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*Michael B. Jordan (“Friday Night Lights”) stars in “Fruitvale Station” as Oscar Grant, the 22-year-old Bay Area man whose fatal 2009 shooting by Oakland BART police sparked outrage and protests against police brutality. The Weinstein Co. nabbed Ryan Coogler’s directorial debut out of Sundance for $2 million before it won the fest’s U.S. Grand Jury [...]
*The long-gestating Richard Pryor biopic is starting over from scratch with Forest Whitaker now in charge. Fresh from producing the Sundance Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award winner “Fruitvale,” Whitaker has taken over the nearly two-decade effort to bring the legendary comic’s life of the big screen, reports Deadline.com. Whitaker is teaming with the late [...]
*The Weinstein Company has acquired distribution rights for the Forest Whitaker-produced “Fruitvale,” which follows the true story of 22-year-old Bay Area resident Oscar Grant who was unarmed when he was shot dead by police officers at the Fruitvale BART station. The feature directorial debut of Ryan Coogler, who also wrote the screenplay, premiered to wide [...]
*“90210” star Tristan Wilds and Melonie Diaz have joined the cast off “Fruitvale,” the indie drama about the true-life police shooting of Oscar Grant by the Bay Area Rapid Transit police. Grant, a young black man, was detained on New Year’s Day 2009 at the Fruitvale BART station when he was shot in the back [...]
*Oscar winner Octavia Spencer and “Friday Night Lights” vet Michael B. Jordan are in negotiations to star in “Fruitvale,” a timely indie drama based on the young black man who was shot in the back and killed by Bay Area Transit Authority police on New Year’s Day 2009. Produced by Forest Whitaker and his Significant [...]
*A new featurette for the upcoming George Lucas film “Red Tails” hit the Web today with some of the stars offering a glimpse of what life was like during filming in Prague. [Scroll down to watch.] The film is directed by Anthony Hemingway, produced by George Lucas and stars Terrence Howard, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Tristan [...]
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