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*The Steve McQueen-directed “Twelve Years A Slave” is set for a limited platform release beginning December 27, FoxSearchlight announced today. Chiwetel Ejiofor, Brad Pitt, Michael Fassbender and Benedict Cumberbatch star in the film from Regency Enterprises and River Road that’s based on the true story of one man’s fight for survival and freedom in pre-Civil [...]
*Michael Kenneth Williams has joined the cast of “Twelve Years a Slave,” an adaptation of Solomon Northup’s 1853 book about a free black man who is drugged and dragged to the South to be sold into slavery. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] The actor joins Michael Fassbender, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Brad Pitt in the Steve [...]
*Thandie Newton, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Anika Noni Rose and Joseph Mawle have arrived in Calabar, Nigeria, to shoot the movie adaptation of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novel “Half of a Yellow Sun.” BIlled as an epic love story, the movie weaves together the lives of four people swept up in the turbulence of war and centers on [...]
*New Regency is in talks to co-finance and distribute the Steve McQueen-directed “Twelve Years A Slave,” an adaptation of the Solomon Northup memoir originally published in 1853. As previously reported, Chiwetel Ejiofor will play Northup, Michael Fassbender will play a plantation owner and Brad Pitt will play a Northern lawyer who helps free Northup. Pitt [...]
*British actor Chiwetel Ejiofor has signed on to topline an adaptation of “Twelve Years a Slave,” an autobiography written in 1853 by Solomon Northup, a free black man who became enslaved. Brad Pitt and his Plan B banner are producing, while Steve McQueen, who co-wrote the script with John Ridley, is directing the adaptation. Ejiofor [...]
*Let’s face it, from Tomb Raider (2001) to Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) to Wanted (2008), Angelina Jolie has always delivered in her high-octane action adventures, and Salt is no exception. This espionage thriller about a Russian mole strategically planted in the U.S. couldn’t be more timely, given the recent arrest of Anna Chapman, the [...]
*Chiwetel Ejiofor, a talented and versatile actor, has taken on another impressive role. He alerted the president, Danny Glover, in “2012″ of the impending disaster and was Denzel Washington’s partner in the “Inside Man.” In “American Gangster” he starred again opposite Washington as his brother. In “Salt” Chiwetel’s task at the CIA’s counter-intelligence division is [...]
*In the wake of a Broadway’s Tony-nominated musical about Nigerian musician/activist Fela Anikulapo Kuti, a feature film about the artist is being developed at Focus Features with British actor Chiwetel Ejiofor in the lead role. Based on Michael Veal’s book, the story follows the life of the late African musician and activist whose music fused [...]
*Chiwetel Ejiofor was born in London on July 10, 1977 to Nigerian immigrants, Arinze, a doctor, and Obiajulu Ejiofor, a pharmacist. By the age of 13, he was already appearing in numerous school and National Youth Theatre productions, and he subsequently attended the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, as well as Dulwich College. [...]
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