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They can’t all die first — right? Here is the first trailer for The Blackening, Tim Story’s horror comedy that debuted at the Toronto Film Festival. Have a look above at the clip set to Nas’ “Made You Look,” and the new poster is below. A Juneteenth getaway reunites a group of old friends in…

EXCLUSIVE: Lionsgate has won a bidding battle to acquire worldwide rights to MRC's The Blackening, the horror-comedy film that premiered in the Midnight Madness segment of last month’s Toronto Film Festival and emerged as one of the hottest acquisition titles. Deal calls for a wide theatrical…

EXCLUSIVE: After a weekend in which distributors launched a salvo of great films into awards season, what about the acquisitions market? Here’s one that ought to sale by today or tomorrow. Sources said that the MRC horror-comedy The Blackening has three offers on the table for world rights, encompassing both…

EXCLUSIVE: Emmy-nominated writer, comedian and actor Dewayne Perkins (The Amber Ruffin Show) has been tapped to write and executive produce Fox’s animated series Clue, based on Hasbro's hugely popular mystery board game. Tim Story also has joined the project and will executive produce with Lynn Barrie for The Story…

EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation, Screen Gems has acquired the rights to an untitled comedy, which is set to star London Hughes with Cat Wilkins penning script and Tim Story directing. Todd Garner and Spencer Walken are producing on behalf of Broken Road. Hughes will exe produce The film follows a woman who is…

EXCLUSIVE: Entertainment One has entered a first-look television deal with top film and TV director-producer Tim Story (Ride Along, Think Like a Man franchises) and his The Story Company production company. Through the deal, Story will develop television series for broadcast, cable and streaming. He has hired former…

EXCLUSIVE: Tim Story (Tom and Jerry, Universal’s Ride Along films) has wrapped principal photography on The Blackening, a horror-comedy he directed for MRC Film, which stars Dewayne Perkins (The Upshaws), Grace Byers (Amazon’s Harlem), Jermaine Fowler (Coming 2 America), Melvin Gregg (Nine Perfect Strangers), Jay…

EXCLUSIVE: Tim Story, fresh from directing the No. 1 theatrical film of the weekend, Tom & Jerry, is set to helm the pilot for ABC hip-hop drama Queens. Story is best known for directing hit feature films including 2005's Fantastic Four and its sequel, Barbershop, Ride Along and its sequel and Shaft, but he has worked…

Oscar nominated and Golden Globe winning actress Taraji P. Henson is making her feature directorial debut the Bron Studios’ drama Two-Faced in which she’ll also star. Two-Faced, written by Cat Wilkins, follows Joy, a Black high school senior whose chances to attend the college of her dreams are threatened by her…

EXCLUSIVE: NBC is developing Finding Forrester, a drama series based on the 2000 Gus Van Sant movie that starred the late Sean Connery. It hails from The Chi co-executive producers TJ Brady & Rasheed Newson, director Tim Story, NBA star Stephen Curry and his Unanimous Media as well as Sony Pictures Television. In the…

EXCLUSIVE: Tim Story is negotiating to reteam with Kevin Hart in the STX Entertainment superhero comedy Night Wolf, written by Detective Pikachu scribes Dan Hernandez and Benji Samit. Hart will star in and produce via his HartBeat Productions. Night Wolf follows a Meet the Parents-esque encounter where a man (Hart)…

With a couple of sitcom writers handling the scripting chores, the 2019 Shaft naturally leans on the lighter side. It goes as much for laughs it seems as it does for the kind of violent action we associate with the iconic character who first breathed cinematic life nearly a half-century ago with Richard Roundtree…