to executive produce. Solvan “Slick” Naim, a Brooklyn-native Algerian-American filmmaker and rapper, has been tapped to direct the film, which he co-wrote with…

EXCLUSIVE: Overbrook Entertainment and Endeavor Content adopted the inclusion rider during the production of Hala, the Sundance coming-of-age film written and directed by Minhal Baig. Founder and director of the USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative Dr. Stacy Smith first introduced the policy in 2014 to ensure film and…

EXCLUSIVE: Rapper Meek Mill has joined Teyonah Parris, Jahi Winston, and Will Catlett in the feature adaptation to Lotfy Nathan’s 2013 documentary 12 O’Clock Boys, from Sony and Overbrook Entertainment. Currently in production, the film is being directed by Angel Manuel Soto. Barry Jenkins penned the initial draft for…

EXCLUSIVE: Teyonah Parris (AMC’s Mad Men, Empire), Jahi Winston (Netflix’s Everything Sucks!, The New Edition Story), and Will Catlett (OWN’s Love Is__, Black Lightning) are attached to star in the dirt-bike drama, 12 O'Clock Boys, with Puerto Rican filmmaker Angel Manuel Soto at the helm. Moonlight‘s Barry Jenkins…

EXCLUSIVE: Sony has greenlit a feature adaptation of the 2013 documentary 12 O’Clock Boys, about urban dirt-bike riders in Baltimore, from Overbrook Entertainment.  The film is being produced by Jada Pinkett Smith, Caleeb Pinkett and Clarence Hammond of Overbrook. Casting is currently underway with a production start…

EXCLUSIVE: Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA and JT Neal are the latest to join Overbrook Entertainment/Marc Bienstock’s Life In A Year, the romantic young adult drama toplined by Jaden Smith and Cara Delevingne. From director Mitja Okorn, the film co-stars Terrence Howard, Nia Long and Stony Blyden. Jeffrey Addiss and Will Matthews…

EXCLUSIVE: On Empire this season, Nia Long plays maybe the best female foe Taraji P. Henson's Cookie Lyon has ever had. But she's now going to be Terrence Howard's wife in Life In A Year, Sony’s romantic drama starring Jaden Smith and Cara Delavigne. Howard, of course, plays Cookie’s ex-husband and music mogul Lucious…

EXCLUSIVE: Terrence Howard, who stars as the ruthless patriarch Lucious Lyon on Fox’s mega-hit series Empire, has come aboard YA romantic drama Life in a Year, directed by Mitja Okorn for Overbrook Entertainment. Stony Blyden (Hunter Street, Hope Springs Eternal) has landed a supporting role, joining Jaden Smith and Ca…

EXCLUSIVE: Jaden Smith and Cara Delevingne are set to topline Overbrook Entertainment’s upcoming romantic drama Life In A Year, with European director Mitja Okorn attached to helm. Jeffrey Addiss and Will Matthews penned the script for the film, which will being production spring of this year in Toronto. The pic…

Will Smith, who made the transformation from rapper to actor as the fresh-faced star of NBC’s comedy hit The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air, is looking to go back to the formula that made him a screen star. Smith’s company Overbrook Entertainment is in very early stages of development on a new comedy series project that…