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    Icarus Films To Release Meditative Ugandan Doc "Where Are You Taking Me?" For 1-Week NYC Run

    Last year, I highlighted filmmaker Kimi Takesue's impressive ITVS Futurestates short project That Which Once Was. 

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    IFC Films Acquires Sundance Dramedy "Predisposed" (Tracy Morgan, Isiah Whitlock Co-Star)

    IFC Films has acquired North American rights to the Sundance indie dramedy titled Predisposed, which Tracy Morgan stars in, along with Melissa Leo, Jesse Eisenberg, Tanya Wright, and Isiah Whitlock Jr.

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    Poster & Official Synopsis For Pam Grier/Ving Rhames Crime Drama "Mafia"

    Last May, I alerted you to a Pam Grier/Ving Rhames project titled Mafia, which Grier tweeted about at the time, as she was letting all her followers know what films she was starring in that were coming up.

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    Jim Brown Biopic In Development. Who Should Play Him?

    Producer Hal Lieberman (Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Vacancy) has acquired rights to football legend/actor Jim Brown's life story for a feature film that will be written by Bob Eisele (The Great Debaters) and directed by Jonathan Hock, (primarily a director of documentaries...

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    "Exit Strategy" The "Un-Romantic Comedy" Will Expand To Rave & Bow Tie Cinemas Nationwide In March

    It's been screening in Cherry Hill, NJ and Philadelphia, PA since last week Friday.

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    Ensemble Dramedy "30 Beats" Costarring Condola Rashad Acquired For Summer Theatrical Release

    The Condola Rashad ensemble drama I told you about a few weeks ago, titled 30 Beats, that's inspired by Arthur Schnitzler's play La Ronde, has been picked by Roadside Attractions for US and Latin American territories.

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    Kinshasa-Set Meditative "White Elephants, A Congo Trilogy" Now In Pre-Production (Watch Trailer)

    Intriguing new documentary in pre-production from Belgian/Brit Kristof Bilsen - a Congo (DRC)-set documentary feature titled White Elephants, A Congo Trilogy (not to be confused with the 2011 Djimon Hounsou thriller Elephant White).

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    UPDATES On Forest Whitaker/Rachid Bouchareb Feature Collaboration On USA Anti-Arab Paranoia

    A project I profiled last August is now pushing ahead, and some new info about it has surfaced... Forest Whitaker teaming with Oscar-nominated Algerian filmmaker Rachid Bouchareb to star in one of a trilogy of English-language films that will explore the complex relationship between t...

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    Hip-Hop Industry-Set Crime Drama "You’re Nobody ’til Somebody Kills You" Exec Prod By Spike Lee Sold To Distributor

    First wrote about this about a year ago and have been keeping tabs on it since then, although I haven't seen anything of it, except for the trailer and clips posted last year, which don't seem to be available anymore. So I have nothing to show you.

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    Watch Trailer For Nollywood's Most Anticipated 2012 Film - Disaster Thriller "Last Flight To Abuja"

    It's being called one of Nollywood's most anticipated films of 2012 - Obi Emelonye's follow-up to his 2011 fantasy/adventure hit The Mirror Boy.

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