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*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 [...]
*Warner Bros. has announced it will produce a remake of the 1992 hit “The Bodyguard,” which co-starred Whitney Houston opposite Kevin Costner in her first film role. The original, which spawned one of the biggest ballads of all time, “I Will Always Love You,” centered on a former Secret Service agent (Costner) hired to protect [...]
*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 [...]
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