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EXCLUSIVE: Amazon Studios has acquired a package for a film biopic of iconic C&W singer Merle Haggard. Oscar-winning actor Sam Rockwell is circling to play Haggard, and he will do his own singing of Haggard's standards, recorded during the '60s when the picture is set. Robin Bissell will direct the film, and he will…

In the vein of Oscar-winning movies as The Defiant Ones and In the Heat of the Night all the way up to this year’s big Best Picture winner Green Book, comes The Best of Enemies. Set in 1971, the film somehow manages to put an African-American civil rights activist and a local Ku Klux Klan leader on a path together…

STXfilms has secured domestic distribution rights to The Best of Enemies, a based-on-true-events drama from first-time director Robin Bissell. Starring Taraji P. Henson and recent Oscar winner Sam Rockwell, the film is inspired by Osha Gray Davidson’s book The Best of Enemies: Race and Redemption in the New South. It…

EXCLUSIVE: Empire star Taraji P. Henson is poised to reunite with that hit Fox show’s creator Danny Strong by playing the lead in The Best Of Enemies. That film will mark the directorial debut for Hunger Games producer Robin Bissell, who wrote the script. Strong will produce the film with Material’s Tobey Maguire and…