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EXCLUSIVE: Pam Grier, the actress from such cult classics as Jackie Brown, Foxy Brown and Coffy, has inked with APA. Grier’s five decades-plus cinematic canon includes work with filmmakers such as Roger Corman, John Carpenter and Quentin Tarantino, among many others. Her film résumé fired up with 1971’s The Big Doll Ho…

The 2022 Tribeca Festival has named its jury totaling more than five dozen members across 18 categories with Alan Zweibel, Aidan Quinn, Anne Archer, Rose Troche and Oge Egbuonu judging the U.S. Narrative Feature Competition. Jessica Alba, Darren Aronofsky and Daryl Hannah are among jurors for the 2022 Human/Nature…

Damon Wayans (Fox’s Lethal Weapon) and Pam Grier (Jackie Brown) have signed on to star alongside Hailey Kilgore, David Iacono and Jeremie Harris in the noir thriller Cinnamon, which will debut exclusively on Fox’s free streaming service, Tubi, later this year. The film currently in production in Atlanta follows a…

Oinker Alert: season two of ABC's Bless This Mess will include a pig. "We are entering the world of pigs, that's all I'll say," offered Elizabeth Meriwether (Single Parents, New Girl ) who, along with series star Lake Bell, executive produces the serie that follows the adventures of a  newlywed couple whose plan to…

Pam Grier has played down any involvement in the forthcoming reboot of The L Word. The actress said that she would not be involved in Showtime's revival of the influential 2000s series as a result of her commitment to ABC comedy Bless This Mess. Grier played Kate 'Kit' Porter for six seasons of the LGBT drama…

EXCLUSIVE: For the second year in a row, a Diane Keaton comedy targeted at a mature audience is the one that has distributors hot and bothered at the start of the American Film Market. At least three studios are bidding for the Zara Hayes-directed Poms, in which Keaton plays a woman who moves into a retirement home…

Rhea Perlman, Pam Grier, and Alisha Boe (13 Reasons Why) have joined Poms, the comedy starring Diane Keaton and Jacki Weaver, which is in production in Atlanta. Celia Weston, Phyllis Somerville, Charlie Tahan and Bruce McGill are part of the cast for the film, which Sierra/Affinity is producing and financing.also The…

Former Jackie Brown star Pam Grier, JT Neal (Roommates) and up-and-comer Christina Offley (Atypical) round out the series regular cast of the Fox single-camera comedy pilot Bless This Mess, starring, co-written and directed by Lake Bell. Grier, Neal and Offley join previously cast Dax Shepard and Ed Begley Jr. in the…

EXCLUSIVE: After publishing a memoir that bared her rise as a '70s screen siren and a private life that included love affairs with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Richard Pryor and Freddie Prinze, Pam Grier is focused on Pam, the working title of a biopic that will bring her life story to the screen. A script by Bennie Richburg…

Fans of Shaft, Super Fly, and Foxy Brown have a new way to catch up on these other mostly action films targeted to African American audiences. Bounce TV — the network founded by Martin Luther King, III and Andrew Young — just launched a subscription VOD service for the movie genre called Brown Sugar. Viewers can try…

Cybill Shepherd, James Brolin and Pam Grier have signed on to star in Rose, written and directed by Rod McCall, which starts shooting this month in New Mexico. The dramatic comedy follows Rose (Shepherd), a recently disabled and widowed woman with a short time to live, taking a solo road trip through the "land of…

LOS ANGELES, California (April 5, 2012) – Imprint Entertainment (TWILIGHT, Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief) has optioned the film rights to Grier's autobiography Foxy, My Life in Three Acts. Eunetta Boone to adapt. Boone most recently scripted Who is DORIS PAYNE? with Halle Berry attached to star…