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EXCLUSIVE: After playing Magic Johnson’s father for Adam McKay in the upcoming HBO Los Angeles Lakers series, Rob Morgan has been tapped for McKay’s next feature film, joining Jennifer Lawrence in Netflix’s Don’t Look Up. McKay will write, direct and co-produce along with Kevin Messick under McKay's Hyperobject…

Most authors would jump at the chance to have their book adapted into a Hollywood film. But activist and attorney Bryan Stevenson, who wrote the memoir Just Mercy about his crusade to reform the criminal justice system, says he was prepared to walk away from any movie project that didn't meet certain standards. "I’d…

Oscar, Tony, and Emmy Award winner Viola Davis, Rob Morgan (Just Mercy), and Aisling Franciosi (The Fall) are set to co-star opposite Sandra Bullock in life-after incarceration Netflix film from director Nora Fingscheidt and Oscar-winning screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie. Based on the 3-part British miniseries Unforg…

Based on Bryan Stevenson's book of the same name, Destin Daniel Cretton’s film Just Mercy stars Jamie Foxx as wrongly-convicted death row prisoner Walter McMillian—a man without hope who is facing the electric chair when idealistic young lawyer Stevenson (Michael B. Jordan) takes on his case. It's a harrowing and…

According to star Jamie Foxx, the upcoming movie Just Mercy has the scent of authenticity. Let us explain. Foxx portrays real-life character Walter McMillian, who was wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of a white woman in Monroeville, AL. He was released in 1993 after spending six years on…

Molly Gordon (Life of the Party), Rob Morgan (Just Mercy), Spencer Garrett (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood), Kirk Bovill (Vice) and newcomer Delante Desouza have joined the cast of HBO's pilot about the 1980s Los Angeles Lakers. Written by Max Borenstein (Godzilla), the untitled Showtime Lakers project is based on Jeff…

EXCLUSIVE: Production for the short films chosen for the AT&T Filmmaker Mentorship Program are underway and Rob Morgan (This Is Us, Just Mercy), Dascha Polanco (Orange is the New Black, When They See Us) and Loretta Devine (Grey’s Anatomy, Family Reunion) have joined two of the films. With Emmy winner Lena Waithe as…

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s the first-look clip of Annie Silverstein’s Bull, which is playing in the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival that gets underway today. It marks the feature debut of writer-director Silverstein, whose short Skunk won Cannes’ Cinéfondation Prize in 2014. Rob Morgan, Yolonda Ross and…

EXCLUSIVE: More casting news for Universal’s The Photograph. The Stella Meghie-helmed romantic drama has added Lil Rel Howery, star of Fox’s sitcom Rel, If Beale Street Could Talk’s Teyonah Parris and Daredevil and Luke Cage actor Rob Morgan. The latest additions join Issa Rae, LaKeith Stanfield, Kelvin Harrison Jr.…

EXCLUSIVE: Elisabeth Shue and Rob Morgan, who played one of the leads in the four-time Oscar-nominated Mudbound, has joined the cast of Greyhound for director Aaron Schneider (Get Low). The Tom Hanks’ starring WWII drama is about an international convoy of 37 Allied ships, led by captain Ernest Krause in his first…

Selling for a pricey £12.5m at Sundance this year, Dee Rees's Mudbound received a hearty welcome at the Toronto film festival in advance of its November 17 debut on Netflix. Adapted from Hilary Jordan's 2008 novel, with a cast including Carey Mulligan, Jason Clarke, Jason Mitchell, Rob Morgan, Garrett Hedlund and…

William Baldwin (The Squid and the Whale, Flatliners) and Jay Abdo (A Hologram for the King, Queen of the Desert) are set to co-star opposite Val Kilmer in the indie comedy 1st Born, from Iranian director Ali Atshani. The film, a Iranian-US joint production, follows young newlywed couple, Iranian born Ben and American…