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*Sean “Diddy” Combs is among the newcomers joining Kevin Costner and “42” star Chadwick Boseman in “Draft Day,” which begins production today in New York. Rosanna Arquette (“What About Brian”), David Ramsey (“Arrow”) and W. Earl Brown (“Rectify,” “The Lone Ranger”) have also been announced as part of the production from Co-producers Summit and OddLot [...]
*With “42” looking down on all competition at the box office this week, its breakout star Chadwick Boseman is looking forward to joining another sports-themed pic…this time, taking place on the gridiron. The actor is reportedly in talks for “Draft Day,” an NFL-set project from director Ivan Reitman. Kevin Costner stars as the general manager [...]
*Breakout star Chadwick Boseman – who portrays Jackie Robinson in the film “42” says there were a few things he learned and you might not have known about the first African American in the Major League. “Jackie Robinson was a legend … a Pasadena sports legend and a national legend before this moment, and I [...]
*Hailing from Anderson, South Carolina, Chadwick Boseman is an accomplished actor, scriptwriter and playwright who, until now, was probably best known for portraying the character Nate on the critically-acclaimed dramatic TV series Lincoln Heights. Prior to entering show business, Chad earned degrees at Howard University and the British American Dramatic Academy at Oxford. Here, he [...]
*The story of Jackie Robinson (#42) is one that every grammar school child in America has likely heard of. Those same children are just as likely to have forgotten about this triumph over adversity and bigotry by the time they become adults, acknowledging Robinson only from an athletic perspective. Not only was Robinson the first [...]
Brian Helgeland’s Warner Bros. presentation of 42 is an epic accounting of a baseball legend, arrives in theaters April 12, 2013 *Academy Award winner Brian Helgeland wrote and directed the Warner Bros. Pictures presentation of 42: The True Story of an American Legend, a bio-film based on the life of the legendary Major League baseball [...]
*The Jackie Robinson biopic “42,” about Major League Baseball’s first African American player, would not be opening in theaters next month if it weren’t for the blessing of his widow. And she had some concerns. Rachel Robinson, who owns the rights to her late husband’s story, questioned director Brian Helgeland’s vision of the biopic, which would span [...]
*A new independent film “The Kill Hole,” starring “Sons Of Anarchy‘s” Tory Kittles as an ex-Marine with a vendetta and “42‘s” Chadwick Boseman as the Iraq veteran tasked with bringing him down, has a number of parallels to ex-LAPD cop Christopher Dorner, whose vendetta against the LA Police Department led to the murders of four [...]
*Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures have released a second, longer trailer for its Jackie Robinson biopic, “42.” In theaters April 12, the film follows the famed Brooklyn Dodgers second baseman who broke major league baseball’s color barrier. Brian Helgeland wrote and directs the film, which stars Chadwick Boseman as Robinson and Harrison Ford as team [...]
*The first trailer for “42,” the long in limbo biopic of legendary second baseman Jackie Robinson, has finally been released by Warner Bros. ahead of its Spring 2013 release in theaters. Chadwick Boseman plays the barrier-breaking legend, who in 1947 became the first black Major League ballplayer and eventually hit and fielded his way into [...]
*Warner Bros. has set a tentative date for the release of “42,” the Jackie Robinson biopic being made with Legendary Pictures. The Brian Helgeland-directed film will open April 12, 2013, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The release is timed to coincide with Major League Baseball’s Jackie Robinson Day, held every April 15 to commemorate the [...]
*T.R. Knight, the Emmy-nominated “Grey’s Anatomy” actor at the center of the Isaiah Washington drama, has joined the cast of “42,” Legendary Pictures’ Jackie Robinson biopic. Chadwick Boseman is portraying Robinson, the baseball legend who broke the color barrier, while Harrison Ford is playing Branch Rickey, the man who signed Robinson. Knight will play Harold [...]
*Chadwick Boseman, a relatively fresh face to the big screen, has been recruited to play the role of legendary baseball player and civil right leader Jackie Robinson in an upcoming movie called “42.” “42” is a biopic about Robinson, the first African American ballplayer in Major League Baseball, who made his debut in 1947. 42 [...]
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